CANBERRA: Australia's top diplomat used a visit to East Timor on Thursday to warn the Southeast Asian country against going into "unsustainable debt" to the Chinese on a major gas project.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she discussed with East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta the Greater Sunrise, a $50-billion gas field beneath the seabed that separates their two countries.

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