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>this article from the main left-wing news site in Australia Honestly, I read the ABC all the time and the editorial position is very clearly anti-CCP. Stan Grant in particular is one of the most ardent and consistent critics of Xi Jinping, posting articles about their military expansion and increasing concentration of power even when nothing in particular has happened that week to prompt it. Stating that one particu…
Ok maybe I was being overly hyperbolic before, but the facts here are clear: The CCP used people in Australia to get close to, and pay off, politicians who they thought would be inclined to favor their cause. Every single one of them belonged to the Labor party. I don't think anyone can call this spin, and I don't think any honest person would doubt that the media would be going absolutely bananas right now if all th…
Except for Gladys Liu. :P
I will concede the point generally here, though - Labor's far left faction (and left-wingers in general) do have a weirdly distorted view of China and are more susceptible to Chinese influence and propaganda, and the whole Sam Dastyari incident doesn't help.
Again, though, I don't think that means the party as a whole is corrupt to the core. Labor supported pretty much all of the anti-CCP legislation that has gone through in the last few years, including AUKUS, and I can't see that radically changing any time soon.
>As for Stan Grant I didn't know all that about him. Interesting. I just saw his aboriginal activism work and assumed he was left-leaning. Thinking about it for one second, I'm not surprised to find out that he simply cares about his community and wants to see them succeed.
>As for the ABC and Guardian, they are constantly pushing their audience to believe that democracy is deeply flawed.
I read both publications regularly, and don't get that idea. They report that democracy is under attack, yes, but they're not cheering for its destruction. The Guardian tends to lead somewhat anti-capitalist (hilarious considering how middle-class their average reader is, literally sucking at the teat of the system), but again they're not proposing China's even-more-unequal system any more than the rest of the world does (which, as you noted, basically stopped happening once they fucked with Hong Kong).