How awesome is Beijing!

For nearly a decade, MB has been the only media voice warning of the unsustainable path of Australia’s Chinese engagement. Before 2011, selling dirt to China made sense as it committed to global economic integration and liberalisation. After the rise of Xi Jinping, and the collapse of the great mining boom, the nature of Australia’s engagement changed radically and it was no longer in the national interest.

Instead of exporting materials to a nation that was committed to reform to become more friendly, we instead imported Chinese people en masse from a regime dedicated to the in perpetuity rule of a gangster elite, the CCP, led by a bald-faced dictator, in Xi Jinping. This despite the new regime openly claiming all ethnic Chinese as its own and injecting a fifth column insurgency into their numbers to intimidate and keep them in line, as well as to begin a systematic campaign to undermine and occupy our democracy.

MB campaigned against the changed engagement because it was clear where it was going. We saw Chinese peoples pricing Australian youth out of their own houses and the CCP capturing the Australian bourgeois with the trade. We saw CCP stooges occupying ghettoised electorates such that they could be controlled by Bejing’s bullies and sieze the balance of power in parliament. We saw CCP attitudes poisoning pedagogical standards in our universities. We saw bags of cash sweeping business leaders and politicians. We saw Australian Labor’s fabulous history of Chinese engagement distorted into satrapy. We saw the Australian press shut down every attempt to debate the evolving relationship as “racist”. We saw the CCP’s “silent invasion” underway long before it was official.

Pursuit of this truth cost us dearly. We were systemically excised from the Aussie media. We lost our traditional readership though, thankfully, it was replaced by a more hard-nosed group. We were inundated by Chinese propagandists and astroturfers making my day-to-day job a misery. I ended up tangled in lawfare battles over the very racism that I have spent much of adult life fighting against.

But here we are and truth is out. Xi Jinping’s China and democratic Australia cannot co-exist as friends. They are complete opposites and never the twain shall meet. Via the AFR:

Scott Morrison has appealed to China to reset the bilateral relationship after the Prime Minister condemned its Foreign Ministry for sharing a “repugnant” and fake image slurring Australian soldiers on social media.

The Prime Minister demanded the ministry take down and apologise for posting a doctored image of an Australian soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan boy, a reference to the Brereton inquiry into alleged war crimes committed by special forces troops.

Mr Morrison said the post was “utterly outrageous” and had no justification whatsoever.

Why would anyone be surprised or outraged? CCP China is barbarous, opaque, nationalist, martial and imperial. It stands as an open challenge to our own raucous democratic system and it is violent in its means to undermine it. The Australian divorce from it that we are witnessing today is the best thing to happen to the future of Australia’s politics and economy of my lifetime. We should all be cheering like mad. We were on a path to rule by a foreign dictator and now that is gone. Good riddance to it. Here it is:

The most striking thing about China’s list of 14 demands for a happy and prosperous relationship is, first, that we were already on the path to meeting them before 2017. And second, that they spell the end of Aussie freedom.

What is perhaps most remarkable about all of this is that it was only by accident that we headed it off. By the time of the Dastayari Affair in 2016, which will now go down in history as the crucial turning point in saving Australian democracy, Australia had done everything in our power to embrace Xi’s dystopian imperial future. It was only the mess of domestic politics that blew it up and it has largely been fought against by the majority of cowardly media ever since. That persists to this day with media morons still criticising Australia instead of China. The Fake Left is so lost that it is openly treasonous. Labor has hardly said a word beyond a bit of Penny Wong whining. Katherine Murphy is shockingly obtuse:

Being clear about your motives and intentions certainly can’t hurt, particularly if Australia feels there is now so much static around that China can no longer read the room clearly.

But Australia’s problem is not that we don’t know what our endgame is. Our problem is we don’t know what China’s endgame is – and Morrison’s problem is we are no closer to having an answer to that question.

What do you think the 14 demands are for? That’s what Bejing wants. Absolute silence and obedience.

Hamish Macdonald could not sink his face deeper into the dirt if he tried:

But did Malcolm Turnbull have to quip, in bad Mandarin, that “Australia has stood up” when announcing the foreign interference laws, the facile reference to Mao Zedong’s 1949 speech making it clear it was all about China? Did Morrison have to talk about “weapons inspector powers” when making the first call for an outside inquiry into the Wuhan Covid-19 outbreak? Did Asio have to raid four Chinese journalists at dawn? Did Peter Dutton have to ban two Chinese scholars of Patrick White and other Australian subjects? Does Morrison have to say that Australian values are not for sale or surrender, as if that was the only alternative to hostility?

Yes, it had to said. Free speech, you know. Let a thousand voices bloom!

This is perhaps the most important reason that Australia is not cheering wildly in the streets as we should be. Our media is such a total idiot that it can’t even recognise an existential threat pointed directly at itself. Not only does it have no idea about any of the above, but it is also corrupted by partisan politics, corrupted by the very Chinese real estate trade that comprised the silent invasion, and corrupted by a progressive ideology that China long-since hijacked as a way to silence all criticism as “racist”.

But, I digress. This post is not about criticism of Beijing. On the contrary, I come to praise it mightily. For without its hamfisted bullying, rudeness, wolf wankery and absue we would still be on the path to those 14 conditions and the doom of our system would be baked in.

The truth is that it was not us that turned from China. It was China that undid itself as most of the Australian elite barely choked down its excitement at selling out the country.

It was Bejing that closed its capital account in 2015 which stopped the flow of illegal funds into Australian real estate and ended the buying of the Aussie middle class.

It was Beijing that overreached with its sharp power push and exposed its hidden hand in our politics such that it could no longer be ignored in 2016.

It was Beijing that brutalised Hong Kong, giving us a live-streamed version of what awaited us, in 2019.

It was Beijing that unleashed COVID-19 upon the world exposing its true colours in a multitude of ways, from demanding open borders to siphoning off PPE to refusing all accountability and turning to lies, in 2020.

It is Bejing’s daily abuse that has now made it nearly impossible for any Australian politician to embrace it (though no doubt a treasonous Labor will try), today.

Our pollies and media were cheering our demise all the way down. It was Bejing that cut Australia off. And I thank it from the bottom of the Australian people’s hearts.