Warwick Smith has resigned as chairman of the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations, which replaced the Australia-China Council, as government officials clash over China's response to the coronavirus.
The entire world has suffered grievous injury at the hands of China's evident negligence in allowing the virus to proliferate, and its utter venality in buying up protective gear all over the world, reselling some at enormous profit when the rest of the world caught up to the realization of the severity of the outbreak.
The only foreign actors that would defend China are its bought and paid for toadies in NGOs and foreign lands.
For millennia, China's foreign relations were built on the ideology of tribute, in which China was supreme and other nations were allowed to trade with it by offering tribute to the Chinese emperor, who graciously would reciprocate by offering goods back to those who understood their place in the hierarchy below China.
Western nations demanded and got extraterritoriality, making their citizens not subject to Chinese law and courts, in effect teaching the Chinese that they were as high-handed as China had been in its glory days, but less civilized about it.
While China is skillful in cultivating stooges and infiltrating its agents into foreign countries in critical spots, when it comes to state-to-state relations, it has no clue how to treat other nations in ways that will lead to accomplishment of its goals.
China is badly bungling its diplomatic response to its responsibility for unleashing COVID 19 on the world, and the consequences for its ambition to become the world's hegemon will be profound.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/china_in_diplomatic_hole_over_covid_19_responsibility_keeps_digging_.html
The entire world has suffered grievous injury at the hands of China's evident negligence in allowing the virus to proliferate, and its utter venality in buying up protective gear all over the world, reselling some at enormous profit when the rest of the world caught up to the realization of the severity of the outbreak.
The only foreign actors that would defend China are its bought and paid for toadies in NGOs and foreign lands.
For millennia, China's foreign relations were built on the ideology of tribute, in which China was supreme and other nations were allowed to trade with it by offering tribute to the Chinese emperor, who graciously would reciprocate by offering goods back to those who understood their place in the hierarchy below China.
Western nations demanded and got extraterritoriality, making their citizens not subject to Chinese law and courts, in effect teaching the Chinese that they were as high-handed as China had been in its glory days, but less civilized about it.
While China is skillful in cultivating stooges and infiltrating its agents into foreign countries in critical spots, when it comes to state-to-state relations, it has no clue how to treat other nations in ways that will lead to accomplishment of its goals.
China is badly bungling its diplomatic response to its responsibility for unleashing COVID 19 on the world, and the consequences for its ambition to become the world's hegemon will be profound.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/china_in_diplomatic_hole_over_covid_19_responsibility_keeps_digging_.html
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