Monday 19 April 2021

‘China-Australia relations: on first anniversary of trade conflict, hay-import licences bedevil Australian exporters’ | SCMP


Very many viciously anti Australia comments at the site. Some in support. Overall the tone of comments is dripping with contempt for dear old Oz. Painted always as the poodle of America.
The highest-rated comment is very anti-Australian and anti-American to boot, the usual litany of CIA-inspired wars, from a Canadian… A call to return to Eisenhower-Ian policies. Screenshot from the site:

Many read like the WuMao brigade ("50-cent army"). There's a sniff to them.
My comment at the site:

(1) Vice Foreign Affairs Minister Le Yucheng in today's Post [19/4]: "…called for greater cooperation …on a basis that was "equal-footed" rather than "one side drawing up a laundry list of demands for the other side"."
Oh, you mean like China handing a "laundry list" of 14 demands to Australia in November 2020?
(2) China demands Japan be open and transparent, allow international inspection of the waste water from Fukushima which it plans to release into the ocean. (Just as Australia urged an international investigation into the source of Covid).
Shall we expect Japan to punish China by cutting its imports? For having the temerity to ask this?

ADDED: for all the hate on Australia in the comments, including I assume many from the 50-cent army, Australia is currently undergoing a "miraculous recovery". So, China be damned.