AiA wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2021 at 11:23pm:

*And does not apply to arbitrary sanctions designed to cripple the economy of another nation (which has spectacularly backfired), because that nation proposed a full investigation into the origins of a virus that has killed over 4 million outside its nation of origin (and destined to kill many more) and cost trillions in economic loss (and destined to cause the loss of trillions more).

*Does not apply to the coercion of Chinese students studying outside mainland China to spy on student compatriots and partake in breaching their visa conditions by threatening the target students' future or the safety of their family still in China.

*Does not apply to trying to provoke nearly every one of the China's neighbours into reckless retaliation which would be the pretext for an escalation (like Hitler circa mid 1939).

*Does not apply to the coercion of international organisations (like the WHO) to collude with the regime.

*Does not apply to the arbitrary arrest and detainment in 'black prisons' of foreign nationals to be used as hostages.

*Does not apply to chilling messages to foreigners already indefinitely detained, as sent to Australian journalist, Cheng Lei, during Stan Grant's interview with CGTN reporter Liu Xin. Through her stumbling and highly edited interview with Grant, Liu Xin first denied any close association with Lei then sent these messages: "I hope her children are taken good care of [] and I hope and I trust that she'll get a fair trial". Shouldn't it be a given that Cheng Lei's children are taken good care of and that she is given a fair trial? And no doubt that interview will be shown to Cheng Lei to terrify her more than she no doubt already is. One of the most appalling interviews I've seen on Australian TV.

*Many more unmentioned here and many more to come.

Victor Sunny wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2021 at 7:51pm:

Well, wumao, get your regime to come clean on the origins of the virus, offer compensation for the damage the Chinese regime has done to the world, and we'll call it even.

BTW you wumao better have a place to hide when the regime collapses... There'd be plenty of your countrymen whose lives you've ruined who'd like to have a chat with you.

If you are a captive citizen of China and the party politburo asks you to jump, the only correct answer is, ‘How high, Helmsman Xi?’ This applies not only to regular folk but the estimated 320,000 party apparatchiks, including 35 members of the central committee, purged since the rise and rise of Xi in the years 2012-3. Everyone in his surveillance state, from the remotest Uighur farmer to the celebrity billionaire, must kowtow to the greatest maxim of all: You may have the good life but not the free life.

Ren Zhiqiang, legendary Chinese real-estate mogul, was jailed for 18 years in September 2020 after posting a communiqué that described Xi’s handling of the pandemic as clownish. Jack Ma, former executive chairman of Alibaba, has become an ex-person of late though there is no record of him criticising the regime about Covid-19 or anything else for that matter. It was enough that he wanted to be a billionaire on his own terms in a totalitarian hellscape defined by the belligerent paranoia of China’s Red Emperor.

Today most Australians believe the Wuhan Institute of Virology, more specifically its Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory, is the likely source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus because of mysterious gain-of-function research. The problem is not only that a man-made virus has caused the death of almost four million people and devastated countless communities around the globe. Knowing the truth might, if nothing else, prevent the emergence of a prospective SARS-CoV-3.

Predictably, perhaps, Xi Jinping trashed any remaining credibility owing to the World Health Organisation in order to keep us in the dark. His dangerous criminality could turn out to be the gravest cover-up in the history of the modern world.

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Xi’s belligerent paranoia – or something worse – absolutely pervades the Fourteen Grievances, and now the G7 leaders cannot unsee it. It captures as well as any other single document a snapshot of the transmutation of the CCP’s capitalist-Leninism into imperialist-Leninism: Australia may have the good life but not the free life. If we want to sell our lobster, barley, wine, timber, oil, gas, coal and iron ore to the People’s Republic of China, then we will have to shut up about the lab-leak theory and everything else that is suspect about the origins of Covid-19. All questioning of Beijing’s actions equates to ‘outrageous condemnations of the government of China’. The regime could not throw Scott Morrison into jail, unlike Ren Zhiqiang and a host of citizen-journalists in Wuhan, but it could try to destroy our economy and torch our democratically elected government.




North is right - they are thee Third Reich of 1935.

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2021 at 11:32pm:

It's OK, Graps... You can take the credit! I'm good with that! Although it's a bit like arguing 'Who's on first...'.

All imperialist and expansionist potentates prefer moral justification to invade territory, otherwise it's hard to galvanise support within the military, and the people, to go to war.

But the signs were always there from the beginning...

Xi intends to be 'the Great Helmsman' (like Mao, although he intends to eclipse him in ambition) and rule an expanded China as an absolute emperor. Hitler became 'Der Führer',  borrowed from Mussolini's 'Il Duce' and Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili became 'Stalin' and 'Vozhd'.

All had ambitions of territorial gain. Dictators have no choice... Their slogan has to be 'war all the time' or their reason-for-being becomes moot.

To do that, they need to maintain a sense of moral 'outrage' and sense of superiority, imbued into those they rule absolutely, against 'the other' (e.g.. the 'foreign devil', 'untermenschen') under a singular (yet irrelevant) ideology.

Xi intends to cement his totalitarian regime within the next year, which will include: total suppression of any residual dissent, the purging and murder of remaining opponents, a further regimentising and surveillance of the Chinese people, and subjugation of the world (he's like Hitler and Stalin in that respect).

Expect Mao-style purges, more abusive posturing against other nations and the demonising of 'foreigners' - which won't be hard in China as the notion of 'foreign devils' is well established.

Finally, 1935 has another significance... It was the year before an Olympic Games for Hitler, as 2021 is for Xi... If key countries boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics (as they didn't in 1936), it will be a sign to Xi that the democratic world is seriously united against the Chinese regime (this is likely the current motivation for Xi to order his 'wolf wankers' to 'tone it down a bit'; as Hitler and Goebbels did in 1935).

Victor Sunny wrote on Jul 4^th, 2021 at 8:56am:

Venezuelan  bolívars?

AiA wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2021 at 11:23pm:


He does not consider Tibet or Hong Kong another country ?

Or the small nations China has in economic slavery due to 'lending them money', then taking away their infrastructure?

NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2021 at 8:36am:

Seems the ABC (and/or) Stan Grant has pulled the plug on 'China Tonight' after last week's 'effort'.

Bit of a backlash on the interview with Liu Xin, it seems.

Last night's episode was the end.