As I noted yesterday, Gottiboff was way out on a limb defending the CCP. Readers at Murdoch gave him such a caning he has run for cover:
…today I invite Wang to take time to read the 500 plus comments to understand why a great many Australians are simply not prepared to buckle and will accept the economic consequences. Wang was right in referring to the mutual goodwill between our two nations that had been built up over many years. It’s still there, but is evaporating rapidly.
Some readers were emotional, equating my suggestion of negotiating a peace in the trade war to the appeasement that the UK offered Germany prior to the Second World War. One reader said: “Robert, I recommend you read your history books on appeasing a bully”
Yet many in China want the good relationship with Australia restored and that was reflected by the remarks of Wang. But Australians do not respond well to attempts to teach them a lesson with harsh actions against our enterprises and people.
In Australia, it is not that different and I have been accused kowtowing to China. But I raise the issues at a time when Australia is in its deepest recession since the great depression. What saves us from an even deeper crisis is exports of iron, ore, coal and gas to China.
We will need to restore at least part of our non-minerals trading with China if we are to recover quickly. But the comments show many Australians simply want us to go back to 20 years and restrict our trading with China and look for other markets.
Rightly. You didn’t raise the issues, Gotti. You bald-faced lied about them to implicitly defend CCP influence in your own country.
Deriding this today as “emotional” is supercilious garbage. Reader anger is reasoned and righteous.
Retire. You’re done.
