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A medical worker takes a swab sample from a man to be tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in a neighborhood in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on May 15, 2020. - China has largely brought the virus under control, but the emergence of new cases in Wuhan in recent days, after weeks without fresh infections, has prompted a campaign to test all 11 million residents in the city where COVID-19 first emerged late last year. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

Why Australia must take a stand against China

The global impact of the Wuhan virus and China’s thuggish, bullying ­response to those who want to see a thorough investigation, may now help the West turn the tide against the ­Chinese Fifth Column working against the interests of those still living in ­liberal democracies worldwide, Piers Akerman writes.

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Aussie magnates help China muddy COVID-19 probe

Great wealth doesn’t necessarily beget great wisdom but it does sometimes proffer “useful idiots”, as Lenin described communist sympathisers in the West. Enter, stage left: mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and media magnate Kerry Stokes, writes Piers Akerman.

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2020, file photo, funeral home workers remove the body of a person suspected to have died from the coronavirus outbreak from a residential building in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Skepticism about China’s reported coronavirus cases and deaths has swirled throughout the crisis, fueled by official efforts to quash bad news in the early days and a general distrust of the government. In any country, getting a complete picture of the infections amid the fog of war is virtually impossible. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

Leftists try to paint Australia as racist amid COVID-19

It is not racist to state the obvious, that the Communist Party of China must be held responsible for permitting the coronavirus to spread outside Wuhan. But Australians are being labelled as racists just for suggesting this, Piers Akerman writes.

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Make tough decisions before they’re forced upon us

We are fortunate, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, that the federal government has taken proactive measures despite opposition from the World Health Organisation, the ABC and its oh-so-woke Twitter-following audience, writes Piers Akerman.

Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/piers-akerman/page/17