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As Australia-China crisis intensifies, it’s extremely dangerous that PM
believes he’s doing ‘God’s work’ (remember Blair & Iraq?)
By Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose
work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the
Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.
Australia’s crisis-ridden relationship with China continues to spiral out
of control as Prime Minister Morrison appears to believe that by provoking
Beijing he can divert attention away from domestic political debacles.
Early last week, Australia’s top public servant Mike Pezzullo and Defence
Minister Peter Dutton engaged in some ill-advised and inflammatory
warmongering against China – summoning up “the beating drums of war” and
warning of an imminent military clash.
A couple of days later, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that his
government would spend US$580 million on upgrading military bases in
northern Australia. This was ‘not aimed at China’ he said –apparently
with a straight face– it was simply designed to bolster Australia’s ties
to America and “pursue peace.”
Beijing’s reaction to these developments has been swift and predictable:
China’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs condemned Pezzullo as a “troublemaker
” and his comments as “extremely irresponsible.” |
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