A Black and White Issue
Chris Downes
The Coalition government pledged $804 million in funding for strategic and scientific programs in Antarctica, which included a plan to fly surveillance drones and long-range helicopters over the continent. China, which has been expanding its own programs in Antarctica, condemned the plan as part of the ‘Morrison government’s anti-China agenda’.
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