'Blatant irrational behaviour': China slams Australia over foreign interference investigation
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China accuses Australia of "blatantly violating the legitimate rights and interests" of Chinese citizens in Australia, after the Federal Government said it would revoke the visas of two academics and allegedly green-lit ASIO raids on four journalists.

Seriously, our two big-boy best friends have always been China and the US. Now tensions are really coming to a head we're going to side with the failed state of the US? I don't understand anything about foreign policy.

    • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      So we're doing the sunk cost fallacy but for a whole nation? All this sunlight must be wrecking our racist brains.

    • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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      4 years ago

      We denounced the British because they wouldn’t let us be racist enough. (not even joking). Although Australia was one of the first western countries to establish a relationship with China, from Wikipedia:

      As opposition leader, Gough Whitlam visited China in 1971 (before Henry Kissinger's historic visit on behalf of the United States), and in December 1972, after Whitlam's victory in that year's federal election, Australia established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, and Australia ceased to recognise the Republic of China government of Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan. Although Whitlam's decision was informed by warming relations between China and the West generally, especially the United States,

      Australian diplomatic relations with the People's Republic predated that of the United States by seven years.

      • SleepyMarxist [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        We denounced the British because they wouldn’t let us be racist enough.

        Source? Sounds interesting.

        • lvysaur [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I mean it was the same shit with Native Americans, Black Americans, etc.

          The government just wanted the resources, the religious terrorists wanted lebensraum

        • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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          4 years ago

          It was called The White Australia Policy, pretty bad blight on Australian history. It was like the first thing we went against the British on... don’t have a specific source on it atm but here’s wiki:

          The British government in London was not pleased with legislation that discriminated against certain subjects of its Empire, but decided not to disallow the laws that were passed.

          Unfortunately the early labour movement was quite involved in this :( because of cheap foreign labour, although without capitalism there wouldn’t beside strong material causes of racism to begin with.