Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 25)

Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 20)

Postby behappyalways » Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:51 pm

China slaps up to 200% tariffs on Australian wine
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55097100
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 20)

Postby behappyalways » Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:00 pm

Could Australia’s government have handled China better?
The Lucky Country is the object of an unusual amount of bile

It is the oldest move in the Communist Party’s playbook: to lock a country in the doghouse when it has offended the cosmic order. Yet even by China’s standards, the 14 grievances presented to the government of Australia this month are striking in scope and animosity.

The charges include speaking out against Chinese activities in the South China Sea, Xinjiang and Hong Kong; excluding Huawei from 5g telecoms networks; calling for an independent inquiry into the origins of covid-19; passing a law against foreign interference in politics; pressing the state of Victoria to end its involvement in President Xi Jinping’s flagship infrastructure initiative; blaming cyber-attacks on China; and accusing Chinese journalists of being state agents.

China also griped about Australia’s hostile media and think-tanks. Make China the enemy, a Chinese official told an Australian broadcaster, and “China will be the enemy”.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking. China severely limits foreign investment, expels foreign journalists, takes innocent people hostage as a diplomatic weapon and routinely interferes in other countries’ politics.

As Richard McGregor of the Lowy Institute in Sydney puts it, any provincial boss in China who tried to run a freelance foreign policy in the manner of the Victorian government would never be heard of again.

Meanwhile, China has all but shed any legal pretence for blocking Australian imports. Yet complaining gets Australia nowhere. Coal-carriers are anchored off the Chinese coast, unable to land their cargoes. Australian wine sits stranded on the quay in Hong Kong.

For decades Chinese demand has stoked Australian prosperity. In just weeks China has raised obstacles to 13 products which generate over a third of Australia’s total exports to China. Barley, sugar, timber, lobsters and copper ore have all been banned. Wheat is next. Two biggies, iron ore and lng, have been spared, but presumably only because it is hard to find alternatives quickly.

Could Australia have avoided the doghouse? From cyber-attacks to influencing elections, China poses a threat, and the prime minister, Scott Morrison, insists Australia’s sovereignty is non-negotiable. Yet members of his own Liberal Party as well as the opposition Labor Party think the government’s handling of China has, in the words of Allan Behm of the Australia Institute, been “cack-handed and lacking nuance”.

Why, in August, block the Chinese purchase of (Japanese-owned) Lion, a big dairy and drinks company, when the foreign-investment board had already given the nod? And calling alone for a covid-19 inquiry instead of with other countries was inviting Chinese spleen.

Hawkish dynamics within his party are one reason why Mr Morrison has, as Hugh White of the Australian National University puts it, “gone out of his way to poke China in the eye”. One group of mps, sporting claw-mark stickers on their office windows, calls itself the Wolverines, in homage to trigger-happy American teenagers resisting a Soviet invasion in a cult 1980s film.

A member, Senator Eric Abetz, says its anti-China stand is about calling out barbarism: “That’s the Australian ethic—we call a spade a spade.” Yet the antics of members (who include Labor mps) are “immature, juvenile and destructive”, a foreign-policy expert, Allan Gyngell, recently warned. At one parliamentary hearing Mr Abetz called on Chinese-Australians to denounce the Communist Party.

Still, wariness of China is no longer a fringe activity. In two years the number of Australians who trust China to “act responsibly in the world” has plunged from 52% to 23%, according to the Lowy Institute.

In this context, Mr Morrison’s talk of sovereignty, Mr White argues, has a primal appeal: plucky Oz standing up to a bully. But as American power ebbs and Chinese power is in flood, Australians, Mr White contends, “have no conception of how to make [their] way”.

The lack of plan, says John Hewson, a former Liberal leader, is all too evident in the government’s handling of China. The prime minister needs to get out of the fix without appearing to back down. The small businesses suffering from China’s boycott are his party’s natural constituency.

The departure of President Donald Trump may help: Mr Morrison got special bile from China for hewing close to him. But the gap he needs to close is wide. Six years ago Mr Xi addressed Parliament in Canberra. Today the Australian government cannot even get a phone call answered. Welcome, China seems to be saying, to the new order.

Source: The Economist
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:01 pm

Australia demands apology after China govt official shares doctored image of Aussie soldier with Afghan child
https://mothership.sg/2020/11/australia ... ake-image/
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:31 pm

Australia approves tough new veto powers over foreign agreements as tensions with China rise
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/03/austral ... china.html
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:45 pm

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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:06 pm

嚴防中國"無聲的入侵" 澳洲反華聲浪高漲 TVBS文茜的世界周報 20201226
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Mon May 23, 2022 6:15 pm

Australia’s new PM Albanese vows to rebuild unity and trust after Labor Party election win
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Tue Jun 14, 2022 1:01 pm

Australian Housing Expected To Drop By 15% According To Country's Largest Bank
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/aus ... rgest-bank
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Sun Aug 28, 2022 4:06 pm

Billion Dollar "Ice Bust" Largest In Australian History As Meth Crisis Worsens
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... is-worsens
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Re: Australia 02 (Jan 11 - Dec 21)

Postby behappyalways » Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:40 pm

China and Australia are not at war anymore? Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, has long deployed Australia's water, electricity, natural gas and "vineyards"

中澳不戰了?貿易破冰他先知? 港首富李嘉誠早就佈局澳洲水.電.天然氣跟"葡萄園"|20230314|@inewsplus
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