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A wonderfully Aussie take on affairs!

Here's a sample of why China resorted to 'coercion':

Canberra paid anti-China think tanks to spread false reports and peddle unsubstantiated allegations about Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Canberra funded investigations into so-called 'China infiltration' designed to manipulate public opinion against the country.

Australian police made pre-dawn searches and conducted reckless seizures in Chinese journalists' homes without charge, explanation, or apology.

Australian politicians made repeated, false allegations about Chinese cyber attacks. 

Australia condoned and repeated government-funded NGOs' outrageous condemnations of the governing party of China. 

Australia shrugged off hundreds of racist attacks against Chinese and Asian people.

During a riot started by US and Taiwanese agents in the Solomon Islands, Australian officials told Solomons PM Sogovare that they would not protect Chinese infrastructure projects.

When an Australian politician, Shaoquette Moselmane MP, repeated the WHO’s praise of China’s Covid Zero, forty police arrived at his home and stayed for 13 hours. They brought sniffer dogs, took hair and dust samples from his car, searched the car engine and door rubbers, had a helicopter hovering and raided his parliamentary office, and froze the Moselmane family’s bank accounts. Minister of Defence Peter Dutton told a reporter, “You can’t have an allegiance to another country and pretend to have an allegiance to this country at the same time”. No charges were ever brought against Mr. Moselman, nor apology made to his terrified family.

Australia stigmatized normal cooperation and imposed restrictions, like the revocation of Chinese scholars’ visas – which caused a scandal in China

Australia launched intimidatory predawn searches and reckless seizures of Chinese journalists’ homes and properties without charge or explanation.

Australia’s national lab, the CSIRO, told staff it will not renew its climate research partnership with the Qingdao National Marine Laboratory, following an assertion by ASIO’s Mike Burgess that ocean temperature modelling could assist submarine operations against Australia (a decision met with robust criticism by Australian scientists).

Read the whole list here: https://herecomeschina.substack.com/p/what-australia-did-to-china-c64?sd=pf

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