China does not pose a threat to Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says

Beijing. February 23. Silkroadnews - China does not pose a threat to Australia and has no hostile intentions, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on the eve of his visit to the United States, The Guardian reported.
In his interview for Sky News, the Australian Prime Minister did not approve the US’s hostile attitude toward China, calling it an “out-of-date cold-war prism” in the competition between the two superpowers.
“Asked if the US viewed China as a “strategic threat”, unlike Australia, Turnbull replied that “a threat is a combination of capability and intent”,” the report reads.
“China has enormous capability, and of course it’s growing [as it becomes] more prosperous … but we do not see any hostile intent from China,” the agency quoted him saying.
Despite claims that Australia does not view China as a threat, the Turnbull government has introduced a number of bills on foreign interference bills to ban foreign donations and impose mandatory registration for foreign lobbyists, which aroused indignation on the part of China.
Kevin Rudd, the former prime minister, has accused Turnbull’s government of “neo-McCarthyism” and “anti-Chinese jihad.”
“Asked about a joint regional infrastructure scheme being developed by Australia, the US, India and Japan as an alternative to China’s belt and road initiative, Turnbull said the media always looks for cold war-style rivalry but “that’s not the way we see the region”,” the report says.