We don't need refugees from Taiwan or anywhere else. As Taiwan is a democracy in our region, we should do what we can to help it. But, we don't need more people here to add to the great failure of multiculturalism.

Why weaken Taiwan by letting people leave rather than stay & defend the Nation ?

No, we don't need refugees from anywhere and we don't need extra population at all, but accepting them compassionately is the right thing to do.

If we acted only according to what WE need, then what separates us from the animal kingdom and from Donald Trump?

I wish we could help the people of Taiwan where they are, that would be best, but what can Australia do when it cannot even defend its own shores?

Whereas previously we could hope that America will save Taiwan, even then we were not sure that it can, but try at least, now it is clear that the United States of America is not interested in and have no patience for anything away from its shores, that it wants to divide the world in three, conquer its own third and forget about the others.

A tri-polar world, like in Orwell's "1984", would be the best configuration for oppressing the ordinary population, but what can we do when that is exactly what Trump, Putin and Xi want?

Sorry, but why have an ugly massacre compared to which Gaza would look like a rose garden?
Very sadly, Taiwan's fall is now inevitable and an orderly retreat is now the order of the day.
I do so much wish it was otherwise.

that is exactly what Trump, Putin and Xi want?
Yuyutsu,
They want peace & prosperity for the Nations they lead ! If the Woke crap stirrers stayed out of their way they could achieve that !

Dear Indyvidual,

«They want peace & prosperity for the Nations they lead !»

If that indeed is the case, that this trio indeed believes in that "nation" fallacy, then they certainly want their "nation" big, all three of them, to include many more unhappy people who will then "peacefully" find that there is nowhere left they could escape to...

But well, while this may be their rhetoric, I don't think that any of the three believes in that fallacy anyway - they only believe in themselves, actually not even in that, thus they obsessively need to be glorified by others round the clock so they are never reminded of their smallness.

The "Prosperity" they wish for is not intended for their subjects and certainly not for the newly conquered people of Canada, Panama and Greenland (also respectively, Eastern Europe, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Australia), only for themselves, their families and those who lick their bum: Russian oligarchs, Chinese inner-communist-party circle and pervert monsters like Musk (Steve Bannon in Trump's previous term).

«If the Woke crap stirrers stayed out of their way they could achieve that !»

Indeed, once transgenders find that they cannot escape to freedom by swimming across the Saint Lawrence river (since the other shore is USA as well), nor can Ukrainians escape to Poland (since it would belong to Russia as well), nor religious Chinese to Australia, they would draw the only reasonable conclusion and drown themselves instead.

Free Tibet!
Free Ukraine!
Free Hawaii!

they would draw the only reasonable conclusion and drown themselves instead.
Yuyutsu,
Do you really believe millions of people will top themselves because they can't leave to live somewhere else ?
Apparently in 2022-2023 some 700,000 people moved to Australia of which only 1800 work in the construction industry. 51.600 are said to be skilled but we don't get told in what ! Looks like all these migrants are heading for Australia's Nr 1 Highway-Easy Street ! Why not advocate for Australians to go where these skilled come from & show them what a bit of ordinary work can do to build a Nation ?
I agree with the American working class to put their own Nation before any other. I hope the next Federal Election will go the same way here ! Remember, symbiosis not parasitism !