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Here’s hoping ScoMo’s new consensus with the unions is not what it appears : Comments
By Graham Young, published 28/5/2020Is Scott Morrison's industrial reform agenda a serious attempt to make industrial change, or is it #ScottyfromMarketing looking for a mechanism which shifts blame away from him if the economy fails to recover quickly?
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Either-or - is that it ? Manicheanism ? Either black or white ? Either up or down ? Either good or bad ? It's interesting that Manichaean monasteries might have been set up by Christian refugees across Central Asia and Western China after 400 AC, and a thousand years later influenced the new Ming Dynasty which overthrew Mongol rule.
Yes, I'm very pro- Chinese people - over sixty years, I have met and known and loved many Chinese people, best mates, the most beautiful and sweet girls, hard workers, none who ever done me down.
And yes, I was a Maoist for maybe twenty years until I found out about the ghastly activities of Mao and the Cultural revolutionists, which coincided anyway with a complete disillusion with socialism, around the mid-eighties.
But no, I do not in any way support the current Chinese regime, in its aggressions against Vietnam and other south and south-east Asian countries, in the south Seas and the North Japanese Sea and against India; in its oppression of the Tibetans and Uighurs and other minorities; in its insidious undermining of governments across central Asia; and of course, in its oppression of its own people. Under the guise of communism and socialism, they have merely reproduced a totalitarian system which benefits its party members.
Perhaps you're too young and/or thick to understand the differentiation between Chinese people and the current Chinese government. Give yourself time, a few decades :)
Joe