The groveller-in-chief will grovel.
China Daily, a state media outlet, trumpeted the unusual length of Albanese’s visit (six days) and claimed the prime minister’s office saw the trip as a “friendly gesture” made “against the backdrop of rising tensions between the United States and many countries”.
…Earlier in the day, TV journalists at the Drum Tower in Beijing were temporarily stopped from getting back on their bus by local security officials who did not believe they had permission to film in the area.
Hours later, two Australian press photographers, including one from this masthead, were blocked from entering the room to capture Albanese’s handshake with Xi. Only Albanese’s personal photography team was allowed in, along with Chinese media.
Albo’s instincts to serve play right into the CCP’s hands. He is being made a plaything of propaganda, as are you, and your nation.
This goes way beyond the refrain that Albo is stabilising the relationship.
What Albo is actually doing is turning himself into a Xi Jinping mini-me. This is inevitable if one accepts the CCP hegemon.
How does this work?
First, you embrace the conditions of entry: the 14 conditions to end democracy, which Albo has lived by since his election, suppressing the media around China.
Second, you increase your economic dependence and vulnerability to soft power coercion.
Third, you increase Chinese immigration to all-time highs.
This serves the purpose of increasing the footprint of CCP-controlled federal electorates beyond the seven already captured by ethnic Chinese enclaves of recent vintage.
Fourth, you grovel like crazy, baiting the Opposition to take you on so that those electorates all vote Labor.
Fifth, you put an anti-Trumpian grenade in charge of managing Washington.
Sixth, you refuse to boost defence spending while distancing yourself from ANZUS, ensuring the nation is utterly vulnerable to CCP hard power and gunboat diplomacy.
Voila! You have yourself a one-party CCP cipher state run by Albo, the Xi Jinping mini-me, inside a decade.
