8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (1)
#8970087 at 2020-04-30 07:20:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11482: Bakin' Three Breads Edition
>>8970086
Resignations in the news 4/28/2020 & 4/29/2020 - part 2
Ex-Fort Worth pastor fired from Ohio university over allegations of sexual misconduct
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article242346931.html
UnityPoint CEO Kevin Vermeer abruptly steps down after announcing furloughs, pay cuts
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/04/28/unitypoint-ceo-kevin-vermeer-abruptly-resigns-amid-furloughs/3039257001/
John Kirwan resigns from Hermiston City Council
https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/john-kirwan-resigns-from-hermiston-city-council/article_a586e8ac-890a-11ea-91f6-a360e080acbc.html
Fantino resigns from Aleafia Health board alongside former RCMP commissioner
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/fantino-resigns-aleafia-health-board-152743156.html
Tolland councilman resigns for reasons that include the death of a relative from Covid-19
https://www.journalinquirer.com/towns/tolland/tolland-councilman-resigns-for-reasons-that-include-the-death-of-a-relative-from-covid-19/article_90d3196a-8957-11ea-a027-ff868cde74b6.html
Machesney Park administrator resigns after role in cannabis business discovered
https://www.rrstar.com/news/20200428/machesney-park-administrator-resigns-after-role-in–cannabis-business-discovered
Dutch translator in Albany retiring, ending prolific collaboration
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Dutch-translator-in-Albany-retiring-ending-15231567.php
Aurinia Taps Cerecor's Miller to Succeed Retiring Chief Financial Officer
https://xconomy.com/national/2020/04/28/aurinia-taps-cerecors-miller-to-succeed-retiring-chief-financial-officer/
Uber's CTO Stepping down Strokes Layoff Rumors
https://www.techpluto.com/ubers-cto-stepping-down-strokes-layoff-rumors-top-trending-news/
Commissioner of NJ veterans homes where 103 have died of coronavirus resigns
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/coronavirus/2020/04/28/coronavirus-nj-commissioner-veteran-homes-103-died-resigns-menlo-paramus/3041664001/
Austin ISD superintendent to step down August 31, says school board
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-isd-superintendent-to-step-down-august-31-says-school-board
Longtime Food Bank of Delaware president/CEO resigns
https://www.wdel.com/news/longtime-food-bank-of-delaware-president-ceo-resigns/article_c8c8f87c-8640-11ea-9def-47ce120e5a0a.html
New Mexico finance secretary resigns as budget crisis builds
https://apnews.com/9b86e34a0de8b80e774c025eb12595c1
San Benito Interim Public Health Officer resigns
https://www.ksbw.com/article/san-benito-interim-public-health-officer-resigns/32308989
Warwick Smith has resigned as chairman of the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8267159/Head-Australia-China-relations-committee-RESIGNS-amid-rising-tensions.html
City of Bowie mayor resigns
https://www.newschannel6now.com/2020/04/29/city-bowie-mayor-resigns/
Councillor resigns from Uttlesford District Council
https://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/councillor-resigns-from-uttlesford-district-council-1-6629873
Princeton assistant superintendent set to retire after superintendent announces his own resignation
https://centraljersey.com/2020/04/29/princeton-asst-supt-to-retire/
Kulinowski announces resignation from Chemical Safety Board
https://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/19774-kulinowski-announces-resignation-from-chemical-safety-board
Ottumwa teacher, forced to resign, has license suspended
https://ktvo.com/news/local/ottumwa-teacher-forced-to-resign-has-license-suspended
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (7)
#17396721 at 2022-08-15 07:23:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research Australia #25: My Koala Hates Spam Too Edition
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Some frank advice for Beijing's new envoy
A covid cover-up, an imprisoned friend, a vindictive campaign of coercion against Australia and, now, missiles flying over my apartment - here's why I've changed my mind on China.
WILL GLASGOW - August 12, 2022
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I listened to the address in Canberra by Xi Jinping's top Australian envoy from my apartment in Taiwan. Where you live undoubtedly colours your perspective. My views have changed profoundly as I have moved from Sydney to Beijing and, after an intermission back in Sydney, to Taipei.
Six days before ambassador Xiao Qian took the podium at the National Press Club, the Chinese People's Liberation Army fired 11 ballistic missiles over and around Taiwan. One flew directly over Taipei, where I am writing this. They were blasted as the PLA conducted four days of blockade manoeuvres in six locations around Taiwan's main island, another disturbing first.
"Allow me to be frank," ambassador Xiao said on Wednesday, keeping an impressively straight face, "here in this country, the media coverage of China (is) mostly not positive."
In January 2020, when I moved to Beijing to be The Australian's China correspondent, I would have partially agreed with him that China gets an unfair run in the Australian media.
Events have changed my mind: a coronavirus cover-up, an imprisoned friend, a vindictive campaign of coercion against Australia and now PLA missiles flying over my apartment.
I was in Beijing during the terrifying early stages of the pandemic. It was a masterclass in the Chinese Communist Party at its worst. Doctors were punished for being medical professionals rather than loyal comrades. The propaganda machine first denied anything was happening, before telling us everything was going terrifically. It was indelible.
By August 2020, a friend of mine had been imprisoned. I last saw Cheng Lei over drinks at a rooftop bar in Beijing, just over a month before she was nabbed - without charge - by China's Ministry of State Security. The Australian citizen, a mother of two, is still in prison.
"It's just wrong," Warwick Smith, a businessman with decades of experience in China and before that a Howard government minister, told me before her one-day closed trial.
I am now based in Taiwan because of Australian government security concerns that sprang from Cheng's arrest. For a while, in mid to late 2020, I thought Canberra's anxiety was overdone. Not any more.
The insecurity of General Secretary Xi's new China has to be experienced to be believed.
Back when I was in Beijing, the Chinese police state would not let me enter Tiananmen Square or even its surrounds, which included a park I was keen to visit to see the site of a Ming Dynasty altar to the god of the land and the god of grain. Unfortunately, the CCP's discomfort with its own history - in this case, the massacre in 1989 of student protesters - got in the way.
"It will be really difficult for the officers to tell the difference between professional media behaviour and private sightseeing," the police officer told me.
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#16439003 at 2022-06-13 05:15:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
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The meeting ends nearly three years without high-level ministerial contact in what has been the most tumultuous period in relations since 1972, with ties deteriorating after the former government called for an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. In response, Beijing slapped trade sanctions on $20bn worth of Australian exports and has issued Australia with a list of 14 grievances.
The head of the Business Council of Australia's global engagement committee, Warwick Smith, said the discussions in Singapore "must be seen as sensible and positive". Mr Smith, a former Howard government minister with unparalleled ties to China and who accompanied Anthony Albanese on his recent visit to Indonesia, told The Australian: "The realism is that China and Australia have a strong mutual trading relationship.
"A mature approach between governments manifestly means they must talk to each other."
Executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Justin Bassi, said the meeting and broader ministerial engagement was "definitely positive as it enables dialogue" but stressed it was not a "thawing of relations just yet".
"The differences that existed yesterday, such as China's economic coercion of Australia, its destabilising actions in the South China Sea or arbitrary detention of Australians, still exist today. Until China's actions change, the structural issues in the relationship will remain. But dialogue without conditions means that Australia can engage with China on these differences in a clear and transparent way."
The Lowy Institute's senior fellow for East Asia, Richard McGregor, said neither country had "changed any of their positions on security issues". "That was clear from their speeches. All that has changed is that they are talking to each other again. If that helps to reduce the risk of a possible military accident, which in turn could lead to something worse, than that's a good thing."
Mr Marles said the commencement of a new dialogue with Beijing was not contingent on a compromise on sovereignty or values, arguing that Australia had a "whole lot of national interests" and the government was "not going to waver from asserting those in the strongest possible terms".
He said the meeting was set up at dinner on Friday night when he was sitting opposite General Wei.
"We both agreed that it was important that our two countries meet," Mr Marles said. "That's how the meeting came about today. It was hosted by China. The meeting went for more than an hour."
Mr Marles said he would not disclose further details of the meeting, but argued it was a "full and frank discussion".
"We want to take this in a very sober and very deliberate manner. We don't underestimate the difficulties that we've had in our bilateral relationship. The fact that this is the first meeting at a ministerial level in almost three years is very significant."
The Shangri-La Dialogue was also the first opportunity for US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin to meet with General Wei, with the pair discussing defence relations for nearly 60 minutes on Friday.
Mr Austin told the summit on Saturday that America did not support Taiwanese independence but was increasingly concerned by the "growing coercion from Beijing".
General Wei urged Washington not to view Beijing as an adversary or an enemy.
"China's position is very clear. If you want to talk, we should talk with mutual respect. If you want to engage, we should seek peaceful coexistence," he said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/richard-marles-and-wei-fenghe-take-first-step-tobeijing-thaw/news-story/9efe2b60e0b87eda82cb9e7d3e4d19ce
#16403519 at 2022-06-06 09:56:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
>>16399530
Anthony Albanese, Joko Widodo agree to strengthen ties during Indonesia visit
SIMON BENSON and DIAN SEPTIARI - JUNE 6, 2022
Australia and Indonesia have vowed to strengthen bilateral co-operation to advance greater economic ties and to counter the threats of strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific region amid the rise of China following the first leaders meeting today between Anthony Albanese and Joko Widodo.
The Prime Minister and Indonesian President met for an hour behind closed doors for the annual leaders meeting held in Jakarta where they discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and greater Indo-Pacific co-operation as well as greater economic and investment links.
President Widodo told Mr Albanese that the rule of law was essential to peace and stability in South East Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific region.
"In general I reiterated Indonesia's consistent position that the good relation between the two nations can contribute to the peace and prosperity in the region. Therefore international laws must be followed consistently," President Widodo said following the meeting.
"The culture of peace and strategic trust must be strengthened."
Mr Albanese confirmed that he would attend this year's G20 leaders summit in November being hosted by Indonesia, despite the threatened boycotts by other member nations due to the attendance of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
"Today I informed President Widodo that I will attend the G20 Leaders' Summit in Bali in November," Mr Albanese said.
"I did so because the work of the G20 is critical at this time of global economic uncertainty, and it will be by working with Indonesia that we most effectively tackle the many challenges we face in navigating the post-COVID global economic recovery.
"I will work closely with President Widodo to help deliver a successful Summit. And we discussed that this morning.
"Australia's relationship with Indonesia is one of our most important.
"We're linked not just by geography, but we are linked by choice.
"We've enjoyed a long history of co-operation and friendship.
"And our relationship is ever-deepened by the strategic and economic interests we share.
"I reiterate today that ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions are at the absolute centre of our vision for the Indo-Pacific.
"Australia supports the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific, and its vision for a peaceful, prosperous and secure Indo-Pacific.
Mr Albanese has made deeper economic and investment engagement with Indonesia a priority of his first visit to Jakarta.
"Indonesia is on track to be one of the world's five largest economies," he said.
"Revitalising our trade and investment relationship is a priority for my Government.
"And it's why we plan to work with Indonesia to realise the potential of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA).
"Our economic ministers will meet regularly.
"And we will continue to secure the backing of business on both sides.
"My Government will work with Australian Super Funds, among our largest investors, to explore investment opportunities here in Indonesia.
"And the senior Australian CEOs who are here with me will be at the vanguard of a sustained campaign by Australian government and business to seize these opportunities."
Mr Albanese is being accompanied on his Indonesian visit by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Trade Minister Don Farrell, Industry Minister Ed Husic and Luke Gosling, "who represents Darwin in my team."
The business and trade delegation as part of the PM's official visit includes Bluescope Steel boss Mark Vassella, Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn, Telstra CEO Andrew Penn, Fortescue Metals Group deputy chair Mark Barnaba, Thales Australia CEO Chris Jenkins and Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott.
They are joined by the Business Council of Australia CEO Jennifer Westacott and chair Warwick Smith, Sun Cable CEO David Griffin, Monash University vice chancellor Margaret Gardner and Austrade CEO Xavier Simonet.
The two leaders agreed to advance the Australian government's $200 million climate and infrastructure partnership with Indonesia with Mr Albanese saying he wanted better access to "affordable, reliable and secure clean energy right across our region, as we transition to a net zero world together".
A deal was struck to provide more scholarships for Indonesians seeking to study in Australia, increasing the cap to 5000 on Indonesian working holiday visas to Australia.
There was also agreement to advance a Memorandum of Understanding on Agriculture to strengthen food security issues in the region.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-joko-widodo-agree-to-strengthen-ties-during-indonesia-visit/news-story/05d405b0bf7a6d7d74d99ae5fb8b16f0
#15842310 at 2022-03-11 22:40:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
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>>15812783
>>15836505
Beijing threatens Australia with 'the worst consequences'
WILL GLASGOW - MARCH 12, 2022
China's Defence Ministry said Australia will "suffer the worst consequences" if it offers military support to Taiwan in a tirade launched the day after Xi Jinping's top envoy in Australia told Foreign Minister Marise Payne he wanted to push relations "along the right track".
In a remarkable instance of two-pronged diplomacy, Beijing's outburst was delivered at the end of a week in which China's new ambassador Xiao Qian spoke of "mutual respect" in separate meetings in Sydney with former prime ministers Paul Keating and John Howard, Foreign Minister Payne and former foreign minister Bob Carr.
The fresh lashing was given late on Thursday four days after Defence Minister Peter Dutton said Australia would do "whatever we can" to deter China from "acts of aggression" in the Taiwan Strait.
Denouncing Mr Dutton's "Cold War mentality" and "ideological bias", a spokesman for China's powerful Ministry of National Defence said "no one and no force" could stop Beijing from bringing Taiwan under its control.
"Anyone who makes trouble on the Taiwan question will suffer the worst consequences in the end," said Senior Colonel Tan Kefei days after Beijing raised defence spending by more than 7 per cent.
"The Chinese People's Liberation Army is always in full readiness to thwart resolutely any interference from external forces and any 'Taiwan independence' plot by separatist forces," Colonel Tan said.
In a second attack, the Chinese spokesman said - without evidence - that Canberra had lied about a Chinese warship's use of a laser last month off Australia's north coast.
The Taiwan tirade came days after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi cast Australia as an "acolyte" in a "sinister" American-led plot to constrain China's rise.
China's top diplomat dubbed the strategy Washington's "5432 posture", listing the pillars of Australia's security framework: the Five Eyes intelligence group, the four member Quad, the three member AUKUS security partnership and America's bilateral engagement with allies, such as AUSMIN with Australia.
At the high-profile event at Beijing's annual rubber stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, Mr Wang said that China's relations with Russia remained "rock solid" despite its invasion of Ukraine.
The day earlier, President Xi Jinping instructed a group of political advisers to note the "chaos in the West".
During a separate session at the National People's Congress, Defence Minister Wei Fenghe, said the People's Liberation Army faced "high pressure" and "high risks".
"Against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the rise of the East, confrontation between major powers is unprecedented and we need to focus on responding to containment and suppression from the outside," General Wei said.
Back in Australia, Mr Xi's new envoy has been attempting a charm offensive with Chinese characteristics.
Before this week's meetings with Mr Keating, Mr Howard, Senator Payne, Mr Carr and the head of the Australia-China Relations Institute James Laurenceson, Mr Xiao met separately with Fortescue billionaire Andrew Forrest, former foreign minister Julie Bishop, Howard government minister Warwick Smith and the president of the Australia China Business Council David Olsson.
He has also requested a meeting with Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong.
In those private meetings, the new Chinese envoy attempted a conciliatory tone - in contrast to the anger in Beijing.
"It is hoped that the two sides will work together to review the past and look into the future," Mr Xiao told his influential interlocutors.
"[We should] adhere to the principle of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and make joint efforts to push forward China-Australia relations along the right track," he said, according to the Chinese embassy.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/beijing-threatens-australia-with-the-worst-consequences/news-story/62b28829747222c1b4a0838c26d41cac
#15812783 at 2022-03-08 17:39:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
China accuses Australia of 'sinister' plot
WILL GLASGOW - MARCH 8, 2022
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has cast Australia as the US's most loyal accomplice in a ?"sinister" strategy to constrain the rising power with an "Indo-Pacific version of NATO".
Without naming Australia ?directly, Mr Wang outlined ?Canberra's role as an "acolyte" in what he dubbed Washington's "5432 posture".
"(The US) talks about multi?lateralism but in reality it creates exclusive clubs," Mr Wang said on Monday night on the sidelines of the National People's Congress, China's rubberstamp parliament.
"It claims international rules but in reality it is setting and ?imposing rules suiting itself and its acolytes. From strengthening the Five Eyes and peddling the Quad to putting together the AUKUS security partnership and tightening bilateral military alliances, the US is staging a '5432' posture in the Asia-Pacific.
"It is by no means a blessing but a sinister move. The real goal for the Indo-Pacific strategy is to ?establish an Indo-Pacific version of NATO ... These perverse ?actions run counter to common aspirations of the region and are doomed to fail."
Mr Wang's prepared remarks on the US's Indo-Pacific strategy underline the breadth of the ?security issues that have sunk the Australia-China relationship to a 50-year low.
Australia is the only country, other than the US, to be in every one of the groups the Chinese ?Foreign Minister said were "stoking regional rivalry". Membership in all of them has bipartisan support in Canberra.
Rory Medcalf, head of the ?National Security College at the Australian National University, said the comments revealed "a certain frustration in the Chinese system".
"If the last five years have proven anything, it's that it is going to be futile to try to break Australia away from the US-led alliance system," Professor Medcalf told The Australian.
"We're more firmly and bipartisanly embedded in that than we've ever been."
The strident comments from Beijing underline the limitations on China's new ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, who has said he wants to improve the ?fractious bilateral relationship.
On arrival in Australia in late January, Chinese President Xi Jinping's top envoy in Australia said he wanted the two countries to "look into the future" and "meet each other halfway".
Over the past fortnight, Mr Xiao has met separately in ?Canberra with iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest, former foreign minister Julie Bishop (in her role as chancellor of the Australian National University), the Business Council of Australia's China head Warwick Smith and Australia China Business Council president David Olsson.
The Australian has been told Mr Xiao was "highly professional" in those meetings. His diplomatic efforts, however, were offset by a People's Liberation Navy vessel that shot a laser at an Australian plane and China's tacit support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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#15271334 at 2021-12-29 06:42:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #20 - INSURGENCY Edition
Defence ticks Chinese lease of Darwin Port
JOE KELLY - DECEMBER 28, 2021
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A Defence review has found there are no national security grounds sufficient to recommend a government intervention to overturn the controversial 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin to Chinese company Landbridge.
The review is understood to have disappointed China hawks who were hoping the review would trigger a reversal of the ?decision and allow the government to unpick the lease arrangement, an outcome that would deepen tensions with Beijing at a critical moment of growing strategic uncertainty and great-power rivalry in the Indo-Pacific.
The Australian has confirmed that the national security committee of cabinet has considered the review it commissioned to ?re-examine the 2015 agreement under which Landbridge won the bid to operate the port in a deal worth $506m.
Given there was no formal recommendation from Defence for a national security intervention, the NSC has taken no action to this point. While the government is still reviewing the matter, the position of the Defence Department makes any decision to overturn the port lease more politically challenging.
Multiple sources informed The Australian that ?Defence had not given the government the justification to liquidate the Chinese holding over the asset in the strategically critical northern reaches of Australia, despite a historic ?deterioration in the bilateral relationship with Beijing and the emergence of new conflicts across the trade, geopolitical and security realms.
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has pushed the review and taken a stronger stand against China than his predecessors, ?recently warning that it would be "inconceivable" for Australia not to join the US if there was a conflict with Beijing over Taiwan.
Speaking in Darwin earlier this year, Scott Morrison said the lease of the Port of Darwin was "undertaken by the former Territory government and it was not a lease that was approved by the federal government - it was not".
The Prime Minister said that as treasurer he made changes to ensure that future transactions would be subject to approval from the federal government given there was, at that time, no basis on which the lease could have been vetoed. He also gave an assurance that his government would only act in relation to the Port of Darwin "if there is advice from the Defence Department or our ?security agencies that change their view about the national ?security implications of any piece of critical infrastructure".
"You could expect me as Prime Minister to take that advice very seriously and act accordingly," Mr Morrison said.
Businessman and former Howard government minister Warwick Smith, who has unparalleled ties into China, warned that any decision to unpick the lease arrangement without the explicit endorsement of Defence would be seen by investors as a "totally and completely gratuitous step".
Mr Smith told The Australian that, over the past 2? years in his capacity as the chair of the international engagement committee of the Business Council of Australia, he had met with the heads of Defence, Home Affairs, ASIO and ASIS, and that none had identified the Port of Darwin as a "high-priority issue".
"It was subject to Defence ?consideration at the time," he said. "They went through it in ?detail. They found a lease ... It was a reasonably good return for what was a basically low level piece of port area.
"My view is that defence have probably come to the right conclusion. National security concerns have changed over the last five years, and I appreciate that. But there's not a lot to be gained by picking apart a port lease like this when there are other ?investments taking place in our country.
"It doesn't gain on the security side. It unpicks a commercial ?arrangement that sends a negative signal. I don't think it's the wisest thing to do right now."
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#10450096 at 2020-08-28 08:41:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
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Mr Andrews last year signed-up to President Xi Jinping's BRI program, which is used as a vehicle by the Chinese Communist Party to expand Beijing's soft power reach in the region. The BRI deals have raised alarm bells in intelligence and security agencies amid heightening levels of Chinese espionage and coercive influence.
Victoria's BRI framework - deepening co-operation on infrastructure, innovation and trade development - is expected to be one of the first major agreements to fall under Mr Morrison's Foreign Relations Bill, which will be tabled to parliament next week.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan accepted that foreign affairs was the responsibility of the commonwealth and said his government had conducted an initial audit of agreements that had identified a 2011 memorandum of understanding with Beijing signed by Colin Barnett.
Mr McGowan said WA - Australia's resources powerhouse - must be allowed to pursue economic arrangements with key trading partners. Mr Barnett, the former Liberal WA premier who signed the agreement with China's powerful National Development Reform Commission in 2011, described the government's proposed laws as "very poor policy" and "divisive".
"The agreements that Western Australia has had (with China) have always been centred around economic development and goodwill," Mr Barnett said.
"If it becomes in place, it will set a whole new layer of bureaucracy in economic development. It's a real threat to the resources industry. The commonwealth has not handled the relationship with China well over the last decade. It's a very poor approach."
Warwick Smith, the nation's leading business broker on China, backed the government's initiative and described it as "common sense" given the "plethora" of agreements in place between Australia and China.
"To have some standards ... and accountability for all of those things - they won't just be with China - would be really beneficial to enable us to be much more directed as a nation in maximising soft diplomacy benefits which assist our long terms agendas and our trade diversity which is a continuing objective," Mr Smith said.
Anthony Albanese recommitted federal Labor not to signing up to China's BRI and said the opposition would examine the government's legislation next week.
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus labelled Mr Morrison's push to veto foreign deals with state governments as "Trumpian" and a distraction from the government's role in the sale of the Port of Darwin to a Chinese interests.
Liberal state leaders - including South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein - flagged support for the federal government audit into deals with foreign powers.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/daniel-andrews-eyes-wide-shut-on-chinese-spy-threat/news-story/9e5f741b8a47c25555eecc4fa2d8bf13