” in a broadside that refers to “fascist” Japan’s World War II attacks on Darwin, ignoring decades of post-war peace.
The official outburst came after a weekend meeting in Phnom Penh between Foreign Minister Penny Wong, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa, in which they slammed China’s use of large-scale military exercises including firing ballistic missiles that have “gravely” affected peace and stability.
“If I don’t stand up for other countries, who will stand up for me? As a nation of only 26 million people on a vast continent, we need as many friends as we can get,” Mr Hastie told the ABC’s”It’s dead and buried, and we need to start thinking with this new development over the last decade about how we secure ourselves into the future and the strategic culture of Singapore and Israel are good examples of how we can prepare for the challenges ahead, given our size and strength relative to...
Mr Charng said it was important to note that “the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] has never ruled Taiwan for a single day”.In its media statement, China’s embassy in Canberra said China was the victim of US political provocation and that Australia was “completely putting the cart before the horse and reversing the right from the wrong”.
“With this in mind, the Australian side should have expressed empathy, thus fully understand and support China’s reasonable and legitimate actions to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
I am supremely confident it is impossible to get this through to the thick skulls of the Chinese: it is the duty of the Chinese gov of the day to defend China, not the Japanese gov. In any case, the CCP did not fire so much as a shot at the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII.
Proving yet again Chinas foreign policy is set by a bunch of 15 year olds
Let’s face it, the PRC are just a bunch of insecure small men. 😂
Where is the lie? Lol Who was abt to invade Australia? Was it China? Or Japan? And Japan is now Australia's bestie. Snake!
A great reminder from Beijing, that China has been a great friend of Australia, and Japan, the Australia's current bestie, did try to occupy, invade, and perhaps annihilate Australian people. But how did Australia return China's friendship? Poison.
Fair enough. Taiwan is legally Chinese. Even the US State Dept website states: 'U.S. recognized the Govt of People's Republic of China as the sole legal govt of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China & Taiwan is part of China' UN agrees too