Tony Abbott seems intent on dealing with China in the same way he once dealt with Malcolm Turnbull, Julia Gillard and raw onions, writes ViscountBrooky | OPINION auspol China
“Beijing has torn-up the ‘one country, two systems’ treaty on Hong Kong; put upwards of a million Uighurs into concentration camps; boosted cyber spying on its own citizens; cancelled popular personalities in favour of a cult of the new red emperor; brutalises Indian soldiers in the Himalayas; coerced other claimants in its eastern seas, and flown evermore intimidatory sorties against Taiwan,” Abbott said.
China regards Taiwan – a democratic island state 2000 kilometres from the Chinese mainland with nearly 25 million people – as part of its territory, and Chinese PresidentTaiwan is excluded from the World Health Organisation and also the United Nations. It competes at the Olympics as Chinese Taipei. after “a flag was raised that did not align with the Commonwealth’s one-China policy” at a performance of the Taiwanese Acrobatic Troupe.
Abbott, who won two Blues for boxing at Oxford University and as a perpetual opposition leader tore down Julia Gillard and Malcolm Turnbull, couldn’t function properly as prime minister without something in front of him to thump.
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