Chinese paper calls Julie Bishop a 'complete fool', Australia a country of 'rascals and outlaws'

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Chinese paper calls Julie Bishop a 'complete fool', Australia a country of 'rascals and outlaws'
John Garnaut
ASIA PACIFIC EDITOR FOR FAIRFAX MEDIA

MELBOURNE: -- Australia is an outpost of “rascals and outlaws” that will soon adjust to the shifting realities of power, says a Chinese state-owned newspaper.

“Australia's history is not short of records of human rights infringement on the Aboriginal population,” said the Global Times, China’s most popular tabloid, in an editorial published in the newspaper’s English and Chinese editions today.

“The country used to be a place roamed by rascals and outlaws from Europe,” it said. “Perhaps it has to boast its values to cover up its actual lack of confidence in front of Western countries.”

The newspaper, owned by The People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s self-described "mouthpiece", was responding to comments made by Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop published by Fairfax Media on Thursday.

The Chinese version of the Global Times editorial goes further than the English version, using a Beijing colloquialism to describe Ms Bishop as a “complete fool” and suggesting her government won’t last long.

Full story: http://www.theage.com.au/world/chinese-paper-calls-julie-bishop-a-complete-fool-australia-a-country-of-rascals-and-outlaws-20140714-zt6w0.html

[theage]2014-07-14[/theage]

[terryp]

if its so bad then why so so many Chinesse want to live in OZ and why do so many of their government members own land an property there

 

sound like some one has thrown his toys out of the pram

[robblok]

The remark about how Australia came to be and the fact that it was a prison colony however true it might be does not make the current Australians criminals. Its not likely that being a criminal is in your genes. But those remarks must hurt some Australians. Also the crimes in the past against the Aboriginals don't justify those of China now. Its like you were bad then now I can do the same. 

 

Crazy, its like telling the Dutch of now they should be held responsible for their slave trader ancestors. 

 

Bet they lash out like that because their pride was hurt.

[Mosha]

The opening statement sounds like a threat.

[Schillaci]

China taking the high ground on human rights, strewth.

[Credo]

The Chinese have a different view of Human Rights.   What is in the collective good of the country trumps any individual or group's rights or freedoms.   So, when the Chinese mistreat a group it is because they deserve to be mistreated.   

 

 

[Ulysses G.]

I don't know who Julie Bishop is, but he might have a point about the “rascals and outlaws”. 

[oldsailor35]

I don't know who Julie Bishop is, but he might have a point about the “rascals and outlaws”. 

 

Uninformed ignorance at its best. 
 

[Ulysses G.]

"Uninformed ignorance" would have been agreeing with him about someone that I have never heard of before. Julie Bishop is not exactly a household name outside of Australia. 

Edited July 14, 2014 by Ulysses G.

[siampolee]

Rhetoric reminiscent of that  great liberator despot Mao Tse Tung

[than]

During British area authorities send criminal and prostitute from England to colonize Australia. This is a black face of British colonization.

 

However the British and after Australian  try to deport and exterminate aborigen 

[Scott]

A post that violates Fair Use Policy has been deleted.  

[xenophon]

They're right about that idiot Bishop - who is canceling australianetwork as demanded by Rupert, China's great friend

[NeverSure]

China has the balls to bring up human rights?    

 

"Australia is an outpost of “rascals and outlaws” that will soon adjust to the shifting realities of power, says a Chinese state-owned newspaper."

 

Is that a threat? Sounds like some saber rattling there. I have news for that punk China. Australia has friends.

[xenophon]

During British area authorities send criminal and prostitute from England to colonize Australia. This is a black face of British colonization.

 

However the British and after Australian  try to deport and exterminate aborigen 

Actually, the largest single group among the convicts were the chartists, proto-unionists and tradesmen expelled on political/public affray grounds - a much better and tougher lot of poms than those that followed them in the 20th century.

 

As for prostitutes and thieves, a brief read of the contemporary Dickens would provide an insight into their relationship to poverty

[Payboy]

Chinese paper calls Julie Bishop a 'complete fool', Australia a country of 'rascals and outlaws'

Wondering what was said in the uncensored edition.....:whistling:

[RickBradford]

Cut off their coal and uranium shipments until they issue what is now called a 'clarification'.

Nah. Just ignore them.

[squarethecircle]

It reminds me of Nazi Germany's propaganda prior to WWII: they insisted that the Jews had a vast conspiracy against them (which they did not) and as a response to the subsequent repression the best Jewish minds moved to the US and built the atom bomb, effectively winning the war for the other side, and then got their Jewish state.

PRC imagines itself surrounded by enemies ready to humiliate it (google to read about their "century of humiliations" propaganda). Actually this is not true as almost every country is welcoming to the decent and smart of the Chinese. In fact this behavior is fomenting a coalition of nations surrounding it (India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Japan, PH for starters).and they will be paying for this in blood and pink maos for many decades.

[Jdietz]

Visiting Australia, reply in a loud voice to the Immigration Officers question: "Have you ever been convicted of any criminal offence?"
with "I didn't know it was still compulsory!"

[Kalbo]

During British area authorities send criminal and prostitute from England to colonize Australia. This is a black face of British colonization.

 

However the British and after Australian  try to deport and exterminate aborigen 

 

 

They didn't get sent to 'colonize' the place so much as to get rid of them in the homeland.

[Trentham]

OK Aussies - we've been found out. We are a bunch of rascals descended from convicts. LET'S GIVE THEM HELL.

 

Oh wait a minute - I think 30% of us are of Asian descent now.

[ezzra]

This is coming from the people that purged and decimated a complete Chinese civilization

in the culture Mau revolution, I mean they took china back to the stone age for the sake of

misguided idolisms  and the have the audacity to belittle Australia?

hey, stop spitting in the streets and being boorish load talkers pushy people before you judge

others....

[AlexRRR]

Saber rattling...as if we dont...lets get real we aussies arnt exactly lilly white in our treatment of boat people.

 

Be a good idea if we minded our own business i thinks.

[Rorri]

During British area authorities send criminal and prostitute from England to colonize Australia. This is a black face of British colonization.

 

However the British and after Australian  try to deport and exterminate aborigen 

Your grasp of history is as bad as your english.

[Rorri]

Saber rattling...as if we dont...lets get real we aussies arnt exactly lilly white in our treatment of boat people.

 

Be a good idea if we minded our own business i thinks.

Try being a "boat" person and trying to get into Thailand or in fact the home country of where the "boat" people come from, then see if Australia is the only rascal country.... people like you who make these comments give me diarrhea. A country has a right, and an obligation to itself, to protect its borders. If people are true refugees then there are countries far closer to their homeland. 

[kamahele]

I think that most Australians actually take pride in the rascals in their family trees and will laugh this whole thing off

[sgtsabai]

I think maybe China just a tad a bit angry at Australia because of the build up of American military and Australia's military, esp. naval. China has been rattling the sword quite a bit lately and shows no sign of stopping it's advances. Hey, my dog never owned a gun but was quite good at getting the ducks I shot with one of my many shotguns. I had a lot of rifles, pistols, semi-auto military type also. I can find Australia, always have been able too, but back in my day we got an education. Lots of folks 'visited' Australia on R&R while on a paid vacation in sunny Vietnam courtesy Uncle Sam, not me, I like Asian women, went to Hong Kong. Great people, great warriors and for me personally some good friends.

[DoctorG]

China is a bit miffed that Oz has just hosted the Japanese PM and that we refer to them as out best friend in Asia.

I spent a lot of time in China and know many Chinese middle class who would love to leave, and move to Oz..

 

[Scott]

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[SheungWan]

The veiled threats from an anonymous but authorized Chinese CP outlet are a well-known party piece these days, not just in Australia.

The Chinese CP, of course, blanks out its own history when inconvenient to have it mentioned. eg Great Leap Forward and even more recent events. Nasty hypocrites.

Edited July 14, 2014 by SheungWan