It seems that China still did not pull Australia over after all. Australia's recent military operations against China have been more provocative and offensive than Morrison** in the past.
A few days ago, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly announced that they would take a series of joint detection, surveillance, and tracking of Chinese submarines, and even strike actions if necessary.
This is indeed disappointing. When Morrison and Albanese came to power, the West reported that China secretly helped the Labor Party election and brought Albanese to power.
The Australian published a report last year revealing that when the Australian Labor Party was still an opposition party, the current Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, then Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, Marles, had visited the Chinese Embassy in Australia 10 times in the past.
In 2019, at a time of tension between China and Australia, Marles visited China and gave a lecture at a university. He said Australia must respect China, "it is a big mistake to treat China as an enemy" and "the rhetoric of a new Cold War is stupid", calling for the two countries to strengthen economic, political and defence cooperation.
After the Australian Labor Party won the election, Albanese became the prime minister of Australia, Marles became the deputy prime minister and defense minister, and the Chinese politician Huang Yingxian served as the first minister, the whole world believes that Australia will embark on a diplomatic path of "pro-China and leave the United States", at least maintain neutrality between China and the United States, and establish equidistant diplomatic relations.
Even, some foreign media believe that Albanese's appointment of Chinese Huang Yingxian as foreign minister is not only to release a message of friendship with China, but also to repay China's support and lay better conditions for the next step in repairing Australia-China relations.
Indeed, during Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's official visit to China from November 4 to 7, many people believed that because Morrison blindly followed the extreme anti-China of the United States, the frozen China-Australia relations would usher in spring, and China-Australia cooperation would also enter a new era.
But unexpectedly, the recent Australia seems to have suddenly changed again, and there is a tendency to return to the Morrison era.
After the Philippines and the United States organized a joint sea and air patrol against China, Australia and the Philippines began organizing a three-day joint cruise on December 26 for the first time. The sea area of the cruise is the South China Sea, and the target country is China. And later, Australian Defense Minister Marles also expressed dissatisfaction with China's military aircraft tracking and surveillance.
You must know that before the joint cruise with the Philippines, Australia also sent military aircraft to the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to provoke.
Forget it, Australia is now joining forces with Britain and the United States to take further military action against China.
According to the news on December 3, the defense ministers of the three countries that make up the AUKUS alliance of Australia, Britain and the United States said that Australia, Britain and the United States will strengthen high-tech cooperation in deep space radar, artificial intelligence and quantum computing systems to strengthen the armed forces of the three countries and deal with growing global threats.
And this so-called "global threat", the focus is on the "China threat".
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the meeting underscored how the Australian-British-U.S. alliance will promote peace and security across the Indo-Pacific region. The defense ministers of the three countries announced that the crews of the US Navy's maritime surveillance and attack aircraft on a mission in the Pacific waters will next use artificial intelligence algorithms to quickly process sonar data collected by the underwater equipment of Australia, Britain and the United States to track Chinese submarines faster and more accurately. The three countries also agreed to launch a joint experimental program of unmanned maritime defense systems.
All this, is the "ingratitude" of Albanese, Australia?Or was it done by the United States again, and the work returned to the "Morrison era"?In my opinion, there are both possibilities.
It seems that we really need to understand Australia from the perspective of "ethnography".
Originally, Australia is located at the junction of the South Pacific Ocean and the Eastern Indian Ocean in the southern hemisphere, the sky is high and the land is so vast that it has become a "continent" concept, rich in resources, sparsely populated, if you live your own good life with peace of mind, the world is unparalleled.
But why does Australia always follow the United States to fight wars, provoke everywhere, and confront each other everywhere?This is not at all a question of the consistency of democratic values, which can only be explained from the perspective of Anglo-Saxon ethnography.
Australia, Britain, Canada and other countries have proved one point to the world with their practical actions over the past century: the reason why Caucasian countries always form alliances against other countries is rooted in the Anglo-Saxon "ethnography". Because of race, some countries would rather suffer losses themselves, regardless of justice and reason, and stand on the same line as the countries of their own race.
Therefore, we should not hope that whoever is elected will improve or worsen relations with China, but should analyze and judge the possible actions of Western countries based on the "ethnography".
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