DFAT boss warns Beijing could use 'robust' China policy debate to portray Australia as 'intolerant'

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Australia's top foreign affairs official warns Beijing will seize on rancorous debates over foreign policy on China to portray Australia as an 'intolerant' country.

Australia's top foreign affairs official has warned Beijing will seize on rancorous debates over foreign policy on China to portray Australia as an "intolerant" country.The DFAT secretary says debates about China could be used by Beijing to tar Australia's imageIt comes in the wake of a series of controversies in Canberra over race and foreign policy

Labor has been ratcheting up its attack on Senator Abetz over the episode, accusing him of subjecting the witnesses to a "loyalty test". Ms Adamson did not refer directly to any members of Parliament, but she said "robust" debates about China in Australia could easily be used by Beijing to tar Australia's image.

"What, to be very frank, I think Beijing is looking for, is division. Where they are able to show division," Ms Adamson told a Senate Estimates committee.Ms Adamson said the Chinese Government was "regrettably" using state media and its propaganda apparatus to project an "image of Australia which is intolerant and divided and which discriminates against various groups".

 

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Well.... they would be correct. Just look at your vassal self. You are militerising the Pacific under the guise of closer community rhetoric when all along you are ORDERED by the US to do so

And what would our ABC be doing? Not this, I know

Since China Virus was released, I’m doing my best to boycott Chinese made exports. That’s smart.

CCP has been using it's news outlets for many years to claim Australia is backwards and everyone is racist against Chinese people. They do it for EVERY Western country, it's the best way to tell citizens how great China is under them. Controlling the mind is communism 101.

CancelChina

Happy to be considered ‘intolerant’ of the perpetrators of the UyghurGenocide. dfat just needs to find its backbone.

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WGAF?

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Literally have CCP members running on the qld election, if they like China so much then go back

I guess those Chinese muslim concentration camps are considered tolerant?

CCP has no shame.

Maybe enough is enough. Australia should not take crap.

as opposed to China being intolerant? pots_and_kettles

Hows Chinas brand going?

China likes to describe as 'intolerant' anyone who dares to criticize the communist country. Australians should just ignore. Don't fall for the 'hurt feelings' again. China Bully listens only to tough talk.

Then stop Beijing instead of stopping what Australian choose to do on this soil.

The Communist Party of China can piss off

Senator Abetz is living proof of intolerance of Australia.

It doesn't have to. The ABC already does it for them !

Nobody is brave enough to say that the next World War will be with China. Its already started.

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