It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
(visit the link for the full news article)
The Federal Opposition has called on the Government to explain why Chinese authorities have been briefed on Australia's new defence blueprint before the Coalition.
The lead author of the Government's defence white paper, Michael Pezzullo, has been sent to China to discuss the document ahead of its release.
Originally posted by Maxmars
Woah!
Did I missed some formal treaty between China and Australia...
Originally posted by Jacob08
Sounds like treason to me. Rudd should be put on trial and if found guilty executed. No one should be above the law and letting a country that we have no formal defence alliance with be involved in our defence planning should be considered treason. As far as I know we haven't even run our defence blueprint past the US or UK before and we actually do have long standing alliances with them. Our Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaks fluent Chinese and his daughter married a Chinese banker. Never thought much of this before but after reading this...