Albo: The Best PM China Could Hope For

The Chinese Communist Party pumped massive resources into influencing the last Australian election. From allegedly timing staged foreign policy moves in the Pacific to embarrass the Coalition government, to trying to bankroll candidates in the election. Labor candidates. CCP-linked figures had also been caught out handing literal shopping bags of cash to Labor branches, while a Labor senator was caught tipping off an alleged CCP spy that he was under surveillance.

China clearly very, very badly wanted a Labor government in Australia.

Well, they got the government they wanted. Now they’re getting the result they wanted: grovelling and begging for Beijing’s money.

Australia and China have pledged to work together to restore bilateral relations, setting aside years of tensions amid a landmark visit to the country by Foreign Minister Penny Wong coinciding with the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ­official ties between the countries.

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared in a message to Governor-General David Hurley that his country would reactivate the nations’ dormant comprehensive strategic partnership “for the continuous benefit of our two countries and peoples”.

“I attach great importance to the development of China-Australia relations and I am willing to work with the Australian side,” Mr Xi said in his message to mark the anniversary.

Senator Wong met with her Chinese counterpart, State Councillor Wang Yi, for about an hour and 40 minutes.

Make no mistake: it was the Labor government who went kow-towing to Beijing.

Mr Wang revealed the Albanese government sought the meeting, saying the move was ­appreciated by China as a sign of Australia’s positive intent.

A nice little pat on the head for being obedient lap dogs.

The Minister’s arrival in Beijing in the early hours of Wednesday coincided with a burst of positive coverage in China’s state-run media marking the 50th anniversary.

A timely reminder that Labor socialists have always been far too keen to grovel to genocidal communist dictators. The “50th anniversary” in question is the anniversary of Labor PM Gough Whitlam scuttling to China to curry favour with the Maoist regime.

Right in the middle of the Cultural Revolution, which saw the murders of millions of Chinese and the destruction of, according to some estimates, up to 75% of China’s cultural heritage. The Cultural Revolution was also marked by atrocities such as open cannibalism by some Red Guards.

That is what Whitlam was so eager to shake hands with.

It was akin to shaking hands with Hitler at the gates of Auschwitz.

His ideological descendants are even worse. At least Whitlam could pretend ignorance of the devastation of the Cultural Revolution — Anthony Albanese has no such excuse. The whole world knows of the ongoing genocide in China, the organ harvesting, the concentration camps, slave labour, and the debt-trap diplomacy of the BRI.

China is already securing New Zealand as a South Pacific airstrip, having lured the greedily gullible socialist Jacinda Ardern into the BRI. Is the equally greedily gullible socialist Anthony Albanese next up?

One story in the China Daily painted a bullish outlook in 2023 for Australia’s mining giants in China – their biggest customer by far. Others spruiked opportunities for Australian businesses to work alongside Chinese companies in the Belt and Road Initiative, President Xi’s signature infrastructure-led foreign policy idea which Canberra declined to join.

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Under the previous government, that is. On the other hand, Albanese’s great mate, Dictator Dan Andrews had no hesitation in trying to sign Victoria onto the BRI, forcing the Morrison government to step in.

Don’t count on old-school communist Albanese to have any such reservations.