Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham says the reports of China’s nuclear submarine sinking is a “significant setback” for them.
Mr Birmingham’s comments come after reports from the Wall Street Journal that a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine sunk in a shipyard near Wuhan.
“This should be taken as a reminder of the ambitions that China has and is pursuing in one of the largest military build-ups that we’ve seen in modern times,” Mr Birmingham told Sky News Australia.
“Because of the lack of transparency to the rest of the world in the Chinese system, we don’t always know or understand the scale of that buildup that’s happening.”
