Anthony Albanese says he is not prioritising China above the US amid reports he will travel to China to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in coming weeks while he has not yet secured a face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Failing US ambassador Kevin Rudd yesterday met with failing foreign affairs minister Penny Wong.
Here is the happy couple responsible for a sharp deterioration in the US alliance.
A nastier pair of beearches you are unlikely to meet.
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The failed Rudd now requires the support of the foreign minister to get his job done.
Penny Wong was set to urge US counterpart Marco Rubio overnight to fast-track face-to-face talks between Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump after a Quad foreign ministers’ meeting expected to be dominated by efforts to counter China and secure critical minerals supply chains.
Sack Rudd and see how fast we get a meeting. For heaven’s sake, we were warned repeatedly that Rudd was the wrong man.
Or is it all part of the plan? Labor is busy prioritising the Chinese relationship over the US alliance.
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“No,” the Prime Minister said flatly.
He was challenged on why he had met Mr Xi more times than Mr Trump.
Yes, he is. He always has. The failure to sack Rudd and his failure to secure a meeting with Trump are only the outward symptoms of it.
The more substantial bias is in Albo’s full embrace of the 14 conditions to end democracy outlined by Beijing before his election.
10 of the 14 conditions to end democracy demanded by Beijing are simple demands to shut up about China, which has also delivered in spades.
As we know, when this document was first published, a treasonous Labor blamed the LNP instead of rallying for free speech and the national interest.
Since then, Albo has deployed many of Beijing’s requests.
- Instead of diversifying exports like everybody else, Albo has concentrated it in China.
- Instead of repatriating supply chains, Albo has concentrated them in China.
- Instead of continuing the cleansing of clandestine Chinese influence in our parliaments, he has gone soft.
- Instead of bringing sanitising sunshine to all transactions, such as universities, he has buried them in yesteryear’s corrupt darkness.
- Instead of spending time at the G7 coordinating the China pushback a’la ScoMo, he goes to Beijing on his knees.
- Instead of saying “China” when we mean “China,” now refers to the country that will not be named.
- Instead of banning Chinese WeChat or TikTok, he bans American media.
- Instead of defending the “anti-China think tank” (ASPI) he is moving to defund it.
And attacks it all of the time. ABC.
The prime minister has lashed out at one of the country’s leading security think tanks and demanded it “have a look at themselves” after it warned Australia could be left with a “brittle and hollowed defence force” if military funding was not increased.
In its latest Cost of Defence report, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found that despite the government’s claims it made a “generational investment” in defence during the March budget, “that investment has been put off for another generation”.
Let’s not forget as well that as China practiced nuking Sydney, then every other major Aussie city, Albo did nothing and is still doing nothing. The Australian.
Labor is a China patsy in a virtual one-party state. This is all part of the Beijing strategy to make Australia a part of its sphere of influence in a fait accompli that does not require firing a single shot.
And yes, we are that stupid.
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Concerns that Australia risks falling down the queue to buy vital missiles from the US because of the growing gap between Canberra and Washington over defence spending suggests Anthony Albanese needs to pay more attention to our most important alliance. In an unstable world, demand for the scarce guided weapons is soaring. And as multiple sources familiar with the issue told Ben Packham, Australia’s $7bn order, placed last year and touted as a “revolutionary” step-up in defence capability, remains subject to White House approval. That could see the missiles go to other buyers more willing to sign up to the Trump administration’s defence spending agenda.