Talk of Chinese arming Russia an ‘abomination’, PM says


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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia will act in “lockstep” with the US and other allies in imposing sanctions against China if Beijing comes to Russia’s rescue by supplying arms, or bails out Moscow financially over its invasion of Ukraine. Putting Australia on a collision course with its biggest trading partner, Mr Morrison said it would be an “abomination” if China offered military support to Russia after it had already thrown it a financial lifeline to skirt the impact of economic sanctions. Members of the Ukrainian military stand amid debris from a damaged residential apartment block caused after a Russian...