Has Cut & Paste succumbed to the dastardly New McCarthyism?
Enough with the New McCarthyism! Kevin Rudd, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 26:
I refer to your article in which you claim my meeting an Australian citizen in Guangzhou in 2011 was in “extreme” defiance of DFAT protocols … You impute there was something sinister about this … Apart from … major errors of fact, what is Fairfax actually alleging in this article? That I compromised the national interest, despite having been routinely criticised in the Australian media at the time for being too hard on China? This all smacks of a new McCarthyism to me.
Panda hugger or rat-f..ker? David Marr, Quarterly Essay, Power Trip — The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd, June 2010:
Tired and exasperated … Rudd began to rage against the Chinese … he’d been talking about countries “rat-f..king” each other for days. Was a deal still possible, asked one of the Australians. “Depends whether those rat-f..king Chinese want to f..k us.”
Who has done an about-face? Rudd, The Australian, February 24:
(Malcolm) Turnbull’s about-face on China, from apologist to McCarthyist, derives from … (his domestic politics) … Australia deserves better than the rank amateurism we have seen on the Australia-China relationship under Chairman Malcolm’s new McCarthyism.
New McCarthyism or red fans? Primrose Riordan, Australian Financial Review, September 22, 2016:
Political donor Huang Xiangmo has suggested there is an atmosphere of McCarthyism in Australia … a day after it was revealed he had resigned as chairman of former foreign minister Bob Carr’s China institute at the University of Technology … Others in the Chinese community are happy to see Mr Huang stand aside … (they say they are) worried about the influence of Chinese-Australians who have links to the Chinese government, a group they call “hong fen” or red fans.
Be alert! Zhao Minghao, Global Times, May 24:
We should be alert to the emergence of a “new McCarthyism” in the US.
Just in case we didn’t get the message. Su Tan, Global Times, November 30 last year:
Is a new kind of McCarthyism emerging in Australia? … Canberra seemingly views anyone connected to the … (Chinese Communist Party) as a potential subversive, a typical McCarthyist tactic … What’s urgent … for Australia now is … to prevent McCarthyism from thriving … Bob Carr wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald that “if Australia listened to our hawks on China, we’d have been hung out to dry.” Hopefully his advice will be heeded …
Once more with feeling. Editorial, Global Times, December 12, 2017:
It’s disgraceful that in an era of globalisation, some countries exhibit all the symptoms of McCarthyism: … If China adopted the same attitude as Western countries … cafes in Beijing and Shanghai, frequented mostly by Westerners, would be regarded as information stations. Chinese with close ties to Westerners would be treated like informants … and be accused of treason, like … Sam Dastyari.
Yes, but McCarthy was right! Nicholas von Hoffman The Washington Post, April 14, 1996:
McCarthy … knew little about communism … (but) enough new information has come to light about communists in the US government that we may now say … Joe McCarthy got it all wrong and yet was still closer to the truth than … (the elites of Hollywood, Cambridge and liberal think-tankery) who ridiculed him.