Category: paul keating

A Diplomatic Boycott of the Winter Olympic Games?

December 7, 2021
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Commentary The Biden Administration has announced that the United States will not officially participate in the Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held in Beijing from Feb. 4 to 20, 2022. Although the diplomatic boycott means that there will be no official American representation in Beijing during the Games, Team USA will still be able to…

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Republic of Barbados: Politicians’ Coup as Spectre of the CCP Lurks

December 3, 2021
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Commentary Australia’s so-called republicans, and those in the Queen’s fifteen realms, including the United Kingdom, would be foolish to take much solace from the constitutional change rammed through the Barbados Parliament by a political class who are clearly both wary and contemptuous of the their own people. Australia’s republicans tried the same thing in Australia…

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Has Former Australian PM Paul Keating Unveiled Labor’s China Policy Prematurely?

November 15, 2021
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Commentary Hidden behind the usual political headline news about climate policy and vaccine rollouts, the next Australian federal election will decide whether the nation submits to a future of Chinese dominance or chooses to stand on principle and continue to fight for freedom. In the week where we saw former Australian Labor Prime Minister Paul…

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‘Out of Date’: Australian Politicians Rebuke Former PM’s China Views

November 10, 2021
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Liberal and Labor politicians in Australia have rebuked the views of former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, who said Australia had “lost its way” regarding its China policies. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Keating’s views were typical of Labor and that the former leader couldn’t “see things clearly.” Morrison said that his government had “taken…

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Australia’s New Course: Morrison’s Foreign Policy Abandons Former PM’s Asian Pandering

September 30, 2021
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Commentary For decades Australia sold its soul to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in exchange for getting rich on trade. The recently signed AUKUS treaty represents a major foreign policy pivot born of an Australian awakening from self-imposed blindness about the CCP and a recognition that Australians have seen China through rose-tinted glasses for too…

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Australia Weathering China Storm: Treasurer

September 5, 2021
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has given an update on Australia’s economy, saying it has weathered Beijing’s economic coercion and is encouraging businesses to continue diversifying away from the China market. The treasurer’s comments come just days after former Prime Minister Paul Keating wrote a scathing op-ed critical of the Morrison government’s handling of bilateral ties. Frydenberg…

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