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{ 2009 07 13 }

China umasked

As Glen Milne said on ABC’s show Insiders, when talking about Stern Hu, the Rio Tinto executive who was arrested in China for espionage:
“This is what happens when you do a deal with the devil.”
He also observed: “We keep talking about the “Chinese Government.” It’s not a government, it’s a regime.”
This is the problem. Australia, and the Labor party in particular, has been pretending that the Chinese government is not only benign, but friendly. We treat them as we would any democratic government, but they are not. It seems that large sections of the Western political elite have gotten so used to living in free societies that they don’t understand the benefits of freedom or democracy.

Posted by "daddy" Dave on Monday, July 13, 2009, at 6:36 pm. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Mehaul | July 13, 2009 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

    99% of those under 45yoa don’t understand the ills of Communism. Which explains why this creeping democratic socialism that has such a friendly surface appeal, but dangerous longer term implications is allowed to grow through our multi layers of government in Australia. 9 out of 10 Australians under the age of 35 would struggle to explain cogently, the problems inherent in a communist regime like the Chinese Government. No wonder Rudd blunders on blithely without being called to account.

  2. David | July 15, 2009 at 4:04 am | Permalink

    Indeed, the urban left these days talk about how democracy is over-rated.