Bravo Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs:
“We have been advised by China that they will only engage in high-level dialogue if we meet certain conditions. Australia places no conditions on dialogue,” she told the Australia China Business Council’s annual Canberra gathering.
“We can’t meet the conditions, such as the now well-known list of 14 grievances raised in the media last year.”
Ambassador Cheng Jingye had been scheduled to give the opening address when it was to run at Parliament House and was to host a reception for guests at the Chinese embassy.
…“Unfortunately, because of Covid, it didn’t come to be,” the council’s chief executive, Michael Clifton, said.
…In a later session, Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the relationship with President Xi Jinping’s China would “continue to be challenging”, even under a change of government, but it was “a pity” Scott Morrison had rejected his suggestion earlier this year to use former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and John Howard in an “informal role” to engage with Beijing.
“We need to be diplomatic in how we deal with China,” Mr Albanese said.
In the same session, Labor foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong said Australian public sentiment about the country’s biggest trading partner had fallen sharply because the people had “observed the way that China has changed … and they understand the ways in which differences with China are structural and enduring and have to be managed by any government”.
Some stark relief there. Here are the 14 conditions to end democracy:
And here’s what a treasonous Labor said when they were delivered:
“I remember Prime Minister [Kevin] Rudd giving a speech in China, in Mandarin, of course, which was critical of human rights issues, but done so in a way that also was designed to make clear our values but not designed to offend for offence sake,” he said.
“And what we were able to do, and the Howard government was able to do as well, is have relationships that built that economic interaction that was very important for us.
“This government seems to have presided over a complete breakdown of relationships.”
Yes, he did. And thank god for it, Albo.
It didn’t stop there. When the 14 conditions were first presented, Labor’s phalanxes of China grovelers could wait to agree. Dan Andrews:
…“This relationship is far too important to farmers, to manufacturers, to workers, to profits for Victorian companies and therefore prosperity for our state,” Mr Andrews said.
“This is not just our biggest customer, but it is all about jobs. We need a good relationship but it has to be a fair and respectful one.”
Mark McGowan:
“I just want us to continue to have good, friendly relationships with our long-term trading partners.
“They buy an enormous amount of our products, we buy a much smaller amount of their products.
“It’s been a beneficial relationship for both countries and I think we need to make sure we have cool heads and work things out by discussion and not confrontation.”
Anastasia Palaszczuk:
“What the mining companies are saying to me is the last thing they want to see are mines closed in Queensland,” Ms Palaszczuk said.
“That could have an impact on Queensland jobs.
In short, Anthony Albanese and Labor couldn’t even see the threat to Australian freedoms when it was printed out in black and white and handed out as a flyer.
Being “diplomatic” under an Albanese government is code for embracing this treason behind closed doors. Labor is unbelievably creepy on this issue.
We do not need to be diplomatic with the CCP. We need to divorce it as soon and as loudly as possible in the national interest.
