Strong Man's Xi's Bid for Total Control of China - and Beyond

[Rebbe]

Like most people in Australia, politician Andrew Hastie wasn't worried too much about China. When he was first elected to federal Parliament in 2015 at a relatively young age of 32, he'd already fought the Taliban on three deployments. So the new Liberal MP for the West Australian seat of Canning was preoccupied, naturally enough, with the urgent terrorist threat of Daesh, or Islamic State.

Then, in 2017, the government was convulsed with internal arguments over same-sex marriage. "It was our own little Brexit because we didn't have energy to talk about anything else," Hastie has since remarked to his colleagues.

So how did he get to the point this week of writing a threshold critique of China's President Xi Jinping as a modern-day Stalin? And warning that Australia today was like a complacent France even as German tanks rolled towards its borders in 1940?

The piece provoked a firestorm. China's embassy immediately said "we strongly deplore" Hastie's article, published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Australian IMCF students especially and our students across the globe ought to read this unsettling article reproduced below.

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Please access: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hastie-s-awakening-to-xi-s-bid-for-total-control-of-china-and-beyond-20190809-p52for.html