Ah Labor, the CCP’s favoured party Downunder:
- Shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong has succeeded in preventing the Labor policy platform from condemning Chinese “genocide” in Xinjiang.
- Labor has instead condemned the CCP for crushing Uyghers as “not the actions of a responsible global power”.
- The excellent Kimberly Kitching did manage to inject the value of the Japanese alliance and the Quad into the platform.
- Senator Wong blamed the Morrison Government for talking tough but allowing an increase in Chinese exports resulting in recent job losses.
So, what exactly does Penny want? Kowtowing to Beijing will increase Chinese exports, right?
In so doing it will also increase Beijing’s coercive powers. And the risk of further job losses if we don’t kowtow some more.
Where does it stop? The CCP has already made clear what Labor will need to do:

Penny Wong and Labor have already agreed to muzzle criticism of China in their side of the parliamentary aisle (joining the Morrison Government who has also been mysteriously silent on this occasion). And to tone it down on Xinjiang. What other steps are they prepared to take? Muzzle the media as well? Gut intelligence agencies? Shut down ASPI? Open slather for investment, immigration and bribery? B&R to the moon? Siding with China on foreign policy decisions?
Where do Penny Wong and Labor draw the line on compromising values for a few yuan more?
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Wong is just playing at being the pragmatist diplomat. She will try to find the happy medium where she can be seen to be softly rebuking China publicly on certain issues, while giving them a free pass on the real mechanisms that would actually hold them to account. Labor is going to need that Chinese immigration and investment ! Whether this balancing act could ever actually work without an ultimate capitulation to the CCP is doubtful, but pragmatists gonna pragmatic.
Kind of frustrating that MB is sucked up into a more MSM approach on this.
‘We condemn their actions’
MSM: Would you call it a genocide?
(Knowing that this is a diplomatic process and the high ground is paramount) ‘We strongly condemn their actions’
MSM: Ahhh you won’t call it a genocide – that really matters for some reason!! You are now an accessory to human rights abuse!
I think pragmatists pragmate.
and these are the guys you think should be in government because of ..uhhhhhhh …. something women?
If you’re going to have c*nts in government, might as well be the real thing.
Agree 100% but with all the ‘one’ rhetoric it’s more likely no real [email protected] in power…Penny Wong ..Penny [email protected] hyper masculine fe (iron) male..hard to believe in power but totally bought by all influenced by PC brigade including wong ‘ her mates that rampant in primary schools hence uni [email protected] Dunnys at primary school
Isnt this the point? Talk the talk to CCP but not walk the walk by giving them export $$?
Wasnt it Trump that praised chinas handling of the virus in the same speech that he announced closure of the borders to china last year? And we all thanked him for it.
What part is actually confusing? That politics can do double speak to get a job done?
people simply don’t get it that diplomacy is not taking place in the msm
The ‘Uyghur Genocide’ is another version of the ‘COVID leaked from Chinese Lab’. It becomes an echo chamber of malicious claims because Xinjiang has been under martial law since the Kunming attack in 2014. Oppression is applied to everyone living there: the Uyghur gets it much worse than Han, but it’s still pretty bad. Han Chinese who quit their job working as the ‘law enforcement officer’ will be sent to jail, because too many people are quitting. A blogger who said he wants to leave Xinjiang ended up retracting his comment, deleted all his videos, then release a video saying how he has changed his mind and “He loves Xinjiang” now. The entire province is an open air prison.
Harvesting of cotton is pretty much done by machines now, so the whole ‘Xinjiang cotton boycott’ needs to be put into perspective. H & M is now finished in China, but in contrast Nike sales is booming. This is geopolitics at work, with the truth being the first casualty.
I think we can all agree that the ALP are a danger to this country and only the Liberal Nationalist Party will be strong on boarders!
yeah those boarders love the strong men.
we need moar boarders, they are good for profits
I’ve always wanted to standby to repel boarders.
Labor in a nutshell, many great policies but also deal breakers!
Now Uni of Sydney “student paper” Honi Soit has been exposed as a CCP mouthpiece!
https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1377442289421668352
Shocking stuff really!
Thats disgusting.
China are doing nasty things and they are a worry..but.. if what China is doing is genocide then doesn’t Australia need to apologise to the aboriginal people for th genocide against them, before we can credibly put that label on the actions of someone else. And the Yanks, and Israel, and pretty much every Western European power. And not to be biased against the west. Japan, Russia, Turkey and most of the rest of the top 50 countries of the world.
Really? You’re going the ‘glass houses’ angle when we are talking about mass oppression and cruelty of an ethnic group occurring NOW?
Perhaps once we’ve meditated sufficiently, reconciled all our internal conflicts, repented for past transgressions, found internal peace… all will be well. Because Uyghurs won’t exist. Good plan.
Not entirely on topic, but just flagging that for reasons I cannot fathom some people are quoted more often than you find tomato sauce in Italian cooking, such as:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/real-risk-of-censorship-claim-academic-research-funding-is-becoming-politicised-20210402-p57g4i.html
when all they are after is just a platform for self promotion – and overinflated bios must clearly be good selling points.