March 24, 2023
Dear Editor,
Many modern-day young Western society-blessed Aussies hang on the words of – exiled from his own country of Tibet to escape the Chinese Communist Party’s further crushing of Tibet’s culture – the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader!
How many younger (and older) Aussies know 1.2 million Tibetans (the Dalai Lama’s people) have died because of Red China’s 1950 invasion when Red China also invaded South Korea, resulting in some 58,000 young Americans, 1,100 young British, and 350 young Aussies dying in battle to protect what 50 million South Koreans of today have?
Despite hostile “rumbles & mumbles” from Red China’s Communist leaders, former Aussie Lib/Nat Coalition PM Scott Morrison’s instigation of Australia’s AUKUS atomic-powered acquisition to help protect the Free World should be lauded/blessed!
ASIO’s crackdown on foreign spying on/interference in Australian politics, etc. should also be lauded/blessed by all Australian citizens and temporary and permanent Australian residents of all origins, nationalities, and political persuasions, particularly by the Chinese diaspora in democratic individuals’ freedom-loving and affluent Western-society Australia! (As a casual tutor assistant/mentor at one of Australia’s major universities, in recent years I have been tersely challenged by Chinese students for wearing my Australian-American Association badge, to which I responded, “Who the bloody he** do you, think so greatly helped your lot, after the Japanese Rape of Nanking?”)
Why? Because it is the totalitarian (with “disobedient” people still disappearing in the night!) regime of the Chinese Communist Party and not the so many different peoples of China causing worldwide unrest and commercial (thus financial manipulation/serfdom) colonisation of Third-World countries!
Sixteenth-century-born French jurist, essayist and philosopher Montesquieu should be heeded by all with his, “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”
Would the Dalai Lama today, disagree?
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia