There will be “another big crisis” if Australia rips up the 99-year lease on the Port of Darwin, according to The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan.
The port was leased to Chinese company Landbridge in 2015 but is currently under review on the orders of the National Security Committee of Cabinet.
“It would seem strange to me to set up a review if you didn’t plan to take some action at the end of the review,” Mr Sheridan told Sky News.
“After all, what government ever sets up a review without knowing what it wants the answer to be?”
He said there are “contradictory dynamics” in relation to this issue and if there is any divestment it will end up costing the government "quite a bit of money - and that's as it should be".
“If we do this, bad as things are between China and Australia right now, there will be another big crisis,” Mr Sheridan said.
“Because what China particularly hates is when we take actions which damage its international reputation, and this would be such an action.”
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