There is nothing good about the Labor walkover in WA. In a two-party system, no government should ever hold a majority so large. It’s dangerously unbalanced:
Now, overlay that with this, at The Australian:
- Federal Labor holds just five of sixteen seats.
- State Labor sources say the key to winning more is to kowtow to mining and China.
Could there be a more toxic situation for the national interest than this? An effective one-party state government that crawls to China holds the rest of the nation hostage to its views on coercive foreign power.
WA state liberals will rebuild as China grovellers. CCP corrupted federal Labor MPs will be emboldened. The CCP itself will focus its efforts on ensuring that this divide keeps widening.
Yet, that is neither here nor there in the short term. It’s the long term that is the real concern. If the WA polity is so naive about the CCP, then what’s going to happen when the rubber eventually hits the road with this:
The US and its allies including Australia are in a race to build enough submarines to deter China from launching an invasion of Taiwan, which a senior American officer has forecast could happen by 2027.
An expanded submarine fleet lies at the heart of a new defensive strategy being adopted by America’s allies in the Asia-Pacific region as China’s navy, at 335 ships, has overtaken the 293 vessels in the US battle fleet.
One of the roles for the submarines will be to blockade all China commodity supply routes, including LNG and iron ore, when the time comes.
Let’s not get too dramatic about it. There’s plenty of water under the bridge yet. But we still have to ask the question.
When the US-led blockade arrives, will the rest of Australia have to invade WA as well?
If I were a CCP fifth columnist, that’s what I’d be plotting.
