runner,

Do get the feeling that the average Australian citizen has been conned and that it is the average Australian citizen who will pay the price for the ineptitude of the dishonest and untrustworthy politicians, bureaucrats and business people who have selling us out to the Chinese over the past 30 years?

Globalisation was not China’s invention. It was born from the greed of Western corporations who saw huge profits to be made in exploiting cheap overseas labour. The fact it’s brought about the demise of Western manufacturing is not China’s fault. It’s the price of our own greed and stupidity.
The US and the UK are by far Australia’s largest foreign investors. Chinese investment in Australia comprises a mere 2%. There is no risk whatever of Australia being bought out by China.
It was John Howard who saw profit in overseas students and ramped up their numbers, as he did in bringing in cheap overseas labour. The influx of Chinese students resulted through Australia wanting to capitalise on the high fees we charged them, not through any predatory action on China’s part.
China is not the military aggressor the world needs to fear. How many countries has China invaded? It hasn’t used largescale force in four decades. It has a few military bases. The US has around 800. It has 400 surrounding China. It sends its ships and drones into Chinese territory with impunity. And we have the nerve to threaten China over its understandably defensive build-up in the South China Sea.
There’s a lot of irrational and hysterical anti-Chinese fear-mongering reverberating around in this quaint little echo chamber!

Labor is looking rotten again, with one of its multicultural politicians being raided and investigated by ASIO for his suspected ties to China, pretty much proven by his recent pro-China rant.

Bronwyn,

You are wrong about the origin of globalisation.

It actually started in 1571. And China was one of the two principal players in its beginnings.

Western capitalism didn't take off for another two centuries.

China's annexation and militarisation of the South China Sea is an act of predatory expansion. It was not done to extend China's defence system.

China has been using non-military forms of taking control of other countries: cyber hacking, the One Belt Initiative, collaborative politicians, bureaucrats and business people, and what might be a rudimentary biological device if the WuFlu turns out to be genetically modified SARS (which I heard is the case.)

Your comments beg the question Why are you apologising for China? Are you Chinese yourself or in the pro-China camp like some others on OLO like LOUDmouth, maze, Shadow Minister, etc?

Bronwyn,

Did you see this news item:

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/bizarre-moment-a-journalist-for-chinese-state-owned-media-sparks-a-scuffle-at-prime-minister-scott-morrisons-press-conference-in-canberra-before-suddenly-disappearing/ar-BB160DGF

Is this an example of what you say is "a lot of irrational and hysterical anti-Chinese fear-mongering"?

In this particular case it seems it was alright for Chinese journalists to take photos of Australian journalists but not alright when the Australian journalists turned the cameras on the Chinese journalists.

I think you need to take a reality check.

Hear, hear and well said, Bronwyn. And my Eurasian kids say thank you. Some of the nicest people I know and some of my very best friends have been and are Chinese.

Was laying in a hospital bed, with a broken wrist, broken femur and five spinal fractures. Couldn't feed myself for quids. when a Japanese Lady visiting her husband came over and without being asked, lifted my head and fed me.

Others assisted financially when I was in a hole and others assisted me in my, Mature age student, studies. And the set of help that came without hesitation! And impossible to forget!

Asians are not better nor worse than any other culture, just some of the leadership is a bit ordinary! Or just dumb!

The virus showed us the way forward, and a safer freer world by cooperation and helping when we can!

We've had two world wars and there were only losers! Confrontation between nuclear-armed opponents, is a zero-sum game. Even so, we need to be a nuclear power to assure mutual destruction on the part of any who think we can be taken in a nuclear attack.

As long as there are nuclear weapons, this should be part of our rational until we start to burn up all the weapons-grade plutonium in the world, in MSR's And as we do so, usher in a thousand years peace! And unprecedented, universal prosperity.

Always providing we can eliminate the predatory parasital drones from our economic models, who are served by the some old, same old business as usual and greed is good, individualism.

I use Grammarly because My eyesight isn't what it was. Ok?

Hasbeen. I shouldn't worry old chap, it's not you paying for any of it, or even your current income stream, just future, as yet unborn generations!
Alan B.