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Gatekeeper said:

It is unbelievable that these days and age, there are still British journalist harbouring the idea of eight nations gun boat diplomacy.

Here's the headlines from RT.

Send gunboats to China to shake up REPARATIONS for unleashing Covid-19 ‘weapon’ on the world, British journo suggests

Beijing should pay the world ‘reparations’ for the economic damage caused by Covid-19 and, if necessary, it can be forced militarily to do so, said conservative British political commentator Douglas Murray without a hint of irony.

Murray, an author best known for his critiques of Islam and woke culture, has outlined his case for making China pay for the pandemic in a Thursday piece in the Spectator, the influential weekly with strong ties to the Conservative Party. The rallying call was unleashed in response to news that the Chinese economy is expected to grow in 2020 despite the global slowdown caused by the coronavirus.

“I resent the prospect of China walking away from 2020 spinning headlines about the positive economic message its economic boom sends to the rest of the world,” Murray explained.

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Breadbox said:

Indeed, warmongering, supremacist and bloodthirsty countries around the world are right to fear that laughable facade used to justify perpetual war, destruction and colonisation losing its luster.

For a country to be powerful enough to resist their aggression and having the audacity to call out their bullshit is indeed the gravest threat in their 300 years of history in looting and pillaging the world.

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Gatekeeper said:

The funny thing is this campaign to "buy for democracy" is all very sad. It's like the white house trying to give a message of support to Aussies by using OZ wine for dinner that night. And publicly announced that fact.

Lol. If you are serious about it, you would have made an annocement of continue purchase of Aussies wine. The very fact they haven't, and the very fact Aussies have to sell their wine into China the first place is because

1/ you don't like their wine.

Let's face it, I live in the U.K., and the number 1 wine consumed is French and Italians, with Aussies a poor distant 4th. If their wines were any good or cheap, we would have consumed the lot, there would be no need to export to China.

2/ you have your own wine industry to support.

Not only that, now Aussies wine is now getting the cold shoulder in China, the wines from the new world's are rubbing their hands and salivating at the thought of taking China's market share at the Aussies expense!

So the crap of buying for democracy is just that. Load of crap.

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• Australian rock lobster has all but disappeared from markets and restaurants in Beijing since China imposed an import ban last month
• Vendors in the capital have started stocking lobster from other countries, while the price of live lobsters in Australia has plunged

Gatekeeper said:

More bad news for OZ. Before the spat, 90% of OZ's lobsters are going to China. Now New England, and other countries are eating OZ's lunch. So much for "But for democracy"

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supercat said:

The population of Taiwan is only equivalent to a large Chinese city, yet they think they can support Australian wine?

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Gatekeeper said:

The funny thing is this campaign to "buy for democracy" is all very sad. It's like the white house trying to give a message of support to Aussies by using OZ wine for dinner that night. And publicly announced that fact.

Lol. If you are serious about it, you would have made an annocement of continue purchase of Aussies wine. The very fact they haven't, and the very fact Aussies have to sell their wine into China the first place is because

1/ you don't like their wine.

Let's face it, I live in the U.K., and the number 1 wine consumed is French and Italians, with Aussies a poor distant 4th. If their wines were any good or cheap, we would have consumed the lot, there would be no need to export to China.

2/ you have your own wine industry to support.

Not only that, now Aussies wine is now getting the cold shoulder in China, the wines from the new world's are rubbing their hands and salivating at the thought of taking China's market share at the Aussies expense!

So the crap of buying for democracy is just that. Load of crap.

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AssassinsMace said:

Bragging about how much Australian wine other countries in support buy is irrelevant. Like I've been saying greedy people want it all. They want Taiwan to buy it and China to buy as much as possible. 200 bottles isn't support. How about a million bottles. And if they really wanted to support Australia, why not buy all the lobster and barley and everything else China stopped buying from Australia to show actually support. If they have so much money at their disposal, why not only trade with each other? The people who have the most money in the world can't even do that. Australia is still going to be upset because they can't make even more money because the prize is China not a measly 200 bottles Taiwan and whatever amount other countries buy in just showing superficial support. Like the world didn't know they were allied before to make it look new and not old meaning their alliance don't have that kind of power. Maybe 200 bottles will buy Australian support in recognizing Taiwan as an independent country and Australia will never get back into the Chinese market. Is it worth it when they're the ones that are angry at China not buying Australian. If they don't need China, no need to be angry. If they're angry, it's because they're greedy. And you think Taiwan has Australia's best interest in mind? They need Australia to go past the point of no return then they have another country that recognizes Taiwan. That's all they care about.

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