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As the CCP makes a song and dance about one hundred years of persecuting Chinese peoples, Xi Jinping’s local cohort of useful idiots are hard at it again.
The frame of reference is always the same:
Chinese greatness is inevitable.
Whitlam is the template.
For samples of this today you can see the cadre of China apologists at the ABC led by chief propagandist Stan Grant. Or, James Curren at the AFR. Or, just about everybody in the Australian Labor Party.
I could go through each and unpack the obvious lack of analytical rigour in using an argument from analogy for why we should engage China like Gough Whitlam did. But we’ll let that pass because it’s really beside the point. There is a much larger hidden assumption in Xi’s useful idiot worldview that exposes their arguments as complete falsehood.
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âGiven the popularity of Bruce Pascoe and Dark Emu, and the widespread historical illiteracy regarding Australiaâs First Nations people, much is at stake.â Photograph: Vicky Shukuroglou
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