Australian Pollies Need to Get Down on Bended Knee to China and Show Some Respect! By James Reed

     With all of the pro-China boot lapping articles I have done, in deadly seriousness, you would have thought hat my mate Xi Jinping would have had someone drop off a big brown paper bag of money, with flowers, “keep up the good work, chairman Mao is smiling.” But no. No commo money. Nothing. Still, this lack of financial reward does not prevent me from seeing that the prime monster and all of his mob need to start showing some respect to the mightiest force in the known universe, and get down on bended knee, and begin deadly serious boot licking. If the decadent political class can do this for Blacks in America, well, it can be done here too, and it better be soon, or the universities are going to collapse, being based upon China, and we would not want that to happen would we? Think of all the money got from flogging of our degrees. The thought of locals having university places is simply unnatural. Something must be done to continue the dispossession.
  https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12350738

“Last year, Chinese students and tourists collectively brought in more than $18 billion to Australia, boosting government coffers and propping up countless jobs. The prospect of this revenue slowly draining away — just as the Morrison Government scrambles to resuscitate an economy ravaged by a once-in-a-century pandemic — is a frightening one. More importantly, Australia's relationship with its largest trading partner is now mired in mutual suspicion and outright hostility. Senior Australian officials and Government ministers cannot even convince anyone in Beijing to pick up the phone to discuss a rapidly multiplying array of disputes. And this week, when Australian ministers protested that China's travel warnings were exaggerated and unreasonable, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused them of ignoring discrimination and violence in Australia. "We advise Australia face up to its problems, do some soul-searching and take concrete measures to protect the safety, rights and interests of Chinese nationals in Australia," spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing. Not surprisingly, the Morrison Government's patience is starting to wear very thin.

Let's call a spade a spade
When China first targeted Australian exports, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham was scrupulously careful to avoid escalation, insisting that he accepted Beijing's assurances that the mysterious regulatory hurdles suddenly facing Australian goods had nothing to do with the broader political disputes between Beijing and Canberra. But this week senior members of the Morrison Government decided it was probably time to stop pretending this particular shovel-shaped digging implement was not a spade. When China first targeted Australian exports, the Trade Minister Simon Birmingham was scrupulously careful to avoid escalation.(ABC News: Matt Roberts) On Thursday, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison also used the "c" word — "coercion" — for the first time while fielding yet another question about the litany of sanctions unveiled by Beijing. "We are an open trading nation," Mr Morrison said. "But I'm never going to trade our values in response to coercion from wherever it comes." Foreign Minister Marise Payne went even further, accusing Beijing of spruiking "disinformation" about Australia. "It contributes to a climate of fear and division at a time, in a pandemic context, when what we need is cooperation and understanding," she told the ABC's Sabra Lane. Not long after that, the Trade Minister finally abandoned his poker-faced civility, telling the Australian Financial Review that the ambassador's initial warning of a boycott was an "inappropriate indication of attempted economic coercion".

Naming the problem is only the first step
There's now a nearly uniform conviction in the Morrison Government that Australia's understandable rush to capitalise on Beijing's sustained and explosive growth has left it deeply exposed to retaliation. That risk only escalates as the Chinese Government grows increasingly authoritarian and assertive. There's a nagging fear that some of our worst fears could easily — and quickly — come to pass. But naming the problem is only the first step. It is very easy to declare that Australia is overly reliant on China and must rapidly diversify its export markets. It is very hard to actually do it. Right now the Morrison Government and Australian government officials are pouring plenty of time and energy into building up strategic relationships with the Asian middle powers whose trajectories will help to shape our region's future. Last week, Mr Morrison held a "virtual summit" with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The video call had none of the impressive pageantry that would usually accompany a formal visit to India, which often includes an inspection of gloriously turned out regimental guards outside the vast colonial facade of Rashtrapati Bhavan. But it was still a signal moment for Australian diplomacy. The two leaders signed a new comprehensive strategic partnership, along with agreements on cyber affairs, rare earths and military cooperation. Drawing closer to rising middle powers like India and Indonesia not only brings immediate benefits; it might also make it easier for Australia to carve out new export markets there. And Australia is not just searching for new friends. It's turning to old ones as well.

The world is changing — so we are changing too
It was probably no coincidence that both the Treasurer and the Prime Minister chose this week to declare that the so-called Five Eyes intelligence network — comprising the US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada and Australia — might soon morph into something distinctly different. The five nations are inching towards a new agreement that will see the top Five Eyes economic ministers meet to discuss the path out of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister was surprisingly expansive on the topic, telling Coalition MPs that Australia was working to take the once top-secret network "into the commercial sphere" in order to "build trusted supply chains". The Government hasn't said what goods might travel along these supply chains, but US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a glimpse earlier this year when he said America wanted to turn to trusted friends for items "really central to American security" like rare earths, pharmaceuticals and nuclear material. "We need to fundamentally review our supply chains and make sure that we know those supply chains and have control over them for moments just like this," Mr Pompeo declared. The Morrison Government also believes that Five Eyes might provide a useful avenue to share valuable intellectual property.(AAP: Joel Carrett) It's not just about buying and selling — the Morrison Government also believes that Five Eyes might provide a useful avenue to share valuable intellectual property that they want to protect from other nations. There are even murmurs that Five Eyes nations might need to pour their collective energy and resources into building crucial future technologies where Beijing already holds a clear edge. All this is a far cry from the conception of the world championed by Australian politicians for the past three decades, one where goods travel freely and mutual suspicions slowly ebb away as economies become more deeply intertwined. But then again, the officials and politicians charting this course always believed that China would — very gradually — liberalise. But they were wrong. Or as my contact on the other end of the phone remarked: "The world is changing." "So we are changing too."

     Ugg, it makes one wonder why Britain bothered settling this place. Then there is this stuff, which surely could not be true, as only whites are racist to Blacks, by definition:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/coronavirus-africans-ostracised-as-china-has-its-own-racism-problem/news-story/62d3bb01575bb08066f5097d3ef5fe6f

“International business student Frederic Shingiro still can’t understand why he and fellow Afric¬ans have been ostracised for months in China’s south because of a corona¬virus from Wuhan. “I don’t understand this rac¬ism,” Mr Shingiro, from Burundi in east-central Africa, tells The Weekend Australian in an interview in Yuexiu District in the trading megalopolis of Guangzhou, home of the biggest African diaspora in China. “This corona¬virus is from China. It’s not from Africa. It’s from Wuhan,” says Mr Shingiro, puzzled at the behaviour of his host country. The treatment of Africans in Guangzhou — who numbered 13,500 last year, according to city officials — is not included in China’s 65-page Fighting COVID-19 report, the blemish-free account published this week and overseen by the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department. But conversations The Weekend Australian had this week with Africans living in Guangzhou, which by coincidence took place as President Xi Jinping’s authorit¬arian administration warned its citizens about “incidents of discrimination” in Australia, ¬reveal that the anger and hurt remains. “They treat us like dogs,” says Joe, from Liberia, on Africa’s western coast, whose business trading goods from Guangzhou — the capit¬al of Guangdong province, the manufacturing capital of the world — has been ruined by corona¬virus restrictions on international travel. “When they see an African, they put their mask on,” he says of Chinese residents.

Things got really bad for the city’s African community on April 2, when state-controlled news agency Xinhua reported that a Nigerian man infected with coronavirus attacked a Chinese nurse who tried to stop him leaving an isolation ward in a Guangzhou hospital. Five days later, Guangzhou authorities announced that five Nigerians in the city had tested positive for the coronavirus. The reports tapped into longstanding prejudices about Afric¬ans in China and were allowed to go viral on Chinese social media, which is curated by the government’s state censorship regime. Weeks after China’s foreign ministry stoked a conspiracy ¬theory about the coronavirus’s supposed US origins, Africans in Guangzhou found themselves typecast as likely carriers of the virus. They were denied entry to hotels, shops and restaurants, includin¬g a McDonald’s outlet that became the subject of international outrage for a sign on its door that read “Black people are not allowe¬d to enter the restaurant”. Many were evicted by landlords and for nights slept rough on the streets. A 14-day compulsory quarantine — at their own expens¬e — was ordered for all dark-skinned foreigners, even if they hadn’t left the city. “There was no evident scientif¬ic basis for the policy. Most impor¬t¬¬ed cases of COVID-19 to the province were Chinese nationals returning from abroad,” said Human Rights Watch in a report on the situation published in May.”

     Ah! Multicultural diversity … what is there not to like?