‘The imperative': Taiwan's request for spot in Talisman Sabre exercises analysed
'The imperative for both Taiwan and for Australia is not to get a visitor's card at somebody else's exercises, it is actually to beef up their own defence capabilities,' Mr Sheridan told Sky News host James Macpherson.
'Taiwan itself has only in the last few years started to really beef up its own defence capabilities to make itself a porcupine, very difficult for China to swallow, and Australia's defence spending, of course, is utterly pathetic.'
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