We need to look in the mirror
No wonder China looks at us with contempt.
“… the PRC has a dark history of human rights abuses.”
Before criticising China, and not justifying Chinese abuses, maybe we should get our own house in order. Australian abuses include our treatment of our Indigenous brothers and sisters, the way we treat refugees and asylum seekers, our jailing of people with mental health issues rather than providing medical care, and, most recently, clamping down on those protesting Israeli genocide. Just for starters. I concede that our journalists aren’t muzzled by the government. The Murdoch press has its own ‘useful’ methods in that regard.
Similar fault can be found in spades in the US. One additional point will suffice: the gerrymandering that is endemic in US elections. How laughable is ‘democracy’!
As for this…
“… harassment of US and Australian naval and air assets and the objectionable behaviour of some PRC Coast Guard vessels in the South China Sea …”
Since the sole aim of US and lackey Australian incursions in the South China Sea is to harass and provoke China, we deserve what we get. We have no right to complain.
We should remember people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
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