Essay by Eric Worrall
Another chapter in Australia’s increasingly incoherent climate policy and international diplomacy.
Penny Wong flags cooperation on climate change as Australia tries to reboot relationship with China
Minister also reiterates Australia’s expectation that China use its influence with Vladimir Putin to end Russian invasion of Ukraine
Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has flagged working more closely with China on issues such as climate change as part of ongoing efforts to reboot the fractured relationship after years of public confrontation.
As Anthony Albanese signalled publicly his willingness to meet with China’s leaders during the week-long international summit season in Cambodia, Bali and Bangkok, Wong used a major foreign policy speech in Australia to articulate her objective to stabilise relations with China.
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Wong said her objective was to work out areas of “mutual benefit in our relationship, and we are open to working with China in other ways, including to address major transnational challenges like climate change”.
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Wong said Australia needed to tread its own path. “If Australia can be effective in our diplomacy, especially in multilateral and mini-lateral groupings, we have will more chance of upholding the international order, maintaining our independence, exercising our agency, and achieving the equilibrium that is the basis of sustainable peace and prosperity.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/13/penny-wong-flags-cooperation-on-climate-change-as-australia-tries-to-reboot-relationship-with-china
What are Australia’s government ministers attempting to achieve?
Do they believe if they cosy up to Xi Jinping, China will build fewer coal plants?
Do they think China has any motivation to try to end the Ukraine war, and to end the Western sanctions which have turned Russia into a captive supplier of cheap energy to China and India?
Does looking weak and needy in any way help Australia placate an increasingly belligerent Chinese leadership, or help the USA maintain a strong front against Chinese aggression in the South China Sea?
The phrase which comes to mind is “amateur hour”.
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If CO2 causes Climate Change then, as the leading global emitter, China IS leading the globe on Climate Change. And WRT peace in Ukraine, China could very well assist Russia in dividing that country so long as Xi could walk away with his piece in Ukraine
Bigoilboob will be along shortly to remind you that China’s per capita emissions are less than western countries. I wonder who signs his paycheck? Don’t worry, though. Our own Joe Bidet is talking to Xi as we speak telling him he expects China to do its part to fight climate change.
Gotta
lovelaugh at Clueless Joe…why not, the rest of the world doesYet despite all that the Americans elected a Democrat majority in the Senate. And the Democrats made gains in Governorships. And they held most of their seats in the House of the Representatives. Seems that most Americans are happy with sleepy Joe. Makes you wonder.
It makes me wonder why so many people vote against their own best interests. Voting for Democrats and giving them political power is voting against your own best interests.
Too many stupid people today? Too much propaganda for ordinary people to wade through?
Do the people of Arizona like being invaded by foreign nationals? Why would you vote for people who enable such activity? That’s what you voted for if you voted for a Democrat.
Florida, with 40 million residents, counts their votes in one day. Arizona, with 4 million residents, hasn’t completed their vote count yet, a week after the elections.
Our society may be too stupid/deluded to govern ourselves properly. The leftwing propaganda may just be too much for most people.
Well, States still have rights, and there are still some U.S. States that are still on the straight and narrow. We’ll concentrate on keeping it that way, regardless of what other States, or the federal government, may or may not do.
Maybe the residents of some States are smarter than others and can maintain their personal freedoms as a result.
It looks like the Republicans will control the U.S. House, so Joe Biden and his crime family can get ready for some questions.
That is likely from Biden’s Gift Promise of Student Loan Debt forgiveness before elections. Oh…Wait…He just backtracked that “Gift” now that elections are over. Dumb Dim voters
You’d think they might be a bit ashamed of themselves for selling their votes for an impossible promise unless of course, the other side of the House gets bought similarly :<)
Chinese per capita emissions are now about 40% higher than the UK’s.
As if, assuming CO2 emissions meant a damn thing to the “climate,” the “climate” could tell the difference between “per capita” emissions vs. total emissions.
IF emissions mattered (they don’t, there’s no empirical evidence that they do), it would be total emissions that matter, “per capita” emissions are meaningless.
If Big Oil Boob and all who think like him think “per capita” emissions are a problem, they should be gluing themselves to the private jets and yachts of the climate hypocrites like Gore and DiCrapio.
Bryan, the really big surprise would be if China invades Russia, who is in such a weakened state that they couldn’t resist. Limited nuclear exchange? Bear and Dragon deja vu? Yikes!
That entire coastline from Vladivostok up to Inskoe was, at one time, part of eastern China
It’s pride that causes China to want to take Taiwan, however Siberia is where all the resources are.
Pride and further control over entry into the South China Sea
Quote:“Wong said Australia needed to tread its own path. “If Australia can be effective in our diplomacy, especially in multilateral and mini-lateral groupings, we have will more chance of upholding the international order, maintaining our independence, exercising our agency, and achieving the equilibrium that is the basis of sustainable peace and prosperity.”
I think my lunch is about to rebound on me…..
She’s absolutely correct. “If Australia can be effective….” Put like that she can’t be wrong. But who thinks the diplomacy of the current Australian government is likely to be effective?
To tell the truth, the leadership of Australia, with a few exceptions (Roberts), look like a bunch of bungling idiots. I’m sure that’s the way the Chicoms see them. Hat in hand, walking around confused about what to do next.
And another country goes down the WEF rabbit hole.
We’ve been travelling down that hole for some time now. Nothing is made here anymore, it’s all imported, mostly from China. Danger Dan of Victoria has stated Victoria will be 100% “renewable” by 2030 (I think, it may be 2050). I bet he won’t dispense with the interconnectors.
Australia has a population of 25 million and lots of coal but it tells itself it does not want it. China has a population of 1400 million and wants all the coal Australia has and does not want any restriction on its availability. .
Can’t think of any scenario where those divergent views about coal could ever cause any tensions between the worlds most powerful nation and one of the world’ weakest political nations with its tiny population…… can you?
Australia, at current extraction rates, has about 1200 years of coal reserves. Not sure about gas but we have one of the largest reserves of uranium and yet our politicians want us to leave it in the ground, not to be used by Australians, and go 100% renewable.
China would prefer you do as well, at least until they own it via their “Belt and Road Initiative” or just buy it like Russia did the U.S. Uranium deposits.
Effing idiots.
“Australia’s increasingly incoherent climate policy and international diplomacy.”. It was quite coherent not long ago, with things like Aukus and Penny Wong showing signs of not kowtowing to Xi Jinping. Now I don’t think anyone knows what Australia is doing, but trying to appease Xi Jinping has got to be dead wrong on every single scale that it can be measured against. And why does Joe Biden say ‘no new cold war’? Why can’t he just say that Xi Jinping is a monstrous dictator in the mould of JS or AH, crushing his own people, and until he changes America will treat him with the contempt that he deserves. Incidentally, note that I say “Xi Jinping”, not “China”. The Chinese people are victims in this too.
Joe is paid not to criticize the Chicoms too much.
Hope as in more missiles, nukes, submarines, aircraft carriers, hypersonic missiles, drones, coal mines, detention camps for millions, sanction busting oil consumption, and instructions for Kim in NK?
So, I guess it was an oversight when China sided with Russia at the UN to oppose reparations from Russia for Ukraine. /sarc
Penny Wong? Hmm. In Canada our intelligence agency has suggested reasonably significant Chinese government infiltration into the Canadian government via the Liberal Party of Canada – Justin Trudeau’s party, and as well assistance with Liberal party members campaigns throu money and personnel. . The evidence is clear and convincing. Just sayin!
And utilities….
Canada police charge Hydro-Québec employee with China spying – ABC News (go.com)
Don’t judge by names. She’s half Malay and half Australian. I don’t have a personal liking for her but she’s Australian. I used to get sh!t when I was younger because of my name. I started telling people that after 15 years of training by the KGB I infiltrated Australia as a three year old. That tended to shut people up for a few minutes.
And here I was thinking you were a Russian physicist rather than Russian spy! I guess the latter does not exclude the former.
I’ll ask my handler to update my resume.
For years, a senior Democrat had a girl friend who was also known to be a spy for the Chinese government.
Our beloved Canadian PM, who has on many occasions stated that Canadians are genocidal as regards our aboriginal people but has this to say about Chinese genocide (only alleged it seems to him.) Trigger Alert – this is absolutely cringe worthy: https://t.co/UtZTDj3lSh https://twitter.com/stevent65674368/status/1591881271575252994?s=66&t=Dhw-8UlXRjMGh6ex1udUKg
I wonder if the Australians know where Penny is heading.
Justin is a one-man endlessly repeating episode of the “upper class twit of the year” contest.
Not even the Pythons could keep up with his material
Eric, the phrase that comes to mind is –
“Tell ’em they’re dreamin'”.
Australia loads the Chinese ships with coal, iron ore and bauxite; China converts those to wind turbines and solar panels then ships them back to Australia. China is already playing a huge role in supporting Australia’s effort to litter the country with useless crap to appease the climate gods.
Maybe Penny is checking that China will continue to keep doing what it has been doing for more than two decades – burn more coal to make useless crap that the developed world subsidises to destroy its manufacturing.
While China is no longer buying Australian coal, they are buying Australian uranium, along with the U.S., U.K., France , and Russia. The green zealots seem to hate uranium as much as coal.
Australia imports manufactured good from China made with electricity primarily generated from coal. About twenty-five per cent of Australia’s manufactured imports come from China;
And I’m sure from steel made from thermal coal.
So the Australian Government wants China to lead on climate change and peace in Ukraine?
What?! And send China broke like the West. You must be kidding . .
Penny Wong, isn’t she in to rugs?
“Wong said Australia needed to tread its own path.”
The last time that was tried, the US/UK establishment got rid of the Prime Minister. Australia’s role is to be an obedient poodle to the US. (While trying to sell the country to China.)
Maybe politicians in Australia are trying to work out the same sweetheart deals that most US pols have gotten from the ChiComs! I understand that if you talk tough about China in the House or Senate they respond by throwing large bags of cash at you. And if you really luck out they’ll place an intelligence agent on your staff like the driver for the Commifornia senator who sat on the Intelligence Committee!
In other news, the “Australian Government Hopes” that Putin will take early retirement, the Mullahs in Iran will stop trying to get nuclear weapons and funding terrorist organizations, and China will support independent governance of Taiwan.
Lol.
Wow, Australia is full of hope and change, isn’t it? Wasn’t that Obama’s mantra too?
A more likely response of China is to join the war in ukraine on Russia’s side. The Chinese have better Himars than the Americans – already on their way to ukraine. And a bigger army.
Hurrah for the jihad against the yellow peril!!
Where can I go for voice lessons in how to speak like people did in the 1930’s?
“Australian Government Hopes China will Lead on Climate Change”
Hey suckers, I have a bridge in Sidney I’d like to sell you at a real discount.