The Pentagon has added to the mystery surrounding Richard Marles’s snap visit to Washington this week, revealing he had only a “happenstance encounter” with US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Paul Keating is ejaculating as Chinese propaganda runs riot. The Australian.
“As the Pentagon is now reviewing the AUKUS security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, Canberra needs to decide whether it is still ready to push ahead with this US-led project that goes against its own national interests in many aspects,” the China Daily editorialised.
“The purported aim is to counter what the US and its allies perceive to be a ‘China threat’ in the Asia-Pacific through enhanced trilateral security and defence collaboration,” continued the state-owned masthead, which is overseen by Beijing’s Propaganda Ministry.
…“Now, with the current US administration’s review of AUKUS being conducted to make sure it meets the ‘America First’ agenda, the possibility has emerged that the project might be put on hold or even dropped.”
“This has prompted former Australian prime minister Paul Keating to express the hope the ongoing review ‘might very well be the moment Washington saves Australia from itself’.”
…“Under the plan, Australia will spend huge amounts of money on a navy transformation based on the false belief that China, its largest trading partner and export market for the past 16 years, ‘threatens’ the country’s security,” the China Daily wrote in its Wednesday editorial.
“The assumption, which has no historical or contemporary proof to support it, will only jeopardise the mutually beneficial partnership between the two countries.
Jeez, nothing except trade coercion, the 14 conditions to end democracy, and running nuclear-capable gunboat diplomacy drills off every major Australian city.
But, since we can’t mention the word “China” in Albo’s new thought crime autocracy, none of these things happened!
It is therefore no surprise to discover that our deputy PM/defense minister can’t get a meeting with his US counterpart. The Australian.
A US Defence Official said in a statement that the pair had no formal meeting.
“We can confirm there was not a meeting. It was a happenstance encounter,” the official said.
Another black mark for Sinopile Kevin Rudd, who clearly doesn’t even have access to ministers in the Trump administration.
But then, this is not incompetence, is it? Rather, it is all part of Albo’s plan to destroy ANZUS on behalf of China by gaslighting the US into some kind of diplomatic faux pas that enrages the fake left here at home.
AUKUS and ANZUS will collapse, and the fake left triumphantly pivot to Palestine as its own freedoms bleed into an ocean governed by China.
But why would that worry it? It will gleefully ship anyone who mentions “immigration” off to the new Pilbara re-education camps.
Increasingly, I am of the view that ANZUS is in deep trouble and Australian liberalism is confronting an existential crisis as Labor gives us over to Beijing.