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[–]PaxClownicahorses 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

What's the atmosphere like regarding the increased Chinese presence btw?

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

There's always been a tension with regards to Asia at the more populist level of right wing politics. The leader of our One Nation party -- faux Nationalists sort of like UKIP but a bit more populist -- first made her name in Australian politics with her opening speech in Parliament which was, among other things, a warning about the growing Asian impact on Australia. Of course she was denounced by all sides including the Liberals -- our phony 'Conservative' free trade party.

(Amusingly the first time I ever heard a strong anti-Chinese opinion was of all people the great Mel Gibson -- PBUH -- warning of our globalist trade policies towards them.)

The Liberals have always been the party of the middle and upper class bourgeois so given the massive advantages for them in the relationship with an economic power like China they've mostly been incredibly positive or just kept quiet about China. The only reason they're getting any attention from the right is because our PM Scott Morrisson is slightly more populist -- you might even say grug -- in outlook and not from the oligarch wing of the Liberals. The previous PM was a Rothschild banker and believe me if he was still in charge there would be nothing but glowing praise of China.

The left's reaction has been disgraceful. Not just because it's merely a mirror image of what the conservatives do -- i.e. Cons adopt a hostile stance so Labour becomes sycophantic. I keep reading articles in the Ausrtalian press regarding China and by the end of them I find myself wondering if I'm reading the ABC or a CCP announcement. It's sickening. White leftists are even trying to paint the same narrative they are in America and claiming that there's some massive uptick in 'racism' against Asians. It would be laughable if it weren't so outrageous.

[–]PaxClownicahorses 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well it is certainly odd for many Australian publications to treat China as a normal trading partner and not a potential competitor when many online politically conscious Chinese haveopenly expressed extremely negative views on Australia as part of general distrust towards Anglos(though with the advent of American wokeist propaganda this is extending to all “whites”), viewing it as the dumping ground of the English criminals and a rabidly anti-Chinese group of people.

[–]PaxClownicahorses 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From spending time amongst these “wokeist” Chinese on social media you would have the impression that Australian media unanimously is endlessly going on about Uyghurs(though almost no normie has any idea what that is) on a mission to undermine China, and not a topic generally treated with normalcy.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From spending time amongst these “wokeist” Chinese on social media you would have the impression that Australian media unanimously is endlessly going on about Uyghurs

That's just started and is cynical and shallow in my opinion. It's also odd because Tibet -- a cause I actually have always supported -- was a passionate cause of the left once upon a time but now because the right is complaining about 'human rights' in China the left has decided that this is no longer an issue and rather than a real issue the right's dislike of Chinese domestic policy is motivated by pure 'xenophobia'.

As a great Chinese person once said it's all so bloody tiresome. I hate it that no one actually seems to give a damn about anything outside of what it means in the context of their own partisan concerns.

[–]PaxClownicahorses 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It seems the anglosphere right has long stopped talking about Tibet but solely about Uyghurs and Hong Kong.In particular, the Hong Kong protests are widely resented as disrupting the lives of local people, and seen as pro-American traitors amongst the Overseas Chinese(I live amongst them),and they view the anglosphere “right”’s support of Hong Kong as evidence of a conspiracy to undermine China. I have even seen quite a few pro-beijing Hong Kongers go full RAHOWA against white people and egging on the tooting students to riot.

[–]PaxClownicahorses 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It should be noted that the initial protests initially had a lot of widespread sympathy amongst regular chinese due to the local tycoons fucking with the housing market and making it hell for the young people, but that support quickly evaporated upon protesters waving American flags and asking for help from the British and American consulates.