As I’ve said before, maybe Anthony Albanese isn’t a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party: but, if he was, what would he be doing any differently?
Dragging Australia into near-complete economic dependence on China? Check. Allowing our defence capability to degrade into irrelevance? Check. Refusing to condemn increasingly aggressive Chinese actions around our coastline? Check. Snubbing our most important strategic ally when it’s in growing conflict with China? Check. Accepting funding and election activism from CCP-linked entities? Check. Constantly fawning over the Chinese dictator? Check.
All that’s left for him to do is hand over the keys to the Lodge and any pretense is over.
Certainly the Trump administration isn’t blind to the Albanese government’s craven, Quisling malfeasance. So, as he scurries off to kowtow to his Dear Leader for the fourth time, the White House is wedging him brilliantly.
Anthony Albanese is on a collision course with the head of Donald Trump’s AUKUS review, refusing to bow to Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby’s demands for Australia to pre-commit US-supplied submarines to a potential American war with China […]
The Trump administration is piling pressure on the government to take a stand on the growing threat posed by China’s massive military build-up and its rivalry with the US, with the Financial Times reporting Mr Colby has demanded Australia and Japan make clear what role they would play in US-China conflict over Taiwan.
Naturally, the legacy media are clutching their pearls about the ‘pre-commit’ thing, which is odd, because they never say the same thing about, say, NATO, which explicitly does the same. Even as they clamour for Ukraine to be admitted to NATO, which would pre-commit the EU and the US to war with Russia.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for Each-Way Albo to be firm on anything. At least, not without checking with his boss, Xi Jinping. Just as his defence minister had his speeches pre-vetted by the CCP.
Speaking in Shanghai ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the prime minister declined to say if Australia would help the US to defend Taiwan, as his cabinet colleague Pat Conroy insisted Australia alone would decide if and when it went to war […]
He is determined to use the visit to talk up Australia-China economic ties, arguing Australian exporters and tourism businesses stand to make windfall gains under the countries’ newly stabilised relationship.
“Newly stabilised” meaning that Beijing cracked the whip and Albo dutifully begged to know how high.
“Of course, some among our allies might not welcome frank conversations,” Mr Colby wrote. “But many, now led by NATO … are seeing the urgent need to step up and are doing so. President Trump has shown the approach and the formula – and we will not be deterred from advancing his agenda.”
Mr Albanese, who has refused to lift Australia’s defence budget from two per cent of GDP to the 3.5 per cent demanded by the Trump administration, said Australia was committed to its alliance with the US and increasing military spending “considerably”.
By what? Publishing more cookbooks?
Reading Anthony Albanese’s Curtin Lecture confirmed my worst fears.
We’re retreating. We’re becoming critical commentators not contributors to the security of free peoples. And this week the prime minister is rushing to catch up with China’s unelected dictator, Xi Jinping, before he’s even met the president of the United States. The symbolism is stark […]
The Labor Party has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to give any support whatsoever to the American alliance.
That’s because, still the student communist at root that he is, Albanese’s heart clearly just isn’t in it. It’s plain where his ideological commitments lie.
And it’s not with Western liberal democracy.
