Penny Wong’s security warning for region

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“We face destabilising, provocative and coercive actions, including unsafe conduct at sea and in the air and militarisation of disputed features. “We know that military power is expanding, but measures to constrain military conflict are not – and there are few concrete mechanisms for averting it. “These factors give rise to the most confronting circumstances in our region in decades.” ‘Co-operation over confrontation’ She was joined by the Philippines Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo, whose country is under increasing pressure from the Chinese coast guard and fishing vessels entering its maritime territorial claims in the South China Sea. Mr Manalo said...