• ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Meanwhile Australia is buying $400 billion ‘worth’ of nuclear submarines while the Prime Minister is going to China to try and sell lobsters at a market stall or something

    https://twitter.com/qingqingparis/status/1721097724509229254

    (About half the leaders of Australian states have also visited China in the last month, probably because the US is too busy with Ukraine and Israel to scold Australia too hard)

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      8 months ago

      It’s honestly hilarious, they are like few months away from writing short letters “Help president Xi, i’m being held hostage by US government and forced to sabotage politics of my own country”

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        8 months ago

        The second largest state signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative and the federal government had to introduce laws to ban it

        Incidentally a year before that the federal government tried to sign a cooperation agreement on BRI and keep it a secret

        The Turnbull government has refused to release an agreement it signed with China covering the controversial “Belt and Road Initiative” infrastructure program on the grounds Beijing does not want it made public.

        The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has refused to release the agreement under the Freedom of Information Act.