Frank wrote Yesterday at 1:52pm:
Why did anyone believe that the Chinese are " just like any other country"? Why does anyone STILL believe such an obvious falsehood?
'The Chinese' are a people, not a country... and as a people they are pretty much us.
When people here get on their high horse about the Chinese, demonising and othering them, they use Chinese, CCP and China interchangeably... It's how you can tell the poster is full of sh!t.
The fact is, (Chinese) people need to be clothed, fed, housed, educated, serviced, attended to in sickness, employed, and given prospects for hope like... y'know... real people.
And, while the Australian government is tasked with ensuring all that for the Australian people, daily, it has to do it for under 30 million over a land mass greater than China - chocker-block with resources, making us one of the richest people in the world - the Chinese government, whether it is the CCP or whatever else one day replaces it, is tasked with the same for over one billion people.
If flexing political muscle is what it takes to make ends meet, then both governments would do it if they could and needed to.