What 'Journey to the West' can teach us about the deceitfulness of the CCP is very simple. And we have no need at all to blame the Communist Chinese.

The answer is very close to home actually, without repeating the obvious!

Dan

Holy du ma. You mean we didn't know the CCP was the du ma, deceitful king of the universe? And means we cannot ever again trust this economic giant with anything, except an infinite capacity to deceive and betray contractual trade agreements etc!

Serves us right for allowing others to call the tune as our various parliaments' sort to sell our economic sovereignty/manufacturing base down the river!

A situation that neds to be completely reversed via the embrace and adoption of nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry!

The Morrison government heading for the knacker's yard and if it would survive, needs to get off the fence and onto, stated nuclear energy policy! Then it would finally stand for something!

And that nuclear energy could be owned and operated by government-financed and facilitated, regional co-ops and carry no profit demanding passengers If we would get the biggest bang for the economic buck!

One of my earliest lessons was, if you poke a stick into a hornet's nest? Then you need to run like the blue blazes afterwards! Or if you would rattle an enemy? Then use a fifty cal at long range, as the officers passed under it, as the stick. The big red ones sting like a singer sewing machine and if there are hundreds going for it, you lose all composure, dignity and respect? Albeit, a surefire cure for constipation! "Bombs away Hosa" Boom boom.

Or as we've done the allegorical poking hornet's nest? Then need to also need to run like allegorical, blue blazes afterwards. Which in our case, is the ultra-rapid rollout of nuclear power/nuclear weapons/ and a resuscitated manufacturing sector on steroids.

Can't died in a cornfield over a century ago!
Alan B.

We never needed an investigation into the "true source" of the virus. And the consequences are not just "akin" to an "act of war".

That the virus was created in the Wuhan lab is becoming increasingly clear. What's unclear and what will never be made clear was the purpose in creating it (science or a weapon?), how much the US funders of the research knew about it, and how the virus got out of the lab.

What we can say with near certainty is that the CCP hide a lot of information about the virus in the critical period between the release of the virus from the lab (perhaps around mid-November 2019) and the end of January when it finally became clear the virus could be transmitted human to human. That, combined with their cavalier approach of allowing people to leave Wuhan for all points around the globe when they knew it was contagious is beyond belief and something only done by regimes more concerned with their status than with lives.

As with so many other gross acts of inhumanity such a Tienanmen, the Chinese apologists (both paid and ideological) will work hard to rehabilitate the regime. I suspect they'll succeed especially given that they have their own man in the White House.

The CCP's reactions to the thought of an inquiry tells us they clearly have something to hide? And that something is likely to be, weaponised pathogens that have been ever so slightly tweaked in a laboratory?

And as the covid 19 mutates as I predicted, become ever more virulent and deadly?

Our leaders continuously slammed communism, but were out there, begging bowl in hand, looking for trade deals, what they could sell and CCP investment money! And so hypocritical as to beggar belief?

Signed us up for trade deals that all but guaranteed the death knell of manufacturing in this country? A situation that needs to be completely reversed ASAP!

And given the only way that can be actually achieved is with a flat tax rate, nuclear power and an electrified economy! Then that is what needs to happen! Even if it means all the old ideological imperatives need to be thoroughly abandoned! Regardless of how unpalatable that may be!

Those among us who can't or won't grasp this particular political nettle, need to look for a new career outside of politics! Or failing that? Needed to be booted out by a finally fully awake electorate!
Alan B.