In August 2019, blogger Daryl McCann wrote an article titled 'Aussiexit', a take off of Brexit, which was when ordinary people in the UK "put political principle before economic advantage", and voted to take their country back. McCann felt that China posed the same problem for Australia as the EU had for Britain.

Communist China expects Australia to "bend the knee"; it is not a free enterprise country, and it is now more totalitarian than it has ever been. Nobody is safe from Chinese Communist Party brutality, a "homicidal regime", that aspires to silence any voice raised against it. The CCP bluffed our national carrier, Qantas into refraining from calling Taiwan the Republic of China (which Taiwan is called by the Taiwanese). Australian university staff have been asked (by China) to provide their passport details before teaching Chinese students. China 'demands' that critics of the PRC like Liberal politician, Andrew Hastie be silenced. Catholic Australians should know that China forced the Pope to agree with Communist officials choosing bishops in China. In the Pope's defence, he probably feared what could happen to Chinese Catholics if he did not acquiesce.

Now we have the addition of the Chinese plague.

While there would be economic repercussions from distancing ourselves from Communist China, McCann (and a growing number of commentators) think that it is time to "contemplate our own version of Brexit".

Now there's a challenge to mentality !

This covid-19 virus has taken Australia to the point of bankruptcy. There is very clear evidence that this virus originated in China, so this makes China responsible for the economic losses Australia faces. As well as the social inconvenience and lives lost as a result of this pandemic. Australia should confiscate all Property in Australia held by members of the Communist regime, to recover losses.

We should rebuild production lost to China, and boycott product produced by China, and stop all export of product and raw materials to China. They are a ruthless and power hungry despot.

Australian medical supplies and food is being privately shipped to China depleting stocks required here. Medical Staff are purchasing painting masks and plastic suits from Hardware stores made in China instead of the certified medical equipment which is unavailable.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167869/Inside-Australian-factory-packed-coronavirus-supplies-sent-CHINA.html?fbclid=IwAR3VFj0Dpm2grhOxqS_JIHbr8kIo7Qt_dz15lLI3d_o5jP9PXfMCg_a7cCI

China's agenda is to make us totally dependent on them as Big Brother.

China's agenda is to make us totally dependent on them as Big Brother.
Josephus,
Yes and, with the help of wages demands by our unions they succeed !
Anyhow, this is just blame rhetoric which really doesn't get us out of the situation because no matter how much we mention it, people will go for the lower price from overseas rather than support local industry which btw, needs to curb its greed !
Let's start with reduction of immorally high Public Service salaries until a flow-on becomes affordable towards a lower, more competitive salary/wage structure.
Now is a perfect time to start, courtesy of COVID-19 !

Dear Josephus,

Strewth mate you just don't give up do you.

Yes China imported a whole heap of masks from countries like Australia to help through their outbreak now they are shipping out to countries like the US and Australia.

“WASHINGTON — A commercial aircraft carrying 80 tons of gloves, masks, gowns and other medical supplies from Shanghai touched down in New York on Sunday, the first of 22 scheduled flights that White House officials say will funnel much-needed goods to the United States by early April as it battles the world’s largest coronavirus outbreak.
The plane delivered 130,000 N95 masks, 1.8 million face masks and gowns, 10 million gloves and thousands of thermometers for distribution to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, said Lizzie Litzow, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Ms. Litzow said that flights would be arriving in Chicago on Monday and in Ohio on Tuesday, and that supplies would be sent from there to other states using private-sector distribution networks.”
NYT March 29

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