by the Chinese company Landbridge, there is the enduring possibility of the Australian government rejecting a large Chinese investment.against senior Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere.
These shifts are part of the new government’s efforts to pursue a “change of tone” and avoid “chest beating,” as Defence Minister Richard Marles put it. And this shift has probably been noticed and welcomed in Beijing.The Chinese government previously launched frequent and high-octane diplomatic attacks against Australia and made plain the coercive intent behind China’s trade restrictions.
The logical place to look is climate change. As a first step, the Albanese government should propose rehabilitating the Australia-China ministerial dialogue on climate change, which fell into disuse in recent years. Rehabilitating a formalised ministerial dialogue could also be used to directly raise a broader range of critical concerns for Canberra, including consular cases, human rights, military developments, and other matters.
Was this when AU DIDN'T CARE about Uyghur concentration camps, human rights abuses, Huawei, CN threat to free world OR are these lies invented by the US when it decided CN was a threat to it's world order & decided AU couldn't be friends with China anymore?
Unfortunately we don't have any.
China et al are playing us for fools. They are coal and gased up, while we are sacrificing our advantages for PR. Unreliable solar & wind won’t keep the lights on, let alone fuel a war machine.
Australia must not be a puppet of the west, in any form. Political and económic autonomy, as well as, independence is imperative, as the means to allow Australia to remain relevant and competitive, in an age that sees a changing global economic- socio political configuration.