While some impractical people are calling for China to be billed for what they and their virus have cost us, what could work is resuming all the land and industries China has in Australia, without compensation. Nationalise them.

It looks like our eventual debt from the China virus will be higher than post WW2. And some of us know what things were like then.

China has reminded Australia who pays the bills!

http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2019/10/01/china-australia-relations/?fbclid=IwAR3q3MmkBtvhFtjrvuWFNOGQxNyU0AOcLEpyPKqnbtqiyRbkIrqkcQ3_vh4

Perhaps China should contemplate what price for lower quality coal they
would be paying if Australian coal was not available.
The ERoEI of their own mines is close to end of economic life.

Hey ttbn,
"The fact that an Australian company was dictated to as to what it called the ROC is not between China and Taiwan; it's between China and Australia."

Well, so what if they were dictated to?
What's it got to do with us whatever some foreigner wants to call the place?
Rename it 'Little Timbuktu' for all I care.
Qantas is a company, an entity not an individual.
It can either service flights to and from Taiwan, or not service flights to and from Taiwan.

What benefit does the average Australian get from Qantas flying to and from Taiwan?
In the interests of trade and tourism it's good we have an Australian carrier, but it matters not to the average Australian.
Trade is valuable though.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/taiwan/Pages/australia-taiwan-relationship

Do you think we should get involved in the political issues between Taiwan and China?
I don't, I think we should just mind our own business there.

"Well, yes they have, because our weak politicians have allowed them that authority."
They probably have their own politicians now.
They could probably take over Tasmania if they all just up and moved there.
Claim independence under UN right to self determination and align with the Chinese Communist Party.

"Nobody is saying that foreigners should get involved. It is just another case of the Chinese Communist Party interfering with a Church and its persecution of Christianity generally. It should be enough for Catholic countries to avoid China."

Fair enough, but if anyone wants to 'do something' about the situation with Catholics in China, then I believe it's the Vatican's job to do so.

"As for it being a matter for citizens, 6.5%, or 90,000,000 of Chinese citizens (Communist Party members) decide everything for 1.4 billion Chinese citizens who get no say in anything.

China is a Communist dictatorship. No voting. No freedom of speech. Disappearances. Executions: China executes more people than the rest of the world combined"

- And made all the more powerful by the West who exported their jobs and manufacturing there.

Ambassador Cheng is reminding us how the CCP bullies and blackmails. We would survive without China, and we need to start practising.

A Labor member of the NSW Upper House, Shaoquett Moselmane, has been accused by also-Labor, Stephen Conroy (who is much more sensible since his retirement) of "pathetically putting out Chinese propaganda". Moselmane described the Chinese Communist Party's response to its own virus and lack of concern for the rest of the world as "decisive" and "emphatic".

Not only is that enemy propaganda: it's a bare-faced lie.

The CCP definitely has a Fifth Column in Australia: some of it in our governments, no less.

Lefty Trump-hater, James Brown, (SMH) felt the need to slag off of the US President yesterday, but he did say that Trump was right to "keep awareness of the origins of the pandemic alive". Brown even described a "cannonade of Chinese Communist Party … propaganda that democratic countries should stand up against". We need to sustain awareness of how China's "authoritarian system" let the pandemic out. It was China's authoritarianism that stymied initial global efforts to contain the threat. Had China acted three weeks sooner, "global pandemic cases could have been reduced by 95%". Statistics from Wu Han are still being manipulated for political purposes. "The dictatorial regime (is) furiously rewriting recent history".

Blaming China for what China did is not a 'white, male, right wing, racist' thing after all