Albanese must not be misled by alliance

In an interview with the Australian Financial Review while en route to Spain to attend the NATO Summit, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed his lack of diplomatic nous and poor grasp of political realities.

Saying that the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been a "strategic failure" for Russia that has made it a "global pariah", he said that it was something about which China should take note. Stating that "attempts to impose change by force on a sovereign country meet resistance", he drew a parallel between Taiwan and Ukraine.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman gave him the requisite lesson, stating that a parallel cannot be drawn between Ukraine and the Chinese island as "Taiwan is not a sovereign country".