Yes folks, the drinks are on China:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7889101/Grapes-Wrath-Fury-Chinese-investors-buy-wineries-Barossa.html

Looks like it might be a case of China knocking out the local competition.

I bet the pro-China camp on The Forum will be raising a glass of red in celebration tonight for China putting a 200% tariff non-Chinese owned wine imports.

And the pro-China camp like Foxy, Pseudo-Mouth, david f, etc. wonder why I don't like the Chinese.

But underneath these recent actions by China I get the impression that China is looking for a reason to justify an invasion of Australia eg., Australia nationalising Chinese owned farms etc.

Best response Australia can do is start cancelling the visas of all the people China has been settling in Australia over the past several decades and send them back to China.

PS

And ban them from buying any duty free wine on their way out.

Parasites!

Any odds on our government caving in or not caving in under pressure from people making money from China? If they do cave in, it's curtains for Australian. The bullying will only increase. There is no indication that that joke Birmingham is looking for new markets, or that we are going to start manufacturing again.

ttbn,

Don't forget we still have Mr Opinion's 10 point plan to placate the Chinese:

1. Permit Huawei to operate unrestricted in Australia.
2. Rescind proposed federal legislation aimed at preventing Victoria and WA from signing up to China's Belt & Road Initiative.
3. Allow the Chinese to have unrestricted purchase rights to Australian industries and natural resources.
4. Ban Australian media from saying anything derogatory about China's strategic policies.
5. Withdraw Australian military from exercises in the South China Sea.
6. Rescind any alliances Australia has with the US and Japan.
7. Cease commenting on Chinese ambitions for Hong Kong and Taiwan becoming unified with the PRC.
8. Permit free migration for tens of millions of Chinese to Australia and allow them access to Australian business and property markets at a 50% discount.
9. Elevate former(?) affiliate of the CCP Gladys Liu to the position of Leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Australia.
10. Make Soot and the Boys crawl naked on their hands and knees to Emperor Xi and kiss his feet and plead for his forgiveness.

Wouldn't you love to see a bunch of low-life scumbag politicians crawling around naked on their hands and knees in front of Xi and saying "We're so humble, we're so humble!"

And Xi replies: "I'll drink to that!"

Mr. Opinion,

"Wouldn't you love to see a bunch of low-life scumbag politicians crawling around naked on their hands and knees in front of Xi and saying "We're so humble, we're so humble!" ".

I don't care about 'low-life scumbag politicians' or what happens to them. But what about us? What happens to us? Do you really want us to be like a billion plus Chinese who are already crawling around in the dust?

According to Morrison recently, China has done more to relieve poverty than any other country. Me thinks he's trying to worm his way back in, since he put Australia on the outer with the Chinese.