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#17453491 at 2022-08-28 07:36:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

#25 - Part 16
Australia / China Tensions - Part 5
>>16802540 Nonsense to say 'Australia needs nuclear submarines to defend itself': Australian scholar Professor David Goodman, director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney - Global Times - globaltimes.cn
>>16840480 A fool's errand: US attempting to sow discord in Asia-Pacific region - Global Times - globaltimes.cn
>>16840493 China calls for concrete actions after Australian PM's remarks about 'sanctions' - Global Times - globaltimes.cn
>>16840493 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Regular Press Conference on July 25, 2022
>>16840503 Video: Australia needs to work with China to create enabling conditions for improving bilateral relations. - SpokespersonCHN
>>16840523 Chinese Consulate General in Sydney Tweet: Video: China's growth has been an inherent part of globalization, which certainly has a positive impact on most people's standard of living around the world, an Australian sociologist has said.
>>16841051 How Cambodian despot Hun Sen maps out control of Australia - Cambodian despot Hun Sen has divided Australia into seven zones, each controlled from Phnom Penh by a high-ranking military officer or official in the regime, in which Cambodian-Australians are rewarded for allegiance to the dictator or singled out for punishment as traitors
>>16841115 China wants to 'bully and dominate' the Indo-Pacific: top US general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley
>>16841137 China to raise concerns over AUKUS submarine deal at United Nations nuclear non-proliferation treaty meeting
>>16841197 Trade Minister Don Farrell to launch new attempt to meet with China - Trade Minister Don Farrell has received a friendly letter from China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao that could be the beginning of the end of Beijing's trade crusade against Australia

>>16841230 ASPI's 'no compromise policy' mirrors evil intentions to disrupt China-Australia ties - Global Times - globaltimes.cn
>>16931297 Di Sanh "Sunny" Duong: Alleged Chinese spy who donated to Liberal politician Alan Tudge faces court, the first person to be charged under the then Turnbull government's 2018 foreign interference legislation
>>16931301 CSIRO boss advocates science ties to Beijing - CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall says Australia should forge deeper scientific ties with China in a bid to solve global challenges, including climate change and future pandemics
>>16931309 US General warns China has developed highly capable 'world-class' military - The US' highest-ranking military officer, General Mark Milley, has described China's proliferation of military strength as "very, very concerning" to the Pacific as well as globally
>>16936365 Indonesia criticises submarine loophole in nuclear non-proliferation treaty that underpins AUKUS deal
>>16936378 AUKUS 'pivotal' against China, says Scott Morrison - Scott Morrison says Australia's AUKUS security pact with the US and Britain and the advancement of the Quad had delivered the most profound shift in the strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific since China started "turning atolls into airports in the South China Sea"
>>16936386 UK admiral seeks to quell AUKUS concerns - Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has moved to quell concerns about the sharing of nuclear technology with Australia, as Canberra looks to procure a new fleet of submarines fuelled by atomic energy
>>16936404 Exclusive: China-Solomon Islands police training enhances friendship, law-enforcement capacity after Chinatown losses: The joint fight - Shan Jie and Zhao Juecheng - globaltimes.cn
>>16940747 UN treaty hitch to AUKUS nuclear submarines project - A group of US experts has warned Joe Biden that providing sub?marines powered by highly enriched uranium to Australia will undermine the UN's nuclear non-proliferation treaty, setting a "dangerous precedent"
>>16940832 'Unprecedented, foolish, dangerous': Keating attacks Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan - Former prime minister Paul Keating has accused US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of inflaming tensions with Beijing and risking a military conflict by planning to visit Taiwan next month

#17430805 at 2022-08-23 10:56:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

Australians' twisting perception an evil consequence of anti-China propaganda

Global Times - Aug 22, 2022

A new research based on two surveys of 1,003 adults living in Australia and 1,002 adults living in the island of Taiwan, respectively, from the Australia Institute, an Australian independent think tank, shows an "astonishing" result that nearly one in 10 Australians think China "will attack Australia soon," while just one in 20 people in Taiwan agree with that.

This new research comes after another Lowy survey report issued late in June which found that the vast majority of Australians say China will soon pose as a military threat to their country, another evidence that the perception of Australians toward China is now seriously skewed.

Since 2017, Australia has begun an anti-China wave to mislead the Australian people with a serious China threat theory. Chen Hong, president of the Chinese Association of Australian Studies and director of the Australian Studies Centre at East China Normal University, told the Global Times that this is actually not surprising given the almost daily frenzied smear attacks on China in various Australian media, and the constant China rumor mongering by some anti-China politicians. In particular, the policies and rhetoric during the Morrison administration have had a more damaging impact on China-Australia relations than any other Australian government, and are rarely seen in the history of Australian diplomacy.

In addition, the research indicates that nearly one in four Australians think that China will attack Taiwan soon, while merely one in 20 people in Taiwan think that China will do so. This mirrors that the Australians people's cognition on multiple sensitive issues including the Taiwan question is more seriously distorted by Australian media, academia and politicians in various ways. Instead, the people in Taiwan who have a better understanding of the actual situation are even closer to reality in this regard.

The attitudes of Australians toward China also show significant differences by age. Younger Australians are more likely to think that China will "attack Australia" than older Australians, with 60 percent of them aged 18-29 thinking China will attack soon or sometime compared to 41 percent of those aged 60 or older. Chen believes that this is related to young people using social media more frequently and thus being more exposed to negative reports on China.

There has been a huge reduction in bilateral people-to-people exchanges between China and Australia since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, leading Australians to heavily rely upon domestic media to get information about China. Older people, on the other hand, have been relatively less affected by the misinformation spread at home about China these years due to their past experience, real-life interactions with their Chinese colleagues and friends, and the basic understanding of China.

This is a worrying signal. There will undoubtedly be large quantities of young people who will work in international scenario related industries in the future. With such misunderstandings that is rare even in other Western countries, these young Australians will probably be a hidden danger for future bilateral cooperation.

Anti-China forces in Australia are not only distorting people's perception toward China, but its anti-China intelligence services are also misleading policy makers. Chen noted that a typical anti-China process is that the intelligence department often takes the initiative to "feed" the media with information that is not evidence-based, often to young journalists. They are always ecstatic to report such "news" being "confirmed" by some so-called experts in certain anti-China think thanks, say, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

In the long run, surveys among people who are used to reading such reports is bound to have astonishing results with wrong perceptions of China. The concern is whether some anti-China politicians will use these "public opinions" molded and shaped by themselves as "evidence" to promote anti-China bills by hyping the fears of Australians about China's "invasion."

Nevertheless, professor David Goodman, director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, pointed out that the results are more about the saber-rattling of irresponsible politicians than real risk assessment.

In any case, Canberra should actively change its dysfunctional status quo of public opinion at home and report objectively on China based on international reality. At the end of the day, false reports cannot manipulate politics for long. As Abraham Lincoln said, you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1273594.shtml

#17386345 at 2022-08-13 11:45:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

>>17385732
Beijing's charmless offensive loses hearts in free world

China can portray itself as strong and commanding at home but its propaganda falls apart in the West where doublespeak and absurdities are quickly exposed.

KEVIN YAM - August 11, 2022

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Defence Minister Richard Marles was once considered a friend of China. Now the Chinese party state media outlet Global Times declares that "Marles's string of comments on the so-called China threat make it increasingly difficult to distinguish him from his extremely anti-China Liberal predecessor Peter Dutton".

More than 15,000km away, former British chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak had previously called for improved relations with China. But recently the Conservative prime ministerial hopeful has declared China and the Chinese Communist Party "the largest threat to Britain and the world's security and prosperity this century".

And in Taiwan, the increasingly pro-Beijing Nationalist Party chairman Eric Chu withstood pressure from China-friendly factions within his party to publicly support last week's visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The evolving public positions of Marles, Sunak and Chu line up with the evolving attitudes of Australian, British and Taiwanese voters, who have become increasingly sceptical about China's words, actions and intentions. Such scepticism has been observed across the free world.

University of Sydney China Studies Centre director David Goodman recently gave some advice to Beijing in an interview with the Global Times: "(A) publicity campaign, that's what the US has had for some time through Hollywood, music, sports, and all kinds of ways in which it has a better reputation ... China could encourage things like that if it wants to influence the government and public opinion."

China repeatedly says it seeks to win hearts and minds around the world. But try as China might, it will likely struggle to succeed in the foreseeable future.

Let's start with censorship. It has always existed in China, but for many years there was still relative freedom to produce thought-provoking entertainment con?tent, so long as current politics was not directly touched on.

But, under Xi Jinping, censorship has tightened. Everything from imperial court intrigues and corruption dramas, to content alluding to societal ills, "girly men" performers, Tang Dynasty period costumes showing cleavage and karaoke songs that do not promote the party state's notion of positivity and more became taboo.

In private, my entertainment industry friends and professional acquaintances in Hong Kong and China have complained about increasing difficulties in getting interesting content released in China.

Things that easily get past censors nowadays tend to be unquestioningly nationalistic works or bland plot lines where clean-cut good guys always win and similarly clean-cut bad guys always lose. Such dreary content is hardly going to take the free world public by storm.

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#16802540 at 2022-07-25 12:56:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

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>>16350134 (pb)
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Nonsense to say 'Australia needs nuclear submarines to defend itself': Australian scholar

Global Times - Jul 24, 2022

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Editor's Note:

After the Albanese government took office in Australia, there have been discussions about a possible reset of China-Australia ties. Global Times (GT) reporter Yan Yuzhu talked to Professor David Goodman (Goodman), director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, about his opinions on the reason why there has been hostility in Australia toward China and possible changes in the new government regarding the China policies.

GT: A few days after the Albanese government took office in Australia, you, along with several other high-profile China Studies academics, issued an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, urging less public aggression and adjustment in approach to China. What kind of response did this open letter receive?

Goodman: There has been a bit of easing of tensions, we had a very nasty government before, and the new government coming in has had to be very careful about what it is about to do and what it would say.

I think this government is definitely more inclined to deal with sensible diplomacy with China than standing up in public and telling China why it is wrong. That's a good thing, because talk is always preferable to war.

Penny Wong is a great foreign minister, as she is listening to people and doing things. She has put a whole new working party in place to see how we can more positively deal with our foreign policy. Although I don't think they did it because we wrote our open letter, but certainly it was the spirit of the times.

There were a few people in public, not many, who criticized the open letter. There was one guy who wrote an opinion piece for The Australian, which is one of the big newspapers, and said we were traitors for two reasons, one was for writing this letter, and the other was because it was published by Xinhua News Agency exactly at the same time as it was first published in Australia. He blamed us for that, though of course we hadn't contacted Xinhua at all.

Generally, though, I think the open letter has gone fine. Even a number of people who were part of the Morrison government have not said that particular letter was wrong, even if it was a criticism of the way he was acting toward China.

GT: How do you see the prospect of a renewed China-Australia relationship? How different will the Albanese government's policy toward China be compared to that of the Morrison government?

Goodman: We just had a change in government, which has to move slowly in what it's doing. I saw no negative signs from the Australian side or the Chinese side for that matter after the meeting between the two foreign ministers, and I don't think you can do any more than that.

Of course, if you interpret what the foreign minister of China said as meaning that Australia shouldn't have an alliance with the United States, you might see that as an unreasonable demand if you were in Australia. There is a big debate in the moment about whether or not we would be better having an alliance with the US. You can imagine which side of that discussion I fall on, it's quite obvious. But it's a discussion you have to have, which we've had a little, but not a lot before.

A lot of nonsense is talked such as "Australia needs to have nuclear submarines to defend itself." It doesn't work, and there are many opinion influencers who agree with me that this is really not healthy.

Of course, we don't want to be attacked by anyone, but when you think about what it would take China to physically attack Australia, including logistic and military challenges, it will be clear that China will not do so.

But a lot of the defense officials in the past government in Australia are thinking about what we would do as Australians if China "invaded" Taiwan. How crazy. Even people who are anti-China in the UK and the US have said that kind of argument is rubbish, because it is.

What I'd like to see in the bilateral relationship is that the trade ties could ease. The previous government made some statements and criticism about Chinese trade practices which led to bad trade relations between the two countries. I'd like to see them eased. And in my opinion, China has some severe economic problems ahead. It would be in China's interests to solve them.

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#16701732 at 2022-07-10 01:22:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

#23 and #24 - Part 16
Australia / China Tensions - Part 1
>>16343646 Uyghurs in Australia scour through thousands of leaked photos from Xinjiang Police Files searching for loved ones
>>16343649 The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps - John Sudworth, May 2022 - bbc.co.uk
>>16343649 The Xinjiang Police Files - Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China's Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders' direct involvement in the mass internment campaign
>>16343649 PDF: The Xinjiang Police Files: Re-Education Camp Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
>>16343656 Video: Leaked "Xinjiang Police Files" reveal signs of distress among Uyghurs - ABC News (Australia)
>>16343661 Xi Jinping defends China's human rights record to visiting UN commissioner - Leader warns against using issue as 'excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries' as Michelle Bachelet goes to Xinjiang
>>16343917 Video: Penny Wong visits Fiji, saying Australia neglected Pacific on climate change, as China's Wang Yi visits Solomon Islands
>>16343938 Deals sought as China casts Pacific net - Beijing is seeking a deal with 10 Pacific countries offering policing, security, cyber support and a new China-Pacific free-trade agreement, dramatically escalating Xi Jinping's grab for regional influence
>>16343959 China to provide South Pacific countries 'what US, Australia failed to offer' - Yang Sheng and Liu Caiyu - globaltimes.cn
>>16343976 GT Voice: To break ice in China trade, the ball is in Australia's court - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16344026 China seeks region-wide Pacific Islands agreement, Federated States of Micronesia decry draft as threatening 'regional stability'
>>16349873 Video: Wong takes on Beijing over climate, debt and influence - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned Pacific leaders a region-wide security and trade deal with Beijing could sacrifice their independence, lead to unsustainable debt levels and endanger the region
>>16349907 China eyes next Pacific target, says opposition 'doomed to fail' - China says attempts by the United States and Australia to sabotage its security plans for the Pacific are doomed to fail, as Beijing's top diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Kiribati to forge ahead with plans for Chinese-built infrastructure in the island nation
>>16349922 Video: Chinese foreign minister starts Pacific tour, offering security and free trade pacts - South China Morning Post
>>16350025 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Damukana Sogavare Meets with Wang Yi - 2022-05-27
>>16350041 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Wang Yi Expounds on Three Principles of China-Solomon Islands Security Cooperation - 2022-05-26
>>16350107 China-Australia relations: ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd tells West to offer alternatives to Pacific islands, not 'lectures' about their ties with Beijing
>>16350130 Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship - Xinhua - english.news.cn
>>16350134 David Goodman and others - An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China - Pearls and Irritations, johnmenadue.com
>>16356414 Video: China to consider funding new police training centre in Solomon Islands, will also help Samoa build a fingerprint lab to go with the construction of an already announced new police academy

#16701650 at 2022-07-10 01:16:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition

Reposting Q Research AUSTRALIA #23 and #24 combined Notables and Updated Dough.

>>16343573 Q Research AUSTRALIA #23

>>16655142 Q Research AUSTRALIA #24

Notables
are not endorsements

#23 and #24 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>16343646 Uyghurs in Australia scour through thousands of leaked photos from Xinjiang Police Files searching for loved ones
>>16343649 The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps - John Sudworth, May 2022 - bbc.co.uk
>>16343649 The Xinjiang Police Files - Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China's Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders' direct involvement in the mass internment campaign
>>16343649 PDF: The Xinjiang Police Files: Re-Education Camp Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
>>16343656 Video: Leaked "Xinjiang Police Files" reveal signs of distress among Uyghurs - ABC News (Australia)
>>16343917 Video: Penny Wong visits Fiji, saying Australia neglected Pacific on climate change, as China's Wang Yi visits Solomon Islands
>>16344039 Peter Dutton 2.0: I'll be a gentler and caring me - Peter Dutton has promised that Australians will see another side of his character as opposition leader, arguing the Liberal Party is the natural champion of families, small business and aspirational workers across the ?nation's cities, suburbs and regions
>>16344054 Peter Dutton seeks to recast his image as Tanya Plibersek apologises for likening him to Voldemort
>>16349783 Election 2022: Scott Morrison says teal independents who unseated up to six moderate Liberals ran a "vicious and brutal campaign" against the Coalition, as he confirmed he would remain in parliament as a backbencher
>>16349788 'Trust and respect': Macron agrees to rebuild ties with Australia - French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is ready to start rebuilding his country's fractured relationship with Australia, during his first phone call with new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

>>16349801 US State Department greenlights proposed sale of half-a-billion-dollars in rocket launch capability to Australia - Australia's to purchase 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) vehicles for approximately US$385 million (AU$542 million)
>>16349873 Video: Wong takes on Beijing over climate, debt and influence - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned Pacific leaders a region-wide security and trade deal with Beijing could sacrifice their independence, lead to unsustainable debt levels and endanger the region
>>16350107 China-Australia relations: ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd tells West to offer alternatives to Pacific islands, not 'lectures' about their ties with Beijing
>>16350130 Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship - Xinhua - english.news.cn
>>16350134 David Goodman and others - An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China - Pearls and Irritations, johnmenadue.com
>>16356206 President Biden Tweet: I've got more good news: 27.5 million bottles of safe infant formula manufactured by Bubs Australia are coming to the United States. We're doing everything in our power to get more formula on shelves as soon as possible.
>>16356206 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia's Ambassador to the United States Tweet: Great that @BubsAustralia is helping out American families in need with clean, safe infant formula
>>16356206 Kristy Carr, Founder CEO - Bubs Australia Tweet: Thank you, Mr. President. We know this problem can't be solved by one company alone but @BubsAustralia hopes that we can help bring some relief to American families by offering a clean, safe formula for their babies during these challenging times.
>>16356292 Australian killed in Ukraine remembered as a 'larrikin' and 'battler' - Father-of-three Michael Charles O'Neill, 47, who lived in Hobart, was killed on Wednesday while providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine following the Russian invasion
>>16356338 Jos? Ramos-Horta accuses Alexander Downer of 'distorting' issues around 2004 Timor-Leste bugging - President of south-east Asian nation says Australia used cover of 'supposedly altruistic foreign aid program' to spy on behalf of oil companies

#16655182 at 2022-07-07 08:43:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition

#23 - Part 15
Australia / China Tensions - Part 1
>>16343646 Uyghurs in Australia scour through thousands of leaked photos from Xinjiang Police Files searching for loved ones
>>16343649 The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps - John Sudworth, May 2022 - bbc.co.uk
>>16343649 The Xinjiang Police Files - Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China's Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders' direct involvement in the mass internment campaign
>>16343649 PDF: The Xinjiang Police Files: Re-Education Camp Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
>>16343656 Video: Leaked "Xinjiang Police Files" reveal signs of distress among Uyghurs - ABC News (Australia)
>>16343661 Xi Jinping defends China's human rights record to visiting UN commissioner - Leader warns against using issue as 'excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries' as Michelle Bachelet goes to Xinjiang
>>16343917 Video: Penny Wong visits Fiji, saying Australia neglected Pacific on climate change, as China's Wang Yi visits Solomon Islands
>>16343938 Deals sought as China casts Pacific net - Beijing is seeking a deal with 10 Pacific countries offering policing, security, cyber support and a new China-Pacific free-trade agreement, dramatically escalating Xi Jinping's grab for regional influence
>>16343959 China to provide South Pacific countries 'what US, Australia failed to offer' - Yang Sheng and Liu Caiyu - globaltimes.cn
>>16343976 GT Voice: To break ice in China trade, the ball is in Australia's court - Global Times - globaltimes.cn

>>16344026 China seeks region-wide Pacific Islands agreement, Federated States of Micronesia decry draft as threatening 'regional stability'
>>16349873 Video: Wong takes on Beijing over climate, debt and influence - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned Pacific leaders a region-wide security and trade deal with Beijing could sacrifice their independence, lead to unsustainable debt levels and endanger the region
>>16349907 China eyes next Pacific target, says opposition 'doomed to fail' - China says attempts by the United States and Australia to sabotage its security plans for the Pacific are doomed to fail, as Beijing's top diplomat Wang Yi arrived in Kiribati to forge ahead with plans for Chinese-built infrastructure in the island nation
>>16349922 Video: Chinese foreign minister starts Pacific tour, offering security and free trade pacts - South China Morning Post
>>16350025 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Damukana Sogavare Meets with Wang Yi - 2022-05-27
>>16350041 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Wang Yi Expounds on Three Principles of China-Solomon Islands Security Cooperation - 2022-05-26
>>16350107 China-Australia relations: ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd tells West to offer alternatives to Pacific islands, not 'lectures' about their ties with Beijing
>>16350130 Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship - Xinhua - english.news.cn
>>16350134 David Goodman and others - An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China - Pearls and Irritations, johnmenadue.com
>>16356414 Video: China to consider funding new police training centre in Solomon Islands, will also help Samoa build a fingerprint lab to go with the construction of an already announced new police academy

#16655157 at 2022-07-07 08:32:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

#23 - Part 1
Australian Politics and Society - Part 1
>>16343646 Uyghurs in Australia scour through thousands of leaked photos from Xinjiang Police Files searching for loved ones
>>16343649 The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps - John Sudworth, May 2022 - bbc.co.uk
>>16343649 The Xinjiang Police Files - Unprecedented evidence from internal police networks in China's Xinjiang region proves prison-like nature of re-education camps, shows top Chinese leaders' direct involvement in the mass internment campaign
>>16343649 PDF: The Xinjiang Police Files: Re-Education Camp Security and Political Paranoia in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
>>16343656 Video: Leaked "Xinjiang Police Files" reveal signs of distress among Uyghurs - ABC News (Australia)
>>16343917 Video: Penny Wong visits Fiji, saying Australia neglected Pacific on climate change, as China's Wang Yi visits Solomon Islands
>>16344039 Peter Dutton 2.0: I'll be a gentler and caring me - Peter Dutton has promised that Australians will see another side of his character as opposition leader, arguing the Liberal Party is the natural champion of families, small business and aspirational workers across the ?nation's cities, suburbs and regions
>>16344054 Peter Dutton seeks to recast his image as Tanya Plibersek apologises for likening him to Voldemort
>>16349783 Election 2022: Scott Morrison says teal independents who unseated up to six moderate Liberals ran a "vicious and brutal campaign" against the Coalition, as he confirmed he would remain in parliament as a backbencher
>>16349788 'Trust and respect': Macron agrees to rebuild ties with Australia - French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is ready to start rebuilding his country's fractured relationship with Australia, during his first phone call with new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

>>16349801 US State Department greenlights proposed sale of half-a-billion-dollars in rocket launch capability to Australia - Australia's to purchase 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) vehicles for approximately US$385 million (AU$542 million)
>>16349873 Video: Wong takes on Beijing over climate, debt and influence - Foreign Minister Penny Wong has warned Pacific leaders a region-wide security and trade deal with Beijing could sacrifice their independence, lead to unsustainable debt levels and endanger the region
>>16350107 China-Australia relations: ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd tells West to offer alternatives to Pacific islands, not 'lectures' about their ties with Beijing
>>16350130 Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship - Xinhua - english.news.cn
>>16350134 David Goodman and others - An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China - Pearls and Irritations, johnmenadue.com
>>16356206 President Biden Tweet: I've got more good news: 27.5 million bottles of safe infant formula manufactured by Bubs Australia are coming to the United States. We're doing everything in our power to get more formula on shelves as soon as possible.
>>16356206 Arthur Sinodinos, Australia's Ambassador to the United States Tweet: Great that @BubsAustralia is helping out American families in need with clean, safe infant formula
>>16356206 Kristy Carr, Founder CEO - Bubs Australia Tweet: Thank you, Mr. President. We know this problem can't be solved by one company alone but @BubsAustralia hopes that we can help bring some relief to American families by offering a clean, safe formula for their babies during these challenging times.
>>16356292 Australian killed in Ukraine remembered as a 'larrikin' and 'battler' - Father-of-three Michael Charles O'Neill, 47, who lived in Hobart, was killed on Wednesday while providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine following the Russian invasion
>>16356338 Jos? Ramos-Horta accuses Alexander Downer of 'distorting' issues around 2004 Timor-Leste bugging - President of south-east Asian nation says Australia used cover of 'supposedly altruistic foreign aid program' to spy on behalf of oil companies

#16350134 at 2022-05-27 12:30:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition

>>16350130
David Goodman and others - An Open letter to the New Government on relations with China

P&I Guest Writers - May 26, 2022

To Prime Minister Albanese and Foreign Minister Wong,

In the spirit of new opportunities represented by your election, we would like to offer the following thoughts on our country's relationship to the People's Republic of China.

The change in government presents the opportunity for a circuit breaker in the poor diplomatic relations that have developed between Australia and China in the recent past. As professors of China Studies who undertake research on various aspects of China's society and politics, we acknowledge that the new government is likely to avoid the over-aggressive approach of its predecessor. In our view less public aggression is likely to be more effective in dealing with China: international engagement should replace the language of war.

The growth of China as a significant regional and would-be global power is bound to be disruptive. Two-way communication not 'megaphone diplomacy' is needed so that the changing environment is managed as effectively as possible. In particular, a China policy informed as much by diplomatic and economic interests as by great power strategic concerns may well and more sustainably ensure Australia's national and economic security. While appreciating the tremendous difficulties ahead we urge this adjustment in approach to China.

Vivienne Bath, Professor of Law, University of Sydney.

Jocelyn Chey, AM, Visiting Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney

Louise Edwards, Emeritus Professor University of New South Wales

Mobo Gao, Professor of Chinese, University of Adelaide

Jane Golley, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

David S G Goodman, Professor and Director, China Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Yingjie Guo, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney

Hans Hendrischke, Professor of Chinese Business and Management, University of Sydney

Ben Hillman, Professor and Director, Centre on China in the World, Australian National university

James Laurenceson, Professor of Economics and Director Australia China Relations Institute, UTS

Kam Louie, Honorary Professor of Chinese Studies, University of New South Wales

Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Communications, UTS

Sue Trevaskes, Professor of Chinese Studies, Griffith University

Mark Yaolin Wang, Professor and Director Centre for Contemporary China Studies, University of Melbourne

Anthony Welch, Professor of Education, University of Sydney

https://johnmenadue.com/David-Goodman-and-others-an-open-letter-to-the-new-government-on-relations-with-china/

#16350130 at 2022-05-27 12:29:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition

Australian scholars call for improvement of China-Australia relationship

Xinhua - 2022-05-27

CANBERRA, May 27 (Xinhua) - Fifteen scholars from Australian universities called for improvement of China-Australia relationship in an open letter released on Thursday.

The open letter, to the new federal government elected last Saturday, was published on the blog platform Pearls and Irritations.

The scholars included former diplomat and visiting professor in the University of Sydney Jocelyn Chey, Australian National University (ANU) professor and economist Jane Golley, Director of the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney David Goodman, Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute in the University of Technology Sydney James Laurenceson, and Ben Hillman, director of the Australian Center on China in the World in the ANU.

Addressing to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong, the letter said, "The change in government presents the opportunity for a circuit breaker in the poor diplomatic relations that have developed between Australia and China in the recent past."

"As professors of China Studies who undertake research on various aspects of China's society and politics, we acknowledge that the new government is likely to avoid the over-aggressive approach of its predecessor. In our view less public aggression is likely to be more effective in dealing with China: international engagement should replace the language of war," it said.

The scholars said the growth of China, as a significant regional and would-be global power, is bound to be disruptive, and two-way communication, rather than "megaphone diplomacy", is needed so that the changing environment is managed as effectively as possible.

"A China policy informed as much by diplomatic and economic interests as by great power strategic concerns may well and more sustainably ensure Australia's national and economic security," they said.

"While appreciating the tremendous difficulties ahead we urge this adjustment in approach to China."

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