The ongoing domestic pressures and resentment against the Communist Party are building as economic growth falls below what China needs to stop going backwards on quality of life.
That is leading the regime to lash out with ‘Wolf Warrior’ dimplacy to inspire Nationalistic fervour to quell that growing domestic resentment.
Australia and NZ are part of that target because our economic dependency on China gives them a free weapon to beat us with.
China are looking to find reasons to manufacture a grievance.
This gives an insight into how paranoid the regime has become and that their successes with soft power can just as quickly be replaced by hard power.
China’s need to whip up Nationalism and push Australia around and force them to acquiesce to Chinese dominance is a terrible miscalculation by Beijing who seem to think these tactics will work.
It will only dig Australian heels in deeper.
We must urgently see economic decoupling from China as a national security issue.
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Maybe a move from the PRC to distract from Covid and to ‘test’ their power against a medium sized 5 eyes partner, aka OZ?
Wow. Never thought of you as a lackey of the US until know Martyn
Not sure how being concerned at aggressive action by PRC makes Martyn a lacky of the US? You can be against the foreign and or domestic policy of both superpowers based on the post above!
Tony Kidd,
Always a good idea to remove your blinkers prior to reading.
on-off 0-1 black-white if you’re not with us then you must be against us grunt grunt end of story!
More a case of green economic nationalism.
I’m genuinely stoked to see countries standing together against the CCP, or the Bejing bullies as they are also known. Most of us are heartily sick of Chinese threats and intimidation against anyone who has the audacity to question their “activities”. With friends like them, who needs enemies?
That aside, as long as countries remain addicted to Chinese money, no meaningful progress will be made and the arrogant Bejing bullies will just march on with their standovers knowing they have lots of what you crave. That dynamic must be broken but I fear it will take a war to create enough motivation for the change required.
On the upside tho, it should turn into the most hilarious mass murder since the invention of war. We’re inundated with tales of the misery and horror of war, but only the Australians could inject some long needed gallows humour back into it. Have you met any Australians? They’re nuts! Drinking out of a dead guy’s prosthetic leg? What next? Dipping your CR1M biscuits into an Afghan longdrop? I’m surprised their PM took the whole “disrespect to armed forces” line. I expected more of a long belly laugh.
PRC may very well be seriously considering an invasion of Taiwan in the near future and a ratcheting up of the nationalism would probably help with getting everyone on board.
They are also very serious about restricting access to the South China Sea and while in the past this was really restricted to rhetoric only this is increasingly coming to a head and approaching a tipping point where either PRC hegemony to the area is acknowledged or if it isn’t the very real possibility that PRC will enforce this by force.
In Tom Clancy’s ‘Red Storm Rising’ (from memory) it is noticed (before the Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe) that there is an increase in the showing on Soviet TV of nationalistic movies etc including Sergei Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevksy (Russians defeating Teutonic Germans) . . shades of this with this PRC manufactured escalation?
Which ‘Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe’ was that? The one in a different universe?
Or did I blink when the Russian tanks were parading through Paris?
Military propaganda used to work so well. But in the Age of Information it usually falls flat on its face.
On the other hand, economic propaganda and cultural propaganda are still very effective.
It was in Tom Clancy’s work of fiction “Red Storm Rising” . . as I pointed out.
I was referring to a novel – hence giving the name of the author and the books title . .
Fiction – work of the imagination?
100% agreed. China is asshoe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicC53AhZ6Y
Hilarious how ‘we’ are all so offended by this image..yet apparently only the Afghans are offended by the leg image…even funnier..we are so offended by this image..yet really very quiet about American troops actually slitting the throats of two children…and yes, it says ‘alleged’..but for them to even include it in the official report would suggest there is strong evidence…
“Members of the Special Air Service Regiment allegedly cut the throats of two 14-year-old Afghan boys before dumping their bodies in a river because they believed they were Taliban sympathisers, in one of the most gruesome incidents revealed by the long-running probe into Australia’s elite special forces unit.
Assistant Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Paul Brereton’s chilling report ”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/afghans-outraged-at-image-of-australian-soldier-drinking-from-prosthetic-leg
Australian troops, not American. What Afghanis would find offensive, after what has been done to civilians by the Taleban, Islamic State and Al Qaeda is for them to determine I supposed.
There is offence at the act and also depiction on social media – terrorists do that (upload video of their violence to publicise their action and or to intimidate).
We tried noting that. However the Chinese responded by citing free speech and cartoonist works as part of that. That is fine. Mission accomplished … the Chinese are now defending free speech critical of nations over their behaviour.
The nationalist faction that occupied Taiwan after the civil war represented China in the UN until 1971 (Nixon visit?). You never really hear much about the indigenous Taiwanese, just the wants of their Chinese occupiers.
Taiwan was dominated by Han Chinese migration a long time before 1949.
Infiltrated but not dominated.
Having seen what’s happened to the Uighars in mainland China, the indigenous Taiwanese people’s enthusiasm for being ruled by Han Chinese from the CCP in Beijing currently stands at zero.
It’s unlikely that the remaining Formosans enjoy being crushed under the weight of the ROC occupation either. Still probably better than being a part of the SE Asian co-prosperity sphere though.
One genocide does not trump another.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/video/watch/china-refuses-to-apologise-over-picture-saga/vp-BB1bvLGm
Sorry true, fail to see a “Wolf Warrior” here…
“We must urgently see economic decoupling from China as a national security issue.”
I could not agree more. The feet need to be cut from under this aggressive bully before we all end up under its economic, political, and military domination.
Ken look around your home and work out what is made in China.
We missed the boat decades ago buying into globalism.
Emporer Xi has a vision of a new world future.
And it looks surprisingly similar to the inside of a concentration camp
Don’t forget that the British were the first to set up concentration camps…herding Boer women and children into them and starving them to death in order to put pressure on the men who were resisting the expansion of the Empire.
And don’t forget that the British were the first to drop poison gas on civilians, to get the natives of present day Iraq (who wanted independence in the 1920s) under control.
You obviously like the concentration camp -run by banks and corporations and their minions- that you are currently living in. It does provide you with a few toys (mostly made in China) to play with.
Try rebelling against the money-lender-corporation-controlled government here and see what happens. Try protesting against the looting and polluting of the planet that the neoliberal government of NZ orchestrates: you’ll be behind bars within an hour.
I know from experience.
“…you’ll be behind bars within an hour.
I know from experience.”
Are you sure that wasn’t for loitering with intent outside a kindergarten?
Thats a pretty sub standard comment Simonm, I don’t anderstand how it got past the moderator; clearly not so offensive as arguing against CO2 induced climate change.
D J S
‘We must urgently see economic decoupling from China as a national security issue.’
New Zealand’s standard of living is entirely dependent on trade with China: China is THE major export market for the agricultural production forced from the land via chemical and energy inputs; China is supplier of around 80% of the goods in shops -everything from clothing to power tools.
When NZ is ready for a Pol Pot style revolution, i.e. a great leap back to the fourteenth century, we can decouple from China. Until then, it’s business-as-usual, which means both NZ and China pursuing policies that Melt the Planet….the real issue of the times. The only issue of the times.
Until the environment gets made REALLY REALLY BAD by industrial activity, both China and NZ will continue to fuck it up. As will Australia, Canada, the UK, the US, Europe, India….
Among the many Uyghur eye witness testimonies, there recently have been reports of the PLA rounding up Uyghurs and using them for live firing practice.
This needs further investigation.
Good luck with investigating that.
The NZ government cant’s even manage to investigate what’s going on in NZ; let alone anywhere else on the planet!
Never forget that all government narratives are phony, whoever is in power.
Well Bruce do you believe all you read.
Uighur are prime restate for NED/ CIA propaganda just because people believe that stuff and keep repeating it without researching authenticity and what relies on hearsay repeated many times.
It seems a Pol Pot style “leap back”revolution might be a good option to stop the impending environmental catastrophe stemmed from industrialisation, but it sounds like you don’t want that either… hmmm
A leap back to fourteenth century living would provide the possibility of preventing Abrupt Climate Change rendering the Earth uninhabitable for humans.
Doing it without mass murder is the key.
Ironically, if we continue on the present course [of extracting fossil fuels and burning them] we will end up with fourteenth century living anyway, as all the energy resources get gobbled up in an orgy of consumption.
The trouble with arriving at fourteenth century living via the depletion-of-fossil-fuels route is that an uninhabitable planet is guaranteed.
Food supply competes with transport for oil.
Living in a pre oil community is a first step but population will reduce dramatically but that will happen on our present path, but be out of control, as we are.
Some societies live/d happily without oil but they are not left alone.
So one bad actor attacks another bad actor and were all supposed to watch and cheer on our bad actor.
Neither of these states has a leg to stand on when it come to moral high ground. Both are scum. With one being called scumo, and the other poo you know this is just another shiity side show to distract people from the real problem.
Our elites are totally fubar, and would shot kittens – if it could make them some more money. Why do you want people like this in charge? Why can’t you take control over your own life? Why are you so easily distracted?
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