Frydenberg is the Treasurer who has blocked all Chinese investment into Australia, no matter how innocuous or small.
These are petty fucking bastards.
Frydenberg is the Treasurer who has blocked all Chinese investment into Australia, no matter how innocuous or small.
Indeed.
Five Eyes not strong enough? That's arrogance when they create an elitist alliance based on English-speaking only countries and still crying to the the world for help. Sounds like Biden isn't sending the right signals to Trudeau.
While on the other side of the world they're trying get other countries scared not trade with China because China won't allow countries to bite the hand that feeds them. They're trying to appease to countries that wouldn't like it themselves if they were insulted by Australia. They can't get countries to sacrifice themselves for them so they have scare countries into not trading with China. Guess what? No one is going to do that. What happened to all those other countries that will buy their products? Still have all those boxes of Australian wine in storage?
So Abductor-in-chief justin trudeau (of Meng WanZhou) wants a unified front against detention. The hypocrite thinks abduction of Chinese is not detention. He is also still living in A-team fantasy tv show.
Five Eyes not strong enough? That's arrogance when they create an elitist alliance based on English-speaking only countries and still crying to the the world for help. Sounds like Biden isn't sending the right signals to Trudeau.
While on the other side of the world they're trying get other countries scared not trade with China because China won't allow countries to bite the hand that feeds them. They're trying to appease to countries that wouldn't like it themselves if they were insulted by Australia. They can't get countries to sacrifice themselves for them so they have scare countries into not trading with China. Guess what? No one is going to do that. What happened to all those other countries that will buy their products? Still have all those boxes of Australian wine in storage?
Opinion
Daryl Guppy
Coronavirus has exposed Australia’s double standards, quasi-colonial outlook
- Canberra’s muted reaction to the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant in the UK stands in stark contrast to its ban on travellers from China in February 2020
- It also reveals the unacknowledged racism that still lingers at the core of Australian policy decision making, says Daryl Guppy
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It was September 20 when a new variant of
was first identified in the English county of Kent. Yet public acknowledgement of this highly transmissible new strain did not come from ’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, until December 14.
Had this happened in
, Western media outlets would have been quick to allege a “cover-up” – but in the event, the UK’s almost three-month delay in notifying the world went largely unremarked upon by much of the West, including .
This double standard could be explained away in political terms. China is considered unfriendly, so for many in the Australian media, much of what China does is seen as part of a dark security conspiracy.
Britain, on the other hand, is on “our” side, so we are more tolerant of its errors and omissions. It is OK for the UK to be “learning about it as we go”, as British Prime Minister has said of the pandemic.
Australia’s muted response to the new UK variant stands in strong contrast to how it reacted in the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak. On February 1, the country quickly banned foreign nationals on flights from mainland China, including those in mid-air, just one week after Wuhan had gone
The creation of
was largely an Australian initiative, but not one dominated by Australia. Subsequent leadership changes shifted the focus as the country came to believe it played an important leadership role in advancing Western values in Asia.
Infamously, and with no hint of hubris, former Prime Minister John Howard accepted then-US President George W Bush’s description in 2003 of Australia as a “sheriff” of Asia.
The return to a quasi-colonial outlook is reflected in Australia’s rejection of the UN motion condemning Britain’s occupation of the Chagos Islands
. Part of this colonial possession – the island of Diego Garcia – was gifted by the UK to the US in 1970. Australia was one of six countries to vote against the UN resolution.
Most recently, in February last year, Australia quietly announced plans to effectively militarise another UK colonial gift, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, so that the airfield there can support the deployment of Boeing P8-A Poseidon aircraft.
This anachronistic outlook is also reflected in the country’s increasing tendency to scold others in the region and tell them what they must do.
Rather than accept development assistance from China, Pacific island nations are pressured to reject it and, by implication, learn to live with poor infrastructure and inadequate facilities. Australia’s Pacific Step-up policy, first announced in 2016, is more about preventing aid from China than it is about matching the need for development assistance.
Unlike New Zealand, which has delivered widespread vaccine assistance to Pacific nations, Australia has been the first to warn others in Asia of the dangers of China’s vaccine diplomacy. Does it really mean that countries like Indonesia should reject Beijing’s assistance? Perhaps not, but these warnings do not come with alternatives
Frydenberg is the Treasurer who has blocked all Chinese investment into Australia, no matter how innocuous or small.
These are petty fucking bastards.