Although the hapless Neville Chamberlain has borne the historical burden of the disastrous appeasement policy prior to WWII, the reality is that it was an enormously popular policy on nearly all sides. Cheering crowds greeted Chamberlain’s “piece of paper”. Even after the war began, many left-wing groups in particular long held out for “peace in our time”. In those appeasement years, Winston Churchill alone stood out as the croaking raven warning of disaster – for which he was reviled as a “war-monger”.
Communist China is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century, and it has no end of appeasers, on all sides.
Especially where there’s money involved.
Western Australia’s Labor government and Liberal opposition have been slammed after they both promised $5m of taxpayer money towards a group accused of being a “propaganda mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party”.
Both major parties have made election promises in recent days committing to help fund the Chung Wah Association’s new community centre in Perth’s southern suburbs.
While Victorian premier Daniel Andrews gained notoriety for signing on to Xi Xinping’s BRI, WA’s Mark McGowan has been no less assiduous in currying Chinese favour. WA’s mining billionaires, deep in China’s pockets, cheer along with him.
No matter that, as we now know for a certainty, millions of Chinese Communist Party members have infiltrated institutions at all levels in the Western hemisphere.
The Chung Wah Association is the oldest ethnic organisation in WA, with its history dating back to 1909, but it has come under fire in recent years from noted CCP critic Clive Hamilton.
Professor Hamilton — a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and the author of Silent Invasion, a book about the growing influence of the CCP in Australia — told The Australian the Chung Wah Association had been “taken over by pro-Beijing elements” in 2015.
“Its character changed and it became a vehicle to back the Chinese Communist Party’s policies in Australia,” he said.
“By providing public funding to the Chung Wah Association, the Western Australian government is subsidising Chinese Communist Party propaganda and influence work in WA.”
But the WA government is blind to everything except the rivers of Yuan that have propped up an economy that would otherwise be a basket-case.
WA Premier Mark McGowan has long maintained a conciliatory tone towards China[…]The WA economy is heavily reliant on China, with more than $100bn worth of exports — mostly iron ore — from WA to China over the past 12 months.
Both Mr McGowan and opposition leader Zak Kirkup defended the funding decisions.
The Australian
Of course they did. Got to keep Beijing’s money rolling in – because without it, WA is cactus.
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