The Groveller-in-chief will grovel:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is unlikely to respond to an invitation to visit Beijing until at least August 11, which is Australia’s deadline for lifting trade sanctions on barley, sources say.
To the growing frustration of Beijing, which feels it has already made significant concessions on trade, the prime minister has yet to respond to an invitation issued some months ago, despite saying publicly a trip this year was likely.
Exactly where it the upside in this for Australia? We get to put out barley exports back into the noose of economic coercion for a few shekels, undoing the hard work of trade diversification, while Beijing gets the propaganda coup of dividing Australia from other liberal democracies.
Meanwhile, Australian citizens rot in Chinese jails as forgotten hostages as Albo the Groveller goes to Beijing for a celebration of 50 years of Labor groveling.
This is not pragmatism. It’s not even being bought.
It is treason.
