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Termination of Victoria's Belt and Road Deal Affirms Australia's Soveriegnty

Termination of Victoria’s Belt and Road Deal Affirms Australia’s Soveriegnty
Federal and state politicians from around Australia have welcomed the federal government’s termination of Victoria’s Belt and Road deal, calling it a step in the right direction.
Federal Liberal Senator Eric Abetz, from Tasmania, welcomed the decision telling The Epoch Times that it has given Australia back its sovereignty over its ability regulate its national interests.
“As we’ve seen with Belt and Road initiatives in every other country of the world, it has never been within the interests of that country and has only been in the interests of the Chinese dictatorship,” Abetz said. “And that is why it was right and proper for the former agreement with the Victorian Labour government to be terminated.”

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Crikey Weekender

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Hypocrisy, insincerity and bigotry: not exactly light topics to kick off your weekend, but they’re words that describe how this week went down.
Bernard Keane covered how Prime Minister Scott Morrison tried to distract us all from the dying planet with a dig at “inner-city wine bar elites” (perhaps forgetting there’s a wine bar underneath his own electorate office). The Coalition admitted coal is killing the planet but denied the government had any duty of care for those affected, while Morrison’s campaign for extra funding for fossil fuel power and carbon capture was eaten up by the media.

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Australia must boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

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After months of deliberating on state and territory agreements with foreign countries, the Morrison government finally last night moved to axe Daniel Andrews’ Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with China, announcing that the Memorandum of Understanding and Framework Agreement between Victoria and China would be among four deals canceled under the Foreign Arrangements Scheme.
The other two deals were also Victorian deals: a Kennett government deal with Syria and a Bracks government deal with Iran.
The BRI deals were struck by Andrews after lobbying by a Chinese government-linked foundation — which was itself funded by both the Commonwealth and the Victorian governments. A 2019 World Bank report found that many of the benefits of the BRI would be offset by large debt costs associated with projects, negative net costs for countries where the costs of projects exceeded their benefits, and lack of transparency around project deals. The extensive use of Chinese personnel, rather than local workers, on projects has also been criticised. However, regular western claims that the BRI is driven by a Chinese agenda of “debt trap diplomacy” have been challenged.

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Morrison is right to nix Andrews' China frolic. Now time to boycott the Beijing games

Morrison is right to nix Andrews’ China frolic. Now time to boycott the Beijing games
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After months of deliberating on state and territory agreements with foreign countries, the Morrison government finally last night moved to axe Daniel Andrews’ Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with China, announcing that the Memorandum of Understanding and Framework Agreement between Victoria and China would be among four deals canceled under the Foreign Arrangements Scheme.
The other two deals were also Victorian deals: a Kennett government deal with Syria and a Bracks government deal with Iran.
The BRI deals were struck by Andrews after lobbying by a Chinese government-linked foundation — which was itself funded by both the Commonwealth and the Victorian governments. A 2019 World Bank report found that many of the benefits of the BRI would be offset by large debt costs associated with projects, negative net costs for countries where the costs of projects exceeded their benefits, and lack of transparency around project deals. The extensive use of Chinese personnel, rather than local workers, on projects has also been criticised. However, regular western claims that the BRI is driven by a Chinese agenda of “debt trap diplomacy” have been challenged.

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