Why would I imagine that prime minister Kevin Rudd is selling us to China?
First up I guess that companies that want to do business in China have to accept the complete authority of the Chinese government now that the Australian PM won't intervene when China takes revenge for business deals it doesn't like. The failure of the Chinalco/Rio Tinto deal was seen by China as a humiliating outcome. Poor China. Poor us, for our PM hid behind the fragile foreign minister who couldn't pick up the phone to talk to anyone. Maybe he finally talked to a middle level puppet. But the outcome of the inactivity is to acclimatise us to China's authority.
Companies dealing with China must realise that those who work for them must accept that they are working for the Chinese government and,m if they show they're not, they will be badly punished. Isn't this the first incremental step in taking over those companies that depend entirely on China for their profits? It means that employees will bend to the demand of Chinese bureaucrats in the smallest aspect of negotiations - for fear of revenge incarceration without charge.
Then there is all the murdering that has taken place in the last few weeks and which hasn't been commented on by PM Rudd. We have to accept that Chinese government style as well. Is this Rudd softening us up. Gee, he criticised them for the Tiananmen Square massacre but then so have everyone on and off over the last few decades: it was nothing new.
I know how to deal with the Chinese bureaucrats and their unnamed secret service. In an attempt to humiliate myself and another journalist they began physically pushing us around. WE PUSHED BACK AND THEY DESISTED. When they refused to open the boot of an official car for me to retrieve my bag I opened it myself. First the number plate fell of, then the boot was unsprung. Finally the bumper bar was disconnected with a kick. Then the PLA turned up in a truck equipped with soldiers equipped with machine guns. I knotted the soft iron radio aerials and departed. My companion was The Australian's Tokyo correspondent. He spoke Mandarin which may have had a small part in my escape? Also they would be humiliated to have a car destroyed as it stood motionless while being attacked by an Australian drinker.
The next evening at a banquet in honour of Jim Cairns I was asked to step outside into the shadows to talk to several members of the secret police. I turned immediately on the invitation and confronted them. They had expected me to run (I didn't have a diplomatic passport) but were struck dumb by my preparedness to take them on. My cheque for some of the damage perpetrated that night bounced. Yes, I was angry because they had executed fifty people (dissidents) in the gutter the evening before our arrival. They boasted of that.
Australia has thrown in the towel as far as China is concerned. It's gutless politicians have stopped telling us the real story. The latest is that we have to allow China's legal system to process the Rio Tinto executives accused (not charged) of spying. They can't say that a petulant China is taking revenge on us for not going ahead with Chinalco/Rio deal. ABC News has given up even mentioning the deal. News has been told the future of our country depends on being subservient (sorry co-operative) when reporting China.
Prime Minister Rudd is hiding behind a cry of let the diplomats work it out. Problem is his training was as a diplomat and he wasn't very good. Diplomats aren't very good at anything but lying in acceptable and subtle ways. They can't comprehend that China is a murderous, ruthless and hypocritical regime. If they did they would have to stand up and begin fighting and abusing their bastard bureaucrats. Problem is they haven't experienced the edge of those who have been treated unjustly.
China is flexing its muscles to test the West. In the last few weeks there have been the North Korean rockets. That country does the bidding of China (see previous posts). Our best line is to for the west is to lock them out for they are vulnerable. They have neglected their people in the west and north west (we've only seen the first prick of the needle there).
Bill Green
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