内容摘要：People clear the rubble of residential houses destroyed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

People clear the rubble of residential houses destroyed by a Russian strike in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

But Dutton says he would improve Australia’s relations with Beijing even further with a tough and uncompromising approach.“I don’t believe that President Xi (Jinping) with the strength of his leadership respects a weak and incompetent Australian prime minister,” Dutton said.

Dutton has accused Albanese of “self-censorship” in dealing with China. He described Albanese’s reaction to three Chinese warships virtually circumnavigating Australia in February in a show of China’s military reach as the “weakest, most limp-wristed response you could see from a leader.”Australia complained the Chinese gave insufficient notice ofoff the Australian coast that forced commercial airline flights between Sydney and New Zealand to divert.

Beijing responded that Australia had madeand said the naval exercise had complied with international law.

Dutton, 54, belongs to the most conservative faction of his conservative Liberal Party. Since he was first elected to the Federal Parliament in 2001, he has held several ministerial roles including the key security portfolios of defense and home affairs, in which he established a public image as an uncompromising and confrontational politician.

As minister for immigration and border protection from 2014, Dutton oversawIn Kyiv, there was skepticism about Putin’s motives.

Peace “is not possible now. Only when (the Russians) run out of resources and army manpower. They are ready to fight, at least for this summer,” Svitlana Kyryliuk, 66, told The Associated Press. Putin will “stall for time, and that’s it,” she said.Volodymyr Lysytsia, a 45-year-old serviceman visiting the capital for rehabilitation, said Putin has made the front lines in eastern Ukraine a wasteland, with “nothing there, only scorched earth, everything bombed.”

Some were unconvinced by Putin’s promise to Trump that Russia is “ready to work with” Ukraine on a “memorandum” outlining the framework for “a possible future peace treaty.”since the early weeks of