Australia need to become ‘as powerful as possible’ amid China threat

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says Australia must get its act together amid the China threat in the Pacific. “The Chinese Communist Party, they got their nose all out of joint and sent an ICBM off into the Pacific just to give us notice,” Mr Joyce told News24 host James Macpherson. “Then remarkably and coincidentally, but we can never actually get to the bottom of it, our Telstra network went down. “What that shows is the overt nature of the communist party in China; they do not like coming second.”