By James O’Neill*
The new Australian Labor government has cautiously expressed a wish for an improvement in Australia’s relationship with China. This is to be welcomed. It makes no sense to offend one’s largest trading partner. China takes twice as much of Australia’s exports as Japan, the next largest market. Altogether, China takes 40% of Australia’s exports and there is potential for it to take considerably more.
One way to improve the relations would be to forego the hypocrisy that characterises Australia’s attitude to all things Chinese. There are several examples of this. It is true that China banned the import of a number of Australia’s products, including wine, to a total value of approximately $20 billion.
What is completely ignored by the Australian media was that the Chinese ban was a reaction to the Australian decision to ban Huawei from providing any goods or services to the Australian market.
It takes a particular kind of naivete to assume that one can ban a major Chinese export from even competing in one’s market and expect that refusal to go unnoticed or ignored by the country against whom the ban was directed.
Yet that relevant point in the history of the relationship between the two countries has been totally ignored by the Australian media which prefers to treat the Chinese ban as arbitrary and completely unjustified.
The second point of contention is Australia’s participation in the so-called freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea. Australia, and nobody else, is able to point to a single instance of the legitimate passage of civilian ships through the South China Sea ever being impeded in any way whatsoever.
The real purpose of the Australian ships patrolling the South China Sea is to prepare for the day when the United States, with its loyal Australian lackey, imposes a blockade on the free movement of Chinese shipping. The waters of the South China Sea are crucial to Chinese trade, with some 80% of China’s exports going through the South China Sea to their multiple destinations around the world. Australia has no legitimate reason to have its warships in the South China Sea, but again the mainstream media completely ignores this illegitimacy and the vital role the seaway plays in the export of Chinese goods around the world.
The hypocrisy of the Australian position was put into stark relief by the frankly hysterical response to the existence of a Chinese warship in international waters moving south parallel to the West Australian coast, before turning around and returning northwards. Again, none of the mainstream media pointed out the obvious hypocrisy in the Australian position.
A similar degree of hypocrisy was shown in the decision by the State of the Solomon Islands establishing diplomatic relations with China and agreeing that their seaport can be used by visiting Chinese warships on a visiting basis. From the furor in the Australian political class and the media one would think that the Chinese were setting up a military base on Australia’s borders. In fact, there was no agreement for a base, and the islands are 2000 km north of the Australian border. Even if the Solomons had agreed to a Chinese base, so what?
It is a sovereign country and can have whom it likes visiting it and forming whatever ties it likes with other countries. Australia has no power of veto over the decisions of sovereign countries to act in what it perceives as its own national interests.
The Australian Prime Minister has recently left to attend the NATO summit meeting in Spain. NATO’s first two letters are short for North Atlantic. The last time I looked at a map the North Atlantic was a very long way from Australian waters and indeed is not even in the same hemisphere. It is a blatant example of the United States seeking to expand its influence everywhere in the world. Australia is compliant with these ambitions, as represented not only by its attendance at the NATO meeting, but also by its membership of the so-called QUAD (with Japan, India and the United States) but also its latest foray into the United States militarism in the AUKUS agreement.
It has been one of the disappointments of the new Albanese administration that they have slipped so seamlessly into the United States orbit occupied with such gusto by its unlimited predecessors of the Morrison administration.
There has even been speculation after attending the NATO conference in Spain, Albanese will visit Ukraine and meet with their president, Zelensky. Australia’s subservience to the United States was never more clearly expressed than in it joining the war in Ukraine on behalf of the Zelensky government.
That action drew absolutely no criticism at all from the Australian mainstream media which persists in its treatment of that corrupt and despotic government as some sort of hero opposition to Russian ambitions. Completely missing from mainstream media accounts of the war is that Ukraine signed the 2015 Minsk agreement and thereafter totally ignored its obligations under that agreement. This has included the systematic persecution of its Russian-speaking population, whose language has now been banned in Ukraine, and the removal from all libraries of Russian language books.
Two one’s total lack of surprise none of this is reported in the Australian mainstream media which persists in treating Zelensky is some modern form of Democrat striving to save his country from the invading Russian hordes. This democratic darling of the Western media has just banned the existence of two further political parties in Ukraine, bringing the total to nine of those subjected to such restrictions.
In fact, far from being a democratic saviour of Ukraine, he is a puppet, totally controlled by the Neo-Nazi faction that actually control Ukraine, which the Australian government and other so-called democracies of Europe are happy to support.
In recent days the war has taken several steps toward a Russian victory with the Donbass now almost completely under their control and major advances being made in other areas of South and Eastern Ukraine. Europe’s cancellation of its Russian contracts has proven to be disastrously misdirected, with Russia easily finding alternative markets and its rouble being at its strongest point for several years. It is Europe that are suffering the consequences of its own stupidity and they have no one to blame but themselves.
It should be a perfect opportunity for Australia to recognise reality and develop an independent foreign policy. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen and we can expect more of the same mismanagement and misdirection as has been inflicted upon us for the past nine years.
Geopolitical analyst. He may be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com
James, in what capacity will Elbow appear at NATO?
As a supplicant. He has shown by his ill-informed remarks on the Russian war in Ukraine that he is firmly in the American camp.
A clown
Mary , they had a radio competition in Sydney, to give Elbow a fitting namé.
The winner came up with !!
Anthony OVERSEASY. ( Over Sea’s ..e )
Because he is taking so many Over Sea’s Trips.
but WHO oversees Anthony Overseasy??
I have no problem with “all things Chinese”. What I do have a major problem with is the CCP and Australia becoming subservient to them. They have been given all our manufacturing, deep sea ports and want us under their thumb. Have you seen how they treat their people James. They are Godless and have no respect for human rights or commitment to charity. Mind you, despite their suppression, Christianity is growing rampantly in the banned, underground church. Christians are jailed or murdered for going to the popular underground “house churches.
Like I said before James, may your chains sit lightly upon you.
Well said!
The List goes on … we Australians are fed up of being bullied by China and starting to wake up big time! Enough is enough ! I suggest you read the book Silent Invasion by Clive Hamilton!
Yes, well said Richard
On topic but only for those interested and who are time rich …
• Kevin Rudd: Understanding How China Sees the World
I recently listened to the above with an open mind because of the topical title. It was quite intriguing. Kevin Rudd came across as very well informed and erudite – throwing in the odd Mandarin phrase just to let us know how up to speed he is on all things China.
I was somewhat put off by his interjection halfway through the facilitator’s introduction but as the discussion went on I became increasingly ‘sceptical’ as Kevin threw in all the usual canards and ad hominem about China – the [alleged] ‘Tiananmen Square massacre’, the [alleged] ‘genocide in Xinjiang’, the ‘failure of Xi Jinping’ and the obligatory reference to the Chinese ‘regime’.
If all these references and inferences are true and correct then Kevin Rudd is a master geopolitical analyst.
BUT if none of them are true (Tiananmen Square massacre, Xinjiang genocide) then EVERYTHING he says is based on a false narrative and therefore pointless and irrelevant, and he just likes the sound of his own voice and like to chuckle at his own one-liners. You decide.
BTW, I found his easy and familiar reference to Klaus Schwab at 1:58 ‘unsettling’.
Kevin thinks Zelensky is doing a wonderful job standing up to Putin’s aggression and the ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’.
Kevin’s main takeaway centres on highlighting and defending human rights as a cornerstone of Australia’s relationship with the United States [yeah, right!] and that in confronting China we should ‘hunt in packs’.
But perhaps the most insightful take (and I tend to agree with Kevin) is that he sees the China of 2022 under Xi Jinping very different from the China of 2014 in that China has moved more to the left on economic and Social policy but to the right on Nationalism.
Kevin talks about how the ‘democracies of the world’ need to confront this new form of ‘National Socialism’. No wonder the parasites want to hunt China in packs!
I too found Rudd’s speech “unsettling”, and his arrogance! His one-liner jokes re-explained as if we were too stupid to get it the first time. I find him confusing.
He seems sometime to start making sense and then trashes the listener’s intelligence like a school-yard smart-alec. It always makes me step back and feel like I’m being conned, no matter what he just said. Is this a bad habit he has learned from his critics and then “reflects” it back, like “I can do this too”?
Every now and then, someone can come up with a good idea, but that doesn’t mean that every one of their subsequent ideas are going to be good.
I think the other ALP heavyweights hate him because he’s a capitalist !!! He got the wife into the privatised CES offices and she walked away with $200 million.
Nyet Komrade Nyet Nyet Nyet !!!
Other than that he made sense half the time, which is probably above party line average.
The opening paragraphs overlook some inconvenient facts
i) the CCP was clamping down on exuberance, people were eating too many lobsters, all the luxury had to go, and the lockdoen of Shanghai and wherever is part of that clampdown. The CCP understands our foreign policy is run from Washington and London. The ceremonial banning of luxury items is pure theatre, not to be confused with reality.
ii) It’s claimed 40% of Australian exports go to China, how much of this is iron ore, let’s say half, and they buy it from BHP or Rio, because it probably costs more from Vale (Brazil).
iii) the hysteria about CCP navy boats is typical on all sides, most recently Australia has been launching super-fast US-built space rockets while our media panics about North Korea’s small and slow ones. If the CCP or NK broadcast anything about that, it will probably be hysterical in tone.
North Korean TV is a hard act to follow.
The above (1 min), AFP no doubt wants to collect the ad revenue
For the 2nd half of the feature story, most people are happy to swallow the evening fake news that Monka Zelenskyy is the good guy and he needs the weapons for his Azov Nazis but that is underpinned by the fact that we in Australia don’t really care. The Azov Nazis have nothing to give Monika apart from nasty false-flag stunts, but Princess Ursula of the kingdom of Swabia can get him all sorts of promises, wonderful promises which are reinforced with visits by such dignitaries as Elbow, who is trying to chicken out at the moment, possibly will catch Covid-19™ at the last minute.
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If Australians want to restore national sovereignty and prosperity, we need eventually to end trade altogether and replace this with manufacturing. Imperialism needs trade in order to manipulate economies and punish recalcitrance with sanctions.
Whatever gushy posivity O’Neill wants to direct at China, entirely ignores the buy-up of premium arable and residential land, the destruction of our manufacturing, the espionage grade quality of Chinese industrial imports, and the imperial invasion of WA. China is our enemy, as is the US.
But I do understand O’Neill’s failure of analytical clarity because he is a “believer”, a fatal flaw, as exposed by his disappointment at Labor’s behaviour. Most realists have yet to be surprised.
Agreed!
Agreed whole heartedly … never a mention of energy or manufacturing independence but….
allow net zero lunacy to promulgate while exporting 100 billion dollars of coal to CHINA.
It may be time to Storm the cockpit….
Took elderly mum to eye hospital in Macquarie st. to see specialist with booked appointment. At the front desk was a man who barely spoke English, couldn’t even figure mum’s appointment card. In the waiting room over 20 people, with one young doc barely graduated seeing all there. With each patient, he would consult with the head ccp senior nurse in next room. All the nursing staff were African, Indian and Chinese. After three hours waiting, my mum gave up and said, ‘let’s go”.
If you haven’t lived under communism, don’t worry you’re living in it now.
We are no longer in control of our country – if you believe the result of the recent Federal Election was legitimate and above board, then you, as an Australian, did not pay attention as to what has been happening over the past three years, and previous decades of media manipulation toward the promoting of the political duopoly..
I will put it to you, to sort out for yourself, the fact of what we are now facing as a nation. We are currently, and due to the recent fake Federal Election, now in a period of interregnum – and if you don’t know what that means – then I would suggest you look it up in an encyclopedic dictionary as to its meaning because that is where we are all now standing.
The current Federal government is illegitimate and was signed off on, by a Governor General who is completely in the fold of the New Word Order.
I look forward to any comments.
Mainstream media and big net sites serve as propaganda arms of a government controlled by banksters and corporate behemoths.
The actions here past three years, constitute a most repressive form of fascism, one step short of pure communism. Who benefits? When even your own family won’t listen and rather believe all the lies fabricated.
ant56 – Truth is in the eyes of the beholder – as is taught. Problem is though, and with many today, is that Truth no longer means anything if it contradicts what they have been indoctrinated into believing.
Hence, many will need to be shown what Truth really is, and as the weeks and months pass, much revelation will be made available to the point that even the deaf, dumb and the willfully blind, will have to make a choice as to where they stand.
I have members of my own immediate and extended family who simply refuse to even consider, what the last three years was all about and what kind of impact it has had on them? How is it possible to break into that kind of mindset?
Things are changing rapidly!
I can guarantee, that what is fast approaching, and cannot be stopped, will cause many to at least pause, and to consider their position in this world – and that is key to how many will either eventually fall by the wayside or prosper into a New World.
You have to put them onto the media they can relate to, there is plenty to choose from, you can find someone for any demographic, anyplace on the political spectrum, anywhere on the economic scale, and tell them the videos don’t have ads !!! Unlike spewtube. You just have to target them precisely.
As for the perverted election results, Clive Palmer is taking some matters to court, join UAP for emails. Everyone in WA hates Clive palmer thanks to McGollum brainwashing so take extreme care recommending CP to the brainwashed and blindly prejudiced. Pauline Hanson has also had the treatment, the message is lost with all the shit flung her way. The easiest way to prove the governments are corrupt is simply the Ivermectin story.
For a medical angle check out
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505114/
Note: .gov is restricted to government agencies
Joe – thanks for your input but it is my experience that it is easier to con folk than convince them that they have been conned.
What is coming everyone’s way cannot be avoided. It can only be dodged by those who will refuse to acknowledge what is before them.
Poor James,
Who does not realise that the Washington district of Cumbria is not a entity of the United States of America, but a mere incorporation.
The incorporation of Columbia is a bankrupt corporation that includes Australia.
So James, as a tease, who really owns Australia?
You are the brilliant foreign guru , please explain😂🤡😂🤡💁
Serbian flag on top of White House yesterday.
An annual ceremony every year since 1919 commemorating assassination in Sarajevo 1914. No surprise, US taken in 1913.
Commemorating the end of the 2nd Reich.
You’ll like this – on the theme of all wars are bankers wars … featuring Peter Hammond
• Why Stephen Goodson Was Murdered
https://archive.org/details/why-stephen-goodson-was-murdered
See around 4:00+ in particular
It’s true the British did wonderful things with companies for many hundred years. They seem to team up very well. How about the barons / magna carta / house of lords, who rubber stamped the Brexit when Boris got it past the communist Labour party. I would say it’s better to get the hell out of Princess Ursula’s rule from Swabia. The house of Lords seemed to think so even if Charles the 3rd doesn’t really. So who gives the commoners a better deal, the local real estate developers, or the Europe equivalent of the CCP ? I would guess the former, though Princess Ursula and even Klaus Swab himself, try to make their product sound better.
Ned, per Article I, sec 8, clause 17 of the parchment, or, if you prefer, the perchment, there is no requirement that the capitol of the US be situated where it presently is.
It merely has to be no bigger than ten square miles. The land for it has to be ceded by a state. I have, in the past, recommended relocating it to Joplin, Missouri, which is geographically central.
Try KISS, keep it ‘simple stupid.’
No way To expect anyone to understand what you report.
Ned, are you referring to my recent articles, or to my explanation of the positioning of the US’s capital city?
The comment!.
I think I know what you are referring to with the references ….. e.g. ten sq miles, but many (most) would not have a clue.
Norfolk Island | History, Population, Map, & Facts | Britannica
In 1913, under the Norfolk Island Act (effective 1914), the colony became a territory of the Australian commonwealth, but the precise constitutional relationship with Australia was never the subject of complete agreement. An airfield constructed on the island during World War II gave Norfolk a link with the outside world.
https://norepublic.com.au/norfolk-island-and-the-constitution/
There used to be some stories that it was going to be moved to Mar-a-Lago.
Some would like to think it already has !!!
Australia should move the capital to Townsville and make Bob Katter PM.
Then Kim could nuke Canberra, all good.
The radiation goes away after a few years and wombats will take over again.
Joe – great suggestion! And you’d be correct concerning Mar al lago. There are currently two Presidents running the U.S.(Serbian blind woman’s prediction from the 1990’s) but only one of them is the real President in control.
Enjoy the show.
Australia continues to make wrong decisions across the board, I fear.
For those who like a rant…
I came across this video, which backs up a feeling of mine that the recent spate of gambling ad’s here in Oz are reprehensible. Not only do they encourage individual gambling, but to invite your”mates” and WORK “mates to get hooked-up with you. Sick! Some of which star the suspect below. (or his deepfake,) Enjoy.
https://www.brighteon.com/eb30a913-7b77-4c72-9e45-7c5ba452f8c0
The latest MainStreamMedia outrage / sensation (from yesterday) set to be quietly debunked
https://nationalfile.com/secret-service-agents-to-respond-to-j6-committee-testimony-about-trump-outburst/
Indians are the meat in the sandwich and they are asking: if NATO doesn’t protect Ukraina then what are they doing in the Indo-Pacific ? and the answer is: There is “Article 5” which says if one country is attacked then all must act, so if the US is “attacked” in the Indo-Pacific then everyone is in.
Australian Foreigh Policy: Australia doesn’t have a foreign policy, I’m not sure if puppets have ANY policy.
Here’s the puppet health minister giving a review contract to Jane Halton !!! the go to person for everything, Gates minion for Australia, not even a corporate entity, just “Jane Halton” !!!
Yes she will quickly conclude you should inject your infants with boosters etc.
Implications extend further to universal mandate and so forth.
Prepare to fight or die !!!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-30/federal-government-launches-covid-vaccine-deal-review/101196650
Robt Kennedy jr on why they need to inject kids (1 min)
https://truthtube.video/watch/robert-kennedy-jr-highlights-the-reason-the-vaxxine-companies-are-going-after-approval-to-inject-ch_IPPdJAHv26xDj7Q.html
As Israel, Turkey and the US continue to deliver Bombs and Terrorist to Syria, China is delivering Buses.
• Another Batch of 100 Public Transportation Buses Gifted from China to Syria
https://arabisouri.wordpress.com/2022/07/01/another-batch-of-100-public-transportation-buses-gifted-from-china-to-syria
Cunning bastards !!
Xi calls for jointly fostering global development partnerships
Xitler !!
Those Nationalist Socialists!!
President Xi Jinping hails Hong Kong’s innovation, technology development
Pride first deadly sin of mainstream Jewish media
Taiwan is saying if the CCP comes in as they did in HongKong, they can destroy Beijing and 3 gorges dam. Playing this card should put the CCP back in its box for a while.
Everything goes back to Rome, including the jewish diaspora
I was never much interested in the jews but this is a basic overview:
Rome’s Treatment of the Jews
In 63 B.C., the Romans conquered Judea, the land of the Jews. Rome immediately recognized it had a problem because the Jews refused to pay homage to Roman gods. Rome gave in and exempted Jews from this requirement. Rome did this in part because the Jews had helped Roman general Julius Caesar win an important battle several years earlier. Soon Rome recognized Judaism as a legal religion, allowing Jews to worship freely.
But Rome viewed the Jews with suspicion and persecuted them on several occasions. One of the most serious conflicts between Rome and the Jews began in Judea in A.D. 66 when Nero was emperor. The Roman governor of Judea unwisely decided to confiscate a large sum of money from the treasury of the Great Temple in Jerusalem. He claimed he was collecting taxes owed the emperor. Rioting broke out, which Roman soldiers ruthlessly suppressed. This, in turn, enraged a nationalistic group of Jewish revolutionaries, called Zealots, who massacred the Romans in Jerusalem and attacked Roman troops elsewhere in the Roman province.
Nero sent three legions to put down the rebellion. By summer of the year 68, Rome had restored its control over most of the province. Two years later, the Romans retook Jerusalem and destroyed the Great Temple, the center of the Jewish religion. Fighting continued for a few more years until the Zealot fortress at Masada fell.
Following this revolt, Rome tried to prevent further uprisings by expelling Jews to different parts of the empire. But Jews rose in two more unsuccessful rebellions. The first took place in 115–116 in several Mideast cities. The second took place in Jerusalem in 131 when Emperor Hadrian announced he would build a shrine to Jupiter on the site of the destroyed Great Temple. After crushing these challenges to their authority, the Romans dispersed Jews throughout the empire. But Judaism remained a legal religion and Jews continued to enjoy religious privileges.
https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-13-4-b-religious-tolerance-and-persecution-in-the-roman-empire
More stuff about Roman times
https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-most-outrageous-thing-a-Roman-emperor-ever-did