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Australia Says US Not Making Demands Over Chinese-Owned Port
Australia's deputy prime minister said the national government has consistently opposed Chinese ownership of the Port of Darwin and isn't under added pressure from the Trump administration to find a new buyer for the facility that is under increased scrutiny in Canberra.
'We don't think it is appropriate that that piece of infrastructure was in the hands of a Chinese publicly-owned entity, a Chinese government-controlled entity,' Richard Marles, also Australia's defense minister, said Saturday in an interview with Bloomberg Television on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. 'We are working through to get a better resolution to the ownership structure of the port.'
