Get out of default left wing mode sometimes?
The Fed labour gov't supported the libs legislation passed to allow them to tear up the Vic B&R agreement. Why?
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The Fed labour gov't supported the libs legislation passed to allow them to tear up the Vic B&R agreement. Why?
So this is the MOU: https://www.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-02/Belt-and-Road-Initiative-MOU.pdf
The first sentencing includes: "...promoting the silkroad spirit centering on peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness..."
As Jonathan E. Hillman puts it:
It calls for “inclusiveness”, but China imprisons more than a million ethnic and religious minorities and detains journalists and foreign NGO workers. It calls for “peace", but China militarises disputed territory. It calls for “openness”, but China lashes out against calls for an international inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.afr.com
China doesn't do anything for mutual benefit, that is clear. It's always a win-lose proposition for them.
The first sentencing includes: "...promoting the silkroad spirit centering on peace, cooperation, openness, inclusiveness..."
As Jonathan E. Hillman puts it:
It calls for “inclusiveness”, but China imprisons more than a million ethnic and religious minorities and detains journalists and foreign NGO workers. It calls for “peace", but China militarises disputed territory. It calls for “openness”, but China lashes out against calls for an international inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why Victoria took a wrong turn on China's Belt and Road
Victoria has little to show for signing up to China's Belt and Road Initiative and keeping the MOU sends the wrong signal.
China doesn't do anything for mutual benefit, that is clear. It's always a win-lose proposition for them.
Apologies, i must have misread your tone. Can you share your thoughts on the deal?
And the minute the Gov speaks out for an inquiry that will need Chinas cooperation as a signatory of the WHOin relation to Covid the Gov is suddenly doing the wrong thing diplomatically.
Right, so, no answer, just as I thought.
China doesn't do anything for mutual benefit? Really? So tell me, who does?
This is the system we live under, screw everyone else for your own benefit. When the CCP does it apparently it is wrong, but that is the basis of neo-liberalism and is actually a contrast to classical liberalism.
Since my view is that neo-liberalism is a steaming *smile* I have no problem opposing this, but the default right wing mode is screw everyone else and look after yourself so I will stay in left wing mode thanks. By the way, there's nothing remotely left wing about the authoritarian regime of state capitalism in China.
DS
Are you aware of the contents of all those other deals then? Neither am I.
But maybe just maybe there are aspects of belt and road that make it worthy of special consideration and repudiation? Does it cross state / federal boundaries for instance?
Seems a little bit more weighty than sister city relationship.
Did China single out Vic .... hey Dan first and only offer or we are off to Qld?
Or was the offer spruiked to every Premier and the other 5 said thanks but no thanks? What did Vic see that others didn't? What did Vic negotiate in that others couldn't to make it fly?
Whether you are for or against, does anyone know if anything has actually occurred as result of the deal? Vic companies advantaged in trade with China? Universities given more money by China for research? Chinese companies preferencing Melb over Sydney for high rise development. Promoting Vic as tourism destination by directing state airlines to fly to Melbourne over other Aust airports?
Maybe belt and road was very little, maybe they started negotiating after a sister city. Maybe China were just starting with Vic and offered a good deal. See, I can speculate too.
Who knows what is in the deals, but Australia has a lot of links with China, why single out this one? We also have links with many other governments who are not exactly nice to their people, why single out this one?
DS
Who knows what is in the deals, but Australia has a lot of links with China, why single out this one? We also have links with many other governments who are not exactly nice to their people, why single out this one?
DS
China criticises Australia's human rights record at UN
Australia accepts more than 150 human rights recommendations made during the UN Human Rights Council's annual review in Geneva, but defends its border protection policies and does not back a call to phase out coal.
www.google.com.au
China at it again.
China criticises Australia's human rights record at UN
Australia accepts more than 150 human rights recommendations made during the UN Human Rights Council's annual review in Geneva, but defends its border protection policies and does not back a call to phase out coal.
China at it again.
2 words, Tianamin Square
China in major diplomatic spat with tiny eastern European country
China recalls its ambassador to Lithuania and expels the Baltic nation's top representative to Beijing over the country's decision to allow self-governing Taiwan to open an office in Lithuania under its own name.
www.abc.net.au
To borrow from Orwell, looks like Lithuania displayed a bit of 'wrong think'. Such a fragile, childish, and petty overreaction from the CCP. But that is standard operating practice that I've come to expect.
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We can't afford China to forge strong relationships with Indonesia.
www.abc.net.au
Australian diplomat says China won 'first responder advantage' by helping Indonesia with COVID
One of Australia’s most senior diplomats has criticised foreign aid cuts in South-East Asia, saying the government needs to build its regional influence and stability.
www.abc.net.au
Done, inconclusive but the preponderance of evidence showed that it was most likely of natural origin.
US intelligence unsure if Coronavirus emerged from lab leak or animals
A much-awaited report says most US intelligence agencies believe the virus was probably not genetically engineered, but there is still a divide.
There are some other investigations ongoing I believe.
We can't afford China to forge strong relationships with Indonesia.
Australian diplomat says China won 'first responder advantage' by helping Indonesia with COVID
One of Australia’s most senior diplomats has criticised foreign aid cuts in South-East Asia, saying the government needs to build its regional influence and stability.
Lefties have been telling y'all that foreign aid is also soft power. Now that China is stepping in to fill the gap people are starting to understand this.
They're a going to breed more & more true believers.
"An editorial in a Chinese state-run news website has suggested Communist party members are obliged to have three children for the good of the country, as Beijing seeks to address plummeting birthrates."
"An editorial in a Chinese state-run news website has suggested Communist party members are obliged to have three children for the good of the country, as Beijing seeks to address plummeting birthrates."
After years n years of one child policy, where a large % of newborns were male, leaving an imbalance in the ratio of men to women. China has now changed it's mind n mandating a minimum of three kids per family. With a starting population of well over a billion people, they'll be over crowded n spreading out everywhere in another 3 or 4 generations. Make some room people.
We'll be ok, we'll be just about due to get our new submarines by then.
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