CARR'S CHINA CONNECTION

Bob Carr speaks, but his funding shouts:  "Carr ...  said it was imperative Australia not be pressured into antagonising China." But: "36 per cent of  [Carr's Australia-China Relations Institute’s] 2016 funding came from Mr Huang, the controversial donor at the centre of the allegations that ...  prompted Labor senator Sam Dastyari’s resignation."

Bob Carr speaks, but his funding shouts:   

Former foreign minister Bob Carr has some advice for a new plenipotentiary, The Australian, yesterday:

Carr has cautiously welcomed the nomination of Admiral Harry Harris as US ambassador but noted that diplomacy was fundamentally different to being a military commander and that no US ally wants to see ­increased tensions with China. Mr Carr, who heads the Australia-China Relations Institute at University of Technology Sydney, (said) it would be ­unwise for Australia to join US freedom-of-navigation operations in the South China Sea. (He) said it was imperative Australia not be pressured into antagonising China.

Is Carr’s ACRI pro-Beijing? The Australian, December 13 last year:

Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Peter Jennings has taken aim at Bob Carr and his China-Australia think tank, saying the former NSW premier has questions to answer after new details emerged relating to a $1.8 million donation from billionaire Chinese businessman Huang Xiangmo. The Australia-China Relations Institute’s 2016-17 annual report reveals that 36 per cent of the centre’s 2016 funding came from Mr Huang, the controversial donor at the centre of the allegations that yesterday prompted Labor senator Sam Dastyari’s resignation.

SMH, November 30 last year:

(In 2016) Dastyari delivered a scripted, deliberate and detailed defence of the Chinese government’s aggressive land grab in the South China Sea... 

The Australian, July 13, last year:

Former foreign minister Bob Carr has defended his think tank’s academic independence, saying it is no longer funded by a Chinese businessman and comparing it with US-aligned think tanks which he says “happily” receive money from US corporations.