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Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the State Department Betrays the ReaganVision

Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the State Department Betrays the ReaganVision
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Port of Darwin Lease to Chinese Company 'Unfathomable': Sen. Abetz

Port of Darwin Lease to Chinese Company ‘Unfathomable’: Sen. Abetz
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has welcomed a review into the Port of Darwin’s 99-year lease to a company with strong ties to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), saying it was a “serious mistake that must be rectified.”
This comes amid tense relations between Canberra and Beijing, which sharply declined after Australia called for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 and implemented measures to protect its national interests, including reviewing the port lease.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference following a national cabinet meeting at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on April 22, 2021. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)

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Chinese Lease of Port of Darwin Open to Review: Australian PM

Chinese Lease of Port of Darwin Open to Review: Australian PM
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not ruled out reviewing the controversial 99-year lease of the Port of Darwin to a Chinese-backed entity.
“If there is advice from the Defence Department or our security agencies that change their view about the national security implications of any piece of critical infrastructure,” Morrison told reporters. “We have legislation now which is dealing with critical infrastructure.”
“You can expect me as prime minister to take that advice very seriously and act accordingly.”
Morrison was in Darwin announcing a substantial $747 million upgrade to four military facilities in northern Australia.

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Morrison accelerates China decoupling - MacroBusiness

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It’s the one area of national interest policy in which having a personality-disordered PM has paid handsome dividends. Morrison’s constant diplomatic blundering and habit of gaslighting every human he comes across has delivered Australia an accelerated Chinese decoupling. And thank dog for it! A few more years of sailing down the path of Gladys Liu’s silent invasion and we’d have been lost as Beijing ‘bribed and bullied’ electorates captured the democracy.
Today we are slammed into reverse gear:
The Morrison government has torn up VIC’s Belt and Road agreement on the basis that it compromised foreign policy.

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Australian State Govt's Secret Deal With China Comes Under Federal Scrutiny

Australian State Govt’s Secret Deal With China Comes Under Federal Scrutiny
The federal government has forced the Victorian state government to hand over documents related to a secret deal signed between the state and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that involves the state’s infrastructure projects.
This is the third deal between Victoria and the CCP that the federal government is scrutinising under the Foreign Relations Bill that will see arrangements with all foreign nations at each level of government vetoed if they aren’t in Australia’s national interests.
Signed in March 2017—18 months before the Belt and Road Initiative was signed—the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Victoria and the CCP commits the Australian state to work with Beijing on Victorian infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships (PPPs).

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The Trade Group Driving China's Belt and Road Initiative in Australia: Internal Documents

Trade Group Driving China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Australia: Internal Documents
A pro-Beijing organization in Australia is a driving force behind a decade-long infiltration into the country, including promoting China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government documents reveal.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transcontinental investment project aimed at expanding China’s global influence through political, economic, or cultural cooperation, was first proposed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2013. In recent years, the Australia International Trade Association (AITA) has organized more than 70 visiting tours for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Australian officials.
As an Australian civil organization with close ties with the CCP’s United Front Work and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AITA has launched extensive local events focusing on promoting the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Australian Belt and Road Deal Expected to Be Ripped up in Weeks

Australian Belt and Road Deal Expected to Be Ripped up in Weeks
Beijing’s Belt and Road deal with the Australian state government of Victoria looks set to be torn up in weeks as the deadline for the states’ to inform the federal government of all foreign agreements draws nearer.
Speaking to the Herald Sun, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he saw no benefit to Victoria’s deal with Beijing and signalled that the agreement would be unlikely to stand under the bill.
“If there are benefits, what are they and what was paid for them? I don’t have the answers to those questions at this point, but the assessment of those arrangements will continue,” Morrison said.

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Dan Tehan's daunting new role: restoring trade with China in a hostile political environment

The new trade minister, Dan Tehan, has been handed one of the Morrison government’s most demanding roles. Despite a lot of chest-thumping in government circles about the need to stand up to “Chinese bullying”, Tehan’s task will be to find a way to restore a constructive trading partnership with China in the national interest.
Beijing’s trade reprisals for perceived political slights should not be countenanced. However, there is no useful purpose in overreacting to China’s bad behaviour.
The business community, which has been alarmed by a deterioration in the China relationship, will watch Tehan carefully as he outlines his ideas for engagement.

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The Case for Australia Keeping Victoria's Belt and Road Deal – The Diplomat

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While the dust of Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s overreaction to a satirical image tweeted by a Chinese diplomat – and subsequent rhetorical clashes with Beijing – has yet to settle, another much more pressing challenge has been put on Morrison’s desk. The passage of the Foreign Relations Bill has given Canberra the power to scrap Victoria’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) deal. Will Morrison act on his long-felt and justifiable wish now to ensure a consistent national foreign policy? Beijing is watching, and Canberra is thinking. However, I argue that Canberra needs to keep the BRI deal, at least for now.

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Calls to Scrap China Sister-City Links Amid 'Offensive' Tweet and Recent Trade Tariffs

Calls to Scrap China Sister-City Links Amid ‘Offensive’ Tweet and Recent Trade Tariffs
Recent trade tariffs and an “offensive” tweet by the Chinese regime have prompted calls for Australia-China sister-city arrangements to be scrapped.
The calls come amid the introduction of new federal powers—The Foreign Relations Bill—which will see arrangements with foreign nations at all levels of government vetoed if they that aren’t in Australia’s national interests.
Wagga Wagga councillor Paul Funnell, who sought to terminate his city’s 32-year-old sister-city relationship with Kunming, China in April following the outbreak of the CCP virus, welcomed the federal government’s bill.

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