| > You mentioned that Australia doesn't want to be seen bowing to China, yet it looks to me as if you have no problems bowing to the US. It's absolutely a good point and I think under the Trump administration for the first time there was appetite to question this. In a different world China would have taken advantage of that. Did you know the US failed to appoint an ambassador to Australia for nearly 2 years? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_U... Australia felt pushed aside by the US. > What do you think of these events? Demanding that Chinese-Australians (who were born in Australia) testify in front of parliament that they unconditionally condemn CCP. This looks like "guilty until proven innocent" to me? Yeah sorry about Eric Abetz. He's pretty much a wack job, and lives to offend people. Do a search for his name on any news site and see what else he's said. I can't and won't defend him. I'd note that your 3rd link was about how the other parties in parliament tried to get him to apologize and only failed along party lines. I agree with your characterisation of Chinese/Western relations. I'd note in addition that China clearly decide a couple of years back to take advantage of the US's confused Asia policy and has been quite aggressive because they see a time window to act in. |