Posted on 30 May 2022
New East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta wants Australia to back a major infrastructure drive in south-east Asia’s newest nation. He says it’s in the new government’s strategic interest to retain “pro-Australia, pro-Western values.”
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, the 72-year-old former independence activist made no apologies for fostering stronger ties with China, which has tagged East Timor as “an important Belt and Road partner country.”