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China owes the Australian people an explanation for a military near miss that could have killed naval aviators, Anthony Albanese says, as Peter Dutton demands the prime minister phone Xi Jinping to personally admonish him over the incident. The stabilisation of relations between Canberra and Beijing has been rocked after a Chinese fighter jet detonated flares 300 metres in front of an Australian navy helicopter while patrolling international waters in the Yellow Sea near South Korea on Saturday evening.
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