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To damn him with faint praise, Vidkun Quisling at least believed in the fascist cause for which he betrayed his country. Andrew Forrest doesn’t even have that poor excuse. Instead, he’s literally selling shiploads of this land to a murderous communist dictatorship for nothing but cold hard cash.
And yapping and dancing for his communist pay masters at the slightest provocation.
Forrest, after all, owes almost his entire fortune to China – and he acts like it. Remember that in 2020 – at the height of the Chinese-engineered Covid pandemic – Forrest snuck in a Chinese Communist Party official to gatecrash a speech by the then-health minister.
Now, he’s shilling even harder for the authoritarian dictatorship.
Dr Forrest writes in the Australian on Thursday that Anthony Albanese is showing the world that it no longer needs to be suspicious of Xi Jinping’s regime, and that Australia and China as friends can teach US President Donald Trump that “respect triumphs over fear.”
As well as effusively praising the prime minister and Labor over the China reset, Dr Forrest accused the Morrison government solely for the deterioration of relations with China during the Covid-19 pandemic.
All Scott Morrison did was tell the truth – that Covid had originated in China and the CCP lied about it, allowing the outbreak in Wuhan to become a global pandemic. Which is, of course, not the first time that CCP lies have unleashed a global pandemic. Going back to the 1950s, the CCP has repeatedly lied and covered up disease outbreaks in China that have led to them spreading around the world.
To his credit, ScoMo is calling out Forrest’s shameless propagandising.
Just before the former PM appeared before a US Congressional panel probing the CCP where he warned that Australians risked being “asleep” to the strategic threat from Beijing, Mr Morrison hit back at Dr Forrest.
“I’m sure Dr Forrest’s comments would have been well received by the CCP in Beijing,” he said on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
When you’re being praised by a communist dictatorship with a shocking history of mass murder and mass incarceration, you really should rethink your priorities.
Morrison, on the other hand, is not willfully blind to what it means to cozy up to the communist giant.
Addressing the hearing, Mr Morrison warned that China’s objective was the “subordination of a rule of law based on universal human rights to one arbitrarily defined by the state and to draw an equivalence between their regimes and freedom-based societies”.
“This will not change. Nor can it be negotiated away,” he said. “Rather than opening up their society, during post-cold war globalisation the CCP used China’s newly granted access to global trade, capital markets and legitimacy in international forums to build the economic, diplomatic, technological and military capacity to one day challenge the global order in an attempt to make it more favourable to their regime security. That day is now.”
Mr Morrison said he was “pleased that our government provided the example of resistance and resilience” by standing firm against Beijing’s coercion “rather than acquiescence and appeasement”.
Not any more. Now we’ve got a government that bows and scrapes, grovels and kowtows to Beijing for all its worth.
And greedy billionaires who’ll take the bloodstained gold of the world’s biggest slave-owning state, while singing and dancing its praises.
