Do not agree.

All nations have the right to express an opinion.

Last thing we want is a climate where countries will shut, instead of calling a spade a spade.

Australia is an important liberal democracy and has every right to raise issues in a world where ideas and principles matter.

Enough of this cowardly talk.

I hope the Coalition continues to put principle before self-interest just because of short-term economic pain.

There is a reason behind all these Chinese actions. Their exports are falling and they must avoid showing a balance of trade deficit. This must be avoided because otherwise they will lose face. The easiest way for them to do this is to play the media of the Western world by saying it is the attitude of other countries which are causing them to add tariffs etc.

You've got to understand the timing of all this. It now seems likely that the US will be led by a man and a team that have been bought and paid for by the CCP.

China now has a free rein to do as it wishes, particularly in what it considers to be its own backyard. No more threats of tariff increases, no more confrontation, no more de-coupling China from the US economy, no more exodus of US business from China.

Indeed Xi was the big winner last month. And they can't wait to flex their muscle and take advantage of their foresight in buying off the 'big guy'.

This is just the start as far as Australia is concerned.

And? We should respond with repeated broadcasts of the Tianimen square massacre. And intell about the Wigan "reeducation" camps. The annexing of Tibet and the bogus claims of sovereignty of huge swathes of the South China sea.

And hit all Chinese imports with a 200% tariff. And make a good start on resuscitating our manufacturing capacity all predicated on the world's cheapest, cleanest safest energy, MSR thorium. And reap a huge harvest of medical tourism, with the almost free byproduct of MSR thorium,i.e., miracle cancer cure alha particle, bismuth 213!

And given the locally invented single-stage steel smelting process use that and hydrogen to make not just green steel but the world's cheapest steel. And produce almost free hydrogen with the ability to crack the water molecule with MSR thorium!

The world's cheapest electricity also means the world's cheapest aluminium. And all the product materials that flow from that. Let's do all that instead of the bootlicking know tow China wants from us.OK?
Alan B.

Anybody who believes tha China and the CCP is superior o an allegedly liberal democracy? Remains free to migrate or return there. We need to cancel some of the things the Chinese have purchased, land, businesses infrastructure, retrospectively!

I'm done with jelly back politicians know towing in our name! I agree with those who rightly claim we were doing all right in the fifties and sixties, before a few pulpit pounding political ideologues who can't lie straight in bed, sold the national soul for the equivalent of forty pieces of silver, to the CCP!

Time to end this charade and reverse back to what we once had and the economic paradigm that ushered in a period of unprecedented, post-war prosperity and made us not just the third wealthiest nation-state but a debt-free creditor one at that! And free if any commercial ties or agreements with China. The spot market bekons! Gas, wine, iron ore and coal, etc-etc! Smary Chrismiss and a chappy new shear, hic.
Alan B

Country girl,

Doubt it. You obviously believe China does not have a planned economy and is subject to the vicissitudes of free market economies.

I think China is trying to provoke Australia into a conflict that goes beyond trade disputes.

I believe China covets Australia as a land bountiful in natural resources where it can transmigrate hundreds of millions of its people and extend its imperial ambitions.

Basically it will just hop over SE Asia and hit Australia in one massive blitzkrieg. It will all be over in a week.

Keep in mind Sydney is for all intents and purposes now a Chinese city. And the joke is that Soot and Dazza's gal want to keep filling it up with more cashed up Chinese.