ScoMo Tears Up Comrade Dan's Belt and Road Agreement

[Black Orchid]

The Morrison government has used its sweeping new foreign veto laws to tear up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China, in what the Chinese embassy has denounced as a “another unreasonable and provocative move”.

The foreign minister, Marise Payne, said she would cancel those two deals, along with two older agreements between the Victorian government and Iranian and Syrian entities, because they were “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy or adverse to our foreign relations”.

But a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Canberra said the move showed the Australian government had “no sincerity in improving China-Australia relations”.

“This is another unreasonable and provocative move taken by the Australian side against China,” the embassy spokesperson said on Thursday. “It is bound to bring further damage to bilateral relations, and will only end up hurting itself.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ith-china


Great move and the only sensible solution to Comrade Dan's idiocy. Dan should be torn up with it. China can take their threats and talk to the hand.

[billy the kid]

The big heap (Payne) is throwing her weight around...
China wont like that....
Who cares what China thinks...!!!
Maryse looked different the other day with that new tarpaulin she was wearing...
I see also that China has scrubbed contracts with Australian hay suppliers...
25 out of 28 hay exporters are now looking for another market...
I guess we can now make hay while the sun shines...

[Black Orchid]

I'll be honest. I don't like her much!

BUT there is certainly an UP side to having a woman telling China where to shove their B&R agreement. Priceless!

[billy the kid]

I wonder if we will get a refund of our $938 million that we "invested" in the Asian Infrastructure Bank in 2015, courtesy
of old mate Joe Hockey...
I think from memory, we were committed to "contribute" in total about 3 billion...
The only upside we were told of, from memory, was that India would rebuild its ports
so as they could buy more coal from us.....
Hows that working out these days Joe...
India...rife with covid...coal mining in Australia...whats that....
Whilst SloMo moves to zero net emissions by 2030 or 2040...2050...whatever...
Meanwhile, old mate Joe lives in a penthouse in NY, collecting a non means tested
Australian politicians pension, together with whatever salary package hes on....
His only problem is whether he'll have the duck or the lobster tonite.....
Laughable.....
AND Gladys has just decided to pay out the Shenhua coal mining lease on the Liverpool plains for $100 million....
All paid for by taxpayers of course.....
What a f....n joke.....

[sprintcyclist]

The Morrison government has used its sweeping new foreign veto laws to tear up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China, in what the Chinese embassy has denounced as a “another unreasonable and provocative move”.

The foreign minister, Marise Payne, said she would cancel those two deals, along with two older agreements between the Victorian government and Iranian and Syrian entities, because they were “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy or adverse to our foreign relations”.

But a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Canberra said the move showed the Australian government had “no sincerity in improving China-Australia relations”.

“This is another unreasonable and provocative move taken by the Australian side against China,” the embassy spokesperson said on Thursday. “It is bound to bring further damage to bilateral relations, and will only end up hurting itself.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ith-china


Great move and the only sensible solution to Comrade Dan's idiocy. Dan should be torn up with it. China can take their threats and talk to the hand.

Yes, good idea.