"The West signed its own death warrant, in effect."

That says it all. Stupid Wetern politicians posing as leaders.

And:

"The Western dupes all fell for the meme that if China went capitalist, it would also go liberal. What idiocy, right there", along with:

The "West's forelock tugging to globalisation theory".

Who should we really blame? China for being what China is, a "big thug"? Or the corrupt halfwits we keep voting for out of habit?

One thing we can do quite easily is to legislate immediatley to stop ex-ministers and top public servants from becoming money-grossing compardors for Chinese corporations, and for all foreign corporations, for a period of five years, as they do in Britain and the USA.
This would also kill the self-enriching syndrome now so well embeddd in our current crop of pollies. One ex-minister as I recall actually acted, when Minister, in the interest of one Chinese corporation. Not sure if any payola was received in due course.
The problem is that many Ministers, taking the cue from their recent predecessors, are probably preparing for the gold that awaits them, right now.
Imagine how Alexander Downer, scion of a dynasty, stooped to the consultant lure of Woodside Burmah. Is money the only thing we care about?
Money, the obession with it, is the poison coursing through our polity.
Corporate China is about making money, making China strong and big, to ward off any attempt by the West to humiliate it with another hundred years of oppression.
As indicated, why are our pollies, our many money-focussed apologists so traitorous?

People are just waking up to the extent that they have been manipulated by the Chinese and their own politicians, bureaucrats and business leaders.

As one Chinese business woman in Sydney was overheard saying several years ago: "Aren't the Australians dumb!" Yes lady they sure are.

Chek

You don't say much here, but when you do, as with your comment, you are exactly on the mark.
Self interested politicians are a curse. There is no historical precedence with the latest group of political swill, as the pathology of greed follows a text long long ago written into their DNA.
There a type. It's a club with exclusive membership.

It can be quite refreshing though, when the club membership is transgressed by the ordinary. Jacque Lambie, Pauline Hanson, Bob Katter, to name a few.

As for China and it's hold over the world, freely given by the above, for thirty pieces of silver; the Mr and Mrs ordinary immediately recognised the danger which has now materialised forty years ago.

Politicians have been aware of the danger of all eggs in the one Chinese basket, equally as long. They are the traitors of this Country on many fronts.

All immigration from China and Hong Kong, should be stopped immediately, while a person by person assessment of every Chinese immigrant is revisited!

Dan

I don't think Albanese could win a two-man race against a bloke on crutches. Nevertheless, for me, China is a key reason that Labor is unelectable.

And I say that as a usual Labor voter. Umm, except for those 30 years after November 1975, when I stayed off the electoral roll in utter disgust.

Good article although the obvious thing omitted was China's cheap energy thanks to Australia. They continue to build dozens of coal fired power stations while forcing our electricity prices sky high while importing their unreliable useless solar panels and windfarms built from Australian materials. You could easily add Turnbull and Bishop to your list of Australian 'enablers'.