Sigh. At Domain:
The revelation of Mr Moselmane’s February 5 opinion piece for the East China Normal University comes with the upper house MP already facing intense criticism – including from his own party- for separate comments he made praising Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In his February opinion piece, Mr Moselmane endorses the much-maligned praise by the World Health Organisation of “measures adopted by China… to stop the virus from spreading”.
“At the same time, the Australian government was hesitant, lacked direction, and responded slowly and confusingly,” he wrote.
“We appreciate the serious attention, timely and effective countermeasures against the threat of coronavirus taken by the Chinese authorities and the Chinese community in Australia.”
China has been widely criticised by academics and health experts in media reports for downplaying the extent of the outbreak in Wuhan, the original epicentre of the pandemic, and silencing whistleblowers such as doctor Li Wenliang, who later died from the disease.
But in his February piece, Mr Moselmane savages Australia’s “mainstream media” for having “publicly played racist cards, offending and insulting many Australian citizens, especially Chinese residents” in actions that “further deepened the already great suffering of the victim”.
“Today, the obsolete scum of ‘white Australia’ is once again flooding, and the theory of yellow fever has once again surfaced,” he wrote.
The CCP did do a good job of cleaning up the virus. But only after it catastrophically let it loose by squashing all who tried to, and could have, prevented it.
Australia’s response has been confused and slow though, thankfully, Summer and distance have come to our aid.
None of that forgives Moselmane’s attitude and insults. He adds nothing to public debate except the very rancor and hatred he purports to oppose.
How he thinks that this aids his party is not obvious. Workers are the ones that suffer most from CCP influence.
On his next China junket, of which there have been many, he should stay there.
