Originally Posted by
oicur12.again
You can call China communist, or socialist, or an abuser of human rights but like most things these labels could also apply to many of our close “allies” and indeed to our own countries as well so be careful.
If the Australian government is underwriting workers paychecks, bailing out industries, controlling access to movement between states and fining people performing non essential activities are we not heading down an economic socialist or authoritarian path? China has a poor human rights record, but we’ve done bad things too. Look at the recently released video footage of Australian SAS soldiers blatantly murdering unarmed civilians in Afghanistan, and tell me China won’t throw that back at us if we start to complain about their poor human rights record.