Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese naive to sweet talk China
Labor leader Anthony Albanese needs to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf before he again suggests Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s abhorrent behaviour can be fixed with sweet talk, writes Andrew Bolt.
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Amazon tried this year to restrict sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Someone should instead send a copy to Labor leader Anthony Albanese.
It might stop him from saying stupid things about China.
There he was on Tuesday, blaming our own government for China punishing our exporters.
“When was the last time that the Prime Minister tried to have contact with President Xi?” he said. “Those relationships have broken down.”
Yes, time for Albo to read Mein Kampf, the manifesto Hitler wrote in jail in 1925.
That’s because it shows there was no excuse for the world leaders who blindly claimed Hitler could be reasoned with — until it was too late.
His plans were all there in his book: his hatred of Jews, his vow of revenge against France, and his plan to dominate the world — to “preserve the most valuable racial elements ... and raise them to the dominant position”.
That’s why Mein Kampf should not be banned. It warns us dictators should be often taken at their word.
That includes China’s Xi Jinping.
Comparing Xi to Hitler is not far-fetched. Xi, too, is a dictator.
He, too, wants revenge for the past and to recapture “homelands” like Taiwan.
He, too, has concentration camps and wages an ethnic war, imprisoning up to a million Muslim Uyghurs.
And four weeks ago, Xi again urged troops to “put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war”.
And he’s written a plan to dominate the world.
Seven years ago, Xi spelled it out: China must work to “have the dominant position”.
Three years ago, he was more specific: by 2049, China would “become a global leader” in a new “international order” in which its “national rejuvenation” was complete.
But Australia is in the way.
We have defended Taiwan and Hong Kong, protested at China’s theft of the South China Sea and demanded an inquiry into how the coronavirus started in China.
Now China wants to show what happens to those who don’t submit.
Visits and calls from our ministers have been banned. Exports of our beef, barley, timber, live crayfish and coal have been slowed or stopped.
Australian journalists have been arrested or chased out.
We’ve been hit by massive hack attacks.
For Albanese to suggest this is Australia’s fault, to be fixed by sweet talk, is profoundly wrong.
Read Mein Kampf.