A Liberal senator has sensationally claimed the Australian Labor Party promised the Chinese Communist Party ‘closer ties’ with Australia if they win the next federal election.
The unnamed Liberal senator alleged former shadow defence Minister Richard Marles deleted a speech he made in China back in 2019 from his website.
It is understood Mr Marles made a virtual guarantee to the Chinese Communist Party that relations will strengthen between the two nations if the ALP can topple the Liberal Party.
Speaking at Beijing Foreign Studies University in September of 2019, Mr Marles said Australia and China should ‘(explore) political co-operation and even defence co-operation’.
‘I deeply believe that we must build our relationship with China to the greatest possible extent and beyond our economic interaction,’ Mr Marles said.
A Liberal senator has claimed the Australian Labor Party promised the Chinese Communist Party ‘stronger future ties’ with Australia. It is alleged former Shadow Minister for Defence Richard Marles (pictured) told the CCP relations would improve if the ALP win the next Federal election
Liberal Senator James Paterson believes Richard Marles’ speech in 2019 in Beijing was an attempt to diffuse the current conflict between the two nations
Senator James Paterson, chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security, felt Mr Marles’ speech was a blatant attempt to diffuse the significant current conflict between Australia and China.
A spokesman for Mr Marles hit back, stating any innuendo surrounding the speech from three years ago was a deliberate ploy from the Liberal Party to take focus away from the ‘trainwreck’ Morrison government.
‘Instead of trying to fix the horrible mess they have created in aged care or help the small businesses they have abandoned during the pandemic, Mr Morrison’s backbenchers are making up lies,’ the spokesman told the Daily Telegraph.
A federal election is yet to be called in Australia, but it is clear the Chinese publication The Global Times wants Labor leader Anthony Albanese as the nation’s next Prime Minister.
In a op-ed written by retired diplomat Bruce Haigh on Tuesday, Mr Albanese is said to be a far better option in the hot seat as opposed to Scott Morrison.
‘Albanese could never be compared to (Gough) Whitlam. He is not a lateral thinker, he is not creative, he will not be a charismatic leader. He will be a safe leader, if not an ordinary leader,’ Mr Haigh wrote.
He continued his series of backhanded compliments by adding Opposition Leader Albanese is likely to be sworn in at the next election because Morrison is ‘imploding’.
Haigh pointed to the PM’s perceived failure to manage numerous aspects of the Covid pandemic stretching back to 2020 as the chief reason why.
The Global Times’ scathing attacks on Morrison are nothing new.
In April 2020, editor Hu Xijin publicly labelled Australia the ‘gum stuck to the bottom of China’s shoe’ after the Morrison government called for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus.
