China is not mad in any way over Australia, also they may not need natural gas from Aus anymore. - Australia Derangement Syndrome now spreading rapidly throughout China.

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KingCoelacanth said:
Yeah, Australia makes money by selling its food abroad, and now China is cutting that down by banning them from exporting to China.
Depending on how dependent Australia is on China buying its products, it could spell out bad times for the Aussies. Imagine if the US banned Canadian exports, the US economy is so big people wouldn't notice beyond a few niche items, while Canada would possibly be sent into freefall since something like 30% of their trade is done with the US.
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60% of our exports go to the US
 
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They're going to huff and puff while the jinks get mad but they'll back off. I think the italian prime minister was like "CHINA NEEDS TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE" then starts t fellate them. Basically, the entire world is going to do this other than Japan.
 
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bat meat is most popular in Southeast Asia
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Followed by Ozzy Osbourne concerts.

LegoTugboat said:
It'll hurt for a bit, but it's going to be clear to any sentient halfwit that China's blatantly doing this as revenge. Thing is, one or two things, okay, it's possible.

But now we're at 4 things, not to mention the Chinese ambassador's 'comments', or Coronavirus-fuelled ramblings.

And other countries are going to have to wonder, why is China being so defensive over a neutral, independent probe?
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In my experience, a guilty conscience always reveals itself.

The world has already agreed they won't go in until China says they're ready, so the smart play would have just been to keep the border closed and destroy all of the evidence while still buying Aus products, but nope, they had to retaliate for getting caught.

Archeopthryx said:
What could Trump give the Australians just to spite China? Faster internet? More Internet Historian uploads? Cure chlamydia from koalas?
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From how things have since developed, I'd say one Naval fleet.

LegoTugboat said:
China's foreign... thing has announced that we're funded by illegal arms dealers, because Australia's basically the villain from Tom Clancy novels.
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Well, tbh, the CIA probably generates enough surplus they very well could fund the Australian government.
 
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This will certainly piss them off. I hope the amendment gets through. The NT was misguided in the sale of the Darwin port to Chinese and it should never have occurred.

Labor wants to use Coalition's proposed foreign veto powers to unwind Darwin port sale
The opposition is working up an amendment as concerns grow about the power to cancel university agreements
"Labor is expected to propose an amendment to the Morrison government’s controversial foreign veto power legislation that would force the unwinding of the sale of Darwin port to a Chinese company.

The government’s proposal, unveiled last week amid rising tensions between Canberra and Beijing, cleared the Coalition’s party room meeting on Tuesday and is expected to be introduced to the House of Representatives before the parliament rises on Thursday night.

The government flagged last week it would create new powers to cancel agreements between state and local governments and universities and foreign governments that it considers detrimental to Australia’s foreign policy interests.

Labor is yet to finalise its position, and has not yet seen legislation from the Coalition, but senior sources say the opposition is working up an amendment to unwind the controversial port sale. There is also concern in Labor’s ranks about the powers flagged by the Coalition to cancel university agreements.

While that direction was telegraphed by the Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, on Sunday, the chief minister of the Northern Territory, Michael Gunner, said on Tuesday the unwinding of the port sale would cost $500m “and if you can find $500m for the territory then it should go towards creating more jobs”.

Gunner said he had communicated that view to Albanese. He said renationalising the port would not create additional jobs. “It would just be $500m lost to the national coffers and no extra jobs for territorians,” the chief minister said.

In 2015, the then CLP government in the NT signed a $506m agreement with a China-based group for a 99-year lease. That deal gives the Landbridge Group 100% operational control of the port and 80% ownership of the Darwin port land, facilities of East Arm wharf including the marine supply base, and Fort Hill wharf.

After the sale generated a furore, the Morrison government subsequently tightened the foreign investment rules, requiring the Foreign Investment Review Board to approve the sale of critical infrastructure belonging to the states and territories – such as airports and ports – to private companies.

When the government flagged the veto proposal last week, the foreign minister, Marise Payne, said the bill coming to the parliament would not capture the port of Darwin sale, because the new power was about “government-to-government” agreements, “commercial agreements, not necessarily”.

Asked about the port sale last week, Scott Morrison told reporters the investment regime had now been overhauled so “those circumstances wouldn’t be repeated”.

The shadow foreign minister, Penny Wong, said she wrote to Payne last Friday to request a briefing about the government’s proposal, but the government had not replied.

“When the prime minister announces a new priority, it’s reasonable to expect some follow through,” Wong said. “But five days later, there’s still no sign of the legislation.”

The government said last week the legislation would empower the foreign affairs minister to review and cancel agreements – such as Victoria’s contentious move to sign up to China’s belt and road initiative – if the commonwealth judged the arrangement adversely affected Australia’s foreign relations.

The government said the new law would cover state or territory entities, including departments, agencies, local governments and universities established under state or territory law.

The government said under the new procedures, state governments would have to notify the commonwealth of their intention to pursue an agreement with a foreign government. The foreign affairs minister will either approve or reject the proposal.

Even if the arrangement is approved initially, the foreign affairs minister will retain the power to revoke that approval subsequently. According to government briefing materials, the legislation will give the commonwealth power to terminate any private contracts and other agreements flowing from the main agreement.

Universities will not be required to seek approval before negotiating or entering into arrangements. But according to last week’s briefing, they will need to notify the foreign affairs minister before entering into an arrangement with foreign governmental entities and Canberra will be able to cancel agreements it finds objectionable.

Australia’s university sector is furious about the proposal. Twelve months ago, the government established a taskforce to examine allegations of foreign interference in universities, but the Coalition did not flag the looming veto power with the pre-existing taskforce.

Vicki Thomson, the chief executive of the Group of Eight and a member of the taskforce, told Guardian Australia universities would “rather have a more consultative process than to be blindsided – which is what we were – on a major piece of legislation”.

Parliament’s security and intelligence committee is also preparing to investigate concerns about foreign interference in Australian universities amid intense scrutiny of the risk of recruitment programs such as China’s Thousand Talents Plan."
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The fight had gone in an higher step. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/chinas_bullying_of_australia_goes_racial_.html

September 1, 2020
China’s bullying of Australia goes racial
By Thomas Lifson
China has decided to make an example of Australia for complaining about its Wuhan virus plague and launching an official inquiry into its origins. In the latest escalation of tensions between the two nations, an article in the state-controlled, English language, semi-official newspaper Global Times, suggests that race is playing a role in China’s targeting of a Caucasian-majority country. The move apparently is in ”response to Prime Minster Scott Morrison's plan to stop states signing deals with foreign powers that go against Australia's foreign policy”.
News.com.au reports:
Australia is at risk of becoming the “poor white trash of Asia” as disputes with our biggest trading partner heat up, China’s state-run newspaper says.
The comments come as China launches its second investigation into Australian wine and Australian journalist Cheng Lei is being detained in China.
Tensions are growing between Australia and Beijing with Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week announcing new powers to tear up Victoria’s Belt and Road initiative if deals between foreign governments and local and state governments go against national interests.
But an opinion piece published by the Global Times says there are “few signs that Australia intends to stop provoking China”.
“Further decoupling with China will not send China back to poverty but will only make former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s famous statement more likely to come true: That if Australia doesn’t open up its economy and reduce unemployment, it risks becoming the ‘poor white trash of Asia’,” researcher Yu Lei writes.
“If decoupled from Australia, it won’t be difficult for Chinese products and investments to find new markets and investment destinations.
“However, it won’t be so easy for Australia to find a comparably large export market or a supply of high-quality and cheap imported goods or a strong group of investors to replace China’s.”
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China can’t intimidate President Trump and the United States into backing down because it needs access to our vast market and still fears our military prowess. But Australia, with only 25 million citizens and dependent on China as its biggest export market, is a much easier target for intimidation.
Humiliate the white people in Australia and then Caucasians in Europe and North America will get the message that a new boss is going to run the world. That chilling proposition may be the pernicious logic lurking behind that latest provocative statement.
Chinese leaders have no historical models for diplomacy based on relationships between equal sovereign nations, the so-called Westphalian system invented in 17th century Europe. For millennia, China was the overwhelming hegemon of the world it knew in East Asia, and other nations dealt with it as tributary subjects of the emperor. Then came the arrival of the West, the Opium Wars, and abject humiliation, subjugation, mass opium addiction, social disintegration, and utter catastrophe as Western powers "carved up the Chinese melon."
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Salade Nicoise said:
For a 'poor white trash' country of Asia, the Chinese are buying an awful lot of real estate and sending an awful lot of their kids here to get University degrees 🤔

So, like... China are poor white trash?
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I would very much like to see the Chinese barred from American universities. They have proven to be entirely untrustworthy guests. Existing students will also need to leave immediately.
 
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the clap said:
Aren't the chinese on the brink of a massive famine, due to swine flu, bird flu, and the three gorges damn mitigation destroying a lot of their farmable land?
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Yes they are.

Meanwhile the United States and France (among others) are selling China record amounts of grains as the CCP desperately tries to make up for their losses. And this is after that same cabal of Communists tried to lie, cheat, and steal their way to prosperity by poisoning the rest of us. Just one of those neat little cosmic reminders about who needs who in this experiment we call Earth.
 
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Senior Republican senator Marco Rubio slams Beijing for 'bullying' Australia​

Senior United States Senator Marco Rubio has lashed the Chinese government for its "economic coercion" against Australia, saying it is important for a global alliance of democracies to speak up in support of Canberra.

The intervention from the former Republican presidential candidate followed a sharp escalation in rhetoric from Beijing as it doubled down on its claim that the Morrison government is solely to blame for deteriorating relations between China and Australia.

Senator Rubio, a potential favourite to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, is part of a global coalition of MPs from democratic nations called the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
The alliance of 38 MPs from 18 countries and the European Parliament was unanimous in its condemnation of Beijing's latest threats against Australia in a phone hook-up on Thursday morning.

Senator Rubio told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that IPAC would "play an important role in garnering support for Australia in the face of Beijing’s economic coercion".
"Democracies must reject the CCP’s bullying and commit to concrete actions," Florida's senior senator said.
"Words alone will not deter China, but, by acting together, we can ensure the Chinese Communist Party pays a price for its malign behaviour."
Nine News, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age revealed on Thursday that a Chinese diplomat in Canberra gave a reporter a document outlining 14 grievances with Australia, accusing the nation of "poisoning bilateral relations".
They included the Australian government's decision to ban Huawei, fund "anti-China" research at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, block 10 Chinese foreign investment deals and lead the call for an independent investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

Reinhard Bütikofer, a German politician who is a member of the European Parliament and co-chairman of IPAC, said he felt "duty bound" to raise the plight of Australia during the latest phone hook-up because he was "dismayed by this unrepentant economic bullying".

"I was pleased that IPAC was unanimous in its desire to go beyond mere gestures of solidarity, and to push for concrete action by our governments," Mr Bütikofer said.

"We have yet to see what the network can achieve in support of Australia, but there's no doubt that the desire from legislators around the world to take concrete action is strong and sincere."

Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching, a co-chairwoman of IPAC, said attempts by any foreign government to "dictate to Australians what we value or believe in - using trade as leverage - are doomed to fail and I think sadly reflect a deep misunderstanding of this country".

"Thankfully, this is a view shared across the Australian Parliament - from Labor to the Coalition, as well as members of the crossbench," she said.

"On the IPAC call with legislators from dozens of countries and every continent, I was reminded that Australia has many friends and allies in standing up for freedom and human rights everywhere."

She said it was important for Australia to now diversify its export markets so that it is not leaving "all our eggs in one basket".

"At different times Australia’s primary export has been gold, wool, wheat, iron ore, coal and natural gas - we are a nation that lives by trade," she said.

"However, as any well-run business will tell you, it’s foolish to leave yourself dependent on one customer."
China has hit back at a joint statement from Five Eyes partners condemning its actions in Hong Kong, accusing the security alliance of threatening its internal affairs.
The Five Eyes foreign ministers from Australia, Canada, the US, Britain and New Zealand on Thursday said opposition MPs who were disqualified by Beijing from Hong Kong's legislature for not being patriotic enough should be immediately reinstated.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Thursday night that China would not flinch if trouble came its way.

"No matter how many eyes they have, five or 10 or whatever, should anyone dare to undermine China's sovereignty, security and development interests, they should be careful they don't get their eyes poked blind," he said.
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Croan Çhiollee said:

Surprised to see this in a lefty newspaper.. Nice to see the mask starting to slip.
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I think they see China as the new #1 superpower to bully.

theshep said:

Senior Republican senator Marco Rubio slams Beijing for 'bullying' Australia​

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How long before Rubio sing "Hong Kong '97" game theme? :story:
 
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