Finnish prime minister warns about naive reliance on Russia, China

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The Finnish prime minister told a Sydney audience that democracies needed to reduce their dependency on technology and energy from authoritarian countries.

Democracies should stop being “naive” about China and Russia and reduce their dependency on authoritarian countries for resources and technology, Finland’s Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, says., Ms Marin said there was no alternative but for the West to continue to support Ukraine to defeat Russia.“We must do whatever it takes so that Ukraine will win the war,” she told foreign policy think-tank the Lowy Institute.

She warned if Russia was allowed to successfully invade its neighbour, other countries would also be empowered and “tempted by the same dark agenda”.Following a meeting between Ms Marin and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the two leaders issued a joint statement condemning the war, and in a section on the Indo-Pacific, expressed support for sovereignty, territorial integrity and international law, including freedom of navigation and overflight.

“We have become far too dependent on co-operation with regimes that do not share our common values. Our dependencies are becoming our weaknesses,” Ms Marin said.“We are too dependent on energy coming from Russia. It means that we are financing the war every day because we are“Of course, I understand the worries that you have on China. I think we all have worries when it comes to China.

 

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