Dear Critic,

It is clear that you do not like to talk about China and its atrocities.

We have had many discussions about Israel already, and we may have more in future, but that is no excuse to ignore the Chinese-inflicted holocaust of the Uyghur people and even the suffering of the Chinese people themselves under their cruel regime.

P.S. I don't need Al-Jazeera for telling me that Israelis are depressed - I know it first hand, I speak with them. Netanyahu the traitor has destroyed Israel, perhaps irreversibly.

I don't know about Uyghur people in other countries - their circumstances could be different, and you may hate them because they happen to be the enemy of the enemy of your enemy, yet the Uyghur people who are locked up in China are far more depressed than any Israeli - Let them go!

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Dear Paul,

There is nothing wrong about being Muslim.
There is nothing wrong about worshipping God and not Xi (or Putin, or Trump).
There is nothing wrong about sticking with God through thick and thin.
There is nothing wrong about the people of a region seeking independence and not accepting an invading predatory foreign power.
There is nothing wrong about oppressed people wanting to escape to freedom, to where they can freely observe their own religion and customs.

The same is true for China.
The same is true for Russia.
The same is true for America.
The same is true for India.
The same is true for Israel.
The same is true for Australia.

The Communist Chinese circumnavigation of our country is a “foreign challenge”, but the pathetic response to it clearly shows that:

“The assumption still reigns in Australia that military threats are something that happen to other people a long way away and will never come to our homeland. With that belief, we have indulged ourselves in the luxury of merely incremental increases in defence budgets, rather than the transformative investment that is now needed”.

Australia needs to double its defence budget. We need better ability to manage military contingencies in our strategic approaches without depending on the United States.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-needs-greater-defence-self-reliance-and-extra-funding/

Australia needs to double its defence budget.
ttbn,
Better off just recruiting mercenaries in time of need. More skills, more commitment & better everything all round instead of overpaid career military bureaucrats.

"The Communist Chinese circumnavigation of our country is a 'foreign challenge'..."

I don't really care if they sail around our country in international waters pounding their chests.
- But perhaps a sufficient enough deterrent might be some short range nukes if any invasion force ever gets too close;
- if we can even match their missile technology and they don't get shot down.
- or maybe a small fleet of mini-subs to operate within our maritime boundaries to hamper any invasion force.

Beyond that we should stay out of their business and stop provoking them.
- I'd rather we continue doing business with them, because it puts food on Aussies tables.

Hi Yuyutsu,
"It is clear that you do not like to talk about China and its atrocities."
I don't deny that some horrible stuff has gone on with Tibet.
What I'm not sure of is whether or not the U.S had any hand in fomenting dissent to begin with.
As for the Uighurs, no-one has any seen any evidence, it's all narrative, people can be bought to say anything though there may be some basis for criticism.
Take the young girl who spoke about babies in incubators prior to the war in Iraq, it was all lies to the sell the public a war.
The U.S. likes to stir up trouble, and then use it as a pretext to admonish or sanction and intervene militarily.
- It's just how they operate, I wish it wasn't so, a lot of these conflicts are essentially part of the U.S. policy 'Wolfowitz doctrine', maintaining U.S. primacy.

I wonder how many people living in Australia are actually interested in maintaining this Nation as a Western i.e. European Nation ?
My guess is it is no more than half & of that half, half are too indifferent to care until it's too late ! What could possibly be done to change the mentality that keeps so many voting Labor ? They don't seem to grasp that Labor is not Labor anymore !
The Coalition is not much better but better its & with more support & less sabotage, the Coalition can rescue Australia ! Labor won't !