{"id":55259,"date":"2023-05-18T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/18\/chinas-ambassador-to-australia-says-aukus-an-unnecessary-use-of-taxpayer-money-and-not-a-good-idea"},"modified":"2023-05-18T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T05:38:04","slug":"chinas-ambassador-to-australia-says-aukus-an-unnecessary-use-of-taxpayer-money-and-not-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55259","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ambassador to Australia says Aukus an \u2018unnecessary\u2019 use of taxpayer money and \u2018not a good idea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Qian suggests improvement in Australian relationship with Beijing possible but would take \u2018mutual respect\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/may\/18\/australia-news-live-aukus-submarines-peter-garrett-far-right-mayors-melbourne-lgbt-councils-quad-modi-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, has denounced the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine plan as an \u201cunnecessary consumption of the hardworking Australian taxpayers\u2019 money\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Xiao said the multi-decade defence plan would consume \u201ctremendous\u201d amounts of money \u201cwhich could be used for other purposes like infrastructure, like reducing the cost of living, and giving the Australian people a better future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/18\/chinas-ambassador-to-australia-says-aukus-an-unnecessary-use-of-taxpayer-money-and-not-a-good-idea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Qian suggests improvement in Australian relationship with Beijing possible but would take \u2018mutual respect\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChina\u2019s am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2346,43,645,1585,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55259\/revisions\/55260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}