A few anodyne words from Labor is the best we got in response to the Chinese attack:
“Australia’s condemnation of this image is above politics,” Albanese told the lower house of parliament.
More at the ABC:
Senator Wong said the community was “united” in condemnation of the post, but added that a careful response was required.
“What we need to do, and what we should do, is to respond calmly and strategically, and not be emotional in what is obviously a deliberate — in relation to what was a deliberate — provocation,” she said.
“It’s very important that we respond in a very calm and measured way and make very clear what we believe is acceptable.”
She said Australia needed to work with international partners to enforce the “standards of behaviour we want for the region and the world”, and she suggested the USA’s incoming Joe Biden administration would provide an opportunity to improve relations.
But that gave way pretty quickly to the usual treasonous pearl-grabbing:
In a sign that a largely bipartisan trade and foreign policy position on China may be fraying Labor’s trade spokeswoman Madeleine King on Monday questioned why Australia called for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus in April.
“I don’t know why we went first. Why us?,” she said. “This is our most important economic relationship that we have. We have more to lose than most as a smaller trading nation.”
Rubbish. We were fine before China and will be fine after China. Commodities are fungible and will go elsewhere. Other services needed to be decoupled anyway. A falling AUD takes care of all ills if the damage reaches macro proportions.
There was more groveling at the ABC from the usual suspects:
Labor’s defence spokesman Richard Marles said he wouldn’t have expected such a reaction from China, and said Australia needed to reset the relationship between Canberra and Beijing.
“It is important that we make our voice heard clearly, in a dignified way, but I think that’s what has happened in the last 24 hours,” he told Radio National.
He said he had been critical of the Government’s recent handling of the relationship, but said he welcomed recent steps to “reduce the temperature”.
“It is important that we attempt, when it comes to national security, when it comes to strategic policy, that there is a Team Australia approach,” he said.
He called on the Government to articulate a set of guiding principles underpinning the relationship with China.
And what would those be, Mr Marles? Perhaps the following which you have remained completely silent on?
How on earth did Labor end up on China’s side in this conflict? Just how corrupt is the ALP to ignore the crystal clear will of the Australian people?
Australians have seen straight through a massive psy-ops attack by China while the ALP has been utterly captured by it.
