Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Coalition will ‘never’ sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: PM" video.

  1. ALP's Penny Wong argued for befriending China to contain Russia. German navy chief argued for befriending Russia to contain China. In the real world, Russia and China are allies.
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  2. The facts, the federal LNP government blocked the Victoria's Labor government's CCP Belt and Road initiative with the new foreign investment laws in place from 1 January 2021. A 2016 Senate committee revealed that while the Foreign Investment Review Board had been contacted to look at the deal, it ultimately didn't formally investigate because, at the time, there was an exemption from scrutiny of a deal like this because it involved a private company and a state or territory government.
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  3. The Chinese-Australia influencer whose company helped the Victorian government sign up to the Belt and Road Initiative was hired "without any tender process" and without any public disclosure according to the Australian's Rachel Baxendale. Jean Dong, who has lived in Australia for close to 15 years, is the director of 'Australia China Belt and Road Initiative' a company paid more than $35,000 to consult the Victorian government on its deal with China. Ms Dong has hired key former politicians including former trade minister Andrew Robb, and former finance minister Lindsay Tanner, but without any financial compensation according to Ms Baxendale. "Are Lindsay Tanner and Andrew Robb doing this out of the goodness of their hearts," she said. Ms Baxendale told Sky News host Andrew Bolt, Jean Dong clearly has "very strong connections to powerful people within the Chinese Communist Party". ----------------------- Lindsay Tanner = Australian Labor Party
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  4. Jodie Ryan, who sat on the selection panel that chose Landbridge and was later promoted to the role of head public servant after the Gunner Labor Government's 2016 election victory. .... Back in mid-December, when the current Labor Government was trying to explain how the NT was in the middle of a full-blown financial crisis that sees it borrowing $4 million a day to keep operating, Jodie Ryan was asked in a briefing what happened to the $506 million the NT received for the port. She said it was put into general revenue and spent. It's long gone, with less than 96 years left ------------------ You blame LNP federal government for the Labor hack's selection process?
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  5. Jodie Ryan, who sat on the selection panel that chose Landbridge and was later promoted to the role of head public servant after the Gunner Labor Government's 2016 election victory. .... Back in mid-December, when the current Labor Government was trying to explain how the NT was in the middle of a full-blown financial crisis that sees it borrowing $4 million a day to keep operating, Jodie Ryan was asked in a briefing what happened to the $506 million the NT received for the port. She said it was put into general revenue and spent. It's long gone, with less than 96 years left ------------------ Do you blame LNP federal government for the Labor hack's selection process?
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  6. Landbridge itself promoted the Darwin port in corporate videos as an “important maritime cooperation pivot for the One Belt and One Road to contribute to China a more powerful port strength,” referring to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI. Try again.
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  7. The facts, the federal LNP government blocked the Victoria's Labor government's CCP Belt and Road initiative with the new foreign investment laws in place from 1 January 2021. A 2016 Senate committee revealed that while the Foreign Investment Review Board had been contacted to look at the deal, it ultimately didn't formally investigate because, at the time, there was an exemption from scrutiny of a deal like this because it involved a private company and a state or territory government.
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  8. Malcolm's son, Alex runs a hedge fund, lives in Singapore with his wife. His wife is HK-born Yvonne Wang, or Wang Yiwen. Madam Wang's father, Wang Chunming was an international relations scholar who worked with the China Academy of Social Sciences
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  9. The facts, the federal LNP government blocked the Victoria's Labor government's CCP Belt and Road initiative with the new foreign investment laws in place from 1 January 2021. A 2016 Senate committee revealed that while the Foreign Investment Review Board had been contacted to look at the deal, it ultimately didn't formally investigate because, at the time, there was an exemption from scrutiny of a deal like this because it involved a private company and a state or territory government.
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  10. Date:Dec 2005 Dutch dealer gets 15 years for chemical sales to Saddam. A Dutch businessman was yesterday jailed for 15 years after a court in The Hague found him guilty of complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals to Iraq that Saddam Hussein's regime used in lethal gas attacks on Kurdish villages.
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  11. Report: Saudi Arabia Presses U.S. on Overthrowing Saddam Hussein Date: January 19, 1992 From AP NEWS NEW YORK (AP) _ Saudi Arabia is pressuring the Bush administration to secretly arm and give intelligence to Iraqi opposition forces so they can work to overthrow Saddam Hussein, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Saudis want the United States to give arms and intelligence to Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, Shiite Muslim fighters in the south and Sunni Muslim opposition forces in central Iraq, the Times said, quoting U.S. and allied officials it didn’t name.
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  12. Last year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government enacted new legislation asserting control over foreign tie-ups by all levels of government, and promptly used it to end a BRI partnership by Victoria state. Morrison also ordered his Defense Department to review its advice about the Landbridge lease, promising to be guided by it.
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  13.  @ashleyember6822  ASPI’s Coyne thinks there is a “good chance” that Morrison will take a decision to buy out the Landbridge lease, endorsed by his cabinet’s national security committee to the election campaign, though he says another option could be to bring in an Australian investor and dilute Landbridge’s control.
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  14.  @peterbuckley3877  Rudd government = 2007–2010, NOT two months.
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  15.  @peterbuckley3877  The Rudd government concluded on 24 June 2010.
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  16.  @peterbuckley3877  >2. Dan Andrews had no constitutional power to sign up to an international treaty, that’s the sole preserve of the federal government Last year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government enacted new legislation asserting control over foreign tie-ups by all levels of government, and promptly used it to end a BRI partnership by Victoria state. Morrison also ordered his Defense Department to review its advice about the Landbridge lease, promising to be guided by it.
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  17. Which state government?
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  18. A seaweed diet for cows can reduce farts.
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  19. Liberal Democrats have a weak national security policy.
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  20.  @LittleWestAussie  ALP's Penny Wong argued for befriending China to contain Russia. German navy chief argued for befriending Russia to contain China. In the real world, Russia and China are allies.
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  21.  @zengpang3177  Vote for Greens = feelings is useless when "shit hits the fan."
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