Morrison digging a grave for Australia

Morrison digging a grave for Australia
https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/morrison-digging-a-grave-for-australia/

The linked article is not written by me, but sounds very much like what I have been blogging

Morrison with all his supporting ministers and mates, who are in favour of conflicts and confrontation with the goose that lays the golden eggs must go; the sooner the better, for the good and well-being of all Australians.

Does he understand the phrase “Lest we forget” other than words used on Remembrance Day? The phrase encapsulates the desire to remember the past tragedy and sacrifice and ensure that such bloody catastrophe never happens again.

In recent months, not only does he dip his hands in China’s pie, but also interferes in the affairs of the states especially Victoria and Queensland. He likes to be seen as the Big Brother, but he is far from being one for his uncompromising and undiplomatic style of leadership, just to put it mildly.

How is Australia going to fill the 800 billion dollars financial Black Hole? We, the Australians, cannot just live on eating our home grown barley and wheat, poured over with milk from our own farms, nutritious yet boring. We will be stripped off the lifestyle we have been enjoying for the past century.

Is Australia being bullied or forced into a corner politically, or held at ransom such that “we are either with them, or against them”? Without saying, the implied consequence of not being a team member is to deemed as an enemy. While life and death is in black and white, the decision to go to war is always in shades of grey. The winning strategy is not about killing the enemies, but to establish long lasting peace with minimum casualty.

Aggression provokes more aggression, and leads to wars and destruction. The ultimate destruction is the destruction of our civilisation.

Think peace and promote peace!

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Morrison digging a grave for Australia

Australia has ‘painted itself into a geopolitical corner’ with China, but what is Beijing’s trade endgame?

Australia has ‘painted itself into a geopolitical corner’ with China, but what is Beijing’s trade endgame?
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3102228/australia-has-painted-itself-geopolitical-corner-china-what

Top politicians in power should not just surround themselves with advisers in finance, economics, defence, medical, communication, and sociology, but also a cool calm expert in psychology

I have been writing often about Australia PM Scott Morrison being a unrefined in dealing with diplomatic matters.

Let me put aside the way he handles China first, and go back to all those things he told Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, how to run his state, criticising them for not opening the state borders. Morrison turned from beating his chest in the public telling all Australians that “we are all Melbournians”, to telling Andrews bugger-all the way he imposition of strict lockdown during the pandemic and BRI project.

Andrews stayed very cool almost all the time, with slight sign of irritation in his body language when drilled repeatedly by the press for things he had said many times at daily update. He always said he had good relationship with Morrison, not once he said an bad about the PM, and any state premiers and territory chief ministers.

Besides these, Andrews had not criticised or reprimanded his staff for their wrong doing in the public to cause them any embarrassment.

Morrison suffers from foot-in-mouth disease. His words come out faster from his mouth than he can think and analyse the consequence in his brain. What is said cannot be retracted, and cause long term damage, not only to his image, but also the well-being of all Australians during his term in office. It is very damaging to corner a tiger that it has no choice but to jump over the wall, so to speak. If China does not buy iron ore from Australia, they can easily turn to Brazil which has the second largest in reserved. Interestingly, China’s reserve is just after Brazil.

Is Australia the only English speaking country in the world that China’s students can go to learn this language, one that is not even originated here. Our closest neighbour New Zealand, and the motherland of English, England will welcome them to bring along the education pot of gold anytime.

As for barley, Australia’s close buddy the US has been supplying China since the dispute began. Australia’s peace time allies are great mates during good time, but many are no different from hawks and vultures, waiting for the right moment, to grab and tear a piece of this succulent trade meat. Money means the same in all languages, and smells good especially in tough economic times. Why is the need of a psychologist adviser? For Morrison, a child psychologist may be a better choice. Modern parenting technique is about open dialogue and continuous communication with the children. We encourage the children to be peace loving, not only to fellow human beings, but also the environment. Parents are not to put children down or reprimand them publicly. Parents are not allowed even to raise their voice or use a wooden spoon to hit meatiest part of the body known as the bum.

The child psychologist reckons all these will affect the children’s development and makes them to be aggressive and hate rather to love.

Morrison can easily arrange an audio or video meeting with China to iron out the problems. Australia needs not to kowtow to China or eat humble pie.

Only great leader talks Peace, NOT Wars. Only great leaders put the well-being if their people before anything else. Morrison does not like other countries tell him in public how to run Australia. Yes, indeed I am doing likewise critiquing him openly. If I have a choice, I definitely like to say all that I want to say behind close door.

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Australia has ‘painted itself into a geopolitical corner’ with China, but what is Beijing’s trade endgame?

China's export boomed in August, but its purchases of Australia goods plunged

China's export boomed in August, but its purchases of Australia goods plunged
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100473/chinas-exports-boomed-august-imports-continued-slump-showing

The decline in Australian export is a reality check for the Australian government that it is not doing justice to its citizens by being too gung-ho and pig-head with its approach in dealing with China, in particular during the last few months.

According to the report that "China’s purchases of Australian goods plunge 26.2 per cent from a year earlier, even as exports to Australia jumped 24.4 per cent," It continues to say that "China’s trade deficit with Australia narrowed by 48.1 per cent year on year in August to just US$4.3 billion in August."

Scott Morrison is not refined enough to handle international diplomacy. Despite his successful “100% Pure New Zealand” campaign", he failed miserably with the infamous ‘Where the bloody hell are ya’ Australian tourism ad. Its tacky taglines resulted in the ad being banned in both the UK and Canada due to the use of "bloody".

Scotty from Marketing is definitely no marketer at all, because a good marketer understands that it costs 10 times more to find a new customer than to keep a good existing one.

While I am no fan of Daniel Andrews due to his mishandling of the hotel quarantine, and protecting those who deserved to be stood down without pay or sacked from the senior position, he remained calm during daily press update. He takes on all the blame, and says nothing bad about other state premiers and the PM.

It will take many more years for Australia to restart some manufacturing businesses, to produce goods to satisfy our local demand without relying on imports. However, it is not sustainable if what we produce cannot sell to other countries, which means lack of economy of scale in manufacturing or production, the costs will be much higher than what the consumers are prepared to pay.

Australians may not buy from China directly, but most online suppliers disguise themselves as from channels other than China, or in other words, Australians pay more through another party or multiple parties.

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China's export boomed in August, but its purchases of Australia goods plunged

Donald Trump could win the US election for the same reason he won last time

Posted to The Age (1/9/2920) on 2/9/2020 (not yet published by the newspaper)
Commenting on "Donald Trump could win the US election for the same reason he won last time”
https://www.theage.com.au/national/donald-trump-could-win-the-us-election-for-the-same-reason-he-won-last-time-20200901-p55r6r.html

Biden will not win this unlosable election. Trump is a fantastic marketer, and he understands the psychological needs of his followers, while Biden keeps missing the opportunities to hit hard on the key issues.

Trump has a good chance to win, and he will make himself the peace maker after the election. He has to rely on China for supplies, as well as a customer. Out of the blue, bilateral relationship will improve, and he will come out the winner not only in the US, but also the world. Along the way, Trump will leave a trail of economic disaster for the blind followers.

Australia, the lap dog of the US will be the biggest loser, and most of our key exports will be replaced by the US’ and other countries’. There will be plenty of barley to feed our stomachs and enough wine to drown our sorrow.

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Donald Trump could win the US election for the same reason he won last time