Tag: China

Australia

Why bet on a loser? Australia’s dangerous gamble on the US – » The Australian Independent Media Network

China is quite adept at utilising sentiments such as these. Major Franz J. Gayl, a retired Marine Corps infantry officer has regularly written for Chinese online news outlet Global Times. Last year, a number of his contributed articles to GT were published as a book, “The United States Will Lose the Coming War with China” which is available on Amazon.

Australia’s Liberal-Labor pro-US coalition has placed a $368 billion bet on the ability of the US to prevent the expansion of Chinese influence in the South Pacific or its recovery of the island province of Taiwan.

It is an expensive way to be taught the African proverb that when the elephants dance, it is the grass that suffers.

Source: Why bet on a loser? Australia’s dangerous gamble on the US – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Old Dog Thought- America is so involved with Israel that it’s forgotten China?

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Israel

No Israeli soldiers have stood up and refused to participate in this evil war – Pearls and Irritations

Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2017: Israeli soldier military man saluting to the Western wall in Jerusalem. Western wall or Wailing wall or Kotel is the most sacred place for all jewish people.

IDF-above

Jewish-Led Protest Demanding Gaza Cease-Fire Shuts Down California Capitol

Jews against Israel in California

Hitler Youth’s blinkered education from the cradle to the grave also hoped to achieve the same result. Israel may have done it in the short term but to last they will need to keep them locked in like they do in North Korea. Note the diaspora hasn’t come rushing to save Israel and they remain the majority and are furious.

It points to automatic obedience rather than to good citizenship. The army is trashing an entire region along with its residents, and that doesn’t bother our forces’ consciences.

We will never hear of any PTSD problem just as we never hear unvetted news from Israel. However, we have heard only 15% of Israelis support Netanyahu. How strange is that? Or that the IDF knew the Oct 7th was coming for a year beforehand and did nothing. They even shot their own and tried to cover it up. Pride comes before the fall

Source: No Israeli soldiers have stood up and refused to participate in this evil war – Pearls and Irritations

USA

Biden administration in talks with Vietnam for arms deal that could irk China – India Today
Joe Biden

How the worm turned in just 50 years when the US drew us into a war with the Communists of Vietnam. We lost to what the majority of the Vietnamese people wanted. Today the US is ready to arm them, friends to prepare them against China.

The Biden administration is in talks with Vietnam over an agreement for the largest arms transfer in history between the ex-Cold War adversaries, according to two people familiar with a deal that could irk China and sideline Russia.

Source: Biden administration in talks with Vietnam for arms deal that could irk China – India Today

USA

Michael Brenner: Defeat – scheerpost.com

The focal shift from Russia in Europe to China in Asia is less a mechanism for coping with defeat than the pathological reaction of a country that, feeling a gnawing sense of diminishing prowess, can manage to do nothing more than try one final fling at proving to itself that it still has the right stuff – since living without that exalted sense of self is intolerable. What is deemed heterodox, and daring, in Washington these days is to argue that we should wrap up the Ukraine affair one way or another so that we might gird our loins for the truly historic contest with Beijing. The disconcerting truth that nobody of consequence in the country’s foreign policy establishment has denounced this hazardous turn toward war supports the proposition that deep emotions rather than reasoned thought are propelling us toward an avoidable, potentially catastrophic conflict.

A society represented by an entire political class that is not sobered by that prospect rightly can be judged as providing prime facie evidence of being collectively unhinged.

Source: Michael Brenner: Defeat – scheerpost.com

Informed Opinion

Everything you know about China being a threat is untrue – Pearls and Irritations

URUMQI, XINJIANG, CHINA - AUG 31, 2017: Urumqi cityscape as seen from Hong Shan Pagoda in Hongshan Park Image:iStock

We, Westerners, impose our sense of individualism onto a society that has a sense of communalism. We are bothered by it. But this is not something the Chinese people need “rescuing from”. China is not your enemy, the people telling you China is your enemy, are you  enemy.

Source: Everything you know about China being a threat is untrue – Pearls and Irritations

ALP Government,

The Albanese Government’s craven desire to bolster the alliance with Washington – Pearls and Irritations

L-R) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, New Zealand's Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pose for a family picture ahead of the North Atlantic Council meeting with Sweden, Indo-Pacific Partners, and the EU at the NATO ?summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, 12 July 2023. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit takes place in Vilnius on 11 and 12 July 2023 with the alliance's leaders expected to adopt new defenfe plans. Image: AAP/EPA/YONHAP SOUTH KOREA OUT

When will Australians realise, as Paul Keating has been unerringly consistent in arguing, that they are part of the cosmopolitanism and complexity of Asia, and not a Western imagined community presided over by a fast declining America?

Source: The Albanese Government’s craven desire to bolster the alliance with Washington – Pearls and Irritations

America

Caitlin Johnstone: Biden Lies About ‘Not Surrounding’ China

The single dumbest thing the U.S. empire asks us to believe nowadays is that surrounding its two biggest foes with war machinery is a defensive action, rather than an act of extreme aggression.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: Biden Lies About ‘Not Surrounding’ China

Science

Who Needs Chinese Scientists? America Does – CounterPunch.org

Image of scientist in a lab.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot or should I say in the head

Let’s remember that no one appreciates academic freedom more than visitors from China and other countries under authoritarian rule. When that freedom is violated by harassment and suspicion, word gets back to China very quickly, and the rewards for returning to China, in money and prestige, become tantalizing.

Source: Who Needs Chinese Scientists? America Does – CounterPunch.org

America

American China-Bashing Is Dripping With Contradictions | The Smirking Chimp

Before Trump and MAGA America was Great there was only cooperation and accommodation between America and China, the world’s largest economies. But along came  Trump who turned domestic politics on its head. He promoted Russia and Nth Korea while transforming China, Mexico, and Latin America into the enemy. With the help of Murdoch Media, the transformation was relatively quick as he needed blue-collar America to back him.

Will Americans see through the contradictions of China-bashing to prevent war, seek mutual accommodation, and thereby rebuild a new version of the joint prosperity that existed before Trump and Biden?

Source: American China-Bashing Is Dripping With Contradictions | The Smirking Chimp

American Hypocrisy

How can China believe US really wants better relations when its actions don’t match its words? – Pearls and Irritations

2R84F95 U.S. Secretary of State Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, June 19, 2023, in Beijing. Blinken, whose February 2023 trip was postponed following the reveal of an alleged Chinese spy balloon flying over U.S. airspace, is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit China in five years. Photo via MFA China/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

There are those who believe Blinken’s visit has kept alive the hope that China-US relations can return to normal. I have my doubts – though a still-naive part of me hopes the US will learn to match its deeds to its words.

Source: How can China believe US really wants better relations when its actions don’t match its words? – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment

Winkin’, Blinken, and Musk: America, China, and the “Decoupling” Myth | The Smirking Chimp

Bottom line: Officially, America will continue to fulminate over China’s human-rights abuses and aggressive moves, threatening more “decoupling” of the two economies.

Unofficially — unless China is foolish enough to mount a full-scale invasion of Taiwan — the decoupling won’t happen, because American corporations want access to China’s huge market and its cheap and compliant manufacturing workers.

Foreign policy is for the cameras. When it comes to the real connections between China and the United States, profits speak louder than policy.

Source: Winkin’, Blinken, and Musk: America, China, and the “Decoupling” Myth | The Smirking Chimp

American Hypocrisy, American Military

Chasing shadows in Cuba – Pearls and Irritations

Cuba travel, Contemporary art collage, zine and comics culture style poster.

Why does Washington believe they have the right to conduct joint military exercises off the Chinese Pacific coast, but will not tolerate even the barest hint of those activities by China and Cuba in ‘their’ maritime neighbourhood?

Source: Chasing shadows in Cuba – Pearls and Irritations

America's Shame, American Hypocrisy, voice of America

U.S. Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba – CounterPunch.org

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Cuba has demonstrated that it desires nothing but peace in the region, and normal relations with its neighbor, the United States. But the United States refuses to accept this proposal. Instead, it maintains the most comprehensive sanctions in history against the small island. Instead, it falsely places Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list, even though it is in fact a sponsor of peace. Instead, the U.S. government and its media apparatuses choose to fabricate myths and legends, painting Cuba as the evil monster under the bed. It chooses to scare the U.S. people away from the possibility that normal relations and ending the blockade against Cuba could be good for people from both countries.

Source: U.S. Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba – CounterPunch.org

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Media

Caitlin Johnstone: 60 Minutes Australia Churning Out War-with-China Propaganda

Peter Costello’s Ch9, Murdoch’s News Corp, and Kerry Stokes… That 80%+ Oh, yes a very wounded ABC

Australians are particularly vulnerable to propaganda because the country has the most concentrated media ownership in the Western world, dominated by Nine Entertainment and the Murdoch-owned News Corp.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: 60 Minutes Australia Churning Out War-with-China Propaganda

Future Possibility and Necessity, Future Shock

China, India, and the Emerging New World Order – scheerpost.com

Future Shock

China, India, and the United States might be when it comes to collaborating with their counterparts, they will have little choice if they are to escape an increasingly calamitous future. Like it or not, they will have to embrace some form of G-3 collaboration, however little acknowledged it may be at first. In time, as they come to recognize their mutual interdependence, they might even find themselves collaborating in a more formal, amicable manner — to the benefit of all the inhabitants of planet Earth.

Source: China, India, and the Emerging New World Order – scheerpost.com

Yemen

Yemen War Cease-fire Talks Thanks to China

SANA'A, YEMEN - MARCH 28: Boys walk amongst the rubble of a building destroyed in past aerial strikes carried out by warplanes from a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, as Yemen marks its war's 8th anniversary, on March 28, 2023 in Sana'a, Yemen. March 26 saw the eighth anniversary of Yemen's war, which started following the control of most of Yemen's areas including the capital Sana'a by the Iran-allied Houthi group, which once overthrew the internationally-recognized government. On March 26, 2015, an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched its war on the Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and imposed a punishing land, sea, and air blockade on the country, depriving it of essential commodities including food and medicine. Today, Yemen, is considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 230,000 deaths, and over 4 million displaced, with more than 20 million of Yemen's 30-million population depending on humanitarian assistance. The World Bank has announced a $207 million grant to address food security and malnutrition in war-torn Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

While America churns China turns to the Yemen The Saudis and Biden loses out

“Biden promised to end the war in Yemen. Two years into his presidency, China may have delivered on that promise.”

Source: Yemen War Cease-fire Talks Thanks to China

ALP Government,

Coalition tells Andrews to stay in his lane, be more transparent on China trip

Daniel Andrews has announced a surprise visit to China but has not yet released an itinerary.

Why on earth would any ALP leader give Costello or Murdoch their plans to distort. It’s time Australia turned their backs on them rather than accepting them as a “normal” part of our media landscape.

Note the most significant uplifting thing today was South Australia leaders in providing the First Nations people with a Voice to the SA parliament. Do we hear either the Murdoch or Costello organizations celebrating the ” uniting  event”?

Labor has united the country while the LNP has done everything to divide it for  the duration of this century.

Andrews leaves for the four-day tour on Monday afternoon, which will make the first leader of an Australian government to visit China since the beginning of the pandemic. The plan to visit was first reported by The Age on Saturday.

Source: Coalition tells Andrews to stay in his lane, be more transparent on China trip

Informed Comment

China, the United States, and us – » The Australian Independent Media Network

America is a precarious democracy, hardly able to manage its affairs, let alone anyone else’s.

 

America may be the most advanced technological nation on earth. However, its social progress on matters of great moral importance is still fighting its way out of the dark ages when mysticism was rampant.

 

If we had been trying to enrich our thinking and diplomacy with China instead of pandering to the United States, we might have been in a better strategic position.

Moreover, we wouldn’t be facing the conundrum we now are.

 

Source: China, the United States, and us – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Old Dog Thought- If our ties to British reality of their and our Inglorious Past were taught in our schools The Voice would be a logical necessity and our National shame the direction pointer to a better future.

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ALP Government,

AUKUS casts shadow on Australia-China trade relations – Michael West

Australia’s landmark nuclear submarines deal has sparked an angry reaction from China, but the federal government remains hopeful the countries’ trade relationship will not be affected.

Source: AUKUS casts shadow on Australia-China trade relations – Michael West

Informed Comment

Informed Comment – China the Peace Makers
Uncategorized

How can it be that Australia has actually gone backwards in knowledge of China?! – Pearls and Irritations

Back view of graduates during commencement.

It’s all about Domestic Politicking not Foreign Policy

The report quotes Frances Adamson A.C., Governor of South Australia and former Australian Ambassador to China as saying that “deep knowledge of a country reduces the risk of strategic miscalculation – a real danger in an increasingly volatile world.” I think she’s right. I also think that kind of thinking needs a bit more priority in policy-making circles.

Source: How can it be that Australia has actually gone backwards in knowledge of China?! – Pearls and Irritations

Media

Nine chairman Peter Costello is now promoting war with China after making $millions lobbying for defence companiesKangaroo Court of Australia

Nine Entertainment-owned papers have been talking up the prospects of Australia going to war with China while failing to declare that Nine chairman Peter Costello has made $millions in recent years lobbying on behalf of defence companies.

Source: Nine chairman Peter Costello is now promoting war with China after making $millions lobbying for defence companiesKangaroo Court of Australia

Media

‘Red Alert’ is a paper tiger

As Nine newspapers attempt to spread panic about a Chinese invasion, Professor John Quiggin explains why the logistics of such an event happening are unrealistic.

Source: ‘Red Alert’ is a paper tiger

Informed Comment

China less of a threat to democracy than the mainstream media

Peter Costello’s “Mainstream Media” Turns its back to reality for “Ratings”

The mainstream press is unashamedly beating the drums of war while deliberately turning away from what is actually happening, economically and politically in the region, writes Dr William Briggs.

Source: China less of a threat to democracy than the mainstream media

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Old Dog Thought- The Age of Shame

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ASIO

Spy hive uncovered by ASIO reportedly linked to Russia

Parliament cyber hackers asio

Australia has spies but is not very good as far as the craft. Even our allies have been known to spy on us. Israel’s Mossad and America’s CIA to name two have been spying on us for years. We on the other hand spied on Timor Leste much to our shame and embarrassment. We got caught and tried to cover it up badly,  It’s the very nature of ASIO to keep secrets misinform and practice the art of fakery. So is this what we are seeing being done here in the name of openness? It’s a pity our spy chief bears the name of Burgess another notorious Russian spy in the UK,

A hive of foreign spies busted by Australia’s intelligence agency in the past year was reportedly linked to Russia.

Source: Spy hive uncovered by ASIO reportedly linked to Russia

USA

Caitlin Johnstone: War Machine vs. Balloons

In what Austin journalist Christopher Hooks has called “one of the stupidest news cycles in living memory,” the entire American political/media class is having an existential meltdown over what the Pentagon claims is a Chinese spy balloon detected in U.S. airspace on Thursday.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: War Machine vs. Balloons

Russia

Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Accord With China

Chinese President Xi Jinping, applauds as Russia's Sputnik news agency head Dmitry Kiselev, right, and head of Chinese Media Corporation Shen Haixiong shake hands, Vladivostok, Russia, Sept. 11, 2018.

Convenient News spread faster than any truth and it’s defended as Freedom of Speech

Disinformation is an old Russian government tactic. But this time Russia had help. Within days, Chinese officials and media outlets had picked up the lies and were amplifying and expanding on the biolabs yarn. The Chinese Communist Party tabloid Global Times created two splashy spreads, one sourced in part to Sputnik News, the other featuring a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin. “What is the U.S. hiding in the biolabs discovered in Ukraine?” it screamed. 

“China jumped on the biolabs conspiracy theory,” said Katja Drinhausen, an analyst with the Mercator Institute of China Studies in Berlin. Chinese officials and media outlets had spent the preceding months pushing the notion that the pandemic might have originated in a lab accident outside China. “It was like, here’s the perfect conspiracy theory coming out of Russia to support our ‘everywhere but China’ main talking point of the last year,” she said.

Source: Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propaganda Accord With China

Russia

Russia supplied with arms from North Korea — US

North Korea has delivered infantry rockets and missiles to Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, to support the war in Ukraine.

Source: Russia supplied with arms from North Korea — US

Israel

Xi announces “New Era” in China-Saudi Relationship with bn. in Deals, as Arabs Seek to Offset Dependence on Washington

So now it’s Israel, the Saudis, China, and Trump screaming at the Israeli government

Al Jazeera reports that Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz on Thursday signed an agreement with visiting Chinese Premier Xi Jinping at the Yamama Palace regarding a “comprehensive strategic partnership” between the two countries. Xi announced that his visit to the kingdom would inaugurate a “new era” in the relationship of China to the Arab world, the countries of the Gulf, and Saudi Arabia itself.

Source: Xi announces “New Era” in China-Saudi Relationship with bn. in Deals, as Arabs Seek to Offset Dependence on Washington

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Old Dog Thought- When the System of Justice is an Oxymoron

Prosecutor alleges police ‘aligned with defence’ in Bruce Lehrmann case and claims ‘inappropriate interference’

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Old Dog Thought- Victorians elected and weren’t manipulated into voting for the ALP

Labor Party supporters cheer after the ABC projects an ALP win on Saturday night.

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Informed Comment

China has neither the intent nor the capability to attack us – Pearls and Irritations

United States and China.

Wake Up Australia

We are being led in our anti-China hysteria by the United States which is not concerned that China will attack us, or even the United States, but is concerned that its world hegemony is being challenged.

Source: China has neither the intent nor the capability to attack us – Pearls and Irritations

LNP Government

Learning to hate China – how well have we learned the lessons – Pearls and Irritations

Charts of financial instruments including various type of indicator for technical analysis on the monitor of a computer, together with face of Mao Zedong on RMB (Yuan) 100 bill.

What we inherited with the Trumpster LNP

Toward the end of 2019, an article titled Lessons in how to hate China was published in Pearls and Irritations. Those lessons have been learned and learned well. Three years is a short time but the collective memory is also short. China is now the accepted enemy and the likelihood of war is spoken of more openly.

climate crisis and of a hegemonic shift from the US to China. It was an uncertain time and fear was being promoted. Those conditions still exist. The only difference is that the threat from the US and its allies has become more intense. We have learned to hate China and may well suffer from the education we have received.

Source: Learning to hate China – how well have we learned the lessons – Pearls and Irritations

Informed Comment, Uncategorized

Anti-AUKUS campaign ramps up over U.S.-China war talk

A recent Lowy Institute poll showed that just over half the Australian population is not in favour of supporting the United States in a war against China.

Anti-AUKUS campaign ramps up over U.S.-China war talk
Anti- Media, Media, media distortion, Media Madness

Rex Patrick: will Timor Leste become China’s latest aircraft carrier? – Michael West

Meanwhile the demented idiots on Sky News Kenny and Dean were spruiking that the Conflict Islands, privately owned, are up for sale. “where’s Penny Wong where’s Wong” both screamed. In fact the islands aren’t up for sale and never were according to their owner. It seems Kenny and Dean were demanding Australia buy them and some 800 other islands between us and NG.

These claiming to be balanced news jocks just fall over and over every night for the amusement of the same audience of less than 30k half of which are probably their opposition and the other half sitting with their food trays in their laps with the TV on for their amusement.

In the wake of Scott Morrison and Marise Payne’s disastrous foreign affairs stewardship, Penny Wong jets to Timor-Leste today in what may be another rescue mission to save a Pacific neighbour from China’s expansion in the region. Rex Patrick has long warned the young nation might spurn Australia in favour of Chinese investment.

Rex Patrick: will Timor Leste become China’s latest aircraft carrier? – Michael West
Climate, Climate Change

Opinion | China Suffers Through ‘Worst Heatwave Ever Recorded’ | Andy Rowell

Opinion | China Suffers Through ‘Worst Heatwave Ever Recorded’ | Andy Rowell

In a year when climate records—from floods, fire, and drought—are being shattered daily like shards of glass, there is one country that bests them all: China. The country is experiencing a heatwave like no other.

It has lasted over seventy days, with record breaking temperatures at day and at night.

Over 100 million people are affected in an area covering 500,000 square miles of the country, experiencing record temperatures exceeding 104°F (40°C). To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to the size of Texas, Colorado and California combined.

Experts are calling it the “worst heatwave ever recorded in global history,” or “Worst heat wave known in world climatic history.”

Opinion | China Suffers Through ‘Worst Heatwave Ever Recorded’ | Andy Rowell
Pacific Region

Kiribati withdrawal rocks Pacific Is Forum – Michael West

The withdrawal of Kiribati, which switched its recognition from Taiwan to Beijing in 2019, is being interpreted as a deepening of China’s influence. “Regionalism is playing such a big role,” Ms Dreaver said.

Source: Kiribati withdrawal rocks Pacific Is Forum – Michael West

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Russia

China’s Xi Jinping backs Russia on security issues

China Russia

China sees Russia and Putin as a proxy satellite rather than a power unto itself and Putin is obliging them because without China’s silent support he couldn’t continue.

China has refused to criticise Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or even to refer to it in such terms while accusing NATO of provoking Russia into attacking.

Source: China’s Xi Jinping backs Russia on security issues

Informed Comment

How Russian Oligarchs, the Saudis, and China Are Swaying American Elections | The Smirking Chimp

Democrats should make this an issue in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. While Republicans rail against the utterly fake danger to the United States of undocumented immigrants voting in American elections, Democrats should rail against the real danger to American democracy of foreign money affecting American elections through foreign investments in American corporations.

Source: How Russian Oligarchs, the Saudis, and China Are Swaying American Elections | The Smirking Chimp

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ALP

Labor to unveil plan to tackle China expansionism in the Pacific

Restoring Radio Australia is just one of 6 changes planned. There is already a generation of islanders less attached to Australia because of the LNP

Broadcasting and publishing content into the region will promote “Australian identity, values, and interests”, while partnerships and training with Pacific journalists will be strengthened. Increased funding for the public broadcaster is one of seven key points in the party’s plan to step up in the Pacific.

Source: Labor to unveil plan to tackle China expansionism in the Pacific

Morrison

In the interest of full disclosure – Scott Morrison’s salute to China – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Less than 3 years ago Morrison couldn’t have had a more different attitude to China and today Morrison Blames them for everything

Our relationship with China has many strengths.

Our trading relationship is flourishing, with two-way trade reaching a remarkable $215 billion in 2018, which benefits both countries.

Our cooperation with China through our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership goes well beyond economic issues.

We are working together across fields including health, education, and taxation, where Australia offers world-class expertise.

We’ve also been cooperating successfully to counter drug trafficking through Taskforce Blaze.

There is more we can do. That’s why we established the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations earlier this year.

“That is why we operate a non-discriminatory approach to investment screening.

And I note that all nations, including China, screen foreign investment.

The infrastructure needs of the region are enormous and Australia welcomes the contribution that the Belt and Road Initiative can make to regional infrastructure investment and to regional development.

We support regional investments with commercial merit that meet genuine market need and international standards, including on transparency and debt sustainability.”

Source: In the interest of full disclosure – Scott Morrison’s salute to China – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Factcheck: the Coalition says Labor always ‘takes China’s side’, but are the parties’ positions so different? | Australian election 2022 | The Guardian

The flag pole of the Australian Parliament is seen behind the roofs of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra,

Morrison is doing a lot of political whining about fairness in our Democracy just as Abbott once did when complaining against the ABC. “Why aren’t they supporting us” he cried and banned MPs from the from any interviews on our national broadcaster, cutting funding by a $1bn over the past decade. “We are the Government and we should be supported” has been Morrison’s catch cry as well. The LNP wants flag-waving, not questions.  Morrison is doing an Abbott crying, and always loudly that nobody loves his government loves or supports him despite the fact that all he’s done for the past 3 years has been campaigning for this election and doing it badly.

1) Abbott closed down Radio Australia and created a vacuum in the region

2) Abbott was far more interested in Europe War Memorials, Knighthoods and Shirt-fronting Putin. Being a Friend of China was a political and economic advantage.

3) However Murdoch Media were constantly rubbing China the wrong way and China asked the Abbott government to intervene but they ignored it because Murdoch was a far more essential associate of the LNP. He was their publicist.

4) Morrison and Dutton have always known “impressing Murdoch in Australian politics was a must”. More so than being friends of China’s and so they set out to do just that as neither were really Murdoch’s picks. China simply ran second to Domestic politics, the next election was always in the front of mind. Without Murdoch Media the LNP were dead in the water. It’s Murdoch that makes MORRISON’s MIRACLES HAPPEN.

As the Coalition campaign seeks to revive the talking point that Labor always “takes China’s side”, Scott Morrison implored reporters to “just look at the record”. So we did just that and found the claims by the prime minister and his senior ministers are either factually inaccurate, misleading, or lack context.

Source: Factcheck: the Coalition says Labor always ‘takes China’s side’, but are the parties’ positions so different? | Australian election 2022 | The Guardian

LNP

After the Solomon Islands security pact and Lambie’s Medevac deal, does the government have any political ammo left? – ABC News

Dutton and Abbott having a racist laugh with the weaselly Morrison whispering a warning ” the Boom is on, the boom is on”. When this event and picture exploded the truth about Abbott wanting Australia to be a part of NATO and not the PACIFIC. It was clear to the world he was America’s “Pillock” not the Pivot of the Pacific.

Dutton’s comments — reflecting a spectacular disdain for the existential threat many Pacific nations feel from climate change — came to mind on Friday. On morning television, he dismissed suggestions that the revelation that Solomon Islands was negotiating a security deal with China — which might eventually lead to a Chinese naval base being established in the small nation — meant the government had “dropped the ball” in the Pacific. “We have a fantastic relationship with the Solomon Islands and we’re there at the request of the government of the Solomon Islands at the moment

Source: After the Solomon Islands security pact and Lambie’s Medevac deal, does the government have any political ammo left? – ABC News

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Guns still point to China: Ukraine a backdrop for national security panic merchants – Michael West Media

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is busy not so much with a conflict on the other side of the globe but finding a way to spin the misery of the people of Ukraine into anti-China propaganda. It’s just the kind of propaganda Scott Morrison wants, and the prime minister clearly thinks he needs, in the run up to a likely May federal election. For years ASPI has suckled at the teat of the weapons industry; but far and away the most generous of ASPI’s benefactors is the Morrison government.

Source: Guns still point to China: Ukraine a backdrop for national security panic merchants – Michael West Media