Chinese community in Australia vote against tough on China party

https://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-australian-voters-punished-coalition-for-hostile-rhetoric-20220525-p5aoem.html

by holografix • 4 years ago

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car_analogy• 4 years ago

Likewise, China can't be too tough on Australia, or the Australian community in China will vote... oh. Never mind.

holografix• 4 years ago

China has roughly 64x bigger population than Australia.

Shouldn’t the mouse be careful with the elephant? The elephant might crush the mouse simply because it wanted to sit down without ever worrying about the mouse.

ggm4• 4 years ago

The elephant is playing in the mouses backyard (solomon islands) stepping over intervening issues (spratleys) into fresh waters.

It's like Japan funding an airstrip in Guam, or .. Hawaii and then quietly asking the Aleutian Islands to let them do naval warfare and sea landing rehersals. That's the projected fear in future, right now they are just signing cooperation agreements to fund other things. Well like that if Guam, Hawaii and Aleutian Islands were not US territory but more like (once, now less) friendly nation states.

throwaway4good2• 4 years ago

Play the anti-Chinese card and loose the vote of the people you vilify. Hardly a surprise.

ggm4• 4 years ago

The nuance of anti Chinese government != anti Chinese got lost in translation

throwaway4good2• 4 years ago

Unfortunately the issue of race is right underneath the surface in Australia. Morrison knew very well what forces he was playing with and luckily he overplayed his hand.

ge96• 4 years ago

I don't understand that title "against tough"?

ggm4• 4 years ago

Vote against "tough on chyna" party

I want to add that it's a gross simplification to say Chinese Australians "like" what's going on in mainland politics. They're much more nuanced than a one button outcome. I think they like the liberal world view, (liberal in Australia doesn't mean what it does in the US) but not the aggrevated tensions with the Chinese state. Many have family ties back in the mainland, come and go, anything for a quiet life...

To be Chinese ethnicity but vote in Australia they have to renounce Chinese citizenship and so they are already somewhat constrained in how they engage with things "back home"

There are probably good parallels to the fracture in Cuban American culture facing sanctions, its bankable in Miami and possibly nowhere else. Or Iranian Americans (or should I say persian americans) who repudiate the politics but love their homeland intensely? Amping up sanctions on Tehran splits views here.

Well.. one party tried to weaponise it in the Oz elections and it backfired.

Chinese community in Australia vote against tough on China party

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