Letter

In response to Beijing invited me to their special celebration. Here's why I'm happy to go

Bob Carr’s rational approach

Congratulations to Bob Carr for attending the 80th anniversary celebration by China of the end of World War II.

And it’s hardly surprising that Vladimir Putin is attending. Without the Soviet Union, China, we (and the people of Germany, Italy and Japan) might have lost the battle against German, Italian, and Japanese fascism. The Spanish and the Portuguese had to wait well beyond World War II for an end to fascism.

Carr quite rightly reminds Andrew Hastie that only weeks ago Vladimir Putin was in the United States. If you want to solve problems between nations you have to engage, not deliberately not turn up.

— Geoff Taylor from Borlu (Perth)