As China starts threatening other nations it is becoming increasingly apparent that we are going to have to pick sides.
Australia has been directly threatened by the Chinese Government:
The Chinese government has warned Australia to “distance” itself from the United States amid growing tensions between the two countries, saying it would be “extremely dangerous” for Canberra to get involved.
China is Australia’s largest trading partner, while the US is one of our key strategic allies. But Beijing says any show of support for the latter will deliver our economy a “fatal blow”.
“If the Trump administration plunges the world into a ‘new Cold War,’ forcing China to take countermeasures against the US and its allies, it would be extremely dangerous for Canberra to become a player in a diplomatic club led by the US, given Australia’s high dependence on the Chinese economy,” an article in the Global Times said.
“Once Australia is regarded as a supporter of the US in a ‘new Cold War,’ China-Australia economic ties will inevitably suffer a fatal blow.
“This is why Canberra needs to closely watch Washington’s attacks which include placing Chinese firms on its sanctions backlist.
“This offers Canberra a window to observe whether there will be a ‘new Cold War’ between China and the US and to reconsider its strategic relations with Washington.”
It went on: “Australia’s economic deterrent force is much smaller than the US’, so China to some extent will enjoy more room to fight back against Australia with countermeasures if Canberra supports Washington… it means Australia may feel more pain than the US.”
That is tantamount to a declaration of war.
We should be telling our mates that we back them and telling the Chinese Communist Party that they can get stuffed.
Which makes me wonder why Todd Muller’s political Svengali, Matthew Hooton, was pushing for a reopening of trade and borders with China?
In that article, he rudely describes the Republic of China (Taiwan) as China-Taipei. That is a deliberate insult.
It is especially rude coming from an advisor to the leader of the National party, which is a member of the International Democratic Union. The IDU contains a sister party from the Republic of China, the Kuomintang party.
I well remember when National party MPs and Ministers attended the Republic of China’s national day celebrations. I also remember as a school student my father receiving calls from the Chinese Ambassador or Consul trying to get him to tell the Prime Minister and Ministers to change their words or statements regarding the Republic of China. My father rather politely told them that we lived in a democracy, that we had freedom of speech and association, and as such he would do no such thing.
Sadly those days in National are long since passed. John Key gave an edict for firstly Ministers, and then MPs, to stop attending Republic of China embassy functions. He then moved the National party very, very close to CCP connected officials and donors. The President, Peter Goodfellow, also aligned the National party to CCP connected people.
That regime continued under Bill English and then Simon Bridges.
Now it appears that Todd Muller is intent on continuing that because he has echoed Matthew Hooton’s stance on reopening trade and borders with China.
New National Party leader Todd Muller said it was still “critically important” that tourism resumed with Australia as quickly as possible, but we also needed to consider broadening the bubble.
“It’s totally appropriate that Australia is our number one priority, but concurrently we need to be thinking around ‘so how do we open up to China, what does that look like? What do the conditions need to be that gives both countries confidence that people to people engagement should start?’
What it should look like is we stick by our mates and tell the Chinese Communist Party to get stuffed.
We should likewise push for recognition of the Republic of China, at least admitting them as a full member to WHO, and then move to formally recognising them and having them admitted to the United Nations as well. Finally, we should abandon recognition of the PRC’s One China policy.
The National Party has a decision to make. They can choose subservience to the Chinese Communists, or they can choose to remember that they are members of the IDU, who have emblazoned across their website that “We Connect Freedom”.
It looks like they will choose to be China’s toadies, given that their Chinese spy has just been promoted.
The country too has a choice to make…continue trading with a dishonest world player, or choose to trade with people with shared values.
Thirty plus years of globalism and trade hasn’t changed the totalitarian regime of China. They used that same trade and globalism to wage economic war on the West, and now they are overtly threatening countries.
Enough is enough. If China cannot or will not act as a responsible nation then they must be shunned. Then their government has some stark choices, especially how they feed their people because I don’t think they can breed enough pangolins or bats to meet the protein deficit left if the world acts together to shun them.
Let’s see if Todd Muller is willing to forgo the Chinese Communist cash that will soon be revealed in a court for all to see, or will he continue National’s rejection of its core principles and hand the initiative to a more canny politician who can read the winds of change regarding China better than him.
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