Chinese soft power can be amusing at times, via The Australian:
The scene was Shanghai’s Hyatt on the Bund last Thursday night.
Ciobo, the first minister from Malcolm Turnbull’s government to visit China in eight months, had just taken the stage in an attempt to add some balm to recent wounds to the China-Australia relationship.
…the visiting minister was hard to make out over the clattering of plates that began, loudly, exactly when he started speaking.
It would have been written off as bad luck if it wasn’t for Ciobo’s “microphone incident” the following night.
The scene was the St Regis Shanghai, the venue for a gala dinner hosted by Gill McLachlan’sAFL before Port Adelaide thumped Gold Coast at Jiangwan Stadium.
…When Ciobo took the stage, a microphone that moments before had worked perfectly for McLachlan became almost inaudible once the Trade Minister stood in front of it.
We need one those for Geoff Raby.
