china - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word china was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

Australian exports to mainland China and the Republic of China in this period were as follows: [More…]
What was the value of Australian exports to (a) China and (b) Taiwan each year since1950. [More…]
by leave- I present the official report of the Australian parliamentary mission to Hong Kong, Japan, The Republic of Korea and the Republic of China. [More…]
and (2) Mr James was issued with an Australian passport in February 1969, but I have no knowledge as to whether he had this passport when he entered Mainland China. [More…]
Did Mr Francis James, formerly editor of The Anglican’ newspaper, have an Australian passport when entering China. [More…]
What was the value of (a) imports from and (b) exports to (i) ail Asian countries, (ii) all Asian countries excluding Japan and (iii) all Asian countries excluding Japan and Mainland China for the latest year for which information is available. [More…]
I can only inform the honourable member that we have had no blandishments seeking to induce us to recognise Communist China and that the policy of this Government on that matter remains as it always has been and I am sure it is clearly understood to be by the Australian people. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Can he give the House a specific assurance that he has resisted the blandishments of any persuasive visitors to recognise Red China? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noticed reports that Malaysia’s new Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, has called for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America? [More…]
What validity is there is Australia’s forward defence policy of containing Communism, which is based on the alignment of Malaysia against Communism and therefore against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, especially when Malaysia is seeking guarantees from these 2 Communist powers for its own future? [More…]
To what extent has the Canadian Prime Minister been in touch with him regarding the Canadian proposal to admit Communist China to the United Nations? [More…]
Has Communist China applied for admission to the United Nations? [More…]
Department of External Affairs has been in touch with our Department, keeping it, in genera], informed of the progress of discussions between the Canadian Government and the Government of Red China. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile his statement on 14th October to the Leader of the Opposition that Malaysia will abstain, from a vote on the actual recognition of - Communist China, with his reference given today to Tun Ismail’s statement that Malaysia would, if necessary, cosponsor any move to admit China .to the United Nations by a simple majority? [More…]
The Minister for External Affairs will recall that in answer to a question yesterday he said that his information was that there was a possibility of a change in the attitude of Malaysia towards the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House what, so far as he knows, is the present attitude of the Malaysian Government towards the admission of Communist China to the United Nations and its present attitude towards Communist China generally? [More…]
Is it the view of the Malaysian Government that the question of the admission of Communist China to the United Nations should be determined by a simple majority vote at the United Nations? [More…]
Is Malaysia willing to co-sponsor a resolution recommending the admission of Communist China to the United Nations? [More…]
Brazil, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Iran, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Morocco, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia. [More…]
Will he inform me, as ,be Acting Minister promised on 30 September (Hansard, page 1861) whether iron and steel are on the list of strategic materials which Western countries, including Australia and Japan, have agreed not to export to China. [More…]
Are (a) iron (b) steel and (c) zinc among the strategic materials which the NATO powers and Japan have agreed not to export to China. [More…]
Which countries have extended diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China and when did they do so. [More…]
What countries have taken steps to extend diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China since his answer to me on 28th October 1970. [More…]
In addition, Nigeria has now announced that it recognises ‘the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government representing the entire Chinese people’. [More…]
What were the texts of resolutions moved during 1969 and 1970 in the various organs of the United Nations concerning representation of China. [More…]
Has the question of the export of strategic materials to China been referred to Cabinet since his answer to me on 28th October 1970. [More…]
I do not, however, want to enter into a full scale debate on wheat growing and primary production and the advisability or otherwise of recognising Red China and all those other matters that have been raised and have nothing to do with the legislation before us. [More…]
I shall therefore confine my statement to four questions of particular current interest and importance to Australia - Indo-China, China, the Middle East and Pakistan. [More…]
Noone in this Parliament, no-one in Australia and certainly no wheat grower will be satisfied with the attempt of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to downgrade the importance of the present crisis in the Australian-Chinese wheat trade and, generally, in trade relations between Australia and China. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, as some members opposite have said, this debate is concerned with sales of wheat to Red China. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister heard of the intention of a prominent journalist and of others to visit mainland China in connection with certain sporting activities and of a member of the Opposition of this House to pay a visit to inquire into trade negotiations by this Government? [More…]
Does his Government still maintain, as is stated in the credentials of Australia’s ambassador to Taipeh, that the government of Taiwan China, to adopt his term, is the legitimate and actual government of all and every China? [More…]
Does the Government officially maintain that Taiwan China is responsible not only for the 14 million people on the island of Taiwan but for the population 50 times that size in continental China as well? [More…]
I do not think there are any magical results from recognition or nonrecognition of China. [More…]
The Government is now asserting, without any hope of using it as an ideological weapon to change the facts on the mainland of China, that the Government on Taiwan is the Government of China. [More…]
Entry of China to the United Nations will not be determined by our recognition or by American recognition, just as Communist China has never got into the United Nations on British recognition. [More…]
The question of recognition is only a matter of trying to have a contact with China as one step towards the development of a sane world. [More…]
To hear members speak one would imagine that we already had diplomatic relations with Red China. [More…]
Each and every one of the speeches that were made tonight could have been a speech of an ambassador from Communist China. [More…]
All that they have done tonight has been to stand up one after another and defend Communist China. [More…]
Does Australia discriminate against imports from mainland China? [More…]
When will the Minister announce, as forecast by the Prime Minister on 20th April, measures to liberalise our trade with mainland China? [More…]
Has a table tennis team from the People’s Republic of China ever been refused an entry permit to Australia. [More…]
Despite the fact that Pakistan is a member of SEATO it is known that she has undertakings from China for support in any such confrontation which would make for a very difficult international situation. [More…]
On what date did he receive (a) the cable from Hong Kong and (b) the record of a conversation between British and Australian officials concerning the purchase of Australia wheat by the People’s Republic of China (Hansard, 7th April 1971, page 1557)? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in “The Australian’ of 7th April 1971 that a Government spokesman said after question time the previous day that the Prime Minister had given a very high security classification to the communication received through the British Government on the sale of Australian wheat to China? [More…]
As the honourable member knows, the Australian Government maintains diplomatic relations with, and of course recognises, the Government of the Republic of China. [More…]
The Government is not required, however, to take any stand with regard to the territorial claims maintained by the Republic of China, or for that matter by other governments which it recognises and with which it is in diplomatic relations. [More…]
No useful purpose would be served by attempting the academic exercise of specifying those administrative divisions referred to generically by the honourable member as ‘the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China’ in which the Government considers that one or other of the three categories of governmental authority mentioned by the honourable member is exercised by cither the Republic of China or the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Over what provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions of China does the Australian Government consider that (a) the Republic of China and (b) the People’s Republic of China has (i) de facto sovereignty, (ii) de jure sovereignty, and (iii) actual control? [More…]
In line with other Western countries, Australia operates controls to prevent the export of strategic materials to Communist countries, including the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
However it does not obstruct purchases made from Australia of items, such as certain metals, which are not on the list of strategic materials and are, therefore freely available to China from elsewhere. [More…]
Preliminary figures for the export of metals to China for 1970.71 are as follows: [More…]
Are Australian metal exports to Mainland China suitable for use in producing armaments. [More…]
Which islands situated on China’s continental shelf have been administered by the United States under the terms of the treaty. [More…]
As has been indicated in response to earlier questions in the Parliament, the Government is not required to take any stand with regard to the territorial claims maintained by the Republic of China, or for that matter by any other Governments which it recognises and with which it is in diplomatic relations. [More…]
Can he say whether the Government of China recognised by Australia claims authority over Mongolia as a province of China. [More…]
Has the Government defined the areas it recognises as the areas of authority of the Nationalist Government of China; if so, will he make this information available to the Parliament. [More…]
Who has represented Australia at China’s National Day reception at the Chinese Embassy in Canberra in each year from 1965 to 1970 inclusive. [More…]
China: Australian Representation at National Day Reception (Question No. [More…]
The Governments which are believed to be or to have been claimants of sovereignty are: (a) Spratly Islands: People’s Republic of China, Republic of China, France, Philippines, [More…]
Paracel Islands: People’s Republic of China, Republic of China and Republic of Viet-Nam. [More…]
The Senkaku Islands are claimed by the Governments of the People’s Republic of China and of the Republic of China. [More…]
Did the Minister for External Affairs advise against the visit which Messrs C. O. Turner, C. E. Oliver and N. R. Moon proposed to make to China on behalf of Qantas in 1965. [More…]
Are Australian iron, steel, zinc and aluminium exports to the People’s Republic of China suitable for use in producing armaments? [More…]
The most disturbing inference that he made was that the trip that Mr Whitlam and 1 made to China was paid for by the Australian taxpayer. [More…]
The honourable member’s question in 1965 was about visits to mainland China by employees of the Commonwealth and of Commonwealth statutory authorities. [More…]
Why were the visits to China by employees of Qantas in 1957 and 1964 (Hansard, 13th October 1971, page 2339) omitted from the answer by Prime Minister Menzies on 17th August 1965 (Hansard, page 147). [More…]
The following countries have embassies to the Republic of China which are not resident in Taipei: [More…]
It is already known that I did not seek, ask for or in any way solicit an invitation to visit the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
So far as the Subsidiary and Special Bodies of the UN are concerned the General Assembly vote is regarded as binding and the People’s Republic of China can automatically take its place. [More…]
On 16th November 1971, the Governing Body voted to recognise the People’s Republic of China as the Representative Government of China. [More…]
The answer to the fourth question is that it is our policy to have a dialogue with China in order to normalise bi-lateral relationships between the 2 countries. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Does the right honourable gentleman recall asserting on 23rd August last that acceptance of the idea that Taiwan is a province of China implies that force can be used to restore control by China? [More…]
Has he noted President Nixon’s statement last Sunday that the United States of America acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Straits maintain that there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China? [More…]
Has he also noted Prime Minister Sato’s subsequent statement that Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Which United Nation bodies and specialised agencies have voted on the representation of China since the decision of the General Assembly on 25th October 1971. [More…]
It has been reported widely in the Press that, if an invitation is received from China, the Prime Minister will willingly send a Minister. [More…]
In view of the economic and political importance of China to Australia, particularly with respect to trade, why is the Prime Minister adopting the negative attitude of waiting for an invitation which may never arrive? [More…]
Does he not think that if it was good enough for President Nixon to ask to go to China, he as the Prime [More…]
Minister of Australia might take the same initiative and inform Chou En-lai that he, as the Prime Minister, would also like to come to China to discuss problems of the future between China and Australia? [More…]
Why has the Government failed to establish cordial relations with the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Was President Nixon’s request to visit China in an election year directly related to United States domestic policy? [More…]
Since 18th February 1971, announcements (on the date shown below) have been made on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the following countries and the People’s Republic of China: [More…]
What countries have taken steps to extend diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China since the answer on 18th February 1971 (Hansard, page 365) by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Is China a party to them. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China was not represented at the meeting of the committee of governmental experts held from 9th to 17th May 1972 in Paris and sponsored jointly by UNESCO and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. [More…]
Was the People’s Republic of China represented at the meeting of a committee of governmental experts held from 9th to 17th May 1972 on problems raised by transmission of broadcasts via space satellites. [More…]
Did the Government of the day advise against the visit which Messrs C. O. Turner, C. E. Oliver and N. R. Moon proposed to make to China on behalf of Qantas in 1965 (Hansard, 13th October 1971, page 2339 and 3 November 1971, page 2996). [More…]
Industry (Mr Sinclair) that I was conniving to stop wheat sales to China. [More…]
Can the Minister for Trade and Industry confirm the reports in this morning’s Press about a $60m sale of wheat to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Will the Minister point out to the Leader of the Opposition and the honourable member for Dawson how wrong they were in their often repeated claims that the People’s Republic of China would not buy wheat from Australia unless we established diplomatic relations with this country? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Trade and Industry whether the Government’s trade policy with Mainland China has proved to be highly successful, despite attempts by the Leader of the Opposition and the honourable members for Dawson and Riverina to interfere. [More…]
Have Australian commercial negotiators made record sales to mainland China, not only of wheat but also of sugar and steel? [More…]
Are many Australian exporters continuing a highly effective series of missions to Mainland China on behalf of Australian industry, with excellent future prospects? [More…]
The Minister is no doubt pleased at yesterday’s announcement by the Australian Wheat Board of a sale of 1 million tons of wheat to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
ls information available to the Government that either confirms or denies the reported intention of the Government of China to explode nuclear devices in the Pacific or Indian Ocean at an early date? [More…]
Should an announcement be made by the Government of China that it intends to explode one or more nuclear devices, will the Government on behalf of the Australian people immediately lodge with China and the United Nations the strongest possible protest against such a decision? [More…]
In the House of Representatives on 16th August (Hansard, pages 213 and 214), I clearly expressed the opposition of the Australian Government in regard to nuclear weapons testing by China. [More…]
In the absence of authoritative information concerning venereal disease in the Peoples Republic of China, I am unable to comment on this question. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report from Peking which appeared in the Australian Press recently to the effect that venereal disease has been eradicated in Communist China. [More…]
If necessary, will he ask some Australian Chinese Communophile who has visited China in recent times to assist him to determine the facts. [More…]
If it is finally established that Communist China has eradicated venereal disease, why has Australia not been able to do the same. [More…]
The formula on which Australia recognised the People’s Republic of China was published about Christmas time. [More…]
I ask him: When does he intend to release the formula on which Australia recognised the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
How does it differ from the formula on which Canada recognised the People’s Republic of China some time ago? [More…]
Of course, before opening negotiations with China, the Government knew from the publicly expressed attitudes of both China and the authorities in Taipei that it would not be possible for Australia to establish diplomatic relations with China while retaining an Embassy in Taipei. [More…]
Was any undertaking given to the Government of the People’s Republic of China that Australia would withdraw its armed forces from the Malaysian area during the discussions which culminated in diplomatic recognition. [More…]
What demands were made by, the Government of the People’s Republic of China upon the Australian Government as a condition for the establishment of diplomatic relations to. [More…]
Has the Government information on the reported intention of the People’s Republic of China to explode nuclear devices in the atmosphere shortly, either on the Chinese mainland or elsewhere. [More…]
If so, will the Government immediately lodge with China and the United Nations a note of protest in the strongest terms. [More…]
Nuclear Tests by China (Question No. [More…]
Did he state that he was unable to give the name of Australia’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China before it had been agreed to by the government of that country? [More…]
No report of China’s intentions has been received. [More…]
As I stated in the House last year (Hansard, 16 August 1972, page 221), I protested to the then Acting Foreign Minister of China, Mr Chi Peng-fei, against the continued testing of nuclear weapons by China when I was in Peking. [More…]
What figures are available to demonstrate a comparison of Australian Trade with the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China in Taiwan. [More…]
The Government has embraced China, it has insulted the United States of America and it has raided the headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
Following on his remarks at his Press conference of last Tuesday relating to the jurisdictional aspects of the respective tests, will he make it clear that these comments relate only to our capacity to take legal action and not to the Australian Government’s attitude to all forms of atmospheric testing whether conducted by France or China? [More…]
We are particularly anxious to recapture the market for wheat in China which the previous Government lost. [More…]
Does his Government accept as normal and, presumably, binding practice the undue and malicious intrusion in the domestic affairs of this country which his acceptance of the representations from the Charge d’Affaires of the People’s Republic of China represents? [More…]
Is he aware that the report stated that, in answer to a question directed to him about whether he had received any response from the Chinese Government to his protest note on the nuclear tests, he said that the protest to China was oral so there would be no written response? [More…]
program Dr Fitzgerald, Australia’s Ambassador to China, stated that his predecessor, Mr Cotterill,’ lodged a protest note with the Chinese Assistant Minister? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister assure the House and the people of Australia that the Minister for Overseas Trade in his trade talks with officials of the People’s Republic of China will not commit Australian exports in a season of short supply exclusively to the Chinese and to the exclusion of all other traditional markets? [More…]
Did he state, in answer to a question in the House, that there are no significant differences between the formula of Australia’s recognition of the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the formula of recognition of the People’s Republic of China by Canada or Britain. [More…]
The Australian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China, acknowledges the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China, and has decided to remove its official representation from Taiwan before 25th January 1973’. [More…]
The substantive passage of the Sino-British communique of 13th March 1972 reads: “The Government of the United Kingdom, acknowledging the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China, have decided to remove their official representation in Taiwan on 13th March 1972. [More…]
The Government of the United Kingdom recognise the Government of the People’s Republic of China’. [More…]
People’s Republic of China and United States of America: Diplomatic Relations (Question No. [More…]
Did he state, in answer to a question in the House, that there are no significant differences between the formula of Australia’s recognition of the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the formula of recognition of the People’s Republic of China by Canada or Britain. [More…]
Republic of China, managed to achieve exchange of representatives with both the People’s Republic of China and the Government of Taiwan. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Northern Development whether it is a fact that a large sale of sugar has been made to China in recent days. [More…]
Did they migrate from Mainland China or Hong Kong. [More…]
My comments differed somewhat from the words cited in the question but I expressed the hope that further business would be written between the Australian Wool Corporation and the China National Textiles Import and Export Corporation. [More…]
I have no knowledge of any individual sales of wool made to China by private firms. [More…]
The total exports of wool from Australia to China in recent years have been as follows: [More…]
Did the Minister state, as reported, that a wool mission from China had placed an initial order with the Australian Wool Corporation for about 1,000 bales of merino wool valued at $500,000, and that this was an important breakthrough in respect of trade between China and Australia. [More…]
Have much larger sales of wool to China been made privately. [More…]
Is this sale to China a transaction which undersells the established market; if not, why not. [More…]
China, while the United States now conducts its meaningful relations with China through liaison missions in and from Peking. [More…]
I shall be very happy to discuss this matter and seek the opportunity to discuss it on my return visit to China next week. [More…]
One of the great advantages of having diplomatic relations with China is that the Australian Government can now discuss such matters with the Government of China. [More…]
They are now able to be in touch with their relatives in China much more readily. [More…]
The issue of visas in the case of China and every other country is a matter for the governments of those countries. [More…]
I ask: Will the honourable gentleman in his forthcoming discussions with the Premier of the People’s Republic of China request that sympathetic consideration be given by his Government to the granting of exit visas to Chinese citizens who desire to be reunited with their families in Australia? [More…]
I refer the Minister to reports of contracts for large sales of sugar to China. [More…]
When will the Minister be in a position to announce details of these sales of sugar to China? [More…]
The proposed sugar sales to China following sub’stantial sales in the last 2 years are very welcome particularly after the failure of Dr Patterson and other negotiators in Geneva to secure a continuation of the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]
Is it also true that while he was on a recent trip to China many songs were played in lieu of the present Australian national anthem, ‘God Save the Queen’? [More…]
Did his consultations in China include the question of recognition of the PRG and is his Government going to recognise it? [More…]
I address a question to the Prime Minister and I refer to the honourable gentleman’s observations yesterday concerning China. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the most successful exhibition of archaeological finds of the People’s Republic of China now being staged in London. [More…]
Will he endeavour to have the exhibition come to Australia before its return to China. [More…]
Seriously, Mr Speaker, I did raise with the Chinese authorities the possibility of a visit to China by an Australian Rules football team. [More…]
I know that the facilities that are available in China for visitors from other countries at the present time are very limited. [More…]
For this reason alone it is physically not possible for the Chinese Government to agree to many of the requests that are made by people to visit China for medical reasons or for reasons such as this one. [More…]
The Chinese authorities have pointed out that the game is not known in China. [More…]
I am concerned to assist Australian Rules football to become more widely known, especially in Australia, and I look forward to the possibility of a visit by such a team to China sooner or later. [More…]
As a fellow Victorian who also enjoys Australian Rules football, I ask: What is the reason that the Peoples’ Republic of China has declined the Minister’s proposal, for which I commend him, of a visit to that country by an Australian Rules football team? [More…]
Is the Mr Douglas Darby referred to in the article as President of the ‘Australia-Free China Society’ the same Mr Darby who was Chairman of the Cricket for Free China Committee in 1970 (Hansard, 26 October 1971, pages 2559-60). [More…]
Two delegations from the People’s Republic of China visited Australia in 1973 and were given information on the aircraft. [More…]
With reference to the Government’s decision not to supply Nomad aircraft to Portugal consistent with its support for the United Nations Resolution 2918 of 14 November 1972, is it a fact that the Government is negotiating a sale of Nomad aircraft to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
and (3) Formal diplomatic channels, not a direct approach from me to Chairman Mao (who is Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and not, as the honourable member erroneously stated on 23 October 1973, Chairman of the People’s Republic of China), would be the appropriate way to arrange a visit by an Australian Parliamentary delegation to China. [More…]
As a delegation visited China only some 12 months ago, another visit to China is unlikely to be arranged for some time. [More…]
In view of the fraternal arrangements arrived at between the present Australian Government and the Communist Government of China, would he anticipate any difficulty in arranging a visit by Members of this Parliament to Tibet. [More…]
Is there any inter-departmental committee or committees dealing with any aspects of Australia’s trading relations with (a) New Zealand (b) Japan (c) the United States (d) Great Britain (e) the European Economic Community (f) the Soviet Union (g) China (h) India (i) Indonesia and (j ) any other countries. [More…]
In order to protect its man in Peking, is it a fact that the ABC does not use reports on China emanating from Hong Kong. [More…]
His work has however been made more difficult by the failure of the Chinese authorities to provide the ABC office in Peking with the HSINHUA News Wire Service- the principal source of official news in China. [More…]
I cannot mention precisely at this time or in this place the countries that I shall be visiting but among them clearly will be the Soviet Union which for some time has been pressing for a visit, particularly since I have already visited the United States of America, Japan, China and Britain. [More…]
What were the terms of sale, prices received and amounts and types of wool involved in the recent sale of wool to China by the Australian Wool Corporation. [More…]
1 ) What are the details of the agreement made with the People’s Republic of China with respect to the sale by Australia of wheat. [More…]
Is Australia obligated to supply wheat to China before other countries in the event of the Chinese requesting it. [More…]
Is China obligated to take wheat off Australia up to certain limits in particular years; if so, in which years, and what quantities are involved. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to indexed item 54- Price of wheat sold to China. [More…]
The present Prime Minister drew attention to such a communication on 6 April 1971 (Hansard,page 1462) when asking the then Prime Minister to confirm that the Chinese Government had indicated that it would not buy further supplies of Australian wheat because of a statement made by a Minister of the former Australian Government, which China considered to be hostile. [More…]
The then Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Member for Lowe, confirmed that his Government had received a report that a Chinese official had indicated to a British representative that China would not place any further wheat orders with Australia because of the attitude of the then Australian Government to China. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to indexed item 86- Department of Foreign Affairs background papers on China, Japan, Russia, etc. [More…]
With his death China lost one of her great leaders and the world lost one of this century’s outstanding men. [More…]
A determined revolutionary, he was a major figure in the turbulence of China’s revolutionary period and beyond, playing the roles of party organiser, military leader and intellectual, combining those qualities and characteristics with rare skill and a rare capacity. [More…]
He was second only to Mao Tsetung in his influence on contemporary China. [More…]
These explanations of China’s role made a significant contribution to world understanding and in particular to an understanding of modern China. [More…]
In his last years, gravely ill, he worked with grace and composure to maintain and enhance China’s internal stability and position in the world. [More…]
That this House records its sincere regret at the death of Chou En-lai, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and expresses to the people of China profound regret and to his family tenders sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
As the China Antiquities Exhibition has now been to Great Britain and the United States, is he able to say when Australia can expect to see it. [More…]
-I thought I should say a few words about the forthcoming visit of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to the People’s Republic of China because there are rumours floating around the lobbies of Parliament House that the honourable member for [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) alleged- and it was confessed to by the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth)- that in the mid-1960s the honourable member for Mackellar suggested to this House that nuclear bombs should be dropped on certain factories in mainland China. [More…]
Yes, when China did not have nuclear bombs. [More…]
I was sitting in the Parliament on that night and I was appalled that the honourable member for Mackellar should suggest dropping nuclear weapons on certain factories in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, the People’s Republic of China has vehemently declared to the world time and time again that she will never be the first to use nuclear weapons; that if nuclear weapons are used against her, she will retaliate, but she will never be the first to use them. [More…]
If China were not sincere in that regard, she could have given nuclear weapons to North Vietnam - [More…]
Has the Government stressed how divisive it would be in our region if the United States blocked the admission of Vietnam in the way she for so long blocked the restoration of membership rights to the People ‘s Republic of China? [More…]
In this process, he welded the difficult factions in China into a cohesive and united nation. [More…]
(a) The West Indian dry wood termite is considered to be indigenous to the West Indies and the Caribbean and is now established in South and Central America, United States of America, Canada, China, Midway Island, Fiji, England, South Africa, Sierra Leone, New Caledonia, Easter Island and Queensland. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to page ( 1 ) of a supplement entitled The Genius of China appearing in the Age of 17 January 1977? [More…]
Does the article read like a propaganda handout from the Government of China? [More…]
The trip was not a pan of the official cultural exchange program with China. [More…]
Examination of departmental records, however, indicates that the only major disaster in the period under reference which has not been the subject of Australian assistance was the recent series of earthquakes in China. [More…]
I refer to the magnificent tapestry picture, the recent gift from the delegates of the People’s Republic of China to this Parliament. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) During the visit by the Prime Minister to the People’s Republic of China last year, Mr Fraser expressed the concern of the Australian Government about the support given by the People’s Republic of China for insurgency movements in South East Asia. [More…]
Has any request been made to the People’s Republic of China concerning the broadcasts beamed to South East Asia, known under the name of The Voice of Thailand and Radio Suara Revolusi Malaya- the Voice of Malayan Revolution. [More…]
What has been the response of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The following states continue to recognise the so called Government of the Republic of China’ in Taipei as the government of China: [More…]
Which countries still recognise the administration in the province of Taiwan as the government of China. [More…]
Spratly Island: Current claimants to the Spratly Islands or part thereof are believed to be Vietnam, the Philippines and the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Paracel Islands: Current claimants are believed to be the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China maintains a military garrison on Paracel Islands. [More…]
Senkaku Islands: Current claimants to the Senkaku Islands are believed to be Japan and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s recent successful visit to China, can he advise the House which Australian industries, in his view, are able to get greatest access to the Chinese market? [More…]
Does membership of the communist parties of China, Russia or any East or West European country act as a bar to a person being granted an Australian visa. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Trade and Resources say what prospects there are for the sale of Australian iron ore to China, particularly in view of the downturn in the steel industry around the world? [More…]
) What was the official exchange value of the Australian dollar for the currencies of (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom, (c) Canada, (d) Japan, (e) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (0 West Germany and (g) the People’s Republic of China (i) in December 1975 and (ii) as at 4 April 1 978. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry made an important visit to China. [More…]
Could he tell us now what negotiations he has had with companies in Australia about broadening trade between this country and China and whether he has been successful in discussions with his colleague with a view to allowing Qantas Airways Ltd flights to Peking? [More…]
I am grateful for being able on this occasion to give an address for a few moments about our relations with China. [More…]
Agreement between Australia and China on Establishment of Consulates-General (Question No. [More…]
-Following the visit to China of the Minister for Trade and Resources can he indicate what prospects there are for further trade and co-operation between Australia and China? [More…]
Following the Minister’s advice to the House yesterday that he discussed with the Chinese authorities last week ways of co-operation between Australia and Chinese authorities to assist China ‘s agricultural development, can the Minister now provide any more specific information as to how this cooperation might be achieved? [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say ( a) what are the proven oil reserves of (i) the Persian Gulf countries, (ii) the United States of America, (iii) the North Sea, (iv) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (v) Eastern Europe, (vi) China and (vii) Australia, and (b) how many years production does each have at 1975 production levels. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the Government of the Peoples ‘Republic of China insists on balancing trade bilaterally. [More…]
If so, what extra imports does he expect us to be taking from China in return for the extra imports he expects us to sell to that country. [More…]
Is it a fact that the previous history of negotiations concerning Qantas flights to China is a pessimistic story and that there is little likelihood of such flights being arranged. [More…]
I have also read that the Vice Premier of China has said that Vietnam is the Cuba of Asia. [More…]
I refer to reports today that China has announced officially that as from 5 March all Chinese frontier troops are withdrawing from Vietnamese territory. [More…]
(a) USSR, Mongolia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, China, German Democratic Republic, Sudan, Central African Empire, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Maldive Islands, Malta, Cameroon, Uganda, Senegal, Rwanda, Upper Volta, Guinea-Bissau, Nepal, Guyana, Laos, Jordan, Australia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Venezuela, Botswana, Austria, Switzerland, Vietnam, Algeria, Guinea, Cuba, Mali, South [More…]
Which countries accord formal diplomatic recognition to (a) the People’s Republic of China (Peking), (b) The Republic of China (Taipeh), (c) neither, and (d) both. [More…]
(ii) Except for the proposed agreement with China, no other science agreements are at present under negotiation. [More…]
Science and Technology Agreement with China (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is an agreement for scientific and technological cooperation being negotiated between the Peoples’ Republic of China and Australia similar to that which has already been signed between the Peoples ‘ Republic of China and the United States of America. [More…]
China, the USSR and other countries with centrally planned economies are known to have also been providing aid to Vietnam. [More…]
(China ceased to provide aid to Vietnam on 3 July 1978.) [More…]
Can he say (a) whether the United States of America has expressed support for the proposal and (b) whether (i) the Soviet Union, (ii) the Peoples Republic of China and (iii) Vietnam have opposed it. [More…]
Dumping duties have been determined in respect of imports of dextrose monohydrate from Japan, Malaysia, the People’s Republic of China, France and the Federal Republic of Germany exported to Australia on or after 28 September 1979. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to statements made by the Prime Minister in discussions in India with Indian officials, that the Government would investigate diversifying some oil supplies from the Middle East to China because of uncertainty about future supplies from Iran; if so, were these statements in accordance with the stated attitude of the Government. [More…]
Will the Minister explain to some of the members sitting behind him that an attempt to show identity of Australian and South African interests plays into the hands of Russia and China? [More…]
On the last point, that is, that we were supplying wheat at lower prices to Communist China, he obviously was badly misinformed here because all sales take place at current prices in the market where wheat is being sold. [More…]
The allegation is that I was badly misinformed on the price of wheat sold to Communist China. [More…]
These related to the alleged use of germ warfare by ihe Allies, including the United States, in the Korean War when, it was alleged, germs were dropped over North Korea and northern China. [More…]
As for dropping bacteriological bombs on North Korea and China, let us face reality and truth. [More…]
He is the same Minister who sponsors the selling of wheat to China. [More…]
He did a Burchett in his time, too, because his Government sent war materials to the enemy by sending strategic metals, chemicals and tallow and things of that kind to Red China in days gone by. [More…]
Australian servicemen were blown up in Vietnam by explosives made from tallow shipped to China by this Government. [More…]
In the Northern Hemisphere there were crop failures in some countries, principally in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, but today the situation is vastly different. [More…]
One of my great disappointments is that many of them are unable to see that today this country, and for that matter even more so the United States, are to the ‘left’ of the United Soviet Socialist Republics and of China as of today. [More…]
The timetable was for Mainland China to attack India on 23rd March of the following year. [More…]
When the wheat industry was going through a difficult period 2 or 3 years ago, we received orders for wheat from China and elsewhere, which relieved the position considerably. [More…]
One could liken him to a bull in a china shop. [More…]
He referred to the rise of Communist China as a nuclear power and to the growth and development of various countries of the region in which we live. [More…]
Referring to China and Russia he said that the future was impossible to predict. [More…]
Ten were bought by Communist China and others were destined for various countries, including South Africa, Argentina, Italy and Romania. [More…]
We are not likely to have again such an opportunity for obtaining a settlement on anything like such satisfactory terms, not only for the Vietnams but for the Indo-China region, as we had in 1967. [More…]
On the contrary, the Minister clings to the old attitudes and theories which culminated in the present disaster in Indo-China. [More…]
Under its baleful influence, the conflict in Vietnam escalated into the longest and third largest war this century; it has been at the root of the massive blunders and massive bloodshed of this conflict; it has built up a tawdry totalitarian regime, running a fifthrate power, as the arbiter of Indo-China, while a hardly less totalitarian regime drags in its wake the prestige of the mightiest democracy the world has known or will ever know. [More…]
Thus runs the Liberal syllogism: North Vietnam is being taught that aggression cannot succeed, but North Vietnam is extending her aggression to the whole of Indo-China. [More…]
We do not hear much these days of the grand old rationale of our involvement in Vietnam - the need, according to Sir Robert Menzies, to prevent the downward thrust of China between the Indian and Pacific oceans’. [More…]
The truth is that events in Cambodia fit perfectly into the most significant theme of Indo-China’s history since World War II - the theme which explains the disasters which have befallen our aims, our arms and our efforts in that area. [More…]
Its object is to neutralise Indo-China - that is, the countries of this area should not be subject to intervention, much less confrontation, on the part of the competing great powers. [More…]
The current events in Laos and Cambodia present the last opportunity we shall have for an international conference on IndoChina. [More…]
But the precedent and the machinery exist for Indo-China in a way that they do nowhere else in the world. [More…]
France’s actions and motives, one thing must be said: She has learnt the lessons of her grievous losses in Indo-China. [More…]
If, conceivably, a European area were involved in the kind of protracted and selfdestructive conflict that we now see in our area, that we have seen for a quarter century now, in Indo-China, this Government would urge and encourage every move in the United Nations to stop it, on any terms at all. [More…]
They overlook what is perhaps her most significant role of all - in helping bridge relations between the United States and China. [More…]
No country stands more to gain from rational relationships from China; no country is so well placed to make the beginning towards securing such relationships. [More…]
It is regrettable that the Minister for External Affairs, while paying lip-service to the concept of restoring China to the international community, returned to the old doctrine that China must first give proofs of her fitness to be a member of that community. [More…]
If the standards of international conduct laid down by the Minister were the conditions of membership of the United Nations they would form as good an argument for expelling Russia as for excluding China. [More…]
The problems of building a rational relationship with China are complex enough; it would resolve one difficulty if we were to drop at once the habit of directing sermons rather than proposals to China. [More…]
As one of China’s significant trading partners, Australia has certain opportunities. [More…]
Judging from past experience in China and North Vietnam perhaps several hundred thousands, who have supported the war and fought valiantly and who would certainly oppose the conqueror’s subsequent collectivisation programme, might be slaughtered. [More…]
For example, we know quite well that neither France nor China will sign. [More…]
Pakistan joined because it believed that the organisation could be an effective lever not against Communist China but against its neighbour India. [More…]
No Vietnamese Communist, no matter how indoctrinated with Communist ideology, would have sought material support from China, a country which for centuries the Vietnamese have regarded as hostile. [More…]
Yet our involvement in Vietnam forced the Vietnamese nationalists and Communists into a far closer relationship with Communist China than would have been their preference. [More…]
100 - Equal Remuneration 1951 - which provides that ratifying countries shall, by means appropriate to the methods in operation for determining rates of remuneration, promote and, in so far as is consistent with such methods, ensure the application to all workers of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, has been ratified by the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Gabon, Federal Republic of Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Republic of Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Panama, Paraquay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., United Arab Republic, Upper Volta, Yugoslavia. [More…]
today becauses you are trading with China. [More…]
But the fact is that this Government would have been bankrupt in overseas credit if it had not been for trade with Red China. [More…]
The fact is that this Government - the anticommunist government - has been selling wheat to Red China on a time payment basis on terms better than those available to our sister nation in the Commonwealth of Nations, India. [More…]
I remember when, during the 1966 elections, the Liberal Party, authorised by its Federal Secretary, Mr Carrick, issued a scurrilous leaflet to the effect that the people of Australia should be afraid of China. [More…]
That leaflet showed red arrows pointing down from China to Australia to illustrate the aggression that we were to expect. [More…]
At the same time Australia was trading with China. [More…]
I asked the then Minister for External Affairs, Mr Hasluck as he then was, whether China was an enemy of Australia. [More…]
The fact is that the then Minister for External Affairs said that China was not an enemy of Australia. [More…]
Not one member of the Australian Country Party has ever complained about trade with Communist China. [More…]
Then between 1941 and 1945 Vietnam was treated as a mere pawn in the game of big power by the Soviet Union, China, America and Britain. [More…]
If someone takes one of these pornographic magazines to Soviet Russia or to Communist China just how far does that person get? [More…]
Firstly, he implied that no associations exist between members of the Australian Labor Party and Communists; secondly that there is no danger to Australia from China; and thirdly that the Liberals unfairly scare the Australian people.I think that is a fair summation of 3 points implicit in the honourable gentleman’s speech. [More…]
I now turn to what the honourable member for Sydney had to say about China. [More…]
The aim of this Government in its relations with China is not and has never been to contain China as honourable gentlemen have said. [More…]
That country has the same right to exist as has Australia and has the same right to exist as has China’s own neighbours. [More…]
So as some accommodation has been reached with the USSR it can also be achieved with China, but it will be harder and will take longer because the Chinese see themselves, for historical and other reasons, as the centre of the world. [More…]
One is the Marsina’, which is owned by the China Navigation Co. Ltd. [More…]
For some reason China was not coloured red on that propaganda sheet. [More…]
The implication is that China is our enemy. [More…]
If China is an enemy of Australia the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Sinclair) is guilty of treason because he and his colleagues in the Country Party are trading with China. [More…]
Is the sale of that wheat to China an act of treason? [More…]
They cannot condemn China on the one hand and on the other hand accept China’s gold. [More…]
The core issue of the foreign affairs setting facing Australia at the moment is the future of Indo-China. [More…]
The Minister has since gone overseas for a fortnight without elaborating on these cursory comments or fitting them into the wider strategic setting of Indo-China. [More…]
This is unfortunate because more and more the focus is switching from Vietnam to the whole of Indo-China. [More…]
It is a tragic possibility that in the months ahead we will be referring again to the Indo-China war and not the Vietnam War. [More…]
Undoubtedly the North Vietnamese have the strength to sustain much greater effort in the three regions of Indo-China. [More…]
It may be possible to vanquish the Communists in Indo-China by military means but it would mean a war in which North Vietnam would have very marked advantages. [More…]
But this would require a massive military effort extending over several years and bringing in its train the destruction of the whole Indo-China region. [More…]
The essence of this approach is the achievement of a negotiated settlement in South Vietnam with the objective of neutralising the whole of Indo-China. [More…]
On the run of events since President Johnson started to scale down the war, the best the Americans could achieve would be the stabilisation of Indo-China on the basis which existed early in 1968. [More…]
In a statement made last week to the Standing Committee of Asian and Pacific Council in Wellington, Mr Holyoake pointed to the dangers of a general war in Indo-China. [More…]
The third approach is one which has never been contemplated even remotely in the thinking of the Government, lt has been stated with quite brutal frankness in the United States by Senator Fulbright; it is the ultimate acceptance and recognition of Communist supremacy in Indo-China. [More…]
Senator Fulbright said that the plain fact to come out of the Vietnam war was that North Vietnam was the paramount power in Indo-China. [More…]
This is the sort of tough minded thinking on Indo-China which is being put forward with increasing persistence in the United States. [More…]
It is part of a growing recognition that Indo-China matters not a jot to America’s security or basic interests. [More…]
In summary, the Opposition finds itself aligned with the huge volume of thoughts of people who want a negotiated neutrality for the whole of Indo-China. [More…]
The overthrow of Prince Sihanouk can only accelerate the overall deteriorating in IndoChina. [More…]
It raises the possibility that the last haven in Indo-China as yet untouched by war will not be spared the bitter fate of Laos and Vietnam. [More…]
The worst would be the absorption of Cambodia into a full-scale Indo-China war. [More…]
The last vestiges of stability and responsibility in IndoChina may have been lost with the Prince’s fall. [More…]
In the 1970s it is obvious that America will look directly across the Pacific to Japan, Korea, Taiwan and beyond to China and Russia. [More…]
first, to face China on yet another front; second, to extend the influence of Russia as a world power; third, to fill the power vacuum in South East Asia consequent on Britain’s withdrawal and, perhaps, in anticipation of a slowing down of United States activity and influence should the Vietnam conflict be satisfactorily resolved; and, fourth - this is the most important to us - to compete with Japan, Australia and other countries for the growing trade opportunities which will develop in Asia. [More…]
She is engaged in a political and ideological struggle with Mao Tse-tung and China because she seeks political supremacy in the Communist world. [More…]
Most Asian countries were colonies of the Netherlands, Britain, the United States, France and Portugal, with the exception of Thailand, Japan and China. [More…]
Australia opened legations in Japan in 1940 and China in 1941. [More…]
Indonesia, Malaysia, Indo-China, Burma and other countries - with consequent unrest. [More…]
A wave of international Communist subversion and aggression has throught unrest to Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Korea, Indonesia and Indo-China as it then was. [More…]
After the Communist revolution in China in 1949 Australia rapidly orientated its policy and thinking. [More…]
The population of China is now roughly 700m, that of India is 530m and Indonesia’s population is nearly 120m. [More…]
Mainland China will become an increasingly significant force, a potential giant. [More…]
The world needs to reach an accommodation with China to help resolve the Indo-China problem. [More…]
The embarrassments of the Soviet Union in relation to China exist because China has the intelligence to raise ideological issues about her borders and about Soviet domination of subject nationalities which have put the Soviet Union on the ideological defensive. [More…]
China is in the position of being a revolutionary power vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. [More…]
So far as Communist China is concerned, most of us know that the United States has a very large organisation in Hong Kong, which is an obvious listening post to read the Chinese newspapers and to hear what it can from those who come out of China. [More…]
I have reason to know that our information about what happens in China is extremely limited. [More…]
The most recent available document which surveys the types of social security schemes operating overseas is the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s publication ‘Social Security Programmes Throughout the World 1967’, which gives the principal features of schemes inthe following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, Chile, China (Nationalist), China (Communist), Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany (Federal Republic), Germany (East), Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea (South), Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (South), Vietnam (North), Yugoslavia, Zambia. [More…]
This morning it was broadcast that the administration of Communist China had criticised the Soviet Union for, in this centenary year of Lenin’s birth, straying from Leninism and preaching Socialism while practising imperialism. [More…]
As well, the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat has long since been abandoned in favour of the idea of the dictatorship of the Communist parties whether they happen to be in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China or any other part of the world where Communism prevails. [More…]
This means that only the United States of America, Japan, China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and India would fill the bill. [More…]
Five years ago Sir Robert Menzies justi- fied the commitment on 1 great ground: The war in Vietnam, he claimed, was part of the downward thrust of China between the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. [More…]
All along it has been these false interpretations of the nature of the conflict in Indo-China that have trapped us into false responses foredoomed to failure. [More…]
The crux of President Nixon’s statement is that, irrespective of military events in Indo-China, irrespective of progress in Paris, American disengagement is irreversible. [More…]
Despite the deterioration of the situation in Indo-China the process of disengagement is being speeded up. [More…]
The manner the President chose to present this fact to the American public does not alter its meaning, and the full impact of its meaning can be measured when set against the terrible and tragic events in other parts of Indo-China in the past month. [More…]
The situation in Indo-China is far too serious for the injection of exercises in self justification such as the Prime Minister indulged in tonight. [More…]
God knows, the United States, the people of Indo-China, have paid, are paying a terrible enough price for the lessons of Vietnam. [More…]
It is only if we grasp this fact - that the decisions by this Government have nothing to do with the real situation in Indo-China - that we can explain why the Government now thinks it is possible to reduce the commitment piecemeal when that was supposed to be totally impossible and irresponsible only a few months ago. [More…]
It is no longer possible to depict or defend this war in terms of the freedom of the Vietnamese people or the people of Indo-China, a war for freedom or for democracy, a war against China or a war to maintain the American alliance, or any of the other definitions which have been used to extenuate and extend our commitment. [More…]
The result of its policy of prolongation has been that the whole of Indo-China is now engulfed in civil and racial war. [More…]
It is idle, in the context of what is now happening in Indo-China, to think that one has solved the problem by apportioning blame. [More…]
I ask the Minister for External Affairs: Is Cambodia a country whose sovereign integrity was solemnly pledged in the Geneva Agreements of 1954 by many countries including mainland China and North Vietnam? [More…]
It is true that in the 1954 Geneva Agreements North Vietnam and Communist China - continental China - joined in assuring the territorial integrity of Cambodia. [More…]
all Asian countries excluding Japan and Mainland China for the latest year for which information is available. [More…]
No aid is given to Japan or Mainland China, although there is a programme of reciprocal fellowships with Japan under the cultural relations programme. [More…]
No figures are available for Mainland China, but Mainland China is believed not to be a recipient of aid from any source. [More…]
If they do not want a moratorium campaign to stop the war in Indo-China, in South Vietnam and an extension of the war to Cambodia, why do they not get up and tell the Government - and they do twist the tails of the Liberals occasionally - to stop selling wool and wheat to China and wool and wheat to Russia? [More…]
As to the conference called by Mr Malik, who is the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, all I can say is that he has asked many, many countries, including Communist China to be present. [More…]
Their policies are to trade with the enemy, to sell strategic metal, chemicals, scrap iron, tallow, wheat and other essential goods to China and wool and wheat to Russia and others who they ‘say are our enemies. [More…]
Judging from past experience in China and North Vietnam perhaps several hundred thousands, who have supported the war and fought valiantly and who would certainly oppose the conquerors’ subsequent collectivisation programme, might be slaughtered. [More…]
I have never met a person knowledgeable on Indo-China who did not agree that had elections been held probably 80% of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh. [More…]
He said: 1 have never met a person knowledgeable on Indo-China who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of fighting- [More…]
The same authors pointed out that the persons butchered were not by any means real landlords but were even elected as such from members of the Lao-Dong or Communist Peoples Party in that area because it was necessary to go through the motions of the same kind of annihilation of landlords as had been seen in China. [More…]
It pays no regard to the interests of Australia’s security or the freedom of small’ countries under bitter attack in Indo-China. [More…]
We on this side of the House have no territorial claims in Indo-China. [More…]
In all this time the supplies were coming from North Vietnam and indirectly from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. [More…]
But has the aggression or insurgency of North Vietnam, which is supported by China and Russia, not only against South Vietnam but also against Laos and Cambodia, ever been condemned by the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
Yet they get up in this Parliament with a sanctimonious attitude and try to condemn decent Australians for taking an intelligent view on Indo-China and the Vietnam war. [More…]
Did the Acting Prime Minister or the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) mention anything about the 4 boys and girls who were shot dead in America because they dared to dissent about the filthy war in Indo-China? [More…]
The Government is prepared to sell food to Communist China which in turn sells that food or gives it to the Communists in North Vietnam who are killing our troops. [More…]
In Cambodia, North Vietnam and Indo China the forces have surrounded villages and administrative centres. [More…]
In other words, their intentions are destructive; our intentions are to ensure the freedom of the 3 free countries of the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
He did not devote any part of his speech to the call made by the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Mr Malik, for an international conference - a conference which will deal not only with Vietnam but the crisis which has developed in Cambodia as well, a crisis which has extended this conflict to the whole of Indo China. [More…]
It seems to me that this is one of the most unhappy developments that has occurred in the Indo-China situation. [More…]
Cambodian neutrality, held by Prince Sihanouk, has been the great hope of Indo-China. [More…]
It goes on to indicate that Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet Union’s chief delegate to the United Nations, had said that a Geneva conference could bring about a fresh solution and a relaxation of tension in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
Even the long and sometimes torrid period of colonialisation by the French, starting in 1847, cannot be identified as the beginning of the struggle for independence in Indo-China. [More…]
Sixteen years ago the Geneva Convention resolved to end the blood bath and to recognise that the people of Indo-China were determined to remain unaccommodated to any foreign power, even to China, the greatest, strongest and most numerically powerful country in that region. [More…]
Our professed role is to contain Communistm, which we never distinguish from the nationalistic aspirations of the United States in Indo-China The illiterate population of that unhappy region can hardly read the comic cuts, yet they have attributed to them the capacity to write and understand the works of Marx and Lenin. [More…]
Our leaders are deviating in 1970 from the declared objectives which sent us into Indo-China. [More…]
Since his deposition Prince Sihanouk has been, for most of his time, in Peking ot in other parts of continental China. [More…]
I understand that at this meeting Mr Chou En-lai, the Premier of Communist China, was also present. [More…]
I have no doubt at all, for example, that in such countries as Communist China and North Vietnam there is far more depravity in the treatment of prisoners, far more baseness, far more whatever other words the honourable member used, thar. [More…]
His Government wanted to provide the Royal Australian Air Force with a type of aircraft which would defend us from the hordes of Indonesia and from the hordes of China. [More…]
The Labor Party not only does not encourage Asian countries to adopt this point of view but has gone to great lengths to make it quite clear that it is part of its defence policy that Australian forces should not be in countries like Malaysia and Indo-China, for their very presence in those countries, whether actually involved in operations or not, constitutes an aggressive military attitude and an expression of policy by the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
It can be argued by those people who see no threat at all presented to Australia’s future by the Communists in Moscow and in Peking that the Commonwealth of Australia, in creating a great naval base over a period of a decade in the south western corner of Australia, is making an aggressive act that will encourage the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and mainland China to adopt a public attitude that will identify us with aggression. [More…]
What this means is that we have had a credit of some $3, 668m with other countries such as Japan, mainland China - honourable members from the Country Party do not like to be reminded of the huge sales of wheat to Communist China - and the Eastern European bloc which also, if the trade figures are examined, disclose that, a favourable balance of trade exists there. [More…]
No other country, Russia and China included, has been able to reach our standards of living. [More…]
Was a recent ministerial visitor from Nationalist China offered similar time on ABC television? [More…]
Did Dr Han Suyin, an exponent of the view that the People’s Republic of China has a rightful place in the world community, appear on the ABC’s ‘Guest of Honour’ programme on 3rd May 1970? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that this privilege will be extended to the growers of over-quota wheat from the next harvest in Western Australia by requesting the Australian Wheat Board to permit the People’s Republic of China unrestricted access to the wheat of that State, thus bringing this wheat into the category of being readily saleable? [More…]
In the case of readily saleable Western Australian wheat and the sales to Mainland China, mentioned by the honourable member, these sales are made on terms over a period of 12 months and in that case it would not be fully payable within the season. [More…]
I made the point that owners of starving stock in Australia were discriminated against blatantly because they were forced to pay a price based on $1.7) per bushel while, at the same time, the Australian Government, through the Australian Wheat Board, was selling wheat to overseas countries, including China, at prices well below the domestic price. [More…]
Marked reductions in imports into India and Pakistan and also in those by Mainland China and the Soviet Union were the main cause of the decline in world trade in 1963-69. [More…]
In addition, we should especially be aware of the situation in China, which is a large and reasonably consistent buyer of our wheat. [More…]
It has been suggested that China has purchased wheat from Western countries in order to accumulate locally produced rice for export. [More…]
During the 1960s China was able to import low priced wheat and export more highly priced rice. [More…]
The implications for Western exporters of wheat to China are obvious. [More…]
It was he who, when chairman of the Wheat Board, sold our first consignment of wheat to Red China. [More…]
That sale saved the Country Party, notwithstanding that it did not like China’s policies. [More…]
This excluded production in the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
World production in 1966-67 was 6,990 million bushels, again excluding China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
But the Federation steadfastly turned its back on the geographic advantage of Western Australia in respect of its proximity to major markets, particularly China, lt is common knowledge that the Chinese would load most of their ships at Western Australian ports if the Wheat Board would permit them to do so. [More…]
The best potential market is China and when China is unable to get wheat elsewhere she comes to us for it. [More…]
Wc sell it to her, but we never set out to try to get markets in China. [More…]
We wait until China comes to us, and for a good number of years China did come to us and helped to get us out of our difficulties. [More…]
This is because we have no diplomatic relations established with Communist China and therefore no opportunities to set up commercial or trade attaches in Peking as the other countries have done. [More…]
When those other countries are trying to discover what Chinese wheat needs will be they get out and get the sales before we even discover that China is buying wheat. [More…]
Going back a little, it was suggested thai we sell wheat to China. [More…]
At some times of the year we hear daily from members of the Opposition that sales should not be made to China. [More…]
I and others have pointed out that if we do not sell wheat to China somebody else will. [More…]
In this connection 1 want to draw the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) to the fact that New Zealand, which I think is the world’s biggest butter exporter and the second biggest seller of cheese, has embarked on a course of penetrating the China market. [More…]
I understand New Zealand has sold about 20,000 tons of butter to China. [More…]
Australian business and industry generally are showing a lively new interest in the huge markets of China, which has a population many times greater than that of Japan. [More…]
Whatever the regime in China there is no doubt that there will be a continuing demand in that country for products such as wheat - which this Government has taken great pride in selling to it over a considerable time. [More…]
Not only should we be exploring what is being done now by New Zealand in China; surely it is time that the Commonwealth made a study of the existing factories and their equipment and the existing basis of payment for supplies so that we can get what is desired for export, so that the grower - the producer in this instance - will receive a return that will keep him in business not only for his sake but as an essential unit in a great export enterprise which could be, as far as I am concerned and as far as many other people with confidence in the future are concerned, quite unlimited, lt seems to me that this is a matter of organisation. [More…]
Grassby), who has just resumed his seat, but I do take note of the fact that he suggests - 1 am not aware whether on behalf of his Party or not - that we should try to sell dairy produce to Communist China. [More…]
Mainland China bought 14 rams and still cannot take delivery of them. [More…]
Does anybody think that mainland China appreciates the action of the Australian Labor Party in not allowing those rams to be delivered? [More…]
Communist China and North Viet-Nam against the countries of South-East Asia. [More…]
So too did people from mainland China. [More…]
One man who is a Liberal voter named China, the USSR and Japan. [More…]
Honourable members have heard it said that if we could sell a pair of socks to every person in mainland China the wool industry would certainly not be in trouble. [More…]
Yet that same Party adopts, the hypocritical attitude of selling wheat to Communist China at a price .lower than is charged to owners of starving stock in Australia. [More…]
After all, how can the Government claim to be helping drought areas when the need is for feed wheat and when feed wheat is available at prices higher than those we charge China? [More…]
In particular 1 ask whether inquiries have been made of the relevant authorities in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Republic of China, Hong Kong and even some tracking and labour organisations in this country which have contacts with China? [More…]
When last heard of, Mx James was travelling between Canton and the border of the Free Territories and Communist China. [More…]
I find it very difficult to understand how it can be regarded as aggression from the North when the General Conference on Indo-China regarded the whole territory as one territory and the division line as not constituting a political or constitutional demarcation. [More…]
Following the 1940 takeover of China by the Chinese Communists, he argued that the Democrats had lost China. [More…]
The Americans developed from this the idea of ringing Communist China, from Korea right round to Pakistan, with a series of bases. [More…]
Labor’s policy is based on international action to end hostilities - which may or may not bring results - and rehabilitation in Indo China. [More…]
The first one relates to international action to end hostilities and the second one to undertaking a rehabilitation programme in Indo-China. [More…]
Indo-China, I take it, embraces the 3 former Indo-Chinese States - South Vietnam and North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. [More…]
Not only the free countries, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia and Australia but also the Communist countries, Communist China and North Vietnam, were invited. [More…]
By then mainland China could well have a nuclear capacity to destroy the world. [More…]
The population of Asia is near 2,000,000,000 and that of the largest Asian power, China, in excess of 700 million. [More…]
He openly promotes and fosters trade with Communist countries and has the temerity to incite this nation and this Parliament with speeches which would have done Lenin proud, lt would be interesting to note, Mr Deputy Speaker, just how many times that right honourable gentleman and his colleagues refer to mainland China - and 1 underline the word ‘mainland’ - where trade matters are concerned. [More…]
But when they don the mantle of law and order and respectability it becomes Communist China. [More…]
Why does it not want to get away from the selling of wool to China - its Communist enemy, as it says - which shoots down Australian fighting men in Vietnam? [More…]
The price of wolfram has risen dramatically recently very largely due to the withholding of major supplies by Communist China so that the world market is very greedy for it. [More…]
The list commenced with Afghanistan and Albania; it included Bolivia, Brazil, China, Iceland, Peru, Spain and went right down to Yugoslavia and Zambia. [More…]
That part of this may be to service their quarrel with Mainland China is of no consolation. [More…]
China is the centrepiece. [More…]
However much China’s actions are explained by Communist ideology, its imperialist history or its internal politics and nationalism, China’s international conduct in Korea, Tibet, India and Russia and support of so-called national liberation fronts in South Vietnam. [More…]
China’s leadership will change to a reasonable, well-intentioned and co-operative modern state, but it will take a long time. [More…]
China’s possession of nuclear weapons, especially ICBM’s, can only add to a sense of instability in the region and in the world. [More…]
The recent tragic events in Laos and Cambodia are all too clearly results of aggression by a Communist state - North Vietnam - supported strongly by China and the USSR. [More…]
SEATO thus prevented the immediate collapse of Indo-China. [More…]
Its future relations with China on the one hand and the other nations on the other hand are most important factors which will emerge shortly. [More…]
Thus we reserve two-thirds of our spending for 2 million people while the other one-third is spread over a region between East Pakistan and China inhabited by at least 280 million people, and those among the most deprived and potentially most turbulent countries in the world. [More…]
South East Asian countries to our north between East Pakistan and China have a total population of 280 million. [More…]
A short summary of the aims is simply this: The immediate and total withdrawal of Australian, American and all other foreign troops, no longer from Vietnam, but from Indo China. [More…]
They apply to Indo-China, and that inevitably and ultimately involves Malaysia. [More…]
In that document the SecretaryGeneral acknowledged 2 things: Firstly, that the policy of the North Vietnamese Communists involved all Indo-China; and secondly, that they were responsible for the confrontation and the conflict from over a decade ago to the present day - they initiated it and they continue it. [More…]
That strategy applies to the whole of Indo-China; it applies far wider than Vietnam. [More…]
I challenge him to indicate in which way the aims of this Moratorium Campaign, in which so many members of the Opposition will demonstrate, are in conflict with the aims of the Secretary-General of the North Vietnamese Communist Party concerning all Indo-China. [More…]
Is it not amazing when we remember that the Government sells wheat to China. [More…]
Not once have I heard the honourable member for Lilley in this House oppose the selling of Australian wheat to Communist China or our trading with the enemies of our people, as he says the Communist Chinese are. [More…]
Since the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in April, which plunged the Khmer people unwillingly and unwittingly into the maelstrom of the Indo-China civil war, the Government, realistically if inconsistently, maintained that Australia would not supply military aid to the Prince’s supplanters in Phnom Penh. [More…]
Australia went to Vietnam because the United States went there, and the United States went there because China was behind Vietnam. [More…]
Yet who would assert today that China is the weaker or the United States the stronger because of intervention in Vietnam, or that any conceivable settlement of the Indo-China war will now strengthen the position of the United States in this region or in the world, or will weaken the position of China in this region or in the world? [More…]
The history of the region is written in terms of the relationship between China and Japan. [More…]
Japan can be the West’s bridge with China. [More…]
In short, it has been a fundamental error of our foreign ventures to believe that the IndoChina peninsula provided the prime and appropriate sphere for Australia’s principal effort, militarily or diplomatically. [More…]
For too long Australia’s foreign policy has been merely a reflection of America’s ideological preoccupation with Indo-China and Britain’s commercial preoccupation with Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
That is about what we have heard from the Leader of the Opposition, lt is extraordinary to hear him still saying that the Government’s policy on Vietnam is in ruins and that the war has been a failure because today China is no weaker and the United States is no stronger because of the intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
Australia did not go to Vietnam to weaken China or to strengthen the United States. [More…]
Ho Chi Minh, at the stage when he was fighting the French, did not want an end to the war because he was not thinking only of the situation in Indo China - he wanted to produce a revolutionary situation in Paris. [More…]
It is not disturbing China in the slightest; it is not disturbing Russia in the slightest. [More…]
There is, of course, a very marked division between the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and the foreign policy of China. [More…]
China constantly accuses the United States and Soviet Russia of being collaborators in certain respects in this whole situation. [More…]
I remember Sir Robert Menzies as Prime Minister standing in this place and talking about the French attempt to reestablish their authority in Indo-China. [More…]
It was the policy of this Governmen to support the French effort to reestablish their authority in Indo-China. [More…]
Of course, in their attempt to unify Indo-China the Vietcong in their war have carried out all sorts of atrocities as most countries at war do. [More…]
I believe that this is a carefully planned policy to contain China and, at the same time, to expand the Soviet influence into South East Asia as the British move out. [More…]
The Soviet Union has made capital from India’s fear of China and the mutual distrust between India and Pakistan. [More…]
The security of the whole of South East Asia would be reinforced against a nuclear China if Australia and her allies possessed a similar capacity operating from Cocos Island. [More…]
If it is true that the presence of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam represents China sweeping down between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as we were told by former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, it is no less true that the presence of North Vietnamese troops in Laos and Cambodia poses a similar threat to Australia. [More…]
There is an attitude in certain quarters of the United States of America as well as Britain, Australia and other countries, that Japan should rearm to become the balance of power against the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It seems to be generally acknowledged that the most significant problem that faces the world in the years ahead is to raise the living standards of more than half the world, excluding mainland China. [More…]
Mainland China has about a quarter of the world’s population, but because of the folly of international arrangements it has been excluded from the considerations of United Nations organisations. [More…]
In 1966 we heard about the downward thrust of China and the domino theory. [More…]
Holland exports to Singapore from July to December; New Zealand exports from December to May; and Mainland China and Taiwan export throughout most of the year. [More…]
The Singapore market is supplied by Australia, China, Formosa, France and Monaco, India, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan and West Malaysia. [More…]
From that side of the chamber almost every day we hear objections to the sale of wheat to China, the greatest market the Australian wheat grower has. [More…]
Opposition members criticise and condemn the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
I ask them: Will they prohibit, if by any mischance they ever get into power, the sale of wheat to China? [More…]
If the Vietcong flag is such a shameful thing - and honourable members opposite think it is - why does the Government sell wheat to China which in many cases, as honourable members opposite know, is going to the Vietcong? [More…]
It is because he knows that a lot of the wheat that Australia sells to China is going to feed the Vietcong and others. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry will have noted that the official trade figures show that Australia in the last financial year exported 12,543 tons of iron and steel scrap and waste and 14,000 tons of refined zinc to mainland China. [More…]
As China is believed to be the main source of rifles, mortars and ammunition used by the Hanoi and Vietcong forces I ask the right honourable gentleman what steps he has taken to terminate this trade in metals which could, in a single year, produce hundreds of thousands of mortars and millions of rifles and rounds of ammunition for use against Australian and allied forces. [More…]
The honourable gentleman knows that iron and steel are among the strategic materials which the Congress of the United States of America has embargoed for export to mainland China under the Battle Act. [More…]
I ask him whether iron and steel are among the strategic materials which Western countries, including Australia and Japan, have agreed not to export to mainland China. [More…]
There are other countries that do not subscribe to it but, as I say, Australia has played a very prominent part in maintaining this strategic list to ensure that materials that can be of a strategic nature are not exported to and used by mainland China. [More…]
I have been associated with the migration to Australia of doctors from India, pharmacists from Singapore, cooks from China, nurses from Fiji and Thailand, and more latterly I have had some dealings with some people from Macao who have not yet reached here. [More…]
I do not think this Government has any right to select a reactor of the CANDU type for the purpose of producing nuclear weapons without a full debate in this Parliament on this very question.If we manufacture nuclear weapons in Australia we will commit ourselves to be targeted by nations such as Communist China, which has perfected delivery systems for its nuclear weapons, and Russia. [More…]
He will remember that I asked him yesterday about the export of 12,500 tons of iron and steel scrap and waste and 14,000 tons of refined zinc to mainland China last year. [More…]
I now ask the right honourable gentleman how his Department opened up such a valuable market for Australia when no such exports had been achieved in the 2 previous years and when in 1966-67. the first year in which the present classifications of exports were adopted and the last year in which I asked him a question on this matter, there were no exports of zinc to China and the exports of iron and steel were less than 1 per cent of those achieved last year. [More…]
The Department of Trade and Industry certainly has taken no steps, using the words of the Leader of the Opposition, to open up this trade with China. [More…]
Such trade as there is with China is conducted by the Australian Wheat Board in respect of wheat, and in all other respects, to my knowledge, by private individuals in Australia. [More…]
Australia’s policy towards trade with mainland China prevents the export of strategic goods, but the policy does not obstruct commercial trade in what are obviously non-strategic goods, for example wheat and wool, which constitute over 95 per cent of our trade. [More…]
China can buy those products elsewhere. [More…]
In addition, in respect of mainland China and North Korea, Australia maintains control over exports of a large range of additional items of potential strategic significance. [More…]
Only the United States, which prohibits direct trade with mainland China, goes further than Australia does in this matter. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies was the architect of this adventure as far as Australia was concerned and he began the Indo-China policy as a supporter of French rule. [More…]
In pursuit of such a theory and with the undoubted support of the bulk of the nation Australia threw the weight of diplomatic support behind the French effort to continue rule in Indo China. [More…]
The initial explanation was that we were really fighting China. [More…]
China was coming south. [More…]
Actually, as far as weapons are concerned, China has supplied the ginger beer and Russia the champagne. [More…]
If weapons are the proof, a far stronger case can be made that Russia is actively intervening than that China is. [More…]
Confronted wilh the obvious criticism that if China is the enemy why supply her with wheat, wool and even some etremely vital materials with a direct military bearing, like rutile, the late Harold Holt admitted that China was not involved. [More…]
This varied Sir Robert Menzies’ remarkable theory that China was thrusting south to separate the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and that that was what the Vietnam war was about. [More…]
Right at our back door we would have had a foreign country embarking on authoritarian practices, backed by Russia or China - I do not know which, but it would not make much difference as far as f am concerned. [More…]
In view of the fact that Canada and China have agreed to establish diplomatic relations, and in view of the fact that Malaysia will now join our other neighbours, Singapore and Indonesia, in voting against the proposition that the admission of China to the United Nations is a matter requiring a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly,I ask the right honourable gentleman whether the Australian Government has reconsidered its own attitude on diplomatic relations with China and oh China’s admission to the United Nations? [More…]
Ever since I have been the Minister I have been interested in this question of Canada recognising Red China and simultaneously Red China recognising Canada. [More…]
The Chinese Government re-affirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Canadian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China. [More…]
There is no definition of what ‘China’ in fact means. [More…]
We have stated - the Prime Minister has recently confirmed this and I now confirm it again-that of course we would like Red China to be in the United Nations provided only that it accepted the Declaration of Human Rights and abided by it and provided it was willing to abide by the principles of the Charter itself. [More…]
The condition would be that Red China renounced the use of violence and force in an attempt to ensure its political objectives. [More…]
Secondly, we have stated that if Red China does live up to its obligations we would be prepared to reconsider our position. [More…]
Finally, we do not accept the Albanian resolution that the Republic of China should be expelled from the United Nations. [More…]
Malaysia will vote against the important question but it will abstain from a vote on the actual recognition of Communist China. [More…]
What is the present position regarding the export of what could be considered to be strategic materials to China - materials which could be used in the interests of the Government of North Vietnam? [More…]
This company which, in the main, is an efficient one with modern thinking in personnel and administration training in management methods and production techniques is indeed severely affected by the current market prices in the agricultural tractor field caused mainly by the recession in the agricultural industry, and, of course, the lower priced imports now available to the farmer from overseas, including tractors manufactured in mainland China or, as it is better known, Communist China, Czechoslovakia and other European and Asiatic countries such as Japan. [More…]
There have been reports that the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Razak, has made certain statements regarding Malaysia’s relations with mainland China. [More…]
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Razak, has stated that he wants Malaysia to be free and neutral and that consequently he feels that China, the United States of America and Russia should join together in an attempt to achieve neutrality and freedom in that area. [More…]
I do know that the result is that both America and China are gaining a very large share of the Asian listening audience. [More…]
Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware of the speculation taking place relative to Australia’s future wheat trade prospects with Mainland China? [More…]
I*, the Minister concerned that future Australian wheat sales to Mainland China could be in jeopardy because of the decision of the Canadian Government to grant diplomatic recognition to Mainland China? [More…]
percussions in Australian sales of wheat ic China because Canada has now recognised her diplomatically. [More…]
The fact is that we have been making very good sales to China since s first started making sales in 1960. [More…]
During that period, Canada has talked of recognising China and of extending her diplomatic relationships with China, but this in no way has affected our sales. [More…]
Indeed we have made larger sales to Mainland China than Canada has. [More…]
Although in the last 12 months, we have sold 2.2 million metric tons of wheat to Mainland China as against a Canadian sale of 2.3 million metric tons of wheat to Mainland China, if one looks at the period since sales first started to Mainland China in September 1960, one sees that Australia has sold 19.7 million metric tons of wheal and Canada has sold 17.5 million metric tons of wheat to that country. [More…]
I believe that China buys wheat where she gets the type she requires and at the prices that she considers most favourable to her for that type of wheat. [More…]
If one wishes to speculate as to what might happen, one also can ask: What will be the consequences to Russia’s sale arrangements - they have expired - and will Canada’s recognition of Mainland China have any effect on Russia? [More…]
If one does not wish them, for example, to understand the situation in Rhodesia, South Africa or, on the other hand, Communist China, one simple ensures- if, for instance, it is the Government’s desire - that ‘ one does not send a team there so that the members of that team can be in a position to convey an effective understanding of these things. [More…]
In the last few weeks the Malaysian Government, in pressing for accommodatios with China - Mainland or Communist, depending on whether or not wheat is being sold to it, as far as the Aus tralian Country Party is concerned - and the neutralisation of South East Asia, guaranteed by the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China, has shown a sanity and a maturity which is sadly lacking in this Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
On Wednesday last, the Minister for External Affairs, referring to Malaysia’s intentions regarding China’s admission to the United Nations, told the House that Malaysia would abstain from a vote on the actual recognition of Communist China, ls it a fact that Tun Ismael, the Malaysian Minister, stated on the 5th of this month that: ‘Malaysia would if necessary co-sponsor any move to admit China by a simple majority’? [More…]
Is it because he feels that the position of the Government on Communist China is so untenable that he must mislead the House in order to make it appear credible- [More…]
The honourable gentleman who asked me a question earlier today was one of the first to admit that he did have the wool pulled from off his eyes, but apparently he did not have it pulled far enough so far as the implications were concerned when he referred to Communist China. [More…]
The Soviet diplomatic initiative of 1969, to which Freeth responded positively, was designed to organise some kind of an association in South East Asia against China. [More…]
I think there has been a tendency for Australians, and probably Americans, to regard Communist China as world public enemy No. [More…]
Red China is completely committed to Maoism, which in simple terms is the practice and advocacy for other nations of old-fashioned reactionary Communism but not direct military involvement in other nations affairs. [More…]
The present regime in China possesses a fanatical conviction in some sort of dream world Communist Utopia where all nations achieve the purity of Maoist thoughts by internal revolution. [More…]
One has been the recognition by Canada of the Peking Government and the presumption that Canada will support the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
One may well ask why Australia should not recognise mainland China. [More…]
After all, Australia gives de facto recognition to mainland China when we trade with her. [More…]
One may well ask why should we not trade with China? [More…]
So why then should we not recognise Communist China? [More…]
The reason why we cannot recognise mainland China or support its admission to the United Nations is not the fault of Australia or the Western democracies. [More…]
It is the price that mainland China demands for condescending to join the United Nations - a price that I would think no principled nation should be prepared to pay. [More…]
Mainland China’s price of recognition is twofold. [More…]
Firstly, mainland China requires that Taiwan, a nation of 14 million people - a population bigger than that of Australia - should be kicked out, holus bolus, from the United Nations. [More…]
Secondly, Communist China requires the acceptance of the sovereignty of mainland China over the 14 million free Chinese in Taiwan. [More…]
By its conditions, Communist China precludes its own admission to the United Nations. [More…]
wording - of Communist China’s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan despite the wishes of the people of that country and simultaneously to break off diplomatic relations with the free Chinese Government of Taiwan shows, I believe, the Canadian Governlent of Mr Pierre Trudeau to be one of expediency rather than one of principle. [More…]
So Communist China probably feels that time is on her side. [More…]
It has only to remain stubborn at the Paris Peace talks and allow its friends in Australia and America to go ahead with their moratoriums to undermine the resistance of the Western democracies to its aggression in Indo-China. [More…]
I also pointed out that if it is right to recognise Russia and China on the basis that you cannot deny that they exist, then by the same premise you must also recognise Rhodesia because you cannot deny that it exists. [More…]
If you place sanctions on Rhodesia because you do not like its policies, surely then to be consistent you should place sanctions on Russia or mainland China when you dislike their policies, or else you do it to none of them. [More…]
We have heard all sorts of calls to arms: Churchilliantype phrases about what the Russians atc doing in the world: reference to the terrible situation that is facing the poor little Government of Rhodesia; cries of violence in the street and political power being taken out of the hands of the duly elected representatives of Australia and reference to our refusal to recognise Communist China and a refusal to recognise that Australia should disengage from the war in Vietnam. [More…]
He asked: “Why not recognise Communist China? [More…]
Let us have a look at the criticism of China, which was levelled by the honourable member for Deakin. [More…]
He said: ‘Why should not we recognise China?’ [More…]
First of all, he said that China demands the expulsion of Taiwan from the United Nations and, secondly, that China demands sovereignty over Taiwan. [More…]
The honourable member for Deakin also ignored one very significant fact about Canada’s recognition of China, and it was that Canada was enabled to recognise Communist China without recognising the 2 arguments that he mentioned which were put forward by China. [More…]
Equally important is the view that the Malaysian Government is taking towards the recognition of China. [More…]
It is not just the Canadians who want to recognise China; it is the Malaysians also. [More…]
His point of view was that China was a threat to the region and for that reason it must be top priority to bring her into the United Nations. [More…]
That is the complete reverse to this Government’s policy, which is that China is a threat to this region and for this reason she must be further and further isolated, alienated and contained. [More…]
I merely make this simple statement, that the Malaysian Government puts it down as the main priority, that China should be brought into the international community. [More…]
The official position of the Malaysian Government as to the admission of Communist China to the United Nations is exactly as I stated it in answer to a question asked by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
On the important question’ the Malaysian Government will vote against it and on the question of the admission of Communist China to the United Nations: it will abstain from voting. [More…]
He said - and this is an entirely different question - that Malaysia would be willing to co-sponsor a resolution admitting continental or Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
But he went on to say - and this is the very important part of what he said - that Malaysia believed that Taiwan China, that is, the Republic of China, should remain a member of the United Nations, and as well that the people of the Republic of China should have the right of self-determination. [More…]
Thus while Malaysia believes Communist China should be admitted by a simple majority it does not believe that Taiwan should be expelled. [More…]
The Albanian resolution means recognition of Communist China and the expulsion of Taiwan or the Republic of China. [More…]
He also said that if there was a simple resolution for the admission of Communist China which made no reference to Taiwan then Malaysia would associate itself with that resolution and vote for it. [More…]
I remind the House that 10 years ago China did not have an atomic warhead. [More…]
He went so far as to say that that neutrality should bc protected and preserved and guaranteed - I think that was the word he used - by the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Communist China, lt is not very surprising that the Opposition should over the last few days have seized upon this statement as evidence that there is some sort of collapse in this Government’s defence policy, that there is some sort of basic change in the defence and foreign policies of Malaysia, and that the whole situation politically in South East Asia has changed dramatically and basically. [More…]
First, he asks for a guarantee from Communist China and the other 2 great powers of neutrality of the region and the neutrality of Malaysia. [More…]
Of course, what he is saying here, when one looks and thinks of the specific terms in which he puts it, is not merely that there should be some utterance by Communist China that it will guarantee, in some loose way, this neutrality that the Prime Minister looks for. [More…]
Communist China to maintain that neutrality. [More…]
What he wants, and what we want is what we have always maintained, namely, that Communist China should cease its aggression against the smaller nations of South East Asia and should cease arming, helping and financing Communists in Indo China who are seeking to upset the governments that are presently in power in those countries. [More…]
Indeed, Communist China should cease its actions which are destined solely to prevent the people of those countries in South East Asia from determining their own type of government. [More…]
Communist China should cease the aggression that it has been engaged in over recent years towards countries in South East Asia and, in particular, that it should cease trying to achieve that object by financing, arming and giving support to Communist movements in South East Asian countries. [More…]
We should have some assurances from Communist China that she would abide by the policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. [More…]
But when one has looked at what the Malaysian Prime Minister wants to see in action from Communist China, one can go from there to see what Communist China has done in the past, because by its actions in the past, I suggest, one can get some indication of what its actions are likely to be in the immediate future. [More…]
One can look at its actions towards Taiwan and the off-shore islands of China. [More…]
Its present policy should be enough to indicate that there is little, if any, likelihood that Communist China would wish to or would take any steps at all towards guaranteeing the neutrality of Malaysia, any other country in South East Asia, or the region itself, because one can see what Communist China is doing at present. [More…]
So far as the Far Eastern Economic Review has been able to estimate, Communist China is spending $US200m a year in arming South East Asian Communists in the countries in Indo-China. [More…]
It has given positive and articulated promises to Communist movements in Indo-China that they can have safe rear areas in mainland China; that it will give political support to those Communist movements; that it will give material support to those Communist movements and that it will give military support to those Communist movements. [More…]
I should have thought that the classic example illustrating that there can be no assurance at all that Communist China would be interested in guaranteeing the neutrality of South East Asia is the closed door policy that it took towards the Djakarta conference on Cambodia, because here was a clear case of an opportunity to have a degree of neutrality brought about in 1 South East Asian country - Cambodia. [More…]
I venture to suggest that there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate that Communist China is interested in or able to achieve that. [More…]
Firstly, Malaysia will look for some indication of integrity and some indication that Communist China would refrain from subversion and aggression in South East Asia; secondly, Malaysia still recognises the dangers of the Communist menace to neutrality in the region, and thirdly, Malaysia will continue to - contribute to peace and stability in the region of South East Asia, lt is our policy that if one has to negotiate on matters such as the neutrality of South East Asia, one should negotiate from a position of strength and not weakness. [More…]
Of course, one wants to see co-operation not only with Communist China but with any country which is prepared to leave other countries, such as those in South East Asia, alone and with any country that is prepared to refrain from’ aggression and from assisting subversive elements in those countries. [More…]
I have very grave doubts whether Communist China is interested in the slightest in maintaining or guaranteeing neutrality in South East Asia so 1 venture to suggest that members of the Opposition are perhaps somewhat misguided, with all respect to them, in thinking that in this statement from the new Prime Minister of Malaysia is an indication of a change in his foreign or defence policy and that, consequently, there will be changes in our foreign or defence policy. [More…]
I found it interesting to hear the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown) putting forward his arguments, particularly as 1 agree with him in part when he said that he believes that we should be looking for China to recognise and protect the neutrality of South East Asian countries. [More…]
He said that China should do this with the countries that are her neighbours If this had been done in Vietnam by our allies there would not have been the death and destruction that has taken place in that country. [More…]
Despite all that the delegates heard at this conference they still return to this chamber muttering all sorts of hackneyed cliches such as ‘non-interference’, ‘the Russians are just as bad’, and ‘if it is wrong to trade with Rhodesia it is wrong to trade with China’. [More…]
What they fail to understand is that while most of these countries have no love for Russia or China or their political systems, these countries do not persecute, suppress or exploit people on the basis of the colour of their skin. [More…]
If this is a different situation to South Vietnam I would like to hear it This was the first time that China showed its hand at all. [More…]
Malaysia will vote against the important question but it will abstain from a vote on the actual recognition of Communist China. [More…]
I suggest that honourable members opposite read bis statement of 22nd January 1968 in which he suggested that it would be necessary for Malaysia to establish a policy of non-alignment and that the area should be neutralised, that neutrality being guaranteed by Communist China. [More…]
The essential point is that the Government of Malaysia is no longer obstructing the admission of the Chinese into the United Nations and, most importantly, it is moving in the direction of recognising China. [More…]
If the Australian Government cannot recognise this basic fact, that Malaysia’s policy towards China is changing, then it does not know the world in which we live and it simply cannot plan defence policies for this country, because they will be based upon a fallacy. [More…]
The Minister for External Affairs, in reply to one question served up by the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), said that Malaysia would be willing to co-sponsor a resolution admitting continental or Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
The Minister for External Affairs went on to say - and to him this is the important thing - that Malaysia believed that Taiwan China, that is, the Republic of China, should be made a member of the United Nations. [More…]
The important thing is that the Malaysian Government is prepared to co-sponsor the admission of Communist China into the United Nations. [More…]
According to the Malaysian point of view, no longer will a two-thirds majority be required to obstruct the admission of Communist China. [More…]
So if the issue was raised that Communist China should be admitted and Taiwan China should be expelled, the Government of Malaysia would abstain. [More…]
This is a fundamental change in Malaysia’s policy towards China. [More…]
Is K the view of the Malaysian Government that the question of the admission of Communist China to the United Nations should be determined by a simple majority vote at the United Nations? [More…]
As the Australian Government disagrees with the Malaysian Government’s new attitude on the question of the admission of Communist China to the United Nations, what effect does this have on our relations with Malaysia and our concepts of forward defence in Malaysia? [More…]
In trading with Communist China yet refusing to recognise that nation, is Australia becoming isolated from a majority of the countries of Asia and from Australia’s partners in the Commonwealth? [More…]
The implication seems to be that the majority of the countries in Asia and other members of the British Commonwealth are not trading with Communist China and therefore, because we trade with Communist China, we are becoming separated from them; but this of course is a completely false premise. [More…]
As far as I know, most countries in the world trade with Communist China, though a number of them, including ourselves, have regard to a list of exports so that warlike material is not traded with Communist China. [More…]
On the question of the recognition of that country, some countries recognise and have diplomatic relations with Communist China. [More…]
This is all too apparent in the case of China. [More…]
We know that the Australian Country Party is in favour of trade with China. [More…]
It gets the best of the deal, of course, by being as anti-Communist as anyone else and it talks to an audience which does not find it apparently inconsistent to sell $200m to $300m worth of commodities to China at the same time. [More…]
They do not see any inconsistency in selling these products to China at the same time as it is said: ‘We are in great danger because of the downward thrust of China’. [More…]
The Government of China has governed more in the interests of the Chinese since 1949 than governments in China have governed in the interests of those people for several centuries past. [More…]
Australia must recognise the Government of China before long. [More…]
Australia will recognise the Government of China before long because Australia will be moved into this by money, and money has more influence on the people who make decisions in this Government than does ideology. [More…]
Everybody knows why Canada has recognised China. [More…]
Canada has recognised China because it will give her a better position to sell wheat to China. [More…]
Sooner or later the Australian Wheat Board will tell members opposite about this and sooner or later the pressures through the Country Party and through the Minister for Trade and Industry will be to keep up with Canada in the recognition of China. [More…]
1 want to quote’ an article appearing in the ‘South China Mail’ of Saturday 25 July 1970 which states: [More…]
Why is it that we have had such a favourable situation with China? [More…]
Our sales to China 10 years ago were worth $40m. [More…]
Today our sates to China are over $130m each year. [More…]
To mention a few of those countries I have listed, Japan, the United Slates of America, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Canada, Malaysia, Poland and Yugoslavia all have certain discernible characteristics and are all open to further expansion of markets if we are realistic about this. [More…]
As Japan and China now manufacture most of the cheaper goods, there is no reason why we could not capture a large percentage of the medium and, I believe, the high priced fashion garments sales in the world’s markets. [More…]
It is also very heartening if one looks a little further afield to see that we recognise some of our imperfections and are looking constantly for better ways to identify those people who are suitable for further education beyond the secondary sphere, lt makes a very nice contrast, for example - if I may be a little irrelevant - to the resurgence of university attendance in the last few weeks or months in mainland China. [More…]
‘What about China? [More…]
What about China?’ [More…]
I say to them: The only information I can give you about China is from a report from the Pentagon, the war office in the United States which plans global strategy. [More…]
Iron, Steel and Zinc: Exports to Mainland China (Question No. [More…]
(b) steel and (c) zinc were exported to Mainland China in the last 5 financial years’? [More…]
Exports of iron and steel and zinc to Mainland China in the last 5 financial years were as fol lows. [More…]
Which employees of the Commonwealth and of Commonwealth statutory authorities have made visits to China since Prime Minister Menzies’ answer lo me on 17th August 1965 (Hansard, page 147). [More…]
Since 17th August 1965 employees ot the Commonwealth and its statutory authorities have made the following official visits to mainland China: [More…]
One can imagine, for example, what would happen if the Barrier Reef waters lay adjacent to Russia, China, Japan or the United States. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to a statement by the Leader ofthe Country Party and Deputy Prime Minister indicating that his Party was considering the recognition of Red China,no doubt because of the failure ofwheat sales to its Communist customers? [More…]
If so, is it a fact that recognition of Red China is now under consideration and that economic considerations rather than the allegedhigh principles espoused in the past will be the major factor in the Government’s decision to turn a policy somersault and recognise Red China as soon as possible? [More…]
We have examined problems of diplomatic relationships and I doubt whether we have once mentioned as a decisive influence the question of sales of wheat or any other commodity to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Minister no doubt will recall telling the House on 14th October last in reply to a question from me that he had instructed bis Department to review the list of materials approved for export to China. [More…]
As a result of this review, has any alteration been made to the arrangement which at present allows the export to China of materials capable of being used in the manufacture of armaments and other strategic items which could be used against Australian forces currently engaged in the lndo China war? [More…]
Already there is an embargo against the export to Communist China, or to the Peoples Republic of China, of any goods which can be used for military purposes against any forces whatsoeverand that, of course, includes Australian forces. [More…]
Look at the present position in the wheat industry with respect to China and the policy in relation to wheat sales to the Arab States, (licenceeived subsidies, pious hopes, non-existent export markets and desperate ad hoc decisions have resulted in a collapse in the viability of Australian agriculture. [More…]
When the Prime Minister at the time, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Menzies, announced on 29th April 1965 that these combat troops would be sent to Vietnam he did so in the context of a continuing thrust of China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
In view of the failure of the 56 wheat growing countries to reach agreement on prices for the next 3 years and the inroads into trade with China made by our great and powerful friends and allies such as Canada, Japan and Britain, will the Minister, in the interests of Australian trade and Aus tralian producers, consider opening a trade office or even a Wheat Board agency in Peking until the battle of conscience over China and party preferences has been resolved by himself and his colleagues? [More…]
Somewhat facetious questions like this do not help the Australian Wheat Board in endeavouring to negotiate with mainland China for the sale of wheat. [More…]
For the past 3 or 4 months we have been waiting to hear from mainland China about a possible sale of wheat in the same way that we have been notified each year. [More…]
Unfortunately this year no contract has been made yet, but I am still very hopeful and optimistic that we will hear from China before too long. [More…]
We have an excellent record with China. [More…]
I believe that 2 factors have come into play which have allowed China to defer possible discussions about the purchase of wheat this year. [More…]
Secondly, there are indications that there has been a relatively good crop of grain in China this year. [More…]
But I believe that because of the record we have and the satisfaction that China has derived from purchasing large quantities of wheat from Australia it is fairly conclusive that we will be seeing more of her in the future. [More…]
Two resolutions were moved in both 1969 and 1970 in the General Assembly of the United Nations concerning the representation of China. [More…]
of 15th December 1961, in accordance with Article 18 of the Charter thai any proposal to change the representation of China is an important question, which, in General Assembly resolutions 2025 (XX) of 17th November 1965 and 2159 (XXI) of 29th November 1966, 2271 (XXII) of 28th November 1967. [More…]
Considering that the restoration ofthe lawful rights of the Peoples Republic of China is essential both for the protection ofthe Charter of the United Nations and for the cause that, the United Nations must serve under the Charter, [More…]
Recognising that the representatives of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations, [More…]
Decides to restore all its rights to the People’s Republic of China and to recognise the representatives of its Government asthe only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations, andto expel forthwith ihe representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organisations relatedto it. [More…]
Recorded Vote:In favour: Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussia, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana., Greece, Guatemala, Guinea,. [More…]
China, UK, USA. [More…]
Is it a fact that China, without consulting Laos, has constructed an allweather road across the north of that country leading to the borders of Thailand, and is that road guarded by thousands of front line Chinese troops with the most modern weapons? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the great majority of the Australian people appear to be ignorant cf the fact that China has thus long ago invaded Laos? [More…]
What can be done to inform the nation of these events, especially when criticism is heard of South Vietnamese actions in Laos as being likely to provoke China? [More…]
In China tremendous floods have occurred in the Wang Ho river. [More…]
It has nothing to do with China or Israel and I would suggest to the honourable member that he comes back to the purpose of the Bill. [More…]
He has npt, shown on China that resource and stature which Sir Garfield Barwick showed as Minister for External Affairs in making overdue changes in Australia’s untenable attitudes on West Irian. [More…]
All of us know very well the attitude of the Labor Party to the very difficult situation in Vietnam and Indo-China and to the use of Australian troops in South East Asia. [More…]
If we turn to the area of primary industry, we can recall the mischievous and damaging statements made by the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) and the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) on the question of wheat sales to China. [More…]
report of the Wheat Board - the latest available - in that year the People’s Republic of China took 28.2 per cent of total exports, Japan 19.7 per cent and the United Kingdom 14.4 per cent. [More…]
As we ail know, sales to China are rather hazardous. [More…]
I do not know whether, if the long awaited letter arrives from China, and the order is large enough, wc will be able to meet it. [More…]
At a more appropriate moment a little later on 1 would like (o examine just what our situation would be with China. [More…]
Of course, China is not really there. [More…]
As I suggested before, we should at least open a wheat board office or a trade office in China as a matter of urgency. [More…]
The prospects for trade with China are continuing ones, for various reasons. [More…]
Certainly we would be on far better’ ground to assess what China is going to do in the future if we had our own people on the spot evaluating the situation. [More…]
Our farmers would have an increase in sales of at least 100 million bushels per year potential which is twice the size of the former China market. [More…]
The second point I make is that the Wheat Board is having difficulties in getting a communication channel with Red China, or continental China as some people would prefer to call it. [More…]
It is a funny thing that this Government recognises Red Russia, but it will not recognise Red China. [More…]
But the Government refuses to recognise China politically in the councils of the United Nations. [More…]
China does not exist in the councils of the United Nations, so far as this Government is concerned. [More…]
Probably we are losing the opportunity to renew our wheat agreement with China because we refuse to recognise that country. [More…]
Canada recognised continental China late last year or early this year - 1 am not quite sure of the actual date. [More…]
But this is what has happened: The Canadian Wheat Board officials signed a $70m wheat contract with China 2 weeks after Canada’s diplomatic recognition of China. [More…]
I claim right here that this stubborn, pigheaded, conservative Government will cost Australian wheat growers possibly hundreds of millions of dollars in the next year or so because it refuses to recognise China. [More…]
The Country Party is prepared to accept all the benefits which flow from trading with China, but it is a part of the coalition Government and, to my knowledge, it has done nothing to put pressure on the Liberal Party in order to get the Government to recognise Red China. [More…]
What has China bought from us? [More…]
Over the last 10 years China has emerged as Australia’s major wheat customer. [More…]
Since 1966 China has bought $500m worth of Australian wheat. [More…]
They have received no replies from China’s officials to cables asking for the negotiation of a major new wheat deal. [More…]
Last October the Australian Wheat Board twice cabled Peking requesting that an Australian delegation be invited to China to discuss the possibility of negotiating a new wheat contract. [More…]
Although members of the Australian Wheat Board are on standby to fly to China, no invitation has yet come to this country asking it to go and negotiate a new wheat contract. [More…]
As the honourable member for Moore truthfully said, the prospects of Australian wheat sales to China are depressing. [More…]
It is reported that the green revolution has made China almost self sufficient in grain production. [More…]
That may be another reason why China may not want to buy wheat from us this year. [More…]
China has every right to be political. [More…]
We should not blame China for saying: ‘We are still an orphan in the Pacific as far as Australia is concerned. [More…]
A Si 10m wheat contract between Australia and China which came into operation early last year is on the verge of expiry. [More…]
China is taking approximately 25 per cent. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot said that we should recognise Red China. [More…]
How often have I heard in this place the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) and other members of the Opposition by way of interjection ask why the Country Party sells wheat to China. [More…]
Over the last 4 or 5 years most members of the Australian Labor Party have been criticising wheat sales to Red China. [More…]
Now the honourable member for Wilmot is saying that everything is lovely, that we should sell wheat to Red China and that we should recognise Red China. [More…]
Why do we not recognise Red China? [More…]
The reason is that we have some thought for what is known as Nationalist China and the future of that country. [More…]
It is because it cannot make sales to Red China. [More…]
Members of the Country Party refer to Red China when they say that its forces are about to invade Australia, but they refer to Mainland [More…]
China when the are about to sell wheat to that nation. [More…]
This year they have not sold any wheat to Mainland China and that is the reason why al this stage measures such as this one are before the Parliament. [More…]
We refer to the hypocrisy of members of the Country Party for criticising Red China and its policies, on the one hand, while sending emissaries there to sell our products. [More…]
Argentina, Brazil, Mainland China, Rumania, India, Italy, South Africa, USSR and Uruguay. [More…]
Is the Minister for Trade and Industry aware of the magnitude of the problem confronting the People’s Republic of China in its efforts to gainfully employ and raise the living standards of its vast population? [More…]
Will the Minister request the Australian Wool Commission to send a mission, comprising persons fully qualified and experienced in wool selling and processing techniques as well as at least one person skilled in handling and arranging finance, to the People’s Republic of China with a view to selling direct to its Government wool from the stockpile presently held by the Commission? [More…]
Australian Wheat Board, and this has been the body which has initiated and been able to successfully negotiate sales to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In the case of wool, I would certainly not give a direction to the Australian Wool Board, or to any other group, to send representatives to China in order to try to sell wool there, but what I would be quite happy to do is to consult my colleague, the Minister for Primary Industry, on the question which the honourable member has raised. [More…]
Of all these Prime Ministers he has been the hottest in his optimism and the coldest in his perception of what this war has meant in human terms - in terms of scorched earth and scorched bodies, in terms of the devastation of the whole of Jndo-China, in terms of the destruction of one of the proudest civilisations in the region and in terms of the degradation of an entire generation of the Vietnamese people. [More…]
It is the political situation, not the situation in Phuoc Tuy Province or Vietnam or Indo-China, that has prescribed the terms of the announcement today by the new Prime Minister. [More…]
Nothing so fully epitomises the Government’s total lack of understanding of the Indo-China catastrophe as the Minister for Defence’s statements on the operation in Laos. [More…]
It resents that Indo-China refuses to fit into its own preconceptions and preoccupations or, as the Prime Minister himself put it last year when as Minister for Externa] Affairs he was speaking on Cambodia: ‘it does not readily fit into my framework’. [More…]
All these negative results have been achieved at the price of the devastation of Indo-China. [More…]
In a kind of unholy alliance with Russia and China, we have provided the 2 Vietnams with almost limitless capacity for mutual self-destruction. [More…]
We must realise that China is an important country as far as pig production is concerned. [More…]
China has the capacity to swamp any Asian market of any consequence. [More…]
That is one thing for which I would not have paid all the rice in China, because in those days the Labor Party gave nothing but a mere pittance of a handout. [More…]
He began his ministry by insulting one of our major trading associates, China. [More…]
He declared loftily that he would not be pushed into recognising China. [More…]
In any event the letter he has been awaiting from China on wheat still has not arrived, while other major trading nations such as Canada, France, Britain, Italy and others have hurried to both recognition and trade. [More…]
Japan, which does not extend diplomatic recognition to China, certainly recognises the facts of trade, has an agreement, has an office and has $800m in two way trade. [More…]
Just how out of touch with trading reality the Minister ils can be measured by his reply to the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey), a member of his own Party, who urged new initiatives with China in relation to wool. [More…]
The gulf in thinking between Left and Right on how Australia’s security should be sought and how her relations with other countries - Russia, China, the United States - should be conducted has never been bridged and was not bridged at the last ALP conference, where ‘unity’ was the watchcry so loudly proclaimed. [More…]
The only way the differences can be papered over at election time is by saying as little as possible, by omitting (as did Mr Whitlam) any mention of the ANZUS or SEATO treaty, by neglecting (as did Mr Whitlam) to express any opinion on such urgent controversies as the recognition of China or Russia’s proposed Asian collective security system. [More…]
Neither would we trade with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Is it a fact that the British Government has sent on to him a communication from the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
We did receive a communication from the British Government from a source within China. [More…]
It could not be regarded as speaking on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In that communication the statement was made that for political reasons the People’s Republic of China would not be purchasing Australian wheat. [More…]
There were many people who urged us not to get too heavily involved with the People’s Republic of China because it might try to intimidate us for political reasons. [More…]
Consequently we are not so heavily reliant upon the People’s Republic of China - that is, Communist China - for the sale of our wheat this year. [More…]
1 ask the Prime Minister a question on his statement 24 hours ago about the communication he had received through the British Government from a source within China concerning the sale of Australian wheat to China. [More…]
The source of information did not come from within China, but it came to an official of the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong* from allegedly Chinese sources. [More…]
The first cable I received relating to the political intentions of the People’s Republic of China was from Hong Kong and it was that which I was referring to in answer to the question yesterday and in answer to the question today. [More…]
The altitude of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Leader of the Australian Country Party towards Mainland China which has resulted in the loss of Australia’s most important wheat market. [More…]
For years the Government, the Country Party in particular, has been conducting a two-faced approach towards China in an endeavour to hoodwink farmers and the Australian public. [More…]
As is well known on this side of the House, before elections a bitter campaign of hate is always launched against China in an endeavour to side with the Democratic [More…]
As soon as the election has passed the same ministerial gentlemen, acting on behalf of the Australian Government, spend their time wooing China in an endeavour to retain that nations goodwill. [More…]
Who will ever forget the fanatical hate campaign which was launched against Labor in the 1966 Federal election campaign and which revolved round a map depicting China, South-East Asia and Australia with red arrows emanating from China and engulfing Australia, indicating that China was ready to invade Australia? [More…]
Apparently the Australian Government, particularly Country Party Ministers, believes that this hypocrisy will not be taken seriously by China. [More…]
Spearheading this attack against China is always the new Deputy Prime Minister, who seems to delight in such political dishonesty. [More…]
The continuation of these insults to China has now resulted in a death blow to the Australian wheat industry. [More…]
China, of course, has bided its time. [More…]
As soon as Canada gave full diplomatic recognition to China, the writing became evident on the wail for Australia. [More…]
The Government was warned by industry leaders and in this Parliament to tread very carefully and not to insult China. [More…]
Despite urgent requests from responsible sections of the Australian community, including the wheat industry, to take a commonsense viewpoint towards China, the Australian Government continues lo cling to the coat tails of the United States and to deliver public insults to China. [More…]
The new Minister for Trade and Industry, it will be recalled, arrogantly stated that political considerations would never influence China in her trade relations with Australia. [More…]
He believed nothing was wrong with insulting China in one minute and patting her on the back in the next. [More…]
Do honourable members realise that in the last 8 years China has bought from Australia just on $ 1,000m worth of produce? [More…]
In fact, more pertinent is the fact that China could have been one of Australia’s most important customers in the future in the expansion of rural exports to South East Asia. [More…]
Indeed, the Government’s hate of China has resulted in a blow that should never have happened if the Government had acted in a responsible and mature way. [More…]
A Labor Government will recognise China and it will trade with China. [More…]
In con trast, the United States refuses to recognise China and will not trade wilh her. [More…]
Although we may not agree wilh the policy of the United Stales of America towards China we nevertheless must respect its consistency. [More…]
But who could respect the double standards of Australia bitterly attacking China and branding her as a potential enemy while at the same time grovelling to China to save our wheat industry? [More…]
Is it too late lo resurrect our trading partnerships with China? [More…]
Secondly, the Australian Government should immediately adopt a mature policy towards China by preparing a constructive case for the recognition of China and divorcing itself from the coat tails of the United States in this matter. [More…]
I remind the House that China has a population of 750 million. [More…]
If Australia does not take an independent diplomatic initiative towards China we could well be the last nation of any consequence to recognise this giant country which is of such importance to us now and which will certainly be of even greater importance in the future. [More…]
The communication from the British Government apparently informing Australia of the position of China has been not classified but made top secret. [More…]
We have the position at the present time of Australia belittling and refusing to recognise China and insulting China, but wooing China at every opportunity when this becomes necessary if we are to sell China our wheat. [More…]
As far as the Labor Party is concerned, as I said before, a Labor Government will recognise China. [More…]
A Labor Government will trade with China, and there may be no fear of any Australian soldiers being killed by the North Vietnamese who are fed with Chinese wheat because a Labor Government will have no troops at all in Vietnam. [More…]
I wouldn’t recognise Red China just to sell wheat. [More…]
The United States has a point of view on Mainland China, she sees certain international implications which would make it difficult for her in relation to Formosa if Mainland China were to be recognised immediately. [More…]
1 would hope we can clear some of these problems in order that Mainland China might be recognised, in time. [More…]
But I would not sell my soul just to benefit trade, and I don’t believe it’s a significant factor in selling wheat to Mainland China. [More…]
It has been suggested that the reply given yesterday by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) indicated that there was some other statement or, by innuendo, there was a response by the People’s Republic of China - or mainland China, as you will - to this statement which was the main reason for China not negotiating further sales of wheat. [More…]
Having spoken about the statement in general he said: lt could not be regarded as speaking on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In this instance the statement was related specifically to a commercial transaction and there is no substance in the allegation that anything has been said by the Deputy Prime Minister which in any way has caused the People’s Republic of China to come out and say that no sale will be concluded. [More…]
The position is that China has, of course, been a very significant purchaser of Australian wheat. [More…]
There is no doubt that over the years when she suffered a series of crop failures and when there were very critical supply shortages and a low level of world wheat stocks - honourable members will recall it was not only China which had stock failures but also the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and that at the same time there were increasing needs in developing countries - there was developed in the People’s Republic of China a very good and substantial market. [More…]
as a member of the Australian Wheat Board at the time, was partly instrumental in securing the first commercial sales of wheat to China. [More…]
On the contrary, the position quite obviously is that in mainland China for quite normal commercial reasons there have been a number of circumstances which have certainly reduced that country’s need to buy wheat this year, lt is true that the green revolution is not confined to India, Pakistan or the other countries of South East Asia. [More…]
The green revolution has meant that through the use of fertilisers and the use of rapidly growing and high yielding Mexican wheats there is a very substantial increase in production in a great part of Asia, and China has not, of course, been outside that. [More…]
We are told, in the same way as we get so many of these reports, that this year China has enjoyed fairly good seasons in its agricultural belt and, of course, that factor has to be taken into account. [More…]
There is no doubt that in the past sales to China have varied according to seasonal circumstances. [More…]
Sales to China have been determined not only on domestic demand circumstances but also on external commercial circumstances, so that they have been prepared to go out into the market place and argue as one would expect a country to argue to get the best price, the best terms and the product which was best suited for integration into their own domestic needs. [More…]
China has always operated on that basis and there is no suggestion that the People’s Republic of China has suddenly this year found that she has been excluded from all these commercial factors which, in the past, have been so significant. [More…]
There are a few other significant factors about the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There is this complex of reasons which surround market demand and the possibility of the People’s Republic of China coming in and buying wheat this year or next year. [More…]
On the other hand, it is interesting to see what the industry’s feeling is about the prospects of sale of wheat to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Of course, he is still hopeful in a field in which only rumour has it that there will be no sales of wheat to China this year. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Australian Wheat Board has established close relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
; Republic of China. [More…]
The Board has continued to maintain these close domestic relations which 1 am quite sure will ensure that in the future we will again be able to re-establish the market in mainland China. [More…]
It seems very difficult to understand how the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) can allege that the terms of a matter of public importance, which is concerned with increasing wheat sales to China, with selling more wheat to China and with trying to encourage the Australian Government and the responsible Ministers to be wise and diplomatic in relation to China, can possibly be against the interests of Australian primary producers. [More…]
The Minister told the House that he does not consider that the decline and final end to wheat sales by Australia lo China has anything to do with Australian attitudes. [More…]
He said that the decline and final termination of sales of wheat to China are caused by objective conditions, such as the green revolution - increased production in China - and so on. [More…]
But does the Minister know that in the last 12 months China has bought more wheat from Canada than ever before? [More…]
Does he know that in the last 12 months China has bought more wheat from other countries that her total imports of wheat are some 20 per cent or 30 per cent greater than they were in any year before? [More…]
Why is it that when China is buying more wheat from Canada and more wheat from other countries she has suddenly stopped buying wheat from Australia? [More…]
Nobody would agree that the sale of wheat by Australia to China is not of very great value to Australia. [More…]
Since 1962 we have sold about S800m worth of wheat to China. [More…]
The market in China is of great value to our wheat farmers. [More…]
1 think that everybody will agree that it is of great value to Australia to sell its wheat to China and that the Government should do whatever is wise, reasonable and principled to sell Australian wheat to China. [More…]
But I wonder whether anyone who supports the Government will consider it is wise for one of its Ministers - in this case it was the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) - ro come out on television at the very point at which negotiations for the sale of Austraiian wheat to China might be crucial, namely, the last week or so of negotiations, with a statement that he would not self his soul just because of trade. [More…]
He said: ‘I would not do business with China at the expense of my soul’. [More…]
The question here is not whether Australia should recognise China - if that is otherwise wrong - in order to sell our wheat to China. [More…]
If it .were wrong or if it were against Australia’s interest to recognise Chinn there would be no tenable reason why we should recognise China merely to sell wheat. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry and other Ministers have made an issue of their souls being involved in business with China at the very time when business with China in the form of the sale of wheat is crucial. [More…]
Despite the fact that for 9 years China has never raised the question of recognition it is at a crucial point in business with China made an issue by us. [More…]
The new Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), shooting from the hip like the former one, was asked a question in the House about Italy’s recognition of China. [More…]
He said that it was unfortunate that Italy had recognised China. [More…]
The Government and its Ministers have never used common sense about China. [More…]
They have wanted to defame and insult China for local political reasons and, al the same time, they have wanted to do business wilh China. [More…]
Mr Crocker is saying is that the sale of $800m or S900m worth of wheat to China, as well as every other relationship, has been endangered by the narrow political concept which unproportionately influences the Australian Government. [More…]
Wheat has been sold to China for 9 years without Australian recognition of China and it may have been sold for years yet without this recognition if Ministers had spoken sensibly and had controlled their tendency to shout insults and condemn. [More…]
One would expect any statement which is made about the attitude of the Australian Government to the recognition of Communist China to come from the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Bury), the Prime Minister and, in his speech here this afternoon, the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) have in the last week for the first time been referring to China as the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Prior to that they referred to it as Mainland China or Red China. [More…]
It can be seen that the Government, which has up to now taken a highly moralistic position - I think it was essentially a political position - not torecognise China merely to sell its wheat to China is rapidly coming round to the recognition of China. [More…]
Its Ministers are now talking about the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
No longer is it Mainland China or Red China. [More…]
All their precautions about their moral attitude to China and all their political posturing around the country about the selling of their souls if they deal with China have to end because they are going to have to recognise China in order to sell wheat to China. [More…]
The attitude of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Leader of the Austraiian Country Party towards Mainland China which has resulted iti the loss of Australia’s mo.-.t important wriedt market. [More…]
When the Minister was asked a .question about the recognition of China, he said that there were difficulties. [More…]
I would hope we cm clear some of these problems in order that Mainland China might be recognised in time. [More…]
Hut f would not sell my soul just to benefit trade, and ( don’t believe it’s a significant factor in selling wheat to Mainland China. [More…]
then we can recognise Mainland China. [More…]
It was said that a British diplomat had conveyed information in Hong Kong that the Minister for Trade and Industry had been named as somebody who had upset Mainland China. [More…]
Are you taking exception to the fact that he said twice that he hoped Australia might be able to recognise Mainland China? [More…]
Australia has become an international humbug in its attitude to China. [More…]
sum total of Australian trade with Mainland China in the 1969-71 period amounted to $157,897,000. [More…]
We bought only a little more than S32m so we have had a developing trade with 750 million people, lt is true that although this represented a major effort in wheat selling and mainly as a result of industry initiative - and f stress that - the rest of the world, recognising the improvement in the stability of China and noticing a perceptible improvement in marketing prospects, has been rushing to trade. [More…]
Britain led the way in recognition originally and is now so much better established in China than we are (hat it is the British . [More…]
The French recognise and trade with China. [More…]
Italy recognises China and is seeking to expand her trade with China. [More…]
It not only failed to take any initiatives in China but it effec tively sabotaged the efforts of the Australian Wheat Board, and the instrument of that sabotage was the Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]
In the flush of : his new power, on 7th February he went out of his way in arrogant condensation to tell Australia and the world that he would not be pushed into recognising China for the purpose of selling wheat. [More…]
I make the point that if he feels this way about China he should get out of the Trade and Industry portfolio. [More…]
The tragedy of the China situation is that despite questioning in this Parliament, despite fears by the industry, and despite a revolt against the Minister in circles of his own Party he has persisted in an attitude of arrogance quite unreal and unacceptable in a man who is supposed to be Australia’s first salesman. [More…]
I believe the Government has made a decision in principle to recognise China. [More…]
China and Russia could become major customers for Australian wool, if the Federal Government offered flexible foreign exchange terms and China was given diplomatic recognition. [More…]
Russia and China need Australian wool. [More…]
The first thing we can do is to recognise China. [More…]
There is the tip of the revolting iceberg, but against the background of all this is not only the matter of wheat sales to Red China; it is a matter of the whole of Australia’s balance of trade. [More…]
Firstly, there is the failure of his policy towards China, with disastrous results. [More…]
The attitude of the Minister seems to coalesce around these words: ‘1 would not recognise Red China just to sell wheat. [More…]
I think there will be a change in the Government’s policy on the recognition of Red China. [More…]
I do not speak for the Government.I simply say that there seems to be a change in world opinion and that in my view, as a backbench member, there will be a change in Australia’s stand on the recognition of the Republic of China. [More…]
What kind of a man would the Minister for Trade and Industry be if when he was first interviewed he said: ‘I am a member of the Government andI stand with the Government policy on Red China,’ but at his next interview he said: ‘Well, it does not apply to wheat. [More…]
What kind of a Minister would the Minister for Trade and Industry be if he claimed that the policy of the Government was not going to be his policy in future and said on a television interview: ‘It is going to be different because it may influence our sales to China.’? [More…]
Who said that it would influence our sales of wheat to China? [More…]
There has been no evidence that the Ministers statement - if this is the statement that was made - has had or will have any influence on the quantity of wheat we sell to China. [More…]
What is the evidence that the statement of the Minister for Trade and Industry - which seems to me to be a perfectly sensible and principled statement - has had any influence on our possible sales to Red China? [More…]
The Labor Party has been made to look sufficiently ridiculous by contending that this statement, which seems to all members on this side of the House to have been perfectly sensible and responsible, will affect our sales of wheat toRed China. [More…]
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We do not place any embargo on the movement of Australian citizens to the People’s Republic of China unless there are security considerations involved. [More…]
We do not place any obstacles in the way of the movement of people from the People’s Republic of China to Australia unless similar kinds of security considerations are involved. [More…]
Already the Leader of the Opposition has decided that this Party would make application to the Chinese Premier, Mr Chou En-lai, for a visa to allow one of the members of his Party to go to Peking in order to find out why continental China - the People’s Republic of China - is not purchasing Australian wheat. [More…]
Thirdly - and 1 think the House will be interested in this later development - there was a request by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to permit Mr John Penlington to go to continental China, the People’s Republic of China, in order to permit ‘Four Corners’ to produce a film relating to that country. [More…]
So here we have the ABC, wishing to go to continental China, being refused unless its personnel were vetted by the leading member of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
I believe that the People’s Republic of China, while playing politics, nonetheless likes to keep fair and proper international relationships. [More…]
It concerns recent statements relating to Australia’s overseas wheat trade, this country’s defence policy and diplomatic relations with Peking China. [More…]
-The honourable member for Kennedy has asked the Prime Minister whether there is any similarity between our previous relationship with Russia and our present relationship with China. [More…]
In the second case that we are referring to, relating to wheat, we have a somewhat similar problem because here the Leader of the Opposition has sent a message to Mr Chou En-lai, the Premier of continental China. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that the Minister for Trade and Industry is to lead a team of wheat lumpers to the People’s Republic of China to take part in a contest lumping Canadian wheat in Peking and that the Prime Minister will later lead a squash team to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
This is a heaven-sent opportunity to enable me to give the kind of answer I have been wanting to give during the whole of question time as to our general relationship with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Our trade with the People’s Republic of China, unless it comes within the strategic list or special military requirements, is free. [More…]
We are agreeable that sporting teams should go to China, subject to security requirements. [More…]
In other words, it is premature in the United States’ view to consider the problem of recognition of the People’s Republic of China or, for that matter, to make decisions about the admission of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations. [More…]
Our attitude to admission is that, first and foremost, we want to protect the interests of Taiwan China and, secondly, we want to ensure that we take it step by step and methodically. [More…]
I preface it by saying that the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister have gone to great pains to say that the Government has never interfered with the Australian Wheat Board as far as political relations with China are concerned. [More…]
I ask: Does the Prime Minister deny that in May 1967 the Australian Wheat Board delegation in Hong Kong, after negotiating a contract for the sale of 1,500,000 tons of wheat with China, was forced, on the instructions of the Commonwealth Government, to hand to the Chinese a note, after the contract had been signed, which stated that if China did not use her influence to stop the Hong Kong riots Australia reserved the right to cancel the contract? [More…]
Does the Prime Minister deny that the reaction by the Chinese negotiators to this blatant blackmail was so strong that the wheat trade in 1967 was almost wrecked and the next Wheat Board delegation was bluntly informed by China that if such a provocative attitude by Australia continued China would do no more wheat business with Australia? [More…]
I also want to point out that all this discussion on a political level is doing harm to the market for Australian wheat because if any buyer thinks that there is a weakness in the market he will of course exploit that weakness, just as the People’s Republic of China will, if it gets the opportunity, play politics with us. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: What were the conclusions that enabled him to recognise the Taiwan government as the lawful government of China? [More…]
Did the People’s Republic of China come into existence in circumstances similar to those of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
If so, why do we have diplomatic recognition of Russia and not of Mainland China? [More…]
Does the Government contemplate supporting the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations on a 2-China basis? [More…]
If so, is the right honourable gentleman aware that the Chinese Prime Minister, Chou En-lai, consistently refuses to accept the 2-China formula and emphasises that his government will never surrender his country’s sovereignty, irrespective of where the political pressure comes from? [More…]
In the interests of both peace and trade will the Prime Minister drop the 2-China concept and try to conceive something more politically original in his search for grounds on which the Australian Government might rely to enable it officially to recognise the People’s Republic of China and support its admission to the United Nations? [More…]
The first part of it relates to the difference between the Government’s approach to the Republic of China - that is, Taiwan China - and to the People’s Republic, which I choose to call [More…]
Continental China mainly because most people do not understand unless I do. [More…]
Until fairly recently Continental China has not shown itself particularly anxious to be recognised nor to be seated in the United Nations. [More…]
For years the Republic of China, or Taiwan China has been, as I have impressed on the House, a valuable member of the United Nations, has lived up to its international commitments and has been recognised by Australia. [More…]
The Opposition has to let me know whether its attitude has changed over the last few years or whether it once thought that it was wise to retain recognition of the fact that Taiwan China should remain a member of the United Nations. [More…]
We want Continental China to be a responsible member of the international community. [More…]
But Australia’s overall wish is that Taiwan China, which is responsible for 14 million people, should remain a member, and the Government will be working to ensure that procedures are adopted at the next United Nations meeting, or at a subsequent meeting, that will protect that country. [More…]
The United Stales thinks that it is premature to be going along with the recognition of China, and it will be doing all in its power to secure the position of Taiwan China in the United Nations. [More…]
If we accepted the presumed policy of the Australian Labor Party that we should repudiate Nationalist China in favour of mainland China because of its greater power, does the Prime Minister believe that if we undertook this action it might well be that we would cause in the minds of the smaller nations of South East Asia with whom we have existing treaties doubt as to whether’ under the same circumstances we might well repudiate them in the future? [More…]
Yesterday a series of questions was asked by Government back benchers about the People’s Republic of China and its relations with this country. [More…]
I had no doubt, Mr Speaker, that you knew that I was seeking to ask a question in relation to this matter of China. [More…]
I feel sure that if honourable members took the trouble to do this they would find that the Speaker of this House was indeed more than tolerant in the situation which developed when the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was answering a question asked by the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) concerning wheat trade, defence policy and diplomatic relations with Peking China. [More…]
The Chinese Government - whether it be the government of the People’s Republic of Mainland China or Taiwan China - has a very considerable degree of public order. [More…]
Republic of China had been in this chamber when the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) referred to the Republic of China as Taiwan China he would obviously be offended and insulted because he does not like to have his country referred to as Taiwan China. [More…]
It concerns the nature of recent communications from the People’s Republic of China on the possible purchase of Australian wheat. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman himself said on 6th April that the source within China could not be regarded as speaking on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister now admit to the House that the Government has received reports of 3 discussions, the first at a meeting between the British Charge d’ Affaires in Peking and a director of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and the other two at lunches between representatives of the Australian Wheat Board and officers of the China Natural Resources Commission - lunches specifically sought by the Australian Wheat Board to discuss possible wheat sales? [More…]
The simple fact is that what we were referring to initially was an alleged statement between the British Charge d’Affaires in Peking and somebody who was not what could be regarded as a member of the Government of the People’s Republic of China but who was an official of one of the Chinese departments. [More…]
There is nothing in writing from them and this matter has come to our attention in a roundabout way and not as a direct communication from the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
He will recall that yesterday the Leader of the Opposition, in the course of one of his shorter questions on the China issue, asserted that the credentials of the Australian Ambassador to Taipeh contained the statement that the Republic of China was the legitimate and actual government of all and every China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition went on to assert that the Government thereby officially maintained that Taiwan China, as he referred to it on that occasion, was responsible not only for the- [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition did refer to the credentials of the Australian Ambassador to Taipeh and he did use the phrase that the Government of Taiwan China - to adopt his term - is the legitimate and actual government of all and every China. [More…]
The letters of credence themselves are from Elizabeth II to the President of the Republic of China and the words actually used are: ‘Being desirous of maintaining representation in the Republic of China of the interests of the Commonwealth of Australia we have made choice - * There is no reference whatsoever to the words used by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
What does the Australian Government intend by the words Republic of China’? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government in Taipeh will accept credentials only from a country which acknowledges its claim to be the government of all China, including continental China? [More…]
Furthermore, in view of the Government’s efforts to increase trade with mainland China and the loss of the wheat sales due to nonrecognition of China, does the Minister consider that requests may also be made for increased Chinese migration as the basis on which that country will conduct negotiations? [More…]
If so, what attitude will the Government take in regard to requests of this nature from mainland China or any other nation similarly placed? [More…]
These people are in Macao, which is almost a pimple on the great body of mainland China, the People’s Republic of China, the former Red China or whatever terminology may be prevalent in Government circles at this time. [More…]
Surely the reason could not be that the ancestors of these Portuguese citizens at one time or other were attracted to the gentle flowers of China? [More…]
The Minister spoke of the need to be ‘sensitive to change’ about China. [More…]
One notes that 10 days after we were told that the Government is sensitive to change on China, the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) reverted - at the National Press Club - to the old intransigent line, and moreover did so on the very day .on which President Nixon announced new and quite momentous proposals towards healthier relations with China. [More…]
Those taken by Mr Trudeau about China last year are now bearing fruit. [More…]
The China lobby in Washington is reduced to sullen acquiescence. [More…]
There is no reason why the Australian Government cannot achieve the same relationship with the People’s Republic of China in the same terms and under the same formula as Canada has done. [More…]
It is incredible that in 1971 an Australian Prime Minister should seek to gain political mileage out of kicking the Communist can in respect of China. [More…]
I shall depart from my usual practice in the case of China not so much to show that I was, correct 17 years ago but to show how, entrapped and enmeshed . [More…]
Certain phases of our policy have been allowed to continue for 4i years to the provocation of the people of China and of all our neighbours. [More…]
I refer to the question of the recognition of the Communist Government in China and to its admission to the United Nations. [More…]
A still more serious phase, of our policy is that we say not only that the Communist Government in China is not, and should not be, the Government of that country, but also, that the Nationalist Government in Formosa is, and should be, the government of China. [More…]
We must recognise the fact that the government installed in Formosa has no chance of ever again becoming the government of China unless it is enabled to do. [More…]
When we say that that government should be the government of China, we not only take an unrealistic view but a menacing one. [More…]
The Australian Government should have recognised the Communist government in China, in view of the fact that all our neighbours, including the colonial powers, Great Britain and the Netherlands, have recognised it. [More…]
Government’s attitude to China and Taiwan still remain as real and as pressing as they were 17 years ago. [More…]
Despite what the Prime Minister said this morning, Australia has been credentialled to the Republic of China on Taiwan’s terms - that we recognise that Government as the legitimate and actual government of all and every China. [More…]
The Prime Minister must know that President Chiang Kai-shek insists on being recognised as the ruler of the whole of China. [More…]
Nothing so vividly illustrates the absurdity of our present relations with China than the Government’s own confusion over communications. [More…]
situation where such gossip and such places are real factors in our communications with China. [More…]
That the following words be added to the motion: ‘and that the Australian Government should establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China and work for her representation in the United Nations.’ [More…]
Seventeen years ago we would, as I suggested at the time, have been wise to heed the views on China of our Commonwealth partners in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In each of the matters I have dealt with - - China, the Commonwealth, colour, colonialism - we see how this Government’s preoccupations with the policies of the past inhibit and discredit Australia’s role. [More…]
Our unreal and hypocritical attitude towards China has been responsible for the grossest of all the violations of sound Australian policy. [More…]
We are in the Indo-China blood bath today because of our attitudes to China. [More…]
Yet who today would dare assert, as Sir Robert Menzies did 5 years ago, that our commitment in Vietnam was necessary to stop the downward thrust of Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition again implies that we should follow the Canadian view of recognition of continental China. [More…]
The honourable gentleman may deny this but a close examination of the documents and of the statements made concerning that situation shows that the Canadians were virtually committed, if Taiwan had not acted first, to withdrawing recognition from Taiwan, thus recognising the claim of continental China to govern the 14.5 million people on that island. [More…]
The last question on which 1 should like to touch concerns China. [More…]
Clearly China in history has no cause to love any of the great powers, least of all the Soviet Union which still occupies territories that China regards as her own. [More…]
I believe it is not entirely irrelevant that we find it difficult perhaps to decipher how much of Chinese policies would be founded in China’s past and often tragic history, and how much of it would be founded in some imperial Communist ideology. [More…]
But quite clearly, whatever the cause, the task of getting China actively and constructively involved in world affairs will be important but difficult. [More…]
But once China does achieve membership of world organisations, the character of those organisations will change and not, perhaps in the short term, change for the better. [More…]
It can be maintained only with skill and with tact, and I believe that lt will not be achieved by blanket opposition to continental China itself. [More…]
However, continental China could not be allowed to absorb the 14i million people in Taiwan, but so, too, the Hi million people in Taiwan cannot be allowed to stand in the way of dialogue and communication with the most populous country on this earth. [More…]
These were Indo-China, China, the Middle East and Pakistan. [More…]
1 do not intend to concentrate on Indo-China in this debate tonight; it is both a long standing and a long term issue. [More…]
This raises broader questions of the intervention of Russia and China into this arena. [More…]
These are the United States, Soviet Russia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
A sudden and dramatic display of friendship to Americans by the People’s Republic of China has evoked an almost hysterical response from -President Nixon and his Government. [More…]
Since February President Nixon had courteously referred to this great nation as the ‘People’s Republic of China’, unlike the Australian Prime Minister who persists in all the old euphemisms such as continental China. [More…]
President Nixon announced his readiness to grant visas to visitors from China and expressed his interest in visiting the People’s Republic. [More…]
It is worth comparing this reaction to the few minor gestures made by the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Nor has there been any sign of a softening by the People’s Republic of China on Vietnam. [More…]
In the week before the first American visit to China the Chinese Press was full of what it saw as the victory in Laos of North Vietnam over the Saigon Government. [More…]
Undoubtedly China still regards the United States and Australia as ignoble aggressors in Vietnam. [More…]
attitude to America, has told the North Vietnamese that China would not shirk from the greatest national sacrifices to help them to defeat the imperialists. [More…]
Nor is there any hint that China will disengage from fostering international revolutionary activity, in particular people’s wars of liberation in Africa, Asia and Latin America. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China may be changing its tactics; it has not changed its basic objectives. [More…]
In return for a few meagre concessions China has received an overwhelmingly favourable response from its most powerful adversary. [More…]
Beyond relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China lies the equally crucial issue of relations between Russia and China. [More…]
Furthermore, the People’s Republic of China boycotted the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of Russia held in Moscow earlier this month. [More…]
Despite the very great differences between the Soviet Union and China, it would be unwise to hope for any real rapprochement between China and America against Russia. [More…]
The tone of resolutions adopted at the 24th Congress was that Russia and China should work towards the long-term key interests of both countries and those of world socialism. [More…]
The only inhibition on this assistance has been the very serious division between Russia and China in recent years. [More…]
To summarise these points, foreign policy in the next few years is certain to be determined by the balances between the 3 great powers - China, Russia and the United States. [More…]
Any rapprochement between Russia and China will present grave policy problems to the United States. [More…]
There is no machinery at all for government-to-government relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Republic of China is poised to assert itself much more positively in a region where it sees itself as unchallenged leader. [More…]
Nothing is more certain than that Russia will become increasingly active in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean and that China will follow its lead. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) < has moved an amendment to the statement calling on the Australian Government to recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The immediate question we face is not that of recognition but the problem of the representation of China in the United Nations. [More…]
As the Prime Minister said in his address, there is likely to be a majority of the United Nations in favour of the admission of Continental China, and a majority also who would like to find a means by which the Republic of China on Taiwan could also retain its membership. [More…]
First it should be noted that when President Nixon last week announced new relaxations of American restrictions on travel and trade with China, he said it would be premature to talk about recognition or admission to the United Nations. [More…]
The policies of the People’s Republic of China affect the whole Asian region - the region in which we live. [More…]
The Australian Government could not accept courses of action which would leave 14 million people - more than the population of Australia itself - to face Communist China without recognition Jr the support of friends. [More…]
We welcome the limited thaw in China’s relations with the outside world made possible by Peking’s interest in the development of personal exchanges. [More…]
We hope that the positive contribution which Peking’s recent moves have made to international understanding will lead on to equally positive adjustments in China’s attitudes having a more direct bearing on inter-state relationships. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Swartz) referred in his statement to what he described as a new-found interest by the -Australian Labor Party in the recognition of Communist China. [More…]
I would like to remind the Minister that the platform of the Australian Labor Party has had as one of its fundamental planks for the last 15 years the recognition of Communist China. [More…]
The deceptions, lies and myths which have been the only components of this Government’s China policy are now being exposed - most tellingly by the United States Government itself. [More…]
The Government, we are told, is reviewing our policy towards China. [More…]
Quite clearly something has been happening because since I have been in this House T have heard reference to Red China, mainland China, Communist China and now continental China. [More…]
We are also hearing now prim references to China as the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The United States is prepared to see the People’s Republic of China play a constructive role in the family of nations. [More…]
We do not wish to impose on China an international position that denies its legitimate national interests. [More…]
President Nixon went on to talk about the influence to which China’s achievements entitled it. [More…]
This Government has deceived the Australian people for so long about China that, clearly, it has come to believe its own propaganda. [More…]
But it is necessary to point out that the isolation of China from the international community has been largly the result of its own international attitudes. [More…]
There have been two walls of China, one built by China’s traditional insularity fortified by the dismal record of contact with the avaricious European powers in the 19th century and with Japan in the 1930s. [More…]
The second wall was methodically built by the United States’ to contain China. [More…]
China was ringed by a series of United States bases from South Korea through Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Okinawa, South Vietnam, Thailand and earlier Pakistan. [More…]
The Seventh Fleet has dominated the China Seas, and United States spy planes have operated at will. [More…]
For too long we have reacted emotionally to massive campaigns depicting the downward thrust of China, of technicolour Democratic Labor Party and Government propaganda of the Red threat oozing over South East Asia and dripping on to Australia. [More…]
What sort of sticks and stones does China have? [More…]
On this basis China has a relatively smaller force than has any of the countries in its proximity. [More…]
In short in comparison with other countries China’s military strength, particularly for an aggressive role, is not particularly convincing. [More…]
Our policy towards China should not be bedevilled by a mistaken loyalty to a regime that forfeited its authority over the people of China 22 years ago and which has proved incapable of earning the loyalty of the Taiwanese people. [More…]
Under the postwar settlements as foreshadowed in the Cairo Declaration of 1st December 1943 Taiwan was returned to China. [More…]
General Wedemeyer in his report on his mission to China dated 17th August had this to say: [More…]
Only 10 per cent of the National Assembly of the Republic of China are Taiwanese. [More…]
On the other hand they may wish to revert to being part of China. [More…]
But it is absurd to suggest that the present position should be supported by Australia to the detriment of our relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Canada has recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The regime in Taiwan by its own decision has broken off relations with Canada because it continues to insist that those who have diplomatic relations with it recognise it as the Government of all of China - a mistaken impression that the Prime Minister continued to perpetuate in statements he made in the House today. [More…]
The Malaysian Government, despite the misleading information that the Prime Minister has given in the past to this House, has stated that it regards the People’s Republic of China as the legitimate government of all China, including Taiwan. [More…]
We should move toward, first, the recognition of the People’s Republic of China; secondly, the representation of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations; and thirdly, resolving the political future of the peoples of Taiwan, lt would pay us well to keep in mind the words of a very great Foreign Secretary pf the United Kingdom in the 19th century, Lord Palmerston. [More…]
They say there is no danger from Communist China. [More…]
No one in his right senses could conclude that there will be a non-Communist regime there when he knows that the North Vietnamese have been backed by Russia and China. [More…]
No magical results will follow from either the recognition or the non-recognition of Communist China. [More…]
The United States had no magical achievements from not recognising China, and the United Kingdom had no magical achievements from recognising China. [More…]
In pursuit of the classic Canning definition of recognition, Britain recognised Red China. [More…]
The United States believed initially that by recognising the Government of the Republic of China, which is now on Taiwan, it could have the ideological advantage of a transformation within China. [More…]
Very few people believe today that Chiang Kai-shek, if he managed to land in China, would be hailed as a liberator. [More…]
Honourable members opposite can make all these lurid statements about people in their attitude to the recognition of Red China or trade with it. [More…]
That is how he regarded your wheat trade with China. [More…]
What is more, you sent strategic materials to China, too, and you sent from the beaches of Bunbury in Western Australia some of the most vital metals that are used to make engines resistant to heat - essential in jet aircraft and essential in rockets. [More…]
The government which is on Taiwan is known as the Government of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) in all his evasions today cannot escape the fact that those who recognise the government on Taiwan recognise it not as the government of Taiwan but as the government of mainland China. [More…]
I think it is time that we stopped talking rot about China. [More…]
General de Gaulle change his attitude on China? [More…]
If China were . [More…]
The Soviet Union’s objection to China was that China was raising the question of the 600,000 square miles of Chinese territory annexed by the czars after 1858 and was raising the kind of ideological issues which are a potential dissolvent of the Soviet Union, whether Georgians, Ukranians or others would continue or wish to continue to be subordinate to the White Russians in what is a vast colonial empire of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The revolutionary anti-colonialist principles of China are a potential dissolvent of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has 3 million troops along the borders of China. [More…]
even begin to assess Chinese policy, and the ridiculous debates in this House because the Government can get the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party by yak-yak-yak about Red China are a disgrace to this Parliament and would be unacceptable in a high school. [More…]
The whole position of Communist China is not analysed. [More…]
If Communist China was purely interested in nationalist issues why does it not occupy Hong Kong and Macao? [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle concentrated to a large extent on the issues involved in recognising continental China and on the current very unfortunate situation in East Pakistan. [More…]
In more recent times continental China, to use the title in- vogue ai the moment, has earned a reputation for encouraging instability and subversion in the region and, in the case of Tibet and India, committing actual aggression. [More…]
I return now to the subject of continental China. [More…]
A quite remarkable change in her attitude is revealed by- such recent events as the invitation to the American table tennis team to visit China. [More…]
China in, I think, 1961. [More…]
But during the cultural revolution and for some time afterwards it is well known that continental China virtually cut herself off from the rest of the world. [More…]
During this period continental China suffered severe setbacks in her efforts to influence countries in Africa. [More…]
For example, China often had to choose between supporting the existing government of a country or revolutionary forces within the same country. [More…]
At the same time as all this was going on, continental China was of course also supporting the North Vietnamese in the Indo-China conflict. [More…]
In about 1968 there were discernible signs that China wanted to regain her rapidly declining influence, but to do this her foreign policy tactic had to change. [More…]
The question is: If - and I stress the word ‘if - the assessment that China has changed her attitude is correct, what has brought it about? [More…]
If that had been, would continental China have had any reason to re-assess her aggressive, subversive and disruptive policies? [More…]
If it is true that continental China is moving towards a desire to become a part of the community of nations, and if she has finally realised that the policies which she has been following are preventing this because they are not acceptable to the great majority of countries, the implications are tremendous. [More…]
I quite agree that it is far too early yet to assume with any degree of confidence that continental China has abandoned or even modified her previous policies. [More…]
For example, how will continental China exploit her growing nuclear power? [More…]
I wish to speak briefly about China. [More…]
We cannot keep trailing behind American policy on China. [More…]
If we see a change in American policy on China, Australia must be the first to get out - not to follow the United States but to lead it. [More…]
It is very interesting to consider the environment in which the original policy of military and diplomatic isolation of China evolved and to see some of the justifications on which this policy of separation of China from the world community was based. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that, in the early 1950s, policy towards China was not created by the United States on a rational basis. [More…]
If the government in Peking was in effect the government of China, it should be recognised as such. [More…]
But these views were crushed beneath the weight of McCarthyism within the United States and a policy of diplomatic and military isolation of China was introduced. [More…]
Some of the aims of this policy of isolation were to bring about a breakdown within China. [More…]
This policy was aimed at denying China its rights and recognition as a great power. [More…]
It was aimed at continuing the civil war in China. [More…]
This policy was aimed also at preventing the expansion of Russian power because, interestingly enough, in the early 1950s, the official American view in this environment of antiCommunism was that China was in fact merely an extension of Russia. [More…]
It was Dean Rusk who went on record - and who for years later regretted saying it - that China was in fact not China but a ‘Russian Manchukuo’. [More…]
The policy of isolation and containment of China was aimed also at modifying China’s aggressiveness and changing its outlook towards the world. [More…]
As far as the spread of Communism is concerned, it is hard to see any gain that Communism has made anywhere in the world as extensive as the gains that it has achieved in Indo-China. [More…]
Nor has the isolation of China taken place. [More…]
Indeed, the whole reason why the Government is beginning now to rethink its policy, although the burden of the argument on the other side has been denied, has been the fact that China now is gaining the numbers in the United Nations. [More…]
In addition to that, Australia has trade relations with China and is only one of a very large number of nations that recognise the reality that China is a nation that buys and sells. [More…]
Kai-shek that he rules all China. [More…]
If we are to start talking common sense, we must recognise that the Government of Peking is the de facto government of the mainland of China and that there is nothing that we or anybody else in the word can do to change that situation. [More…]
I am particularly concerned about this problem for the reason that the United Nations can never deal properly with the main issues of world peace while China is refused admission to the United Nations. [More…]
One thing which is very interesting in the case of China and the United Nations is the view that has been taken by the Indian Government. [More…]
in the 1960s there was serious trouble between India and China, India nevertheless has maintained the view consistently that it should continue diplomatic relations with the Chinese and should continue to press for the granting of legitimate rights to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Our support for the restoration of the rights of the People’s Republic of China is based on the principles of the universality of our Organisation as also on the provisions of the Charter. [More…]
In particular, there is a general recognition that without the rightful participation of the People’s Republic of China this Organisation will continue to face difficulties in solving several basic problems.’ [More…]
If we are to have a rational world in which all nations will be enabled to carry out their obligations as members of a comity of nations it is absolutely essential that China should be in the United Nations. [More…]
The Government should recognise one fact: The Government of China is here to stay. [More…]
He spoke mainly on Indo-China, China, the Middle East and Pakistan. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) saw fit to move a very carefully worded amendment about China - I say this because he made no reference to Taiwan - I thought I might speak about the South East Asian area. [More…]
When we talk about South East Asia it would be a cardinal sin to omit looking at troubles that have arisen and been caused in the past as a result of China’s role. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition commented that Australia is involved in the Indo-China bloodbath today because of our attitude to China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition referred also to Canada’s recognition of China. [More…]
I am not suggesting this as a reason for Canadian recognition of China or the policies it has adopted towards China but this is something which has never been mentioned in this House by any member of the Opposition and I believe it is a factor which cannot be dismissed out of hand. [More…]
It is very pertinent to remind the House that the isolation of the great nation of China in the last 20 years has been brought about by its own doing. [More…]
Mainland China has isolated itself. [More…]
While the Government has defended its refusal to grant recognition to China and to approve its membership of the United Nations on the grounds that it had to defend the rights of 14i million Taiwanese, Mr Fraser totally reversed the argument. [More…]
However, continental China could not be allowed to absorb the 144 million people in Taiwan. [More…]
I ask: Why has Australia taken a different approach towards Ceylon from that which she took towards India at the time of her conflict with China and towards Cambodia last year when the Government made special assistance available without cost? [More…]
Would it be possible for Trade Commissioner services to be extended to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
When did the last trade mission from the People’s Republic of China visit Australia? [More…]
The question of setting up a trade post in the People’s Republic of China is a policy matter and one which I do not intend to discuss here today. [More…]
I know of no officers of my Department having gone to China. [More…]
Contact may have been made with the China Resources Board in [More…]
But the policy of the Government has been that any trade arrangements with the People’s Republic of China have been made on an industry basis. [More…]
The people who are the greatest advocates of contact with Red China are the greatest opponents of South Africa. [More…]
Does the same argument that they use in favour of talking to Red China not work in relation to talking to the South Africans? [More…]
It does not matter about kicking the Communist can in this sense, because the arguments they have put forward in support of their association with Red China and with all other Communist nations must be held to be firm also in their associations with South Africa and these other countries. [More…]
He made an insulting speech tonight when he accused honourable members on this side of the House over their actions in relation to China. [More…]
Although his attitudes towards China later changed, he at no time moved away from the opinion he held at the time he made that statement that China was a great nation of people. [More…]
In Mainland China, the country that honourable members opposite have been championing tonight, she would have had her head chopped off. [More…]
I defy the Tariff Board to find out the cost of production of a pair of shoes in the People’s Republic of China, because it just is not on. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister’ whether, since there has been an apparent detente in the relations of the People’s Republic of China with the outside world, it has been possible to obtain any information regarding the missing Australian journalist, Mr Francis James. [More…]
I would also point out to the House that the Deputy Prime Minister has made a statement concerning wheat sales to Communist China. [More…]
We have heard from Communist China - or Red China or continental China as the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) calls it - that it proposes not to buy any more Australian wheat. [More…]
I consider the aspects of wheat sales is a valid one because of the situation in the Middle East and the fact that the Country Party has been caught on the hook with China and has to carry over 260 million bushels of wheat from last year. [More…]
I wanted to talk about China and a few other things which are most important to the international wheat trade. [More…]
We are told that the People’s Republic of China is at least 2 to 3 years behind the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that Japan in its weapons development could outpace such countries as the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Another motion asks the House to express its view on the recognition of the People’s Republic of China and its admission to the United Nations. [More…]
Government will never again initiate offensive political tactics to embarrass the Australian Wheat Board in negotiations with China? [More…]
Where are the written facts which the Prime Minister promised me by a deadline of the middle of this week, which is noon today - high noon, if he likes - regarding the serious allegations that I made concerning the Government’s most offensive policy note handed to China via the Wheat Board? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister say who authorised the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to crudely attempt to interrogate certain members of the Wheat Board regarding China during the period in question? [More…]
Is it a fact that, because of the insulting Australian political behaviour, China has declared the General Manager of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr Doonan, persona non grata? [More…]
Finally, which Minister authorised ASIO .tq try to arrange for listening devices to be placed in the office of the China’ National Resources Corporation in the Bank of China while Chinese-Australian wheat negotiations were in train? [More…]
I understand that the honourable gentleman himself .was to pay a visit to China and to come back to give .us detailed information about its operations and its political activities. [More…]
he cares for the truth - and truth on which he can back his assertions - that in the case of the People’s Republic of China it has had 9 good crop years, and has adequate supplies of wheat at the moment. [More…]
This includes the Soviet and Continental China- the People’s Republic of China - just as much as any other country. [More…]
Republic of China, which has nuclear power, and what has to be remembered is that in no circumstances would Japan bc able to engage in operations that involved nuclear warfare against that country, because Japan is so small in area that a few thermo-nuclear bombs would immediately destroy all of its productive capacity. [More…]
This Branch urges the Federal Government to show full political recognition of Mainland China. [More…]
The members of that branch realise, of course, that recognition of mainland China could play a significant part in solving the wheat problem, and I would hope that other branches with the same views would make them known to the Government as soon as possible. [More…]
What was the total value of (a) grain and (b) grain plus other items exported from Australia to Mainland China in the last 8 years, excluding 1971. [More…]
Total value of grain exports to Mainland China for the past 8 financial years and the first 6 months of the 1970-71 financial year were as follows: [More…]
Total value of all items (including grain) exported to Mainland China for the past 8 financial years and the first 6 months of the 1970-71 financial year were as follows - [More…]
There is no foundation at all for any suggestion that Australia discriminates against the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Those rules and regulations apply to China, which is a most favoured nation. [More…]
In one or two cases, such as with footwear and the machine tools industry, recommendations have been made by our tariff-making authorities to increase the tariff and so put an impediment in the way of goods coming from that country but this applied to other countries as well as to mainland China. [More…]
Is it a fact that Australia, for some years, has been extending technical assistance to help modernise the spinning of wool and the manufacture of woollen textiles in Communist China. [More…]
and (2) In February 1964 the Chairman of the Australian Wool Board, accompanied by the Director of the Board’s Technical Department and the International Wool Secretariat’s Director of Market Development (Asian Region), visited Mainland China. [More…]
Board by the Chinese and was arranged by the China National Textiles Import and Export Corporation. [More…]
Arising from this mission the Wool Board arranged for a group of textile technologists from Mainland China to visit Australia in November 1964. [More…]
Since the visit the Australian Wool Board has arranged for technical literature to be made available to Mainland China but no other contact has taken place between the Wool Board and Mainland China. [More…]
with the People’s Republic of China, can the Minister say whether an opportunity will be provided during the current session for members to debate this matter? [More…]
-I am very much aware of the interest - of honourable mem-‘ bers in the subject of our relations with the People’s Republic of China and in the enormous gulf that exists between the [More…]
He did not come; he preferred to be in China rather than in Australia among his own people. [More…]
China has served the Liberal Party well and will continue to serve it well. [More…]
This is the man who went tq China to play party politics with wheat and finished up by being a total advocate for the policy of a foreign power - the greatest Communist power in Asia. [More…]
We have completed new appraisals of our relations with Japan, Russia and China. [More…]
In China he conceded every single point the Chinese made to him, and he did so in public. [More…]
More will be said about China in the foreign affairs debate this session, but let me say just this: I believe his visit compromised discussions which the Australian Wheat Board was just about to begin with the Chinese when he announced his intention to go to China. [More…]
I believe he compromised the first moves we were making through diplomatic channels to open up a dialogue with China. [More…]
As a result of some cocktail gossip with a foreign representative in China, he caused more havoc than any man could have caused either in Australia or in any other part of the world. [More…]
During the recess the member for Wentworth came under severe criticism for his handling of East Pakistan relief and China policy. [More…]
Is confidence laeking because we are reducing our troop commitment in Vietnam in accordance with developments there, or because of the efforts we are mak ing, through proper means, to normalise relations with the People’s Republic of China, or because we have liberalised our trading arrangements with China? [More…]
Unfortunately, 1 have not got time to explain it, but while I happened to be in New Zealand the Opposition tried to accuse me of being the reason for our lack of sales of wheat to China, because of what I had said on television. [More…]
Can he say whether the (a) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and (b) People’s Republic of China have any nuclear power reactors. [More…]
There have been unconfirmed reports that there are nuclear power reactors in operation in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Beyond the immediate threats within and against Vietnam there was a militant China - a China which was giving direct moral and material aid to North Vietnam and which had in the recent past occupied Tibet and fought with India, a China whose ambitions and policies in the area were causing great concern. [More…]
Today the picture is different - in East Asia, in South East Asia, and not least in Indo-China itself. [More…]
It is the Government’s earnest hope that the war can be brought to an early end by serious negotiations, that peace and stability will soon prevail throughout the area, and that the countries of Indo-China - not excluding North Vietnam - will be able to devote their energies with the help of others to worthwhile productive efforts. [More…]
He relates the origins of the war to the activities of China and the attitude of the United States towards those activities. [More…]
He implies that the war was necessary to teach China a lesson. [More…]
Let me put 2 questions to the right honourable gentleman: Is China weaker or stronger in the world today because of Vietnam? [More…]
The significance for our region is this: After Korea, particularly after the Geneva Agreements, it would have been possible for us to bring China back into the comity of nations and to break down that mutual hostility and phobia of China and the United States. [More…]
We would never have been in Vietnam had it not been for the mutual hostility and suspicion between the United States and China. [More…]
Let us seize the opportunity now to get rational, peaceful and fruitful relations between all the great powers in the Pacific - China and the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
There was the situation which existed in China - a more militant China - at that time. [More…]
China had only recently gone into Tibet and had gone to war with India. [More…]
China was also helping the North Vietnamese in the war against South Vietnam. [More…]
The developing military and nuclear power of China is another threat to us as it is to every other nation in this theatre of the world. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said: ‘Let us seize the opportunity to bring peace now that there are better relations between the United States and China.’ [More…]
I hope that the relations between the US and the People’s Republic of China will mean a lessening of Communist aggression in South Vietnam and indeed throughout the whole of South East Asia. [More…]
I sincerely hope, as I am sure every honourable member hopes, that the improved relations between the US and China will contribute to an easing of the tension in South Vietnam. [More…]
Although many of the matters that we will discuss are parts of an iceberg above the surface, I think that below the surface between these 2 countries there is a basic fear on the part of Pakistan that India has never really accepted its right to exist, and there is a basic fear on the part of India that Pakistan is consenting to being used as an instrument of Communist China to break up the unity of India. [More…]
The Government of Pakistan is an ally of Communist China. [More…]
It is probable that the visit of President Nixon to Communist China and the fact that the United States has allowed arms to go to Pakistan is the cause of India abandoning its non-alignment and becoming a Soviet ally. [More…]
For those who want to make points about Communism, Bhutto, who is one of the architects of this policy in the West, is completely sympathetic to Communist China. [More…]
It is not only a humanitarian question, but it is a provocation towards a war - a provocation towards a war in which both the Soviet Union and Communist China might intervene if it is launched. [More…]
People’s Republic of China is interested in Pakistan. [More…]
In discussing political initiatives we have to measure Australia’s size and strength in the field in which we are operating, in a matter which includes India, Pakistan, Soviet Russia, the People’s Republic of China and so on. [More…]
It would be expected, and I would wish, that 1 should speak principally on China and Japan. [More…]
There was the question of Indo China. [More…]
I need only say at this stage that I believe the Prime Minister’s announcement last night will do more to normalise relations between Australia and China than will the statement which we are debating now. [More…]
I add that for advisers from Australia or other countries to remain in Indo China would be another breach of the Geneva Agreements of 1954. [More…]
My remaining comment on matters other than China and Japan which were contained in the Minister’s statement would be to mention that I think that for the first time a Minister for Foreign Affairs, or as previously was the case a Minister for External Affairs, has made a ministerial statement without referring to Britain or to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I turn to the questions of China and Japan. [More…]
The stumbling-block then to recognition of China by Australia and the admission of China to the United Nations was China’s conduct. [More…]
The question of China has become of great moment in Australia this year because of trade. [More…]
We have learned to our cost that the biggest wheat market we had has been lost to us because Australia does not recognise China. [More…]
It is true that we did for very many years throughout the 1960s sell wheat to China without recognising her. [More…]
Canada also sold wheat to China without recognising her. [More…]
China would take the natural, sensible attitude that if she wants a product enough she will get it where she can best get it and the two most appropriate sources in quantity, price- and location were Australia and Canada. [More…]
It may be that Australia was marginally more hostile to China - to use the Chinese term - than was Canada in that from the middle 1960s onward Australia had troops in Vietnam and an embassy in Taipei whereas Canada had neither. [More…]
We do sell quite an amount of manufactures, including strategic goods, to China. [More…]
Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd sells to China. [More…]
In particular an Australian company which is a subsidiary or an associate of an American company would be most unlikely to get any orders in China. [More…]
Again, an Australian company which is a subsidiary or an associate of a Japanese company with interests, trade and investments in Taiwan would be most unlikely to get orders from China. [More…]
Accordingly any Australian subsidiaries or associates of those friendly companies could readily trade with China. [More…]
Let us face the fact that, despite the disclaimer by the latest Foreign Minister on this subject, trade has made China’s status of immediate interest to Australia. [More…]
The predominant reason why we should be interested in China and in her recognition and admission is the fact that the Vietnam war is almost over and we now have an opportunity of having rational relations among the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean. [More…]
One was that the Australian Labor Party’s delegation had compromised the wheat sales to China and the other was that it had compromised the first moves that we - meaning the Australian Government - were making through diplomatic channels to open up a dialogue with China. [More…]
The first allegation is sufficiently answered by pointing out that as we arrived in Canton we met Monsieur JeanLuc Pepin, the Canadian Minister for Trade, leaving China.. [More…]
He had just come from Peking after signing a communique establishing first consideration in wheat sales for China. [More…]
Secondly, we had our conversations with the Acting Foreign Minister of China on 4th July and with the Prime Minister of China on the night of 5th July. [More…]
Australian officials have held fruitless talks with representatives of Communist China. [More…]
The Prime Minister of China had. [More…]
So Australia had been compromised before we ever spoke to anybody in authority in China. [More…]
My own visit to Japan and the Philippines after the China mission confirms me in my belief that Australia is uniquely well placed to improve relations between China, the United States, Japan and Indonesia. [More…]
It is open to any Australian Government, even the McMahon Government, to normalise relations with China. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party supports the formula agreed on between China and Canada, and shortly afterwards agreed on between China and Italy and several other nations. [More…]
On 13th October last year the Governments of Canada and China announced that they were going to exchange diplomatic representatives and their joint communique proceeded in these words: [More…]
The Chinese Government reaffirms, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Canadian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China. [More…]
As I said to Prime Minister Sato, who did not dissent, the greatest diplomatic task facing Japan, demanding all her skill and patience, is normalising her relations with China in the light of the special difficulty raised by her treaty with Chiang [More…]
We should say to Japan that we accept her commitment was a personal one to Chiang Kaishek and that she has fully and honourably discharged whatever obligation she may have fell in that quarter; Japan is now entitled to pursue her own interests, which require a restoration of elations between her and China. [More…]
Now that I have more time in which to speak than I had anticipated, thanks to the indulgence of the House, I shall go at greater length into the reasons behind the Japanese difficulties with China. [More…]
The difficulties between China and Japan are much greater than those between China and the United States. [More…]
There has been a history of hostility between the United States and China for 22 years; that is all. [More…]
With all other great powers China’s relations have been worse than they have been with America but with Japan in particular there have been hostile relations since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894. [More…]
China is still extremely suspicious of any interest which Japan takes in Korea, which was detached from Chinese suzerainty in that war, and in Taiwan which was taken from Chinese sovereignty in that war. [More…]
China and Russia were not represented at the San Francisco Peace Treaty. [More…]
China was not represented because those who were at San Francisco could not agree which was the Government of China. [More…]
The situation technically is that not only is Japan still in a state of war with the Soviet Union but she is still also in a state of war with China. [More…]
Even if one accepts the legitimacy or the legality of the treaty of 1952 one still has the situation that there is a state of war between Japan and all of China except the province of Taiwan. [More…]
I would point out that until I returned from China very few people in this country - very few editorial writers and very few pundits - realised that the term ‘province’ is applied to Taiwan by both Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai. [More…]
(China certainly repudiates any such concept of it now.) [More…]
Lastly, the Japanese government believed that the Communist regime in China is backing the Japan Communist Party in its programme of seeking violently to overthrow the constitutional system and the present Government of China. [More…]
(Nowadays one of the most constant critics of the Government of China is the Japan Communist Party.) [More…]
Perhaps I should speak briefly on the difficulty between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
China resents Russia’s attitude because she is the only nation which still holds to the unequal treaties concluded in the 1860s. [More…]
All the other countries which imposed unequal treaties on China have abandoned those treaties. [More…]
Russia is anxious to conclude a border agreement with China. [More…]
China is very patient on the question. [More…]
China is realistic. [More…]
Chiang Kai-shek has frequently criticised Peking for yielding China’s territory, above all Mongolia. [More…]
First, we should accept the view of Chiang Kai-shek, and the view of all the other Chinese that I have heard speak on the subject, that there is only one China, and that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
Nor is there dispute between them on any of the other matters which are frequently thrown up against the Chinese Government, namely, questions of offshore islands, fishing rights, the ocean sub soil, the seabed, the continental shelf, Tibet and the China-India border - to use the historic term, the McMahon line. [More…]
Secondly, 1 put it that we should accept the view of President Nixon that diplomatic relations with China must be normalised as speedily as possible. [More…]
If one accepts the situation that the sole legal government of China is in Peking and not in Taipeh, then one transfers from Taipeh to Peking the Australian Embassy to China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in Canada, the Conservative Leader, visited China the week after we did. [More…]
It knows that the British on a bi-partisan basis agree that they should withdraw their consuls if they are to have full diplomatic representation in China and from China. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Foreign Affairs put the proposition for 2 Chinas or for China and one Taiwan. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China both claim to be the sole government of China. [More…]
We have taken the view, therefore, that in present circumstances the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China should both be represented in the United Nations. [More…]
Also, it might be said that because China is divided there should be representation in the United Nations for each of the parts. [More…]
If we are going to use these different arguments for 2 Chinas let us at least be consistent about them. [More…]
AH the arguments appear completely ingenuous and completely insincere when we realise that the realistic situation on China has only been realised 22 years after it came about. [More…]
But the climate of opinion on the China question in America has recently undergone a startling thorough change. [More…]
The influence of the notorious China Lobby’ which backs Chiang Kai-shek has waned and support for a more realistic diplomacy has correspondingly waxed. [More…]
That is to say, the situation in America which has exercised the strongest influence on Australia’s China policy has radically changed, lt may, in fact, fairly be supposed that an Australian decision to recognise Red China would now be welcomed in Washington as a further argument for a realignment of American Far Eastern policy. [More…]
Moreover, an Australian gesture at this delicate stage in Asia could carry considerable weight, not only in Peking but also in the capitals of those Asian powers which, while friendly towards this country, have been bewildered by our continued refusal to face facts on China, lt is surely plain that there can be no satisfactory or lasting settlement in the Far East white an emigre government of China enjoys Western support. [More…]
I make the other quotation from a distinguished diplomat because one of the disturbing things for Australia is the extent to which the morale and the reputation of our Department of Foreign Affairs and all the skills assembled there should have been committed bv its political masters to such time consuming, futile and discreditable exercises as justifying our attitude on New Guinea and justifying our attitude on China. [More…]
My own choice as best for Australia’s security in the long run would be, in spite of all the difficulties at the beginning, to strive for a modus vivendi and for friendship with China. [More…]
This does not mean a cut-and-dried choice between America and China. [More…]
And be that as it may, not only is it unrealistic to treat Taiwan as the Republic of China, it is a most perilous form of unrealism. [More…]
Our opening an Embassy in Taiwan In 1966 to the so-called Republic of China, after resisting pressures to do so for 16 years, an off-the-curT decision made, without consulting the Department of External Affairs or, apparently, the Minister for External Affairs, by the Prime Minister of the day, himself an amiable man whom no one could dislike but who knew almost nothing about foreign affairs, was as foolish as it was naive. [More…]
1 need only add that since that was written it has become clear that there will not be a war between America and China on this issue. [More…]
In particular we must normalise relations with China. [More…]
How many Australians have any knowledge at all of China’.’ [More…]
This is a habit which will lead us in our international relations to what is so much required, to lower the voice, to de-dramatise, to be patient and to feel suitably foolish when political cheapjacks, however highly placed for the moment, talk as they have talked in the past, about ‘getting tough with China’. [More…]
I would like to have moved an amendment to the motion to take note of the Minister’s statement, but we already have on the notice paper such an amendment on the statement by the immediate past Foreign Minister, in the terms that the Australian Government should establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China and work for her representation to the United Nations. [More…]
I would like to say something about the recent visit of the Leader of the Opposition to China. [More…]
I believe that this visit to China was conceived in sin. [More…]
The presence of the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) in the Australian Labor Party delegation that visited China supports what I say about the purpose of the visit - that it was conceived in sin. [More…]
In going to China, the Leader of the Opposition might more usefully have explained the fears that China’s neighbours have of her aggressive words and actions. [More…]
It would have been more useful if the Leader of the Opposition had explained in Peking that China’s neighbours have some good reasons for their suspicions. [More…]
Instead of agreeing with everything that Mr Chou En-lai had to say, he might have had some regard for the objectives of our allies and in particular for President Nixon in his bargaining with Peking in his forecast visit to China. [More…]
The President of Niger charged China with plotting and financing an unsuccessful revolt against his government. [More…]
We are trying to sell wool to the Russians just as the Leader of the Opposition was in China to sell wheat to that country. [More…]
At the end of my speech I may ask for leave of the House to table a document from the Parliamentary Library setting out quite factually what has happened to the trade of those countries that have or have not had diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
However, I want to say that we now have to reappraise our relations, not only with China but also with other countries. [More…]
The detente between China and the United State may be regarded by Japan as a rebuff. [More…]
Japan may either go in with China in an economic entente, despite words, or she may go in with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We must re-assess our position with regard to Great Britain, the United States, China, Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In regard to China, there is no disagreement that the Australian Government should seek to normalise diplomatic relations, but that falls a long way short of the sort of vassalage that the Leader of the Opposition has been presenting to this House, and the cautious approach of the Government to this matter, I believe, is to be commended. [More…]
The honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) maintains that the Australian Labor Party mission to China was conceived in sin. [More…]
It indicates why our image overseas, particularly in Asia, is so poor and why we have lost the $100m wheat trade with China. [More…]
For example, just consider the names by which it used to call China. [More…]
Everyone on the Government side of the chamber called it Communist China. [More…]
Then it was Red China, and then suddenly the Prime Minister woke up to the fact that he must not use those words because the United States of America was not using those words any more. [More…]
Then it became continental China. [More…]
Then it became mainland China and now, of course, it is the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
If, of course, the Australian Government claims that I am telling lies, it is also accusing the Foreign Minister for China, Chi-Peng Fei, and the Minister for Foreign Trade, Pai Hsiang Kuo, of telling lies. [More…]
The Prime Minister still insults the people of China. [More…]
The editorial in the Age’ condemned the Minister for Shipping and Transport for his absurd statements overseas regarding China. [More…]
Let us look a little at what China thinks of Australia. [More…]
The Chinese view is that the war should be ended immediately so that the people of Vietnam and Indo-China can solve their own problems immediately, without interference from the United States or Australia. [More…]
Ministers of the Chinese Government maintain, as we well know, that the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government of China and that Taiwan is an unalienable part of China - a province of China. [More…]
This is the only policy acceptable to China. [More…]
It was made crystal clear that China is opposed to the creation of 2 Chinas. [More…]
We were told, again in blunt terms, that if Australia is not clear on this there will be serious difficulties in the establishment of normal relations between China and Australia. [More…]
It was made clear also that China will have, and is prepared to have, peaceful co-existence with Australia despite the. [More…]
different political systems and social systems if the Taiwan situation is solved - that is, that there is only one China. [More…]
Chinese policy with regard to relationships with China is that good relations cannot exist between China and Australia as long as the Australian Government continues its hostil ity towards China and tails the United States aggression in Asia. [More…]
Another point the Chinese made was that the present poor relations with China have not been caused by China and therefore an initiative must come from the Australian Government. [More…]
The Chinese view is that it is not possible to have normal relations with the Australian Government while the Australian Government openly supports Chiang Kai-shek, continues to establish close relations with him, opposes China in the United Nations and supports United States resolutions to exclude China. [More…]
The 2 Chinas policy is clearly unworkable in terms of logic. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China will not take a seat in the United Nations if Taiwan is also represented. [More…]
China is. [More…]
China as a nation is already a member of the United Nations and the basic question confronting the Australian Government and the United Nations is: Which Government of China is the sole legal government of China. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition pointed out, Taiwan is recognised by both Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai as a province of China. [More…]
Thus, if the United Nations were able to get Taiwan in first, China would not go in. [More…]
If the People’s Republic of China were admitted first as a member of the Security Council, it would veto the entry of Taiwan. [More…]
The 2 Chinas policy is completely unworkable and the People’s Republic will not accept it. [More…]
Both governments agree that there is only one China. [More…]
An example of the serious repercussions of this 2 Chinas policy can be seen with respect to a problem which is already boiling in that area over Senkaku and Tiaoyutai islands near Okinawa. [More…]
Japan claims them, Taiwan claims them and Mainland China claims them. [More…]
Nationalist China has records dating back to the 15th century. [More…]
Mainland China agrees with Taiwan but makes the point that the People’s Republic of China is, in fact, the sole and legal government of China not Chiang Kai-shek. [More…]
Because of the Australian Government’s open hostility to China the Australian people and the Australian economy have suffered. [More…]
We have lost a major wool market in China. [More…]
The wheat farmers and wool growers of this nation do not owe this Government any thanks for its ostrich-like approach to the realities of China. [More…]
When it comes to the next election this Government will see very quickly what the wheat farmers and woof growers think of its foreign policy on China. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) devoted much of his speech to the alleged loss of Australian wheat sales to China, but I remind the honourable member that the Australian Wheat Board recently announced that the current carryover will be the lowest for many years. [More…]
This is the message which is now getting across to the people of Australia following the visit to China by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and the Australian Labor Party delegation. [More…]
It is a long way to China, but the longest ride that the Leader of the Opposition and his Party got was not on the way over - it was right there in Peking, and they did not have to move a foot. [More…]
The real issue of the performance of the Leader of the Opposition in China is not whether we should or should not trade with China or hold discussions with China, but how his visit there will affect Australia’s relations not only or even primarily with China, but with the rest of our trade associates, our friends and our allies. [More…]
It is important to remember the trade figures between Australia and China and the other countries of Asia. [More…]
Since 1966 our exports to China have varied between $l28m and $63m a year, and over the 5 years totalled $5 lim. [More…]
Our imports from China during the same period totalled $143m. [More…]
In his extraordinary anxiety to please China, the Leader of the Opposition completely ignored the fact that our trade with our Asian friends is far more important to us and, incidentally, far more stable. [More…]
A study of the record will show that once a country has recognised China, her trade with China has generally declined. [More…]
In other words, as was mentioned by my friend and colleague the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner), once China has achieved her objective, once she has succeeded in getting a country to take the bait of recognition, trade declines. [More…]
I am not opposing any move towards increased trade with China. [More…]
Trade is one way of preventing China from becoming isolated from the rest of the world. [More…]
This is one way of retaining an avenue where China may eventually come to realise the folly and danger of her present course. [More…]
Let me return to the Leader of the Opposition and his China foray. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition made the interesting comment that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had treated China abominably. [More…]
That may very well be so, and it would apply not only to China, but I cannot help wondering how the Leader of the Opposition would describe China’s treatment of Tibet, and how he would describe China’s treatment of India; but we must be left to wonder because there is no indication of how he would describe it. [More…]
What we do know is that in the field of international diplomacy the Leader of the Opposition has been found wanting to such an extent that if he were ever in a position to speak for this country on the question of China, he would find himself and Australia without bargaining power, without any cards left to play. [More…]
It is almost as if he believed that China’s interests and our own were identical. [More…]
I put it to the House that China’s recent history gives us no confidence for such a view. [More…]
Everyone recognises that China is a great power and that she will exert increasing influence throughout the world, and particularly in Asia. [More…]
In accepting this fact, by all means let us try to ensure that China becomes one of the community of nations, but do not let us blind ourselves to China’s recent history of interference and sometimes active aggression in the affairs of other countries, such as Korea, Tibet, India and Burma. [More…]
The Maoists’ utterances and their actions lead one to note that Mao’s projected ‘Super Reich’ would include, in addition to China itself, Korea, the Mongolian People’s Republic, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma and various other countries in this region. [More…]
‘China today, tomorrow the whole world . [More…]
He is a Russian journalist of considerable prestige and, if honourable members opposite did a bit of research work themselves, they would find that he has had a longer and wider experience in China than any other senior Soviet journalist. [More…]
He is a man who has been reading and writing about and visiting China over many years. [More…]
So let us be under no delusion when we talk or negotiate with China. [More…]
We sincerely hope that the recent initiative is an indication of a willingness on China’s part to modify and perhaps to change the direction of its policies which it has followed in the past. [More…]
The interests of this country are not best served by adopting an obsequious, subservient attitude to China, trying to insinuate ourselves, as the honourable member for Bradfield said, into China’s good graces by gratuitously insulting our friends. [More…]
But can he say that Communist China’s influence is less now than it was in 1965 when we sent our forces or in 1954 because now, at a time when United States prestige throughout Asia is at its lowest ebb, Communist Chinese prestige is at its highest? [More…]
But the point is that through our misdirected desire to ensure the reimposition of the French empire in Indo-China in 1945 and the United States assumption of the French role in 1954 we effectively stopped the evolution of an Indo-Chinese solution to an Indo-Chinese problem. [More…]
There is an old Persian saying that only your own fingers can find the itch, and it is about time that we let the people of Indo-China resolve their own problems. [More…]
When we are talking about the change of policy in relation to Communist China, while I do not oppose talking to the Chinese I would remind the House and the people of Australia that the late Neville Chamberlain went over to talk to Hitler but it did not make much difference. [More…]
Although nuclear armament may change the direction of China’s strategic thinking, it is not impossible that a nuclear umbrella could give Peking greater confidence in promoting revolutionary war on the periphery. [More…]
I want to make a brief comment on Australia’s wheat sales to China. [More…]
I was in that area in the early days when the United Kingdom recognised Communist China. [More…]
No longer did China need the UK. [More…]
The UK had done what China wanted and the Communist Chinese literally ignored the UK and insulted that country. [More…]
If you, Mr Deputy Speaker, were to visit China, as a group from the Opposition side did, and tell the Chinese that you know that they will not buy your wheat unless you recognise them would this not put into their hands the very weapon with which to destroy the economic and financial situation of Australia in this sphere? [More…]
One of them is the two China situation. [More…]
It is not possible for Government supporters, psychologically, mentally or intellectually, to adjust to the new opportunities for peaceful relations in the world such as President Nixon’s statesmanlike intention to visit China has opened to us in Australia. [More…]
I want to put forward my views as to why I think President Nixon’s intention to visit China is so constructive, so valuable and so laudable. [More…]
This is not surprising because after all, in the wheat electorates in this nation there has been a tremendous uproar against the rigidity of this Government’s policies and the disastrous effects they have had on our wheat trading with China. [More…]
For example, let us have a look at the size of the trade that Australia has had in wheat sales to China. [More…]
From 1960 to 1970 Australia sold 743 million bushels to China. [More…]
It is no wonder that so many Government supporters are trying to put up such a smokescreen of fear and horror about the new policy towards China. [More…]
That is the value of the trade that this Government has lost to this country because of its policy towards China. [More…]
We have heard some rather remarkable statements about what the Leader of the Opposition’s visit to China has done and how it set the dominoes tumbling and caused Australia to be cast alone in the world. [More…]
I was rather intrigued by the things he had to say about Mr Whitlam’s visit to China. [More…]
Mr Walsh, in part of his question about trade with China, said to Mr Anthony: [More…]
I wouldn’t criticise Mr Whitlam’s visit to China on purely political grounds. [More…]
His attack is not very convincing, because the Australian people have been genuinely and thoroughly impressed by the initiative that the Leader of the Opposition took in going to China, not merely to regain the trade that the Government has so disastrously lost but to build bridges of understanding between this country and China. [More…]
What is the Government’s attitude on the whole question of our relations and the United States relations with China? [More…]
He said that an era of new relationships between China and the United States had been opened. [More…]
President Nixon is going to China and he is adopting a policy which virtually discredits and discards the policies that this Government has pursued for 20 years, of rigid containment and isolation of China. [More…]
Let me give my views now on President Nixon’s visit to China. [More…]
I am very disturbed by the fact that we can have in this House an official statement which welcomes President Nixon’s visit but the visit can then then be attacked, virtually, with the sort of arguments that Government members have used so far and will go on using week in week out, kicking the Communist can and deliberately creating a mentality of fear which is the very contrary to what President Nixon is trying to do in his initiatives with China. [More…]
These parties are deeply suspicious of President Nixon’s attempts to bring about peace, security and stability in the world through understanding with China. [More…]
I see 3 principal reasons for President Nixon’s visit to China. [More…]
That is one of the realities behind President Nixon’s policy towards China. [More…]
I will spend some time quoting from this document because I regard it as a most important indication of where President Nixon’s policy is taking the United States, where it is taking China and where it is taking us. [More…]
Mainland China is, of course, a very different situation - from Russia - [More…]
First in terms of its economic capacity at the present time, a pretty good indication of where it is, is that Japan, with 100 million people, produces more than Mainland China with 800 million people. [More…]
Mainland China, any sense of satisfaction that it will always be that way, because when we see the Chinese people - and I have seen them all over the world, and some of you have, too, whether in Hong Kong or Thailand or Singapore or Bangkok, any of the great cities, Manila, where Chinese are there - they are creative, they are productive, they are one of the most capable people in the world, and 800 million Chinese are going to be, inevitably, an enormous economic power, with all that means in terms of what they could be in other areas if they move in that direction. [More…]
That is the reason why 1 felt that it was essential that this administration take the first steps toward ending the isolation of Mainland China from the world community. [More…]
This was about a week before he announced his visit to China. [More…]
But at least the doors must be opened and the goal of US policy must be in the long term, ending the isolation of Mainland China, and a normalisation of our relations with Mainland China because, looking down the road, and let’s just look ahead IS to 20 years, the United States could have a perfectly effective agreement with the Soviet Union for limitation of arms - the danger of any confrontation there - [More…]
But Mainland China, outside the world community, completely isolated, with its leaders not in communication with world leaders, would be a danger to the whole world that would be unacceptable, unacceptable to us and unacceptable to others, as well. [More…]
He said more, but what I have quoted shows Australia that the policies which the United States has pursued towards China for 20 years, that is, policies of military containment of the Chinese and diplomatic isolation, are no longer to be followed in the United States. [More…]
These bitternesses between the United States and China have incinerated Korea and Vietnam. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) would seem to give the House the view that there have been no discussions and no attempts to negotiate with China over the last 20 years. [More…]
The honourable member further forgets that the one significant strategic difference between the situation that then prevailed and that which is now beginning to emerge is China’s growing fear of the Soviet Union which makes China look outward to see what other relationships she might form and what changes she might be able to make in her connections with other countries. [More…]
Therefore, provided people like the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) keep out of the ring in this particular context, the United States has a very clear weapon in its hand in trying to negotiate sensible solutions to some of the problems with China. [More…]
If the waters are muddied, if the pass is sold long before the negotiations with the President and China begin in earnest, there will be no chance of that. [More…]
In his visit to China he repudiated Australia’s old friends and alliances, lt was Professor Arndt who, in resigning from the Australian Labor Party, said that this entirely distinguishes the approach of the Leader of the Opposition from that of President Nixon. [More…]
President Nixon is trying to bring China within the ambit of nations and to normalise relationships with China but at the same time preserving those other relationships, friendships and alliances which need preservation with other countries in this part of the world. [More…]
His endorsement of China’s policies in relation to South East Asia and East Asia has won endorsement by Chou En-lai as the next candidate for Australia. [More…]
But has anyone raised any objection to China’s endorsement of Mr Whitlam’s candidacy for the Prime Ministership at the next elections? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition went to China to try to do something about wheat. [More…]
He soon forgot about that and then sided with China against Japan, a country which takes 27 per cent of Australia’s exports. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson was prepared originally to visit China and try to do something about wheat, but he did not want his visit to be made into a political mission which would tie him to any political agreements. [More…]
By his actions, the Leader of the Opposition has clearly indicated that China should not buy any more wheat from Australia until Australia has accepted the policies that China would want. [More…]
If anyone has done anything to keep the wheat market in China closed to Australia, it is the Leader of the Opposition by his actions and by his suggestions that this is the course that China should take. [More…]
The beneficiaries of this would be Russia and China. [More…]
He falsely praised China for having rigidly followed a policy of having no troops in other countries - a plainly false, blind statement. [More…]
He said that China has always kept its word. [More…]
As I have indicated and has been mentioned in the debate, the Leader of the Opposition agreed with China over Taiwan. [More…]
Not on any occasion did he argue with China. [More…]
One, I think, concerns an old school friend, Francis James, who has been imprisoned in China for a considerable time. [More…]
Then the best that he could do was to appeal to the Press and say how Francis James had supported Chinese policies and that if the Press could convince the Chinese that Francis James was a friend of China, they might let him go. [More…]
He agreed with China on all points that were raised in public so, presumably, he agreed on all points that were raised in private. [More…]
We all want normal relationships with China but we do not want to be in a competition to get to Peking first at the price of friends and interests vital to Australia and other small countries. [More…]
Does he not understand that China is seeking the elimination of the United States presence and security support for South East and East Asia and the Western Pacific area which means the destruction of ANZUS, the withdrawal of bases in Australia and the withdrawal of forces and troops including the Seventh Fleet and all the rest right down the Western Pacific? [More…]
He has ignored China’s support- [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has ignored China’s support for revolutionary warfare; he has ignored China’s blatant support and pursuit of nuclear policies; he has ignored the fact that China is building strategic military roads in Asia that could be used to invade Thailand through Laos or through Nepal and which could be used for invasions in other areas; he has ignored the basic interests of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, South East Asian countries and Australia. [More…]
We find honourable members opposite grudgingly accepting the fact that China will be recognised. [More…]
I asked him whether the figure I have just quoted or figures similar to those were correct when he used the argument that we were in Vietnam because China was involved. [More…]
Statistics lacking include those on refugees and civilian casualties in Indo-China, enemy losses, the effects on health of herbicides used in Vietnam, the significant inflationary effect of the war on the United States economy, and the long range costs of Vietnam veterans benefits. [More…]
If the Government’s Vietnam policy has been wrong, as has been exposed by the passage of history, so too has been its policy on China. [More…]
The Government sees that there are sufficient countries in this world - some of them of such tremendous importance - prepared to recognise China that it wishes to find a place in the line to begin diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
The Government sees that the number of countries seeking to establish diplomatic relations and willing to support China’s entry into the United Nations is such that China will be admitted to the United Nations either with our assistance or in spite of us. [More…]
The Government said Australia could not recognise China because of her war-like stance in the world. [More…]
President Nixon has said that we have to recognise China for the sake of peace in the future. [More…]
I think that the opposite to that statement made by President Nixon is that the American Government has been prepared to court war while continuing to try to isolate China. [More…]
It has been prepared to court world war for the sake of maintaining a policy of non-recognition of China and for the sake of not creating diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
He was preparing himself to maintain a stance of opposition to China. [More…]
Then President Nixon made his announcement that he would seek an opportunity to visit China. [More…]
When Mr Anthony was asked about his opinion of Mr Whitlam’s tour of China he said: [More…]
I wouldn’t criticise Mr Whitlam’s visit to China on purely political grounds; I think some of his actions there were a little indiscreet, but if it can help in improving relationships with the Western world, then he’s doing a service. [More…]
The outstanding impression that one has of the visit of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to China and the astonishing verbatim record of his discussions with Chou En-lai on 5th July is that of a pilgrimage. [More…]
This man sits on when he has just heard, in one unambiguous sentence - and I will not quote it all - the epitome of what Chou, Mao and Lin Piao and other Chinese Communists have been spelling out at length for decades, namely, that they, China, not the United States, Japan or anyone else, are going to dominate the East, including Korea, Taiwan, IndoChina, Thailand and the Philippines. [More…]
The next country that China mentions which is to be liberated from United States aggression after Korea and Japan is Taiwan. [More…]
Does he recall the way the Taiwan issue came into being: How Britain, Labour Britain, trying desperately to establish normal relations with China, opted 21 years ago to support Peking in the matter and how the British Labour Party and its Ministers were insulted and rejected by the Chinese Communists? [More…]
The United States Government will not pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China. [More…]
Both men expounded the view that they regarded Formosa as an integral part of China. [More…]
So the United Sta’.es moved to assert aid to other nonCommunist governments around the perimeter of Asia should they be attacked, and those governments included Formosa and IndoChina. [More…]
It led directly to the tragedy of Vietnam and it gave substance to the 2- China position. [More…]
Just as there were 2 Koreas, soon there would be 2 Vietnams and 2 Chinas. [More…]
Can it be that the Leader of the Opposition has already ceded Laos to China? [More…]
But to listen to the Leader of the Opposition one would think that China had been on a peace crusade for 20 years, and had been unjustly treated by the rest of the world. [More…]
He left China trumpeting about Chinese honesty and reliability which he declared to be a watchword. [More…]
Let me quote from a voice which the Leader of the Opposition must have forgotten, a man with one of the most distinguished and knowledgeable backgrounds on China of the wartime and immediate postwar period, a man who went with Mr Attlee as interpreter when the British Labour Party sent a mission to China in 1954. [More…]
To praise Chinese genocide in Tibet as the elimination of feudalism, to attend peace congresses in China, to see wall pictures advocating hate of the outside world, and to come home and hold up China as the paragon of peace, as some members of the Party have done, extends this form of blindness a degree further. [More…]
Fortunately less has been heard since China’s attack on India . [More…]
From all that the Leader did in his visit to China and from all that he has said since, the Labor Party frankly still does not attempt to answer that strategy. [More…]
This debate on foreign policy is not a debate about China alone, ft is true that the Chinese exercise at the present time has captured the imagination of people because of the initiative of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is going to be the China Premier election, or something of that sort. [More…]
Those who cared to consider politics at that time only had to look first at the Deputy Prime Minister of this country, the right honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony) whingeing his way around Europe, trying to knock his way through the doors of the European Common Market and being rejected at every point, and then at the triumphant visit of the Leader of the Opposition to Asia, including not only China but Japan and other countries. [More…]
Australia will never look at the China issue the same way again. [More…]
For example, the Minister for the Navy talked about the inconsistencies or the illegalities, or whatever it was, of the position of China and Taiwan. [More…]
He remarked about the acceptance by the Leader of the Opposition - not exactly the acceptance - but the acknowledgment of the position taken by China that Taiwan was a province of China. [More…]
Chiang Kaishek for years has said, and this Government has accepted it, that China apparently and Taiwan are of the one part. [More…]
If Taiwan is a part of China - and I do not necessarily accept this view myself; but in the legality of the world this is the way it goes- Chaing Kai-shek has no right to be the government of Taiwan and we have been supporting an illegal government there. [More…]
We cannot develop the China neurosis any more. [More…]
We cannot look at China that way because no-one else in the world will accept it. [More…]
This is the influence we would have on China if we could get that country into the United Nations. [More…]
At this time Australia is seeking to broaden its relations with the Soviet Union and to normalise its relations wilh the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We recognise that the establishment of full and normal relations with the People’s Republic of China on mutually acceptable terms will bc a difficult and perhaps protracted exercise. [More…]
The House will remember, of course, that the Prime Minister has praised the Nixon initiative and said that Australia in fact had been seeking a normalisation of relations with China since October last year. [More…]
China. [More…]
I would now like to examine briefly the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean to the peoples of South East Asia and China. [More…]
China has- [More…]
China, if not yet a world power, is clearly concerned that her presence should be felt throughout the world as a power of consequence, as a revolutionary leader, and as a potential trading partner, and in the exercise of her diplomacy against Russia strategically, against Taiwan in undercutting its voting strength in the United Nations and against India, its Asian neighbour, with which it has its longest boundary. [More…]
China’s landward links with West Asia and East Europe would cross Russian territory and therefore create dependence on Russian terms. [More…]
For China the Indian Ocean means cheapness, bulk transport and freedom of the seas. [More…]
China has no interest in Russian domination of the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The scare diplomacy of China in the 1960s was expressed by Premier Chou En-lai in 1961 when he said that Africa was ripe for revolution. [More…]
This concern is now being replaced by the long term diplomacy of a more settled China; of cooperation with friendly governments, irrespective of ideology, lt is apparent therefore that this scare diplomacy which emanated from China during the middle 1960s and in particular at the time of the cultural revolution is changing, which is not surprising because the cultural revolution was the greatest disaster China has faced, lt is my contention that China has a vital interest in ensuring that the Russians do not gain a dominant presence in the Indian Ocean and this is primarily the motivating factor in her relationships and the seeking of a detente as it would be with the Western world. [More…]
The Government is positively defensive in regard to its South East Asian policy and particularly its nonrecognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Government is concerned at its loss of substantial wheat sales to China. [More…]
Australian wheat sales to China were 31 per cent to 33 per cent of our total production which represents only li per cent of the total consumption of wheat by the people of China. [More…]
I have heard Government supporters say that they would not sell any wheat to China; that they would sooner let the people of China starve. [More…]
That is a ridiculous statement to make when one looks at our wheat sales to China. [More…]
This will be due to the successful mission of the Australian Labor Party delegation to China a short time ago. [More…]
Members of the Government always purposely refrain from telling the truth about China. [More…]
Prior to the Communist Government coming to power, the average life expectancy in China was 28 to 30 years. [More…]
These things no longer exist in the People’s Republic of China, which I visited in 1962. [More…]
I have been the Vice-President of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian-China Friendship Society for some years and 1 am proud to hold that position, in my mind, China is not an aggressive nation. [More…]
One of the most talented men in the Department of Foreign Affairs resigned and wrote a book on Tibet entitled ‘In Fear of China’. [More…]
Tibet was always a part of China. [More…]
Tibet was always a part of China and the people of Tibet are better off today under direct Chinese rule than they were under the old Dalai Lama rule. [More…]
I would put more faith in the writings crf that outstanding Australian diplomat, Gregory Clark, in his book ‘In Fear of China’, which is here for any honourable member to look at, than I would in what honourable members opposite say about China. [More…]
China has been criticised by members of the Government for its so-called aggressive attitude towards India. [More…]
There is any amount of evidence available in the Parliamentary Library to show that China was correct in defining her borders with India. [More…]
China had border disputes round about the time that she came into conflict with India. [More…]
I have seen copies of the letters that the Chinese Government wrote to the governments of those countries, asking for a round table conference to define their borders because China bad no defined borders with them after the Communist Government took over the country from the old corrupt, crooked Chiang Kai-shek regime. [More…]
The governments of Burma, Nepal and Pakistan conferred round the conference table, and the border disputes between those countries and China were cleaned up in a proper, peaceful manner. [More…]
I made some study of the conflict between India and China over the McMahon line and I believe, as many important world figures who have made greater studies than I have - British people - that China was correct over the border dispute with India and the McMahon line. [More…]
It is strange that noone ever objected from the Government side of this Parliament about China’s purchase of Stg 17m worth of rubber from Malaya almost annually in approximately the last 7 years. [More…]
I believe that the rural community is seriously in doubt as to whether it will place its loyalties with members of the Country Party, due to that Party’s attitude to China in the years gone by. [More…]
China seems to be getting on well with many of the smaller countries, as the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwan) said this afternoon. [More…]
China has recently exchanged diplomatic relations with Chile. [More…]
Austria and China have just agreed to institute diplomatic relations. [More…]
We know that the Government is changing face and is going to vote for China’s admission to the United Nations, but I think it has left its run too late, because the Chinese realise, and they state, that we have been the puppets of the United States for too long. [More…]
Also, China is giving a substantial grant of about $70m to one of the British Commonwealth countries, Ceylon. [More…]
It is true that China has the most powerful army in the world. [More…]
It was pointed out in the same article that China had practically no air force, and what air force it did have was short of high octane fuel and spare parts. [More…]
China has practically no navy. [More…]
I think honourable members would admit, at least in private to their friends, that there was a move to invade North Vietnam and China by the Chinese lobby in the United States during the period of the Vietnam war. [More…]
China is aware that she is virtually circumvented by American nuclear bases. [More…]
Owing to her history, China is reluctantly pouring more money into defence than she would like to do. [More…]
The present facts of the administration of Tibet are that Tibet is an autonomous region within the People’s Republic of China and is administered by a revolutionary committee responsible to the government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In October 1950, Communist Chinese troops moved into Tibet to establish the authority of the then recently established People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In submitting proposals to the Secretary-General regarding the review of the United Nations’ Charter, which are required before 1st July 1972, will the Government give consideration to the need to move for (a) negotiating an international exchange of press space and broadcasting time, (b) representation for China and Tibet separately (as for the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia) to encourage China to accept de facto representation for Taiwan, and separate representation for contending regimes in other divided countries, (c) universal suffrage in developing nations as a step towards democratic representation at the General Assembly or an associated House of Deputies and (d) growing legislative, judicial and executive powers for the United Nations as a pre-requisite for total disarmament, co-ordinated world development and control of the environment, subject to safeguards for national sovereignty in purely national matters? [More…]
Australia: New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, People’s Republic of China, France, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Argentina, Ethiopia, Hungary, Israel, Norway, Paraguay, Switzerland and Uruguay. [More…]
If he carefully reads the statement that was made by me - and I attached to it copies of both the letter we wrote to the then Prime Minister of South Vietnam and his reply - he will see that on at least 3 occasions prior to that there were requests by the South Vietnamese Government, from the proper authorities, that we and others should provide forces for the defence of that country against blatant and naked aggression from the north, assisted by the Soviet and China. [More…]
The destructive effect of the Australian Government’s foreign policy of continued hostility to China on the sals of wheat to that country. [More…]
– The allegation by the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) that the Australian Labor Party delegation to China, and I in particular, are responsible for the loss of the China wheat market is indicative of the miserable measures which Ministers of this Government will adopt in order to keep themselves in office. [More…]
I had 3 objectives in going to China: Firstly, to find out the facts on why China had stopped wheat purchases from Australia; secondly, to see whether it was possible to get China to resume wheat purchases from Australia; and, thirdly, to examine the possibilities of expanded trade from Australia, particularly in primary products and basic raw materials. [More…]
We found out the facts on wheat from the highest economic and trade policy authorities in China. [More…]
To put the matter more bluntly, the assertion of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Primary Industry that Australia’s foreign policy or ministerial criticism of China has had nothing to do with the loss of the huge Chinese wheat market is false. [More…]
Can I tell the wheat growers of Australia that if it were not for this Government’s open and continued hostility to China Australian wheat would still be going to China. [More…]
China’s Ministers stated that in recent years China has been forced to purchase very large quantities of wheat. [More…]
In the last 10 years China has purchased 22 million tons of wheat from Australia at a cost of $US1,20Om. [More…]
The large wheat purchases from Canada and Australia have been due to a food shortage in China in earlier years and they also enabled China to export higher value food products like rice which earned a net gain of foreign exchange. [More…]
During this period of wheat purchases from Australia neither Canada nor Australia was given any particular priority for China’s wheat because neither of those 2 countries recognised China. [More…]
China’s attitude regarding trade with Australia is and will be influenced by the policies and decisions of Australian governments. [More…]
When discussing the policies of the Australian Government as they affect China’s trade decisions, both the Foreign Minister and the Minister for Foreign Trade referred to the hostile political policies of the Australian Government against China. [More…]
The Australian Government has consistently followed a policy of hostility to China. [More…]
As far as China is concerned, trade, economics and politics are inseparable. [More…]
We regard the political relationship between Australia and China as the fundamental question as regards further wheat sales. [More…]
Because of Australia’s hostility to China it follows that such an attitude cannot but affect our trade policy with the Australian Government. [More…]
In expanding on China’s policies on the wheat trade Mr Pai said that because of the Australian Government’s open and continuing hostility to China certain obstacles to a continuation of Australia’s wheat trade with China exist. [More…]
Firstly, Australia is supporting Chiang Kai-shek and has established diplomatic relations with Taiwan; secondly, Australia has continuously opposed the restoration of China’s legitimate seat in the United Nations; thirdly, Australia supports and follows United States aggression in South East Asia; fourthly, Australia refuses to recognise the Government of the People’s Republic pf China as the sole legal government representing all the Chinese people, including the people of the Province of Taiwan; and lastly, Australia is collaborating with the USA to create 2 Chinas, or one China and one Taiwan and is, therefore, interfering in the internal affairs of China. [More…]
In explaining China’s relationships with Canada the Minister for Foreign Trade said: [More…]
China used to buy more wheat from Australia than from Canada. [More…]
But last year China established diplomatic relations with Canada. [More…]
That is the Minister for Foreign Trade - informed Monsieur Pepin that if China continued to buy wheat then Canada would get first priority to supply th:it wheat. [More…]
Those are the words of China’s Minister for Foreign Trade. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Trade said: ‘ … if China continued to buy wheat then Canada would get first priority to supply that wheat.’ [More…]
As regards the possibilities of future trade, the Chinese Minister for Foreign Trade informed the delegation that if the Australian Government changed its present policies of hostility towards China then Australia would receive the same consideration and priority as Canada, but until this happens Canada has first priority to supply the wheat required by China. [More…]
As regards the restoration of the wheat trade with China, the facts are that while in China I did everything possible to persuade Chinese authorities to alter their wheat policy as it presently discriminates against the Australian wheat grower and to resume wheat purchases from the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
I argued that if China were prepared to trade with Australian private companies like Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd which comprised people or shareholders, China should be prepared to trade also with Australian wheat farmers who are really shareholders of the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
On the day I left Peking J was informed that consideration would be given to my request to resume the wheat trade with Australia on the grounds that Australian wheat farmers, like the shareholders of an Australian private company, were not responsible for the Australian Government’s foreign policies and hostility to China. [More…]
Contrary to the Deputy Prime Minister’s crude attempt to blame me personally for the loss of last month’s wheat sale, if the Chinese Government does decide to resume wheat purchases from Australia in the near future it will do so because of the explanations and pleas which we made to China’s trade policy makers on behalf of the Australian wheat farmers. [More…]
The danger now is that, because of this deceit in attempting to blame the Labor Party delegation to China and myself in particular as well as refusing to accept the real reasons why China has suspended wheat purchases, Chinese Ministers who are contemptuous of Australian Government foreign policy may now completely dismiss the extra considerations they were prepared to give to the case that Australian wheat farmers, via the Wheat Board, are distinct from the Australian Government. [More…]
As China’s highest policy makers are now fully informed of the role of the Australian Wheat Board and its relationship to the Australian Government and wheat farmers, it is my hope that China will once again renew wheat purchases from Australia. [More…]
The facts are that Australia was incredibly lucky not to lose its wheat sales to China in 1967 when the Wheat Board introduced politics into its negotiations by handing the Chinese buying agents a threatening political note. [More…]
Country Party members interjected and maintained in the Parliament on Thursday that the Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board had indicated that the loss of China’s wheat market had nothing whatsoever to do with Australia’s foreign policy or political attitudes to China. [More…]
Both the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry and the Minister for Primary Industry have publicly accused me of losing wheat sales to China which were to be negotiated last month by the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
Mr A. C. Everett, a member of the Australian Wheat Board, stated in the ‘Mail Times’ of Horsham on 28th July that the Australian Wheat Board at no stage this year had prospects of selling wheat to mainland China. [More…]
Mr Everett said that the Minister told the meeting that the Australian Wheat Board was on the point of making a good sale to China but the Australian Labor Party went over there and ruined it. [More…]
He said that never at any time was there a prospect of an Australian wheat sale to China this year. [More…]
This whole matter of losing wheat sales to China is serious in view of the grave allegation made against me by the Minister for Trade and Industry. [More…]
I deeply resent the accusation that I am responsible for losing last month a wheat sale to China. [More…]
It seems to me, Mr Deputy Speaker that if this sort of allegation is not cleaned up, the only course to follow will be to get the Chairman of the Wheat Board to appear at the Bar of this House or the Bar of the Senate to inform us of the whole truth of the loss last month of a wheat sale to China. [More…]
His colleague the Minister for Primary Industry has been publicly rebuked by a member of the Australian Wheat Board who stated categorically that never at any time was there a prospect of an Australian wheat sale to China this year. [More…]
We have listened to the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) with a great deal of interest, but also with a degree of sadness because he persisted in trying to make a political issue of wheat sales to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I am sure that every responsible member of the Australian Wheat Board and members of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, and informed people in the Australian wheat industry must listen in fear when they hear the Australian Labor Party continue its policy of trying to make it politically impossible for Australia to make a wheat sale to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It was a rather extraordinary exercise because at that time honourable members opposite said that I was to blame for the loss of a sale to China because of statements I had made on a television programme in Melbourne. [More…]
They said that wheat sales were lost to China because T made on that programme statements that were offensive to the Chinese. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson had the audacity to put before this House that that was the reason for the loss of sales to China. [More…]
However, today he apparently is concerned that his actions might have been the cause of the loss of sales to China and he is trying to square off with Australian wheat growers. [More…]
It is true that Peking through the British in mid March complained of foolish statements on China by Australian Ministers. [More…]
The facts of the matter are that last year Canada made its normal sale to China in October. [More…]
Traditionally, over the 9 years we have been selling to the People’s Republic of China we have entered the field a month, 6 weeks or 2 months later. [More…]
The other reason was that China had a very good wheat harvest last year. [More…]
This fact has emerged in conversations with Mr Pai, a Deputy Prime Minister of China. [More…]
Even reports of his conversation with the Labor Party delegation show that China had a very good wheat harvest last year and did not need to buy as much wheat as usual. [More…]
That could have been the other reason, but unfortunately the Labor Party was not prepared to accept the 2 sound reasons I have given for the lack of wheat sales to China. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party had to jump on the bandwagon and start making political issue of it by bringing in the question of Taiwan, opposition to the entry of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations and diplomatic recognition of that country. [More…]
Whether we recognise China or whether or not it is a member of the United Nations, the facts are that Australia until March 1971 had sold more wheat to China than had Canada. [More…]
The facts also are that whilst there is great difficulty in selling wheat to China at the moment, other trade is going along normally. [More…]
I have not been backward in expressing my desire for normalised relations with China. [More…]
We would like to see China seated in the United Nations. [More…]
But we do not want to see China seated there at the expense of Taiwan, which is another republic of some standing and which is also a considerable buyer of wheat and other products from Australia. [More…]
Wheat Board to go to China and sit down with the Chinese. [More…]
On every world market, with the exception of mainland China, it can be seen that wheat sales have risen. [More…]
It is a pity that we did not get another sale to mainland China so that we could have cleared up any surplus that we might have had. [More…]
China is a great market for wheat but I think it is wrong for people to get carried away with the idea that the potential market opportunities are as great as the Labor Party would lead us to think. [More…]
China has its difficulties in earning foreign exchange. [More…]
Indeed, China’s imports are 40 per cent less than Australia’s imports and its exports are about 40 per cent less than Australia’s exports. [More…]
Those are the dimensions of China’s trade. [More…]
Its biggest trading customer is Japan which does not have any form of recognition with China but still does very attractive trade with that country. [More…]
Until the Labor Party involved politics in the issue this year, we were China’s fourth biggest trading customer. [More…]
This is the Minister who, just a short time after being sworn in as Minister for Trade and Industry, rose to his feet in front of a television audience and said with respect to politics in trade and wheat sales to China: ‘1 will not barter my soul for wheat’. [More…]
Not only was he telling the Chinese that they were unfit to be dealt with because of the peril to his soul but also a former Foreign Minister, Sir Gordon Freeth, spoke of ‘serious questionings of conscience in Australia about how far we are justified in trading with China’. [More…]
‘We should not involve ourselves in trade with China’, says he. [More…]
He said this because we were actually selling wheat to China. [More…]
So the Minister for Trade and Industry says: ‘We must not deal with politics in trade’, but the Government has been dealing with politics in trade in relation to China for a long time. [More…]
We are 10 years behind Japan in trade with China, 3 years behind Canada, 2 years behind Italy and I year behind the United States of America. [More…]
While the Minister for Trade and Industry is in this House abusing the Opposition and trying to cover up for his errors President Nixon is going to China, not out of sweetness, love and charity but because the United States corporations have prospects of Si, 000m worth of sales to China and they need the sales and want the trade. [More…]
Australia is 1 year behind the United Slates of America in trade with China. [More…]
We are talking about recognition of China. [More…]
The Minister tried carefully to give the impression that there were no links whatever between China and Japan. [More…]
Since 1968 there has been a Japan-China memorandum trade agreement. [More…]
The Japanese have been doing extraordinarily good trade with China amounting to S800m a year. [More…]
I have given examples and instances which have led China to say: These people are insulting us. [More…]
Few of China’s trade agreements seem to be so open ended and timewise as this one on wheat purchases from Canada. [More…]
Australia should have a trade office in China now. [More…]
A trade office should have been established in China years ago. [More…]
The makeup of China’s foreign trade, particularly its imports, has changed substantially over the last 15 years. [More…]
China’s major goods are being imported from the United Kingdom, France, West Germany and Italy. [More…]
All of these countries are ahead of us in their trade links with China. [More…]
In fact, as a result of the lack of initiative by this Government we have missed, for the moment at any rate, the boat to China. [More…]
The first point in this discussion on which I must join issue is the suggestion that the Australian government’s foreign policy is one - I quote from the wording of this matter of public importance - ‘of continued hostility to China’. [More…]
The Government’s policy on China has been stated clearly on a number of occasions in recent times. [More…]
On 11th May the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) announced that the Government had as its long term objective the normalising of our bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China, to which end it had been decided to explore the possibility of establishing a dialogue with that Government. [More…]
On 13th May the Prime Minister again emphasised Australia’s desire to have normal bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
First, that there is no restriction whatsoever on the movement of Australian people to China; provided only that they can get a visa from the Chinese and provided that security considerations are not involved. [More…]
Secondly, apart from special restrictive lists - this refers to goods of strategic importance - we permit trade with mainland China. [More…]
For example, for the year ended 30th June 1970 our exports were SI 25.8m, mainly but not wholly wheat, and our imports from China were $32m. [More…]
He said further that in the meantime we want to keep moving towards normal relations with mainland China without waiting for the completion of formalities for full diplomatic recognition. [More…]
He has called attention to the fact that as far as trade between Australian and China is concerned we are dealing with different political systems. [More…]
As the Prime Minister has said, we have to look much further and ask ourselves when we are engaging in dealings with China: What are we likely to gain as far as the interests of Australia are concerned in the long term, in the medium term and in the short term? [More…]
Indeed, a major criticism of the excursion of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to China lies in the way in which he conceded in advance everything to the Chinese, leaving his country with no negotiating elements at all. [More…]
It seems to the Australian Government both inevitable and desirable that the People’s Republic of China should be represented in the United Nations and should hold the China seat in the Security Council. [More…]
At the same time, we consider that the Republic of China should remain a member of the United Nations. [More…]
On the contrary, by indicating that we think it desirable that the People’s Republic should hold the China seat in the Security Council we have gone beyond what many countries have so far been prepared to concede. [More…]
As has been pointed out, China buys more from Japan and West Germany, which do not recognise it nor have diplomatic relations with it, than from any other country. [More…]
Once China saw that the Australian Labor Party was making a political issue of wheat sales naturally it took advantage of the situation to twist our tail. [More…]
They have compounded this by going to China and making this an international public political exercise. [More…]
Of course China will make it a political exercise; the Opposition has handed it to China on a plate. [More…]
But China is not doing it in any other area except the area the Opposition has nominated, that, is wheat. [More…]
China is not making it a political exercise in respect of metals or any other trade. [More…]
As I said, at the Canton trade fair we got SI 5m worth of trade contracts with China. [More…]
But in the one item that the members of the Opposition pick on to make a political exercise - wheat - China sees its opportunity and of course takes the opportunity the Australian Labor Party has offered it and puts the political screws on in that way. [More…]
I believe China has done so and may continue to do so so long as the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) persists in raising in the House matters which may compound this problem. [More…]
It was about the time of the Senate elections last year that the Canadian Government finalised its arrangements for the recognition of Communist China anr) 2 weeks after that was announced to the world the Chinese announced that the Canadians had won a bumper contract, one of the best that the Canadian Government had ever pulled off. [More…]
Do not start talking about what has happened over the last few weeks with Mr Whitlam’s going to China. [More…]
But the entry of the Labor Party has only been part of the political tempo heating up over China. [More…]
Mr Anthony says that what the Labor Party has been doing is to make it politically impossible for the Wheat Board to sell wheat to China. [More…]
The political impossibility in the sale of wheat to China lies with the Government’s own policy. [More…]
All honourable members on the other side of the chamber on the Country Party benches and on the Liberal Party benches know that, contrary to their claim that trade and politics in China do not mix - a little in the same way as sport and politics do not mix in South Africa - the reality is that the Chinese Government has announced that they do mix. [More…]
Mr N. H. Bowen, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has made the statement that the Australian Government does not have a policy of hostility towards China. [More…]
I just ask Mr N. H. Bowen, the very knowledgeable Minister for Foreign Affairs, backed up by an entire department of experts: Does Australia pursue a policy of 2 Chinas or not? [More…]
In fact, the Government is pursuing a policy of 2 Chinas. [More…]
What Mr N. H. Bowen, Mr McMahon and Mr Anthony are really trying to tell the Australian people is that it is not reasonable for the Chinese to refuse to go into the United Nations as one China with some rival claimant to the same power sitting opposite them. [More…]
What the Government is trying to say, in fact, is that there are 2 Chinas. [More…]
There is only 1 China. [More…]
Whether it is Chiang Kaishek or Mao tse-tung speaking, each claims that there is only one China. [More…]
The Foreign Minister, who is very learned and very knowledgeable, is now telling us that there are 2 Chinas. [More…]
Is Chiang Kai-shek the sole and legal governor of the whole of China? [More…]
The majority of the people want China admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
The majority of the American people want China recognised. [More…]
The Australian Government has placed itself in a dismal situation in which it has lost $100m a year - a total of $904m since 1969, and a total of 743 million bushels of lost wheat sales to China. [More…]
Mr A. C. Everett has said that the Australian Wheat Board had lost its sales of wheat to China for one simple reason. [More…]
Because of this, we have lost $100m a year in wheat sales to China. [More…]
If he had, he would not have talked his way to China, talked his way down the steps of the aircraft, talked his way around China and talked his way home again. [More…]
Above all, he would not have come into this House today and talked at all about the problems of selling wheat to China because the honourable member, and he above all, has made it more difficult to sell wheat to China. [More…]
I beg of him, with all respect and friendship, to remember that just talking is not the way in which to go around selling our products, particularly in China of all places. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson recently talked his way to China, talked his way down the steps of the aircraft and then threw his cards face up on the table. [More…]
Let me quote from a letter written by Professor Arndt to the Canberra Times’ on the visit of the Australian Labor Party delegation to China. [More…]
He was talking about the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) - he gave away in advance every bargaining counter that Australia has in future negotiations with China and in the process gratuitously insulted not only the United States, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia but even the Soviet Union. [More…]
He continued: 1 have for 20 years advocated diplomatic recog nition of Communist China and its admission to the United Nations - but not at any price. [More…]
It is nonsense for him to come into this chamber and talk about selling wheat to China when he knows that the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions - indeed, the Australian Labor Party - deliberately to prevent the export of rams from Australia has resulted in Australia having to rat on its international obligations. [More…]
There is a tremendous imbalance of trade between Australia and China. [More…]
We are importing from China a third of the value of commodities the Chinese buy from us. [More…]
The real crunch will come when we say that we are going to trade with China. [More…]
It is no good just coming into this House and sounding off eloquently when it is known that the fundamental problem facing us all is how to have a freer flow of trade between Australia and not only China but also other parts of Asia. [More…]
1 beg of the honourable member for Dawson to remember that he has an additional responsibility from where he sits on the front bench to try to influence the policies of the shadow Minister for Trade and Industry and his other colleagues on this matter so that we can have a more effective trade with China. [More…]
I do not deny that we have problems, but it is an Australian problem and not a party political problem to have an effective trade relationship with China. [More…]
I deplore the recent antics of the Leader of the Opposition when he led a delegation to some of the countries of Asia, notably to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I remind honourable gentlemen that the Leader of the Opposition went to China to play politics with wheat. [More…]
He did, of course, come out of China saying that the Chinese Government was quite willing to particpate in a renewed Geneva Conference. [More…]
Mr Speaker, we are seeking as a Government to establish better relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I remind the House again that there is no sudden short cut to normal relations with China, as history so clearly shows, particularly Soviet and Chinese history. [More…]
The Government’s policy on representation in the United Nations of the People’s Republic of China and of Taiwan has already been stated in this House during the course of this debate. [More…]
I have said it was inevitable and right that China should should hold the permanent seat in the Security Council. [More…]
I have also said that we believed the Republic of China- Taiwan - should be given the chance of maintaining its membership if so desired. [More…]
There has been a lot of talk about there being only one China and that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
But when the Leader of the Opposition states this proposition he evades the fact that there are two governments each controlling a certain area with a certain population and each claiming to be the legitimate Government of the whole of China. [More…]
He obviously does not understand that acceptance of the idea that Taiwan is a province of China implies that force can be used to restore control by China without invoking United Nations assistance. [More…]
Australia has for many years recognised the Taiwan Government - the Republic of China - and in 1966 completed the formalities by establishing an embassy there. [More…]
China and the status of the Republic of China - of Taiwan. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has said the Canadian formula is the one his Party would adopt for immediate recognition of China. [More…]
The Canadian formula notes China’s claim to Taiwan. [More…]
But Mr Whitlam, while adopting the Canadian formula as his own, also concedes Taiwan to China. [More…]
They, the United States, like us, have declared their attitude on China’s admission to the United Nations. [More…]
we should say to her that she is now entitled to pursue her own interests which require a restoration of relations with China. [More…]
This kind of advice disregards Australia’s interest by assuming at once that it is to our advantage for China and Japan to move into a close relationship. [More…]
In fact it looks precisely the kind of negotiating position China herself could take up towards Japan. [More…]
In short, the Leader of the Opposition urges Japan to tear up her treaty with Taiwan and do business with China. [More…]
Because America is a super-power and China a great power I think it may be inevitable that they will treat on a bilateral basis on the big issues. [More…]
He accuses the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) of playing politics in China with wheat. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said when he was in China that if the Australian Government established diplomatic and normal relations with China he felt Australia would receive a fair share of the China wheat market. [More…]
That the following words be added to the motion: but this House deplores the conduct of the Prime Minister in attempting to narrow debate on the question of Australia’s future diplomatic and trade relations with the People’s Republic of China to a personal and partisan level and for basing his approach on incorrect information’. [More…]
As for the meeting itself - and I ask honourable members to give some attention to this and to give consideration to what was said by the Australian pressmen who attended in China with the Australian Labor Party delegation - let me read some of the comments by the people who were there. [More…]
He spoke of the differences between China and the Soviet Union over their border dispute. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs are 2 people in the Parliament, apart from the Leader of the Opposition, who know best the tremendously cordial reception the Leader of the Opposition received in Japan and the Philippines after his visit to China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has done what the Australian Government should have done - trying to build a bridge with China. [More…]
It is time that honourable members in this Parliament look at the question of the recognition of .the People’s Republic of China to bring it into its rightful place in the United Nations - to bring it into the Security Council. [More…]
Over 60 countries have already recognised China and have diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
Australia should establish diplomatic relations with China now. [More…]
Our future lies with that of China and Asia. [More…]
Of course, the arrows in pamphlet drawings and on television denote the downward thrust from China. [More…]
Surely the rational attitude of the Leader of the Opposition and the Labor Party delegation to China was a bridge of friendship. [More…]
Surely this visit by Labor Party members assisted to prepare the way for President Nixon’s visit to China. [More…]
Is there any chance of a 2-China policy? [More…]
There was no chance at all of China taking a seat in the UN along with Taiwan. [More…]
Nor is there any doubt in his mind that Taiwan is part of China. [More…]
For 22 years the Government would not recognise China. [More…]
Now when it knows it is a fait accompli it says that it wants a 2-China policy. [More…]
Who has decided on a 2-China policy? [More…]
After all, Chiang Kai-shek says there is one China. [More…]
Mao Tse-tung says there is one China. [More…]
There is only one China. [More…]
Chiang Kaishek said that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
Mao tse-tung said that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
If one examines the question of Tibet, both Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan says that Tibet is a province of China and Mao tse-tung in Peking says that Tibet is a province of China. [More…]
If one examines the McMahon line on the IndiaChina border dispute of 1962, one notes there is no difference between the policies of Nationalist China and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It has been represented for a long time that the 14 million people on Taiwan will be sold out to slavery if we recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In the event of the People’s Republic of China being admitted to the UN, I take it that the Nationalist Chinese Government on Taiwan will be expelled. [More…]
This does not mean that the US Seventh Fleet will not still defend the strait between China and Taiwan. [More…]
It will be a matter for negotiation between the People’s Republic of China in Peking and for the Chiang Kai-shek Government on Taiwan. [More…]
But does the Minister for Foreign Affairs deny that at the Cairo Conference of 1943 men of the callibre of Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek agreed that Taiwan was a province of China? [More…]
Who are honourable members on the Government side to determine that there are two Chinas? [More…]
There is one China. [More…]
Why is it that after 22 years of negative thought they now determine that there are 2 Chinas? [More…]
They know, in fact, that the People’s Republic will be recognised as the rightful Government of China and will take its place in the Security Council. [More…]
They know, as Lord Trevelyan said, that their system, the new 2-China policy, would have to get a two-third majority vote in order to be accepted, and that this is an impossibility. [More…]
Now we have come to a position of realism and President Nixon has decided to go to China. [More…]
It is time Australia sought a better relationship with China. [More…]
I was in China in 1960. [More…]
When I was in China hysteria was building up about the taking of their territory, Taiwan. [More…]
I am aware that there had been over 100 meetings between China and the United States in Warsaw.’ [More…]
Kuo Mo-jo replied: ‘Mr Uren, we have waited 100 years for the liberation of China. [More…]
There is no doubt that a fear of the United States is worrying China. [More…]
After all, China does not have troops right on the border of the United States. [More…]
I shall deal first with the visit of the Australian Labor Party delegation to Peking and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with anyone going - as a delegation or separately - to China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition went there to try to embarrass the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Government on the matter of recognising the People’s Republic of China and the scrubbing off of Taiwan, and the shadow Minister for Primary Industry, the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) went there to embarrass Government supporters in wheat seats. [More…]
Apart from agreeing that Taiwan and its population of 14-odd million people live in just another Chinese province, the man aspiring to be Prime Minister of Australia gave away in advance during the great kowtow every bargaining counter that Australia would have had in future negotiations with China. [More…]
Both of these Australian Labor Party men smugly proclaimed that, because of the Government’s China policy, $10On worth of wheat has not been sold. [More…]
No less irresponsible than his entirely unnecessary servility to Mr Chou was his use of the occasion not to try and improve relations between China and the Australian Government- any Australian Government, now or in the future - but to limit any improvement to relations between China and the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
On 11th May the Prime Minister announced that the Government had as its long term objective the normalisation of our bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China, to explore the possibility of establishing a dialogue. [More…]
Japan is becoming an economic and industrial super power; Britain is turning towards the European Economic Community rather than a long way east of the Suez Canal; Russian influence and interest are on the increase; while China - the People’s Republic of China - has adopted a far less inward looking stance. [More…]
I would not criticise Mr Whillam’s visit to China on purely political grounds. [More…]
I believe that the Leader of the Country Party and Deputy Prime Minister is big enough to concede that 2 days later, when I gave my National Press Club talk in Canberra, I removed any suggestion that there was any indiscretion on my part during the 4 weeks in which I visited China, Japan and the Philippines. [More…]
First of all, he says that Premier Chou En-lai has repudiated my comments on my conversation with him about the Geneva Conference being revived and China’s attendance at any such revived conference. [More…]
Our opening an Embassy in Taiwan in 1966 to the so-called Republic of China, after resisting pressures to do so for 16 years, an off-the-cuff decision made, without consulting the Department of External Affairs or, apparently, iiic Minister for External Affairs, by the Prime Minister of the day, himself an amiable man whom no one could dislike but who knew almost nothing about foreign affairs, was as foolish as it was naive.’ [More…]
If there was anything to my disadvantage there the Prime Minister would have spotted it, but I can show these records to any person in this House and they bear out how cordially I was received in Japan and how eagerly my assessment of China and her attitude towards her neighbours, including Japan, was sought. [More…]
It believes that a ‘gradual solution’ will be possible when the Taiwanese have been able to get rid of Chiang and Taiwan reverts to the sort of society to which Peking could safely grant a semblance of independence as an ‘autonomous’ province of China. [More…]
This apparently was a briefer form of what he said last Tuesday afternoon - ‘some cocktail gossip with a foreign representative in China*. [More…]
We attended no cocktail parties in China at all, but I notice that in the ‘Bulletin’ of 7th August there is this phrase: [More…]
He is the foremost French and, I believe, European diplomatic expert on China. [More…]
But what happened was this: It had appeared in the newspapers before we came back, not from us or from any of the Australian journalists accompanying us from this country when Monsieur Manac’h had in fact visited Premier Chou En-lai in aid of the Australian Labor Party delegation’s visit to China. [More…]
If we had representatives in Peking we would know what was going on in all the states of Indo-China and we could pool this information. [More…]
For many years Australia has sponsored in the United Nations a resolution that any resolution on China had to be carried by a two-thirds majority. [More…]
There is still a state of war between Japan and the whole of the mainland of China. [More…]
If one accepts the view that the treaty which Japan made under American pressure with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek early in 1952 - more than 2 years after he had taken refuge in Taiwan from the mainland - is not a legal treaty then technically there is still a state of war between Japan and China. [More…]
China and the Soviet Union were not represented at San Francisco. [More…]
China was not represented because those who were represented could not agree on which was the Government of China. [More…]
At the end of the Korean War when armistice came about; still more when the armistice came about at Geneva in 1954 through the whole of Indo-China; there was the opportunity to make proper national relations, diplomatic relations, between China and the other countries in the Pacific region. [More…]
I have done no less than I should in trying to take some initiative in China and 1 do not believe that our fellow citizens and those who succeed us and our neighbours will respect us or tolerate us if we pass up another opportunity, if we take a purely partisan attitude on this matter. [More…]
The attitudes that the Prime Minister has expressed outside the House, that China has served the Liberal Party well in the past and no doubt it will in the future, is I believe a great miscalculation. [More…]
The McMahon Government can get proper relations with China. [More…]
This debate on foreign affairs is mainly centred on China. [More…]
1 feel that this great catastrophe should have been raised as a matter of public importance as I believe it is a far more urgent subject than a dialogue with China. [More…]
Earlier tonight we heard the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) make a rather vicious attack on the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) following his visit to China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has left Mainland China after a 13-day visit which has made him the best-informed Australian on China, its leaders and their policies. [More…]
At a time when our traditional and even historical alliances are, to say the least, less effective than in the past, I think we should for a few minutes study some international occurrences other than those involved in the complex question of Communist China. [More…]
I am sure he would agree that never was there so much drama, never such an intense atmosphere, as existed for a couple of weeks prior to a vote being taken on whether Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
On 20th November 1970 the United Nations General Assembly voted for the twentieth consecutive year, excepting 1964, on the admission of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The draft resolution urges the Assembly to restore to the People’s Republic of China all its rights and to recognise the representatives of its Government as the only law ful representatives of China at the United Nations. [More…]
The General Assembly in 1961 decided that any proposal to change the representation of China was to be classified as an important question and as such would require a two-thirds majority before any decision on the subject be taken. [More…]
Last year when the honourable member for Bonython and I were at the United Nations the vote on the proposal for the admission of the People’s Republic of China was 51 in favour, 49 against and 25 abstentions. [More…]
The moral of the story is in the whittling away of the numbers of those countries who had decided to oppose irrevocably the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
One rather felt that this would flow over into 1971 and that many of those who had abstained in 1970 no doubt would be faced with this proposition: Should they vote for the admittance of Communist China to the exclusion of Taiwan? [More…]
However, I should like to deal now with the China question in the United Nations and the possibilities of what may happen this year in the General Assembly which will commence on 20th September. [More…]
The forthcoming debate in the next General Assembly session on the question of the seating of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations promises to be one of the most complex. [More…]
The prospect for China’s admission are the best so far but the outcome is by no means a foregone conclusion. [More…]
One of the subjects of discussion will be China’s admission to the Security [More…]
Council because one must keep in mind that if Communist China does take a prominent seat in the Security Council, perhaps to the temporary exclusion of Taiwan, forever and a day China could veto the readmittance of Taiwan. [More…]
On one issue China has ample support and that is that it should be admitted to the General Assembly, but the main obstacle at present is the seating of Taiwan and the further issue of which country shall sit in the Security Council. [More…]
There has recently been a big swing in favour of Communist China but there is still strong support for maintaining Taiwan’s seat in the General Assembly, although it does seem certain that, if Communist China gets into the United Nations, it will be awarded a seat in the Security Council also. [More…]
Despite the substantial shift in the position of the United States and other countries, including Australia, Peking still resolutely insists that it alone should have the seat and that Taiwan, which it considers a province of China, should be expelled from the United Nations. [More…]
There has been a considerable amount of talk in the United States and in Australia about finding a compromise solution which will enable both the People’s Republic of China and the Taiwan Government to be members of the General Assembly. [More…]
However, the basic difficulty is that both of these governments claim to be the government of China and are accordingly constituted. [More…]
In the case of Communist China it seems very unlikely that the Government would be prepared to accept the terms of a resolution which also provided for the seating of the Government of Nationalist China. [More…]
As things stand, both Peking and Taipei claim to be the government of China and it is very difficult to see how both would be accepted as members of the United Nations on their own terms or how they themselves could accept this arrangement. [More…]
In short, the position is that, although China’s chances of getting into the United Nations are better than ever this year, whether it actually becomes a member or accepts membership depends essentially upon what sort of compromise formula can be worked out in the course of the Assembly debate. [More…]
I shall conclude on this point: It was rather remarkable at the United Nations that those who were to the forefront, supporting the entry of Communist China, were considered to be among those who were the most vitriolic and who had completely ignored the appeal that had been made by U Thant and the President of the General Assembly that the 25th Anniversary meeting was to be a General Assembly of peace. [More…]
This was utterly ignored by countries such as Albania and others who with vitriolic outbursts and with complete disregard for anyone’s sense of loyalties or traditional loyalties claimed that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations and that Taipei should be thrown on the scrap heap. [More…]
We have heard a lot about China in this debate. [More…]
We have heard a lot about the Australian Government’s about-face on China. [More…]
Well, the only reason why people of such intellectual incapacity bellieve that the Chinese will come down for the next election is this: They look at a map hanging on a wall and, because China is above Australia on that map, they think that the Chinese must come down to Australia. [More…]
I should like to point out something which has not been mentioned in this debate but which indicates clearly the basis of the Australian Government’s sudden interest in China. [More…]
On Mtn May the Prime Minister announced that the Government had as its long term objective to normalise om’ bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The previous, speaker slipped back a couple of years when he referred to it as Communist China. [More…]
There is not any mention in the statement and to my knowledge no mention has been made in the House, that at the SEATO Council meeting in London Mr Rogers, the United States Secretary of State, indicated that the United States wanted to encourage a growing role by China in Asia which was constructive rather than destructive. [More…]
China’s struggle to nationhood was bedevilled by aggression, including a lot of Japanese aggression. [More…]
The greatest hope for a lasting accommodation between the conflicting interests so manifest in the South East Asian and East Asian area may lie along the path of endeavouring to convince the People’s Republic of China that Japan has no territorial designs on Chinese territory and that neither the United States of America nor Japan wishes Japan to move into a vacuum left by an American withdrawal. [More…]
We have on our hands a great problem in seeking to establish normal relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In this connection, I do not see why the move towards normalisation, to use a horrible in-word, of our relations with the People’s Republic of China should be accompanied - as some members of the Labor Party seem to want - by a move to exclude discourse with South Africa. [More…]
Nor do I see any evidence that he has made some secret pact with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) dealt in detail with China, Indo-China, Japan, the South Pacific, Pakistan and India. [More…]
The Government has accused the Australian Labor Party of playing politics with wheat and on the subject of China. [More…]
Perhaps the most vital question of an international nature that is at present of concern to us is the question of China. [More…]
For myself, I reject the concept of suppression, whether it be practised in the United States of America, South Africa, China, the Soviet Union oi any other place in the world. [More…]
But I do not believe that flexibility requires of us that we should boot the Republic of China in the stomach and unreservedly embrace the Government of mainland China, as the Leader of the Opposition and those who sit behind him advocate. [More…]
The problems of China have implications far greater than a comparison of 14 million people with 800 million people. [More…]
President Nixon, as history now records, announced on 16th July his intention to visit mainland China. [More…]
The true and stark fact is that mainland China has now shown a tangible interest in becoming involved in world affairs. [More…]
Mainland China’s intervention in the Korean campaign, her massive contribution to the unrest still existing in South East Asia and the road she is building in Laos in the direction of Thailand are all factors which give the thinking person reason to be wary. [More…]
Asia consists of more than just mainland China. [More…]
Never have I seen him so sensitive to criticism as on the question of his visit to Communist China. [More…]
When it was announced that he would leave for China, I wrote him a long letter which was sent by registered post. [More…]
I said: If you finally get on your slow boat to China, on your trip of dreams, please, Mr Whitlam, raise with the Premier or the President of that great nation which you embrace the question of its involvement in Vietnam and its actions which have prolonged the unrest and unease in South East Asia’. [More…]
If one looks at the carefully documented reports of the conversations that he had, all one finds is reference to his inability to control chopsticks capably but no reference whatsoever to the question of Vietnam and China’s role in that region. [More…]
He sets himself against the United States and constantly holds out a branch of friendship to China. [More…]
That the following words be added to the motion: but this house deplores the conduct of the Prime Minister in attempting to narrow debate on the question of Australia’s future diplomatic and trade relations with the People’s Republic of China to a personal and partisan level and for basing his approach on incorrect information’. [More…]
But I want to remind the House that the 5 subjects of the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) were China. [More…]
Indo-China, Japan, the South Pacific and Pakistan. [More…]
I shall have time, of course, to mention only a few of these subjects, but firstly let me turn to China. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) entered this debate tonight to make, as I have said, a narrow, partisan and personal attack on the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) under this heading of China. [More…]
If they can stimulate fear in the Australian people on the subject of China, in addition to the fear of the unions and the fear of demonstrations supporting the United Nations resolutions against South African sporting tours of our country, this will support their narrow, partisan cause whatever harm it is doing to our nation at the same time. [More…]
He and the ALP team he led to China have done a splendid job for our country. [More…]
But let me come back to China, indeed to the question of our attitude towards all totalitarian regimes behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains. [More…]
Exchanges with these countries can do nothing but good and it is in this context that we want to see the visit of the Leader of the Opposition and his team to China. [More…]
In talking about a 2-China policy let me make it quite clear that in my personal view if this were a perfect world it would be more satisfactory if Taiwan could be recognised as a second China. [More…]
But I point out that it is because of the policies of this present Liberal-Country Party Government, believing that there has only been one China and supporting only one China in the United Nations for the last 22 years, that we have been left in this most difficult position. [More…]
Who knows - they may vote overwhelmingly to join the People’s Republic of China and save us the difficult choice which we are left with in deciding whether to continue with the policy that this Government has perpetrated to date, that there is only one China. [More…]
If the only way we can bring the People’s Republic of China, mainland China, into the family of nations is to recognise only the government of that country - and this is not to say that we are going to recognise any forceful takeover of Taiwan - then we must make this difficult choice. [More…]
As I said earlier, for 22 years it has recognised one China and that is the China which exists on the island of Taiwan at the present time. [More…]
How different the Communism of China could be from the Communism of Vietnam if Ho Chi Minn’s successors take over in that country. [More…]
We must take trips to China - and T include the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in this. [More…]
It is a good thing for the Leader of the Opposition to go to China. [More…]
So the Leader of the Opposition took a trip to China, and good luck to him. [More…]
What a pity to see the Leader of the Opposition go to Communist China, there to produce a policy. [More…]
We have, all of us, been involved in fictions over China and in fictions over Taiwan. [More…]
That is to say, the fact that the people of mainland China recognise Taiwan as a province of China and that the Taiwanese regime recognises Taiwan also as a province of China does not lead us inexorably to the proposition that Taiwan, therefore, in all law, sense and justice is a province of China. [More…]
The native people of Taiwan were ruled briefly by the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Dutch, and then for more than 250 years by Manchu China until Japan acquired the island in 1895 and the people of Taiwan - or Formosa, as it used to be called - were not permitted self determination in 1945. [More…]
One future possibility is the conquest of Taiwan by mainland China. [More…]
He has declared that Taiwan is a province of China, and that, precisely, is what the Canadians were not prepared to do, and that is the heart of the fatal flaw in the approach of the Leader of the Opposition to this vital matter. [More…]
Because these high principles are involved in Australia’s national interests and in Australia’s national security, we must support the Prime Minister’s important moves to recognise and to welcome mainland China to the United Nations. [More…]
Because mainland China and the present nationalist Chinese rulers will not budge from their claim over Taiwan - what one might call their legalistic claims - this is no ground for Australia to give away other people’s basic rights by selling them to the strongest bidder, without even a fight. [More…]
Honourable members can understand his gullibility in going to China and accepting its policies so readily. [More…]
I do not suppose that the Leader of the Opposition met a leader of the opposition in China. [More…]
He accepted Communist policies of China rather than the policies of Taiwan. [More…]
Communist China believes that the people of Taiwan should be suppressed and forced to accept Communist domination. [More…]
He obviously favours the domination policy of China in crushing Tibet. [More…]
We have heard a lot from the Prime Minister about a China dialogue. [More…]
He attacked Whitlam constantly because he was in China, saying that he was a political candidate endorsed by Chou En-lai and that the Chinese were playing him like a fish on a line. [More…]
The Prime Minister repeated his speech of hate against Whitlam but when a reporter informed him of President Nixon’s proposed visit to China he was quite shocked. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the House those complexes which are in China at a place called Lop Nor. [More…]
China has recovered from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. [More…]
Her relations with China, the USSR and the countries of South East Asia are in the melting pot. [More…]
We must, of course, establish diplomatic relations with the nations of our area, including the People’s Republic of China, if this is possible. [More…]
Albania; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentina; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; China; Republic of Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador - all literate citizens; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic (East Germany); Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia; Netherlands; Nicaragua - literate or married persons; Poland; Rumania; United Kingdom; Uruguay; U.S.S.R.; Venezuela; Vietnam (North); Vietnam (South) and Yugoslavia. [More…]
I refer to a claim involving the Japanese Embassy’s alleged complimentary comments relating to our negotiations with Japan and Peking China, ls the Minister aware that a check has indicated that no such complimentary remarks were made? [More…]
He then complimented me on the balance of my presentation at the National Press Club luncheon and particularly in respect to the dilemma of his country in its relations with China. [More…]
The same official had called to my house when my wife was present on Saturday 26th June, the eve of my departure for China. [More…]
I was asked about the reaction in other countries to my visit to China and comments that I had made there. [More…]
Nevertheless the fact is that we have lost a real bonanza in the China wheat trade. [More…]
No amount of politicking by the Government parties and attempts to throw up a smokescreen around the visit of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to China can conceal this one fact, that Australia has lost a real bonanza in its wheat trade to China. [More…]
We can rest assured that the American wheat grower who for so long has been deprived of this very important market is looking very keenly towards America’s improved relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
When he came back from his visit to China after those 2 by-elections in Queensland which went so badly for the Labor Party, Mr Tom Burns said: There is nothing wrong with the ALP. [More…]
In the north-west Pacific we have Japan, the third greatest country, which is overtaking Russia, and we have China, which has come into the news so much lately. [More…]
It was fostered by the British Government in China years ago. [More…]
Running through the PostmasterGeneral’s speech, as through every other speech that has been heard from the other side of the House since the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) went to China and deflated the Communist dragon bogy, is the fact that the Government seems to have been searching for some stick with which to beat the Opposition. [More…]
If the honourable member for Mallee and those in his section of the Parliament - that is, the Country Party - had taken a more sensible and tolerant view of the recognition of the Peoples’ Republic of China many years ago, the Australian wheat industry would not be in the plight that it is in today. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Industry has told the House that he will initiate negotiations with Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and South Korea to try to stem the flow of low cost imports of woven shirts and knitted outer garments from these countries. [More…]
One must have a short memory indeed if one forgets what Communist China did in Tibet or the suffering that Chinese weapons and supplies have caused the people of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. [More…]
Whilst I was in South Africa the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), together with other Labor and union leaders, were in Communist China talking to Chou En-lai. [More…]
As Churchill once said, it is ‘better to jaw jaw than war war’, and if we can talk to Communist China and Communist Russia in the hope that we can influence them to change their aggressive policies then so much the better. [More…]
At the same time as it advocates increasing dialogue and trade with Communist China, the Labor Party has called for a complete boycott of all trade, diplomatic, sporting and cultural relations with anti-Communist South Africa and Rhodesia. [More…]
Surely if it is right to talk to Communist Russia and Communist China to change their policies - and I believe that it is - then surely it is right to talk to antiCommunist South Africa if we think it should change its views on apartheid. [More…]
Surely if it is right to play ping-pong against Communist China in the hope that the contact will make for better relations, then surely it is right to play rugby or cricket against antiCommunist South Africa in the hope that the contact will also make for better relations. [More…]
With England going into the European Common Market it is not only important that we sell wheat to Communist China, about which the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) has such an obsession, but it is also important that we find new trade outlets elsewhere, including South Africa. [More…]
Communist China has troops and engineers in Tanzania ostensibly to build a railway line, and Chinese Commuist subversion, terror, investment and influence in Zambia, Uganda, the Congo and Guinea are a continuing threat to any hopes of African democracy. [More…]
It is not surprising that Russia and China would like to have a black dominated government in South Africa over which they could exercise the same strong influence as they do in other black African countries. [More…]
In South Africa I saw photographs of Mao Tse-tung, the little Red Book and various travel documents which proved that terrorists had been taken from Africa to China, Russia and Communist East Europe for training in terrorist activities. [More…]
It is true that South Africa does not have democracy in the form in which we practise it in Australia, but then neither do Russia and China and half the other countries of the world. [More…]
In China. [More…]
Australia’s silent Centre is now a target in global nuclear warfare - a giant ‘sounding board’ in the US cold war with Russia and China. [More…]
These missiles were not directed against military targets in southern Russia or China but were a population deterrent. [More…]
Now that we have his Leader’s joy with China - the honourable member himself spoke about the hysteria of the Western world in watching the Chinese - should we no longer watch the Chinese? [More…]
He was rather upset that he did not go to China on the great mission. [More…]
I did say that if the honourable member was prepared to obtain from the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China details of their instruments and weapons installations he would be more impressive. [More…]
Is the Minister for Trade and Industry aware of the announcement by Canada that China has just purchased another 500,000 tons of wheat from Canada? [More…]
Do the Minister and the Government still persist with the explanation that China’s decision to purchase wheat from Canada, while again completely wiping Australia, has nothing to do with political considerations or the hostile attitude of the Australian Government to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
I have made it fairly clear on a number of occasions and, indeed, in this House that if there has been any political difficulty created around the selling of wheat by the Australian Wheat Board to the People’s Republic of China, much of that difficulty has been created by the honourable member who has asked the question. [More…]
I beg the honourable gentleman to remain a little quiet, a little patient and to cool down on this subject and give the Australian Wheat Board a chance of negotiating wheat sales with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
But to say that politics are preventing trade with China is not correct. [More…]
If one looks closely at the Canadian contract which has been reported by Reuters, it will be seen that China has negotiated to buy 500,000 tons of wheat to be delivered over the next 3 months. [More…]
One can assume that there are reasons for China stipulating such a short period. [More…]
China may think that it will have favourable wheat crops or it may be keeping its options open so that it will be able to buy from other countries in the meantime. [More…]
I would hope that if the Labor Party is so concerned about political relations with China and with wanting to create goodwill, it might ease the tension that has been produced as a result of the proposed sale of Australian rams to China. [More…]
The only country that has not been able to obtain rams from Australia has been the Peoples Republic of China which has been somewhat offended that, although its representatives have come here in good faith and have tried to purchase these rams, their endeavours have been blocked because of the policy of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Trade and Industry concerning a letter which the Leader of the Opposition sent out about 3 weeks ago to a large number of businessmen with possible interests in trading with China. [More…]
It was previously China. [More…]
I preface my question to the Prime Minister by saying that it is prompted by the grave concern that I share with all members of the Opposition over the attitude of the Deputy Prime Minister who, as recently as yesterday during question time, showed his unwillingness to accept the true reasons for our failures to sell wheat to China. [More…]
I ask: Following on the Labor Party’s successful delegation to China and the Prime Minister’s subsequent announcement that he would seek dialogue with Chinese leaders, is he able to tell the House how far that dialogue has advanced and whether he has sought or received an invitation to visit China? [More…]
Alternatively, would he seek Chinese approval for a joint parliamentary delegation to visit China during the next recess in order to prove beyond doubt his Government’s genuine desire to establish full diplomatic recognition in the near future? [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that there have been numerous cables received by us from diplomatic sources indicating clearly not only the attitude of the People’s Republic of China to the statements that have been made by members of the Opposition relating to wheat but also informing us in pretty clear terms that if we want to come to some agreement with them it would be better if we stopped making a political issue of the matter. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he is prepared to table in the House or in the Parliamentary Library the cables concerning wheat sales to China to which he referred in his answer to the honourable member. [More…]
We have had communications from very many sources in recent weeks, mainly representations from ambassadors overseas representing the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
What Mr Chou En-lai said to me on the question of a revived Geneva Conference and a revived Bandung Conference, and the circumstances in which he spoke on both those subjects, were given by me a couple of days after I left China to the Australian Ambasador in Tokyo who saw me with the American Ambassador there and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern and Pacific Affairs. [More…]
Then the Leader of the Country Party, the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony), would no doubt write under the title ‘Has anybody here seen Kelly’ or ‘I’d like to get you on a slow boat to China’. [More…]
Let me refer now to wheat sales to Mainland China. [More…]
We refer to the hypocrisy of members of the Country Party for criticising Red China and its policies, on the one hand, while sending emissaries there to sell our products. [More…]
Now he is in favour of selling wheat to Mainland China, and conditions have not changed. [More…]
One cannot help feeling disturbed when one reads, for instance, of the late Mr Moroney, of the Australian Wheat Board, receiving a nice cheque from Russia and China, worth $48m, for Country Party wheat, although China is said to be an enemy which the Government is conscripting boys to fight. [More…]
Every member of this Parliament knows that China has now developed a nuclear bomb but that country does not have the skill to deliver it to a target more than 3,000 miles away. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee spoke about the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
As the world gets set for a rush on the China market, Australia looks like being left behind, which is about all she deserves. [More…]
I will now refer to the ‘Far Eastern Economic Review’ which quotes the attitude of the new Australian Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, in relation to Australia’s recognition of China. [More…]
Premier William McMahon said Peking must first meet certain obligations before Australia could extend diplomatic recognition to China: These include not trying to achieve political objectives by, force, not using insurgency and guerilla tactics in neighbouring countries, and letting those countries determine their own futures. [More…]
; Secondly, there is the developing military and nuclear power of China together wilh her history of helping subversion and insurgency movements throughout South East Asia. [More…]
Perhaps now that the Labor Party has wooed China it is confident that there is no threat, that we can disband everything and that we now accept where our responsibilities and our friends are. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe has suggested that China has the atomic bomb and therefore it is necessary to have 12,000 extra men. [More…]
I am quite sure that if we did face a situation in which China had the transport capacity to challenge Australia in a war 12,000 men would not make a great deal of difference. [More…]
Of course, this was done in the context of an election campaign, where election fever had to be generated over some kind of issue and the issue was the downward thrust of China between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry whether the Government or the wool selling organisations have made contact with the People’s Republic of China concerning sales of Australian wool? [More…]
The Australian Wool Commission at that time did, through agents, enter preliminary negotiations with a number of countries including the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
When we endeavoured to prevent the aggressor from succeeding in Vietnam, China did not then possess even the atomic bomb. [More…]
They even produced coloured pamphlets which portrayed red arrows coming down from China threatening Australia, and they created fear in the Australian people. [More…]
The 8 major donors (more than$USlm) in order of the size of their assistance programmes were the United States, Germany, France, Australia.Japan, Canada and the Republic of China. [More…]
Republic of China: Chinese bilateral assistance in 1970 was $US1, 171,040 and was primarily in the fields of agriculture (vegetable seeds, vaccines, water pumps, sprayers and other equipment); power (study or construction of a number of electric power projects); public works (including the continuation of the dredging project in the [More…]
China has a huge potential though it grows a lot of fruit of its own. [More…]
I agree with the proposal for an East Asian market, including, if we can, Japan and China. [More…]
AH the wheat which the Government sold to China was not carried on a Conference ship. [More…]
One of the things which China did, so far as Australian wheat was concerned, was to say: ‘No deal on freight. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman also, in exculpation of his Minister’s statement 2 days ago in New York to the AmericanAustralian Association, referred to my conduct in China. [More…]
The Prime Minister stated that, in China, I raised matters of political dispute in Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister of China made this statement: [More…]
Probably because your excellencies are here the Australian Prime Minister declared yesterday that the establishment of diplomatic relations with China is far ofl now. [More…]
The Prime Minister of China then said: [More…]
It is probably because your Party is in China. [More…]
I must say even to the credit of my opponents, they are catching up with the realities of life on China to a certain extent. [More…]
They know Dulles’s policies have failed dismally and if President Nixon says he wants to visit China, can Mr McMahon be far behind? [More…]
When if was raised, I turned it as well as I could to make it plain that my Party would welcome the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Australia and China if that could be brought about by the present Government also. [More…]
It is quite clear - and it is known to the right honourable gentleman if he has read his papers and to the relevant Ministers if they have read their papers - that far from insulting the Japanese before or during, they in fact welcomed very much what I had said in China and what I was saying in Japan. [More…]
In this House last week I asked the Minister for Primary Industry a question concerning the investigation of sales of wool to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China, with 750 million people, could provide a market for 1 million bales of wool if that market could be broken into. [More…]
I think we will have to investigate the possibility soon of creating an Asian common market with Australia, New Zealand and Japan the key figures in such a market and with China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia forming the other partnerships, for we now have to face the big trade blocs throughout the world. [More…]
As for the chimera of China, with anything between 700 million and 800 million people, its contribution to world trade is $4.2 billion which is a little more than that of Australia at $4.1 billion. [More…]
In other words, we have had credits of more than $4,500m with countries such as Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and East European countries. [More…]
A more recent case was when he made so many boo-boos in statements about the visit to China of the Australian Labor Party delegation that he wanted a particular government department to give them its blessing by having them issued at departmental level. [More…]
Since the emissaries have now returned from the area, I ask the right honourable gentleman when he expects to be able to announce the full membership and itinerary of the projected trade mission to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I understand that sales have been at a record level in spite of moves at a political level surrounding the market in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On what occasions and by what persons have visits been made or proposed to the People’s Republic of China on behalf of Qantas. [More…]
The following visits have been made to the People’s Republic of China on behalf of Qantas: December 1957, Mr G. Howling, Sales Manager, Orient. [More…]
If so, has he received any communication from the United States President seeking the Prime Minister’s OK for this visit in view of the fact that he expressed concern at the President’s proposed visit to the People’s Republic of China without first informing him? [More…]
We should have competent men running a statutory authority, negotiating shipping rates, writing contracts in the currency most favourable to Australia, actually owning the wool, entering into bilateral agreements with foreign countries by going directly to Russia, China or some other place and trying to sell the type of wool that those countries want. [More…]
I would like to mention one that has been thought of by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilation Administration mission which went to China way back in 1947. [More…]
Members of that mission thought of what could be done in relation to China even as long ago as 1947. [More…]
The objective would be to sell to China each year raw wool to be processed there. [More…]
There are people in China who are interested in this. [More…]
We arc still selling more goods to China than many other countries which do recognise China. [More…]
Many countries who do not recognise China at all are selling vast quantities of goods. [More…]
Perhaps it will not do so well in the sophisticated countries of western Europe and North America, but it may do better in countries like China and those in eastern Europe. [More…]
Surely in 1971, when consideration is being given to the admission of China to membership of the United Nations, members should be able to ask questions about and express praise of countries which have ideologies different from our own. [More…]
by leave - As we have made plain for many months and as we have asserted in the speeches delivered on Australia’s behalf in the General Assembly and by the resolutions we have co-sponsored, we have supported the representation of the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly and their occupation of the seat on the Security Council. [More…]
We are therefore pleased that the People’s Republic of China will now be enabled to be represented in the United Nations and take the seat on the Security Council. [More…]
In view of the vote on the Albanian resoluion no vote will now be taken on the dual representation resolution of which Australia was also co-sponsor with 18 other countries, and which in its terms would have provided for the representation of the People’s Republic of China and its taking the seat on the Security Council and would also have provided for the continued representation of the Republic of China. [More…]
Albanian resolution andprior to thevote being taken, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of China, Mr Chow Shu-kai, announced that his Government would take no further part in the business of the [More…]
It is a disappointment to us that the collective decision of the United Nations membership should result in the Republic of China losing its place in the world organisation. [More…]
The Government of the Republic of China remains in effective control of Taiwan, as the Government of the People’s Republic also controls the mainland of China. [More…]
We recognise, however, that the People’s Republic of China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, and the Republic of China claims sovereignty over Taiwan and the Mainland. [More…]
We shall continue pursuit of our dialogue with the People’s Republic of China, with a view to the progressive normalisation of our relations with it. [More…]
Who are the members of the Cricket for Free China Committee which received $2,500 from his Department in 1969-70 towards costs of the visiting University Cricket Group of the Republic of China. [More…]
The members of the Cricket for Free China Committee at the time of the visit in January 1970 by the University students’ cricket team were: [More…]
At a time when the People’s Republic of China has now been accepted into the United Nations there will be much thinking to be done. [More…]
-I mean, the Republic of China. [More…]
The Republic of China on Taiwan did not announce whether in the event of one form of motion being carried it would adopt one course or another in remaining in. [More…]
Lying behind this situation is the fear that Pakistan may become China’s instrument for disposing of India. [More…]
It is an extremely dangerous situation when we have Russia on one side and China on the other. [More…]
I ask the Acting Prime Minister in his capacity as Minister for Trade and Industry whether he has noted the evidence that there is a possibility of vastly increased markets for Australia in China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other Communist countries with which trade has been prevented in the past very largely by the narrow cold war political stance that has been taken by his Government. [More…]
Indeed, until this year we have been one of the major trading partners of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
This year we have not been able to negotiate a contract for the sale of wheat but we have been very successful in selling other commodities to China. [More…]
His trip had to be arranged at fairly short notice, and there was the China vote, the Pakistan statement and the statement on the arts. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence tells us that he thought there were more pressing matters before the Prime Minister than a proposal involving the dispatch of Australian troops to Vietnam, a matter involving a switch in Australia’s declared intention to disengage by Christmas from Indo-China, a matter involving our international relations and a matter which he must have known would be at the forefront of any discussions the Prime Minister would have with the United States Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and maybe the President himself. [More…]
It is significant because it represents a new phase of involvement in the civil war in Indo China. [More…]
The only thing this new commitment could achieve is to help prolong the war in Indo China. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is endeavouring to make a new issue out of the Indo China war. [More…]
We now have China in the United Nations. [More…]
There has been an incorrect assessment of the situation in South East Asia and no recognition of the new role that China can play. [More…]
I have in my hands a statement dated Sunday, 5th July 1970, to the Prime Minister, Government and people of the Kingdom of Laos, which bears the signatures of the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten), as leader of the Australian Parliamentary Mission to Indo China, Senator Bishop, the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles), the honourable member for Evans (Dr Mackay), the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb) and Senator Young of South Australia. [More…]
They dealt with matters of fact regarding Cambodia and the war in Indo-China and quoted all of these issues as though they were of no significance at all to the people of Australia. [More…]
On the other hand, the Labor Party is anxious to support Hanoi and Peking and therefore to curry favour even if it means sacrificing all the victims of Communist aggression within the whole of Indo-China. [More…]
If we look at the American policy towards China we see that a whole new era in international relations is being ushered in. [More…]
That era of conflict and tension between the United States and China, which brought about the conflict in Vietnam, is coming slowly to an end. [More…]
The United States now is in a position of being prepared to negotiate with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
A period of 22 years of conflict and tension between the United States and the People’s Republic of China is being brought slowly and gradually to an end. [More…]
This is the meaning of Nixon’s intended visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
At the same time, there is obviously a desire among the majority of nations to end the cold war conflict, and that has been shown by the fact that after 22 years the People’s Republic of China has been welcomed into the United Nations by an overwhelming majority. [More…]
Under the 1962 Foreign Assistance Act - there is no foreign assistance for Australia but a lot of the countries were receiving assistance - the Americans define the following countries as Communist: Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Korea, North Vietnam, Outer Mongolia, the Polish Peoples Republic, Rumania, Tibet, Yugoslavia, Cuba and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I have in mind the visit to China of the Leader of the Opposition and the defence statement, for instance, made since his return. [More…]
I am sure that most Australians are proud that our Prime Minister has been able to visit Washington, to have these talks, to secure the kind of assurances which have emerged from the talks and, indeed, is going on at this time knowing ahead that Mr Nixon, prior to his visit to China- [More…]
Has the Minister received any communications from the Japanese Embassy in Australia acclaiming the Leader of the Opposition’s diplomatic offensive on behalf of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Is it China of which we are afraid? [More…]
After all, it would take 10 days to get here from the nearest part of China, and the information that they were on their way would seep through the corridors of power and the lobbies and would reach the Minister’s desk and be sent on to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), and eventually we would have a day’s notice. [More…]
I am agreeably surprised by the public acceptance of the admission of China to the United Nations. [More…]
People are starting to take a new look at China. [More…]
In the case of the Indo-China and Vietnam war we have followed a policy which has frustrated its own objective. [More…]
The United States is withdrawing from South East Asia; it is withdrawing from Indo-China. [More…]
The policy of the United States towards China is changing. [More…]
We have the almost incomprehensible position where recently a representative of the Australian Government in the United States virtually chided the American Government because of the liberal policy it was pursuing on the question of China, and he was virtually telling the United States Government that American policy on China must change if the United States wanted the Liberal Party to be preserved in power in Australia. [More…]
that the United States has now developed to a stage where it is negotiating through the person of the President himself with the Government of China, because this can only do good for South East Asia, our part of the world. [More…]
There is no threat from Mainland China, says the Labor Party. [More…]
Visits to China by Qantas Employees (Question No. [More…]
Knowing of the anxiety of farmers in the United States of America to enter the China trade and of the hostility of the Chinese to this Australian proposal, what consideration was given by Cabinet to the interests of the Australian exporters? [More…]
And mark you this, in conclusion: China did not take one grain of wheat from Australia on any Conference Line vessel. [More…]
The conglomerate situation must be viewed in the context of India’s favourable relationship with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Pakistan’s ties with the United States of America and China. [More…]
Meanwhile, a special envoy from West Pakistan has just returned from China and has said unequivocally that China is prepared, poised and ready to assist West Pakistan if it becomes necessary to do so. [More…]
Much has been made of the assistance being given by the People’s Republic of China to the building of the Tanzam railway. [More…]
I should think that that would be no mean task in China. [More…]
One of the big problems we have to contend with is our future relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The double morality has not been entirely on the other side in international affairs because we have taken the view until quite recently that Taiwan represented China. [More…]
Our Government is prepared to accept that the Government in Peking should be recognised as the de facto Government of Mainland China. [More…]
But the Government is now saddled with having previously recognised the Nationalist Chinese administration in Taiwan as being the representative of China. [More…]
One should give credit to Sir Robert Menzies, a previous Prime Minister, because in all the time that he used the threat from the north and about China sweeping down between the Indian and Pacific Oceans when he was mustering votes for the ballot boxes, he never raised our representation in Taiwan to the level of Ambassador. [More…]
We are now in the position where, if we are to develop relations with the People’s Republic of China and have an Australian Ambassador in Peking in the future, and a Chinese Ambassador in Canberra, this [More…]
I hope that the Department is not just following along on the coat tails of the United States to see what will happen when President Nixon goes to Peking and what he may be able to negotiate because all the evidence is that China will not agree to bettering its relations with Australia diplomatically while Australia continues to recognise Taiwan. [More…]
Within certain limits they have done a remarkable job economically but theirs is not the Government of China. [More…]
We know of the recent embarrassment of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) when the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) announced his leadership of an Australian Labor Party delegation to China. [More…]
On the very next day the visit of President Nixon to the People’s Republic of China was announced. [More…]
Does not the call for neutralisation of our region represent a rational response by these nations to the new situation created by the withdrawal of the United States of America from the region and by the re-emergence of China as an active, major power in world diplomacy? [More…]
Turning to recent events in the United Nations, I refer in particular to the expulsion of the Republic of China from and the introduction of the People’s Republic of China to the General Assembly and the Security Council. [More…]
The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council. [More…]
I turn to the recent admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations General Assembly and to the Security Council and refer to actions in Tibet into which the United Nations organisation itself carried out a complete inquiry. [More…]
My comments in this debate on the estimates for the Department of Foreign Affairs will deal mainly with the People’s Republic of China and, of course, its admission to the United Nations and to its rightful place on the Security Council. [More…]
The claim by both the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China that Taiwan is a province of China is based on the agreement that was made between President Roosevelt and President Chiang Kaishek at the Cairo conference in November 1943 that Formosa should be restored to China. [More…]
On 1st December 1943 in the Cairo Declaration, the United States, the United Kingdom and China declared that ‘all territory Japan has stolen from China such as Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China’. [More…]
When Formosa was made a province of China nobody raised any lawyers’ doubts about that. [More…]
When President Truman ordered the United States Seventh Fleet into the Formosa Straits he was, according to his earlier statements, intervening in the internal affairs of China. [More…]
On 8th August 1969 the United States Secretary of State, Mr Rogers, gave a clear indication of the United States shift on the 2 Chinas policy when he said that the United States recognised that ‘the Republic of China on Taiwan and Communist China on the mainland are facts of life’. [More…]
We think the realities of the world require that both - the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan - be represented. [More…]
At the same Press conference, however, he noted the opposing contentions of the Communists and the Nationalists to be the sole government of China and representative of the people of China and stated that representation in the international organisation need not prejudice the claims or views of either government. [More…]
We say that the recognition of the true and proper government, the People’s Republic of China on the mainland, is realistic. [More…]
In the few moments that remain to me I wish to dispel any remaining doubts about the position of China. [More…]
While the Nationalists and the Communists have been irrevocably antagonistic to each other, they do agree that Taiwan is an integral part of China and that there should never be 2 Chinas. [More…]
when Japan surrendered, the Government of the Republic of China repossessed Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (Pescadores) and constituted them as Taiwan Province. [More…]
Since that time, Taiwan and Penghu have regained their status as an integral unit of the territory of the Republic of China. [More…]
People outside China are wrong to distinguish between Chinese and Taiwanese. [More…]
During World War II we in Nanking were separated from Chunking by mountains; now we arc separated from Peking by sea; but we are still in China. [More…]
It is impossible to visualise 2 Chinas. [More…]
On 26th July 1971 the Nationalist Ambassador to the United States, James Shen said in a television interview that the Nationalist Government was the sole legitimate representative of all China and that Taipei would not give up this claim. [More…]
We know that the People’s Republic of China has always stated that there is only one China. [More…]
Yet this Government, which says we are only a small country of 12 million people who have lived for so long in the same region as this great population of China, has determined that there will be 2 Chinas, even though it determined for so long that there was one China only. [More…]
It was only when the Government was near defeat on this matter that it determined the policy that there should be 2 Chinas. [More…]
Our relationship for 20 years with China has been characterised by stupid actions of this Government. [More…]
The stupidity of the action of this Government is demonstrated in our trade relations with China. [More…]
In 1938-39, 2.2 per cent of our trade was with China. [More…]
A great deal of our trade and a great deal of our future rest with China. [More…]
The enunciation of the Nixon doctrine, the running down of American military involvement in South East Asia, and the impending visit by President Nixon to China contribute greatly to the need for fresh appraisals of Australia’s position in the area. [More…]
As 1 said here in debate last week, one of the interesting facts about China’s entry to the United Nations is the enthusiasm with which the Chinese apparently are accepting that promotion, if that is it; and with China in that body there is a new forum and a new grouping of people to try to find a solution. [More…]
What has Professor Arndt had to say recently, following the Labor Party delegation’s visit to China? [More…]
With a naivety astonishing in someone who hopes to become Australia’s Prime Minister, he gave away in advance every bargaining counter that Australia has in future negotiations with China . [More…]
I will not read out this article now, but it deals with issue after issue arising from Mr Whitlam’s visit to China. [More…]
Let me briefly look at this attitude as it is exemplified in relation to the People’s Republic of China and the issue of foreign aid. [More…]
It seems to me that the Government’s claim that China’s willingness to trade with Australia is unaffected by its political considerations is away off beam. [More…]
Apparently it was clearly stated that unless Australia’s political attitudes change, trade, unless it is considered by China to be an absolute necessity, is a dead letter. [More…]
It cannot play ducks and drakes with its foreign policy in a matter of electoral gain and at the same time hope to gain trade with China. [More…]
I have heard the view that politics and trade do mix in China. [More…]
I understand Mr Kibell is an Australian businessman who has conducted private business with China. [More…]
He said that whether we like it or not China does mix politics with trade. [More…]
But even in October 1970, 55 nations had already established diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
Let us note some of those that did recognise China. [More…]
After all it ls the direct lineal successor of the government which, quite gratuituously and against all world trends, decided as recently as 1966 to recognise the Government of Taiwan as the government of all China. [More…]
Can one imagine a McMahon conservative Government making the tremendous breakthrough in international relations made by the Prime Minister and Government of Canada in regard to China, or will one ever forget the stunned shock of the Australian Government when the announcement was made of President Nixon’s proposed visit to Peking? [More…]
Of course we all recall the Prime Minister’s extravagant denunciation of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and his Australian Labor Party delegation for their bold initiative in trying to make a breakthrough with China. [More…]
The honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) referred to Professor Arndt, a distinguished former member of the Labor Party, who had criticised the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and the Labor delegation when they went to China because in his opinion they left Australia without any options in respect of negotiation. [More…]
When he was making his speech on how we should abandon Taiwan and how Mainland China - Red China, if you wish - is now the mecca of all purity and how we must adopt its ways and carry on its shadow he said: ‘We on this side of the Labor Party . [More…]
Indeed, the honourable member for Reid who is a front bench member of the Labor Party and who is, I presume, a potential Minister - although God help us if Labor ever gets into office - already has stated that Taiwan should be handed back to Mainland China. [More…]
But can members opposite tell me when the last democratic election took place in Mainland China? [More…]
Communist China is pure - it is an example to the rest of the world to whom we must now give allegiance, bow down, give in and make approaches so that we might live in peace with it. [More…]
Let it be remembered that the Japanese came down through French Indo-China and the South East Asian area to the fringe of Australia within a period of about 2 months. [More…]
I think it has shown that it is prepared to play a part and I think it should play a greater part The policy of the Labor Party seems to be to repudiate its friends and to crawl in with Mainland China because the sooner we are all Communists the better it will be for the whole world. [More…]
He said that because members of the Australian Labor Party repudiate the idea that Australia must follow slavishly behind another nation which has been friendly to us in a world war, we are crawling into bed with Communist China. [More…]
There is no coherence or logic in the attitude which implies that because one puts a sensible and reasonable case for the legal claims of China to the island of Taiwan, Quemoy or Matsu, therefore, one is crawling into bed with somebody. [More…]
Indeed, our Government was in advance of the United States in making statements to the effect that Communist China should be taken into the Security Council after its admission to the United Nations. [More…]
On the other hand, the policy of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has been to accept Communist China’s position on Formosa, or Taiwan. [More…]
Hardly, when the great majority of the people of Taiwan do not want to be ruled from Communist China. [More…]
This woolly euphoria and isolationism is bound up in wild expressions such as, ‘Since the United States is withdrawing totally from Asia, we must’, ‘China has joined the United Nations and dropped all its old policies’; ‘Great powers will never again become involved in South East Asia’. [More…]
The USSR, as we know, has recently increased its role and I would think it is inevitable that China will ultimately pay still greater attention to its external role. [More…]
At the very least the activities of Japan alongside China will demand this of China. [More…]
French Indo-China was taken by the Japanese months before- [More…]
The great American influence with its charitable type of outlook does not exist in China today as it did before the outbreak of the second World War. [More…]
One of the problems which the honourable member raised concerned the external role of the United States of America and, I take it, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of China also. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister to try to intervene in the situation in Indo-China through the United Nations. [More…]
Recently I had occasion to go from Sydney to Hong Kong on the way to China. [More…]
I remind the House that Russia - and China, very shortly - will be able to veto such invitations given to this nation. [More…]
A noticeable omission from this ACTU statement which related to cheap labour countries was a reference to imports from China. [More…]
A new balance is emerging which includes the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the European community, including Britain. [More…]
My visit to America followed closely the United Nations vote on the admission of the People’s Republic of China which created a new situation in the world body, and in the Asian region. [More…]
During my talks with President Nixon and Mr Laird we exchanged assessments on the situation and the future in IndoChina. [More…]
The President and other members of the Administration expressed their appreciation in the warmest terms of our constant support and help in Indo-China. [More…]
As a result of my visit, the Australian Government now has a deeper appreciation of American and British thinking on a wide range of international issues of importance to us, such as: The British entry in the EEC; the future of China and Taiwan; the future for Vietnam and Cambodia; the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean; overseas trade; President Nixon’s forthcoming visits to Moscow and Peking; the international monetary situation; and the Rhodesian situation. [More…]
China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]
But it is the Asian-Pacific region which has emerged as the area where the interests and influence of the great powers - the United States of America, Soviet Russia, the People’s Republic of China and Japan - have converged. [More…]
Nowhere from the Prime Minister’s mission came any of the insults to other nations that came out of the mission to China by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and his infamous interview with Chou En-lai. [More…]
The Prime Minister also took the opportunity of discussing the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
After years of isolation, China is emerging into the outside world. [More…]
Australia welcomes the advent of China into the world community, but at the same time we believe that it can be only to Australia’s advantage for mutual attitudes to be explored between the President and the. [More…]
The Opposition policy would have us retreat within our territorial boundaries and only take action beyond them if asked to do so by the Security Council of the United Nations, on which both Russia and Communist China have a veto. [More…]
Is it conceivable that Russia and China would not veto action by Australia designed to keep a Communist threat away from our shores? [More…]
Communist China too- [More…]
What is equally distressing about the Prime Minister’s statement tonight is the reversion once again to the grand old cliches about revolutionary China which were used in the 1950s and the 1960s. [More…]
At a time when Austraia’s trading opportunities are being severed by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, at a time when we should be seeking further opportunities for trade, at a time in particular when we should be seeking dialogue with China particularly in preparation for any possibility of a high level conference over the Indo-China situation - at a time such as this the Australian Government is returning to the talk of revolutionary China. [More…]
The Government, because of its politically motivated attitudes towards the People’s Republic of China, has lost this nation over $900m worth of wheat trade. [More…]
We have been selling wheat to China to this value over the last decade. [More…]
That is not to mention the other areas in which it is possible for this nation to increase its trade with China. [More…]
One can rest assured that, as the newspapers have already reported, wheat farmers in America are becoming a powerful lobby whose aim is to make the sale of substantial quantities of wheat to China the first means of improving relationships between the People’s Republic of China and the United States. [More…]
In my view it is nonsensical for the Australian Government to continue with this highly dogmatic and ideological approach Which is also determined by fear of that minority in the Democratic Labor Party which dominates the foreign policy of this Government, lt is a luxury that this nation can no longer afford and it is time that Australia recognised that our interests, both diplomatically and economically, are best served by recognising the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister had pointed out the need for a relationship between the United States the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Japan and Europe that would enhance the security of medium and small powers, of which, of course, Australia is one, medium and small countries that may be small in size and in material resources but which are nevertheless significant. [More…]
China has been admitted to the United Nations organisation, and I wonder how many honourable members opposite with their euphoria at this event realise the significance that this will have for the future of that organisation. [More…]
However, we will move an addendum designed to elaborate future attitudes to Vietnam and the other Indo-China states. [More…]
This is an expression of support for the pledge given by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) not to embroil Australia in future wars in IndoChina. [More…]
lt would be foolish to expect this Party to have any rational thoughts about the future of I ndo China and Australia’s relations with the countries of Indo China. [More…]
It seems that at long last it has recognised the futility of military involvement in Indo China, but it has hesitated about putting its doubts into effective action. [More…]
The key to the future of Indo-China is North Vietnam and the relations of the rest of the world with North Vietnam, or the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as it calls itself. [More…]
With China admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
The Communist Government of North Vietnam has dominated Indo-China in the past 20 years. [More…]
The only hope of assuring peace in Indo-China and assuring the neutrality of Indo-China lies in negotiations with North Vietnam. [More…]
The only hope, and I repeat it for the benefit of the honourable member, of assuring peace in Indo-China is to open negotiations with the parties involved. [More…]
Unless the neutrality of Indo-China can be assured and guaranteed by international supervision, then the way is open for further protracted and bloody warfare in Indo-China. [More…]
In paying tribute today to the performance of their duty by Australian soldiers in Vietnam, it is proper that recognition be given to the future of Indo-China. [More…]
Once all our troops are out ii will not be possible for Australia to wash its hands of IndoChina. [More…]
There is a duty to assist in the rehabilitation and rebuilding of all the states of Indo-China. [More…]
A year ago it would have been unthinkable that this Government would go as far along the road to rapprochement wilh the Peoples’ Republic of China as it has gone in recent months. [More…]
Now it must swallow its pride and make a similar gesture towards ending the isolation of North Vietnam and diverting it towards the establishment of a peaceful balance in Indo-China. [More…]
With these observations about the nature of Australia’s future role in Indo-China, I move the following addition to the resolution before the House: [More…]
That the following words be added to the motion - and also endorses the promise of the Prime Minister that Australian troops will not again be involved in Indo-China. [More…]
T believed the statements - and some of the stuff came from the Department of External Affairs - which indicated that China was really involved in Vietnam, until, staggeringly, at a later stage in history we had the late Prime Minister, Mr Harold Holt, saying in this House, after the Government had been twitted and twitted about the level of government trade with China, that the Chinese were not involved in the war in South Vietnam. [More…]
The addendum moved by the Opposition compliments the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) in effect on his promise that Australian troops will not be involved in future in Indo-China. [More…]
Let us be done, whatever else we think about the situation in Indo-China, with the view that the Government of North Vietnam has been disposed of. [More…]
However, I submit to this House that this Government is not able to trade with countries like China. [More…]
But the Government of China is not willing to trade with a government of the political complexion of this Government which has a bias on political questions. [More…]
I think it will do so in the long term, because in the long term I believe that a strong single marketing authority will bc able to negotiate bilateral agreements with the European Economic Community countries, with Japan, wilh China and with Russia- with the Communist bloc. [More…]
But beyond the indescribable sufferings facing millions of people in the subcontinent, it is essential that the great powers, particularly the Soviet Union, the Peoples Republic of China and the United States, do not become further and directly involved. [More…]
Equally significant about the new period and relationships is the fact that the first time China has acted in the Security Council she has aligned herself with the United States and Japan in opposition to the Soviet Union. [More…]
When does the right honourable gentleman expect to be able to announce the full membership and itinerary ot the projected trade mission to the Peoples’ Republic of China? [More…]
Are not the law enforcement authorities entitled to be fed up with the situation that arises when they come into possession of a suspected person whom they interrogate and then find in his possession a package containing a narcotic substance and on the outside of the package the words Manufactured in the People’s Republic of China’ or ‘Manufactured in China’? [More…]
As the law presently stands there must be direct and conclusive evidence of importation, and the fact that an article is labelled ‘Made in China’, ‘Made in Thailand’, ‘Made in India’, ‘Made in Pakistan’ or ‘Made in Erehwon’ is not evidence of importation. [More…]
In summing up, I repeat again the Labor Party’s complete opposition to any further military participation of any sort in the Indo China wars. [More…]
With the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, there is a totally different diplomatic scenario. [More…]
Peoples Republic of China, . [More…]
Textile Council of Australia, that fabrics being imported from China and purporting to be woollen piecegoods do not contain any wool at all but in fact, comprise 60 per cent viscose and 40 per cent polyamide [More…]
I have ascertained that this card was one of a number forwarded from Mainland China to a Melbourne importer, all similarly headed but with varying compositions shown on the cards. [More…]
However, an examination of entries made during the last twelve months for piece goods alleged to be of wool or containing wool, from Mainland China, has shown only four such importations, these from the exporter supplying the samples in question. [More…]
No such goods from Mainland China have been detected as unmarked or incorrectly marked in the past twelve months, lt is [More…]
In which countries are there diplomatic missions from both Australia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Both Australia and the People’s Republic of China have diplomatic missions in the Arab Republic of Egypt, Austria, Burma, Ceylon, Canada, Chile, Denmark, France, India, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Laos, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, United Kingdom, USSR and Yugoslavia. [More…]
In addition, the Vice President of the United States of America, the Chairman of the Royal Council of the Kingdom of Laos, and the Chairman of the Joint Staff of the Republic of China attended as Special Representatives. [More…]
In addition, the Vice President of the Republic of China, the Special Adviser to the King of Jordan, and the Adviser for Foreign Affairs to the President of the Philippines attended as Special Representatives. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Soviet Union is never likely to be a threat to the integrity of Australia whereas Communist China might pose such a threat twenty or more years hence, will he do everything possible to encourage peaceful relations in trade, tourism, culture, medicine, literature and science with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Can the Minister say what efforts the Australian Government is making on behalf of Mr Francis James, as to his whereabouts and welfare and the possibility of facilitating his release from China? [More…]
: Albania, Algeria, Arab Republic of Egypt, Bulgaria, Ceylon, Chad, Chile, Congo (Brazzaville), Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Hungary, Iraq, Khmer Republic, Maldives, Mongolia, North Korea, North Vietnam, People’s Republic of China, Poland, Romania, Somalia, South Yemen, Sudan, Syria, U.S.S.R., Yemen and Yugoslavia. [More…]
Can he state the attitude of Communist China, Japan, India, Pakistan. [More…]
At no stage did we receive any official representations from the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We were fiddled around for some considerable time until, knowing - I believe - that we had been one of the chief advocates for the People’s Republic of China becoming a member of the General Assembly and also- [More…]
They said that in the China of that time the army had a pervasive influence throughout the whole of China. [More…]
I believe also that once Australia can normalise its relationships with China there will be excellent opportunities for Australia to send raw materials to China. [More…]
When 1 was in China I found that in the densely populated areas such as Cantin, Shanghai and Peking milk products were a scarce commodity. [More…]
As one can appreciate, in a country like China there is a definite limit on livestock production, particularly of the dairy type. [More…]
On those pages, two great matters, Australia’s future relations with China and Australia’s attitude to apartheid, merge into a single issue, the truthfulness of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]
When does the right honourable gentleman expect to be able to announce the full membership and itinerary of the projected trade mission to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Instead, the Prime Minister chose to give a tortuous, smart-aleck reply - a farrago of gratuitous sneers at China, ambiguities and assertions which fall before the most elementary tests of truthfulness. [More…]
They said that in the China of that time the army had a pervasive influence throughout the whole of China. [More…]
from our side, anyway, there was never any indication given by the Chinese that they required Mr Peacock to resign his portfolio before he visited China. [More…]
No, the Foreign Minister says, the Prime Minister was wrong in saying that they gave the pervasive influence of the People’s Liberation Army in China as the reason why the then Minister for the Army had to resign. [More…]
It may be abnormal for a Minister to make such a visit but everything in our relations, or lack of them, with China is abnormal. [More…]
The parallel between this and the China matter is this: In both cases the Prime Minister had an identifiable motive, and in both cases he has done damage to Australia in pursuit of his aim. [More…]
I first got to know of this on 1st September when my colleague the now Minister for External Territories (Mr Peacock) came to me and told me that Mr Kibel had contacted him about a possible visit to China. [More…]
I can state specifically that Mr Kibel on the 14th did state that in his belief one of the reasons why the then Minister for the Army was invited was the pervasive influence of the Army in China at that date. [More…]
They were interested in showing him China and having mutually beneficial discussions. [More…]
It was titled a private visit, but of course Mr Bowen and Mr McMahon are absolutely right, there’s no doubt that converstations that he would have in China would be with all the right people. [More…]
This motion has immense relevance to the Government’s conduct of relations with the People’s Republic of China, surely the most vital issue of external policy confronting Australia. [More…]
Because of limited time, I want to concentrate my remarks on the issues raised by the Prime Minister’s comments in the Parliament last Thursday on a ministerial visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
But the issues raised go directly to the heart of conduct of our relations with the People’s Republic of China in the past year. [More…]
It seems the Prime Minister recognised the essential nobility of the concept of President Nixon’s mission to China. [More…]
Unfortunately, he did not recognise the shambles which passes for Australia’s relations with China. [More…]
In saying this I do not intend to be disparaging of the Kibel brothers who seem to have been the Government’s main emissaries to China in the past few months. [More…]
But other nations of the world of no greater status or significance than Australia are approaching China at head of Government or senior diplomatic level. [More…]
The Government clearly lacks the courage or even the hide to make a direct approach to China. [More…]
Obviously, it has had the option at any time in the past year to make a direct approach to China and to send a ministerial delegation to China. [More…]
China would not have rejected an official approach for a member of the Government to go to China. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) would have been an ideal person to go to China on behalf of his Government. [More…]
There is also the stake his Party has in improving trade with China. [More…]
As far as this Government and relations with China are concerned, the parade has gone by. [More…]
The next official visit to China will be by the Leader of the Opposition as Prime Minister. [More…]
The present Government has not the competence to get even a trade mission to China, let alone a junior Minister. [More…]
This is the context of a disastrous series of diplomatic setbacks for the Prime Minister and his Government over relations with China. [More…]
It was disclosed a week later in the National Times’ that the Prime Minister had rejected an invitation by the Chinese to have a member of his Ministry go to China for 10 days. [More…]
It became clear that the Government, in seeking to get a trade mission to China, had hooked a rather bigger fish. [More…]
The Chinese had invited Mr Peacock and his wife to go to China, apparently on the recommendation of the brothers Kibel. [More…]
It seems they regarded him as one of the less reactionary members of the Australian Government and were prepared to bring him to China and ensure he met the right people. [More…]
The Minister says also that an Army Minister would be put in a schizophrenic position by visiting China while Australian troops were engaged in Vietnam. [More…]
He neglects to explain how the American President - as the Leader of the Opposition pointed out - who is the supreme authority - the supreme commander - for conduct of the Vietnam War avoided a spectacular division in his personality while he was in China. [More…]
It does not seem possible for Australia to get even a trade mission to China while this Government stays in office. [More…]
Let us go to 24th February when the Prime Minister was asked a question relating to this ministerial visit to China. [More…]
They said that in Ihe China of that time the army had a pervasive influence throughout the whole of China. [More…]
This is not a condition imposed by China or an official representative of China or a nonofficial representative of China and there is no other construction open if one reads the answer as a whole. [More…]
It is only when mischief is sought to be made by raising in the House our relations with China in either this form or in relation to wheat sales that harm will result to Australia in its relations with China. [More…]
It is quite clear that in relation to our sales of wheat to China there has been a long campaign of deliberate mischief. [More…]
Subsequently the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) had the idea of visiting China with a view, I suggest, to embarrassing this Government over wheat sales to China. [More…]
So persistent is this attempt to make mischief that quite recently when the Leader of the Opposition was overseas he took the trouble during a discussion with a representative of the People’s Republic of China in New York to discuss the question of wheat sales and he received from that representative an assurance that there would be no sales to China preceding recognition of China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition announced this and then announced that he would recognise China. [More…]
He has gone out of his way to receive and publicise something highly detrimental to this country in relation to wheat sales to China for purely political motives. [More…]
The other matters that call the credibility of the Prime Minister into question are his relations with the Minister for External Territories (Mr Peacock) and the whole question of what really has been going on in regard to this proposed visit to China. [More…]
No doubt, in the next few weeks we will see just how rauch Mr Kibel’s visit to China and Hong Kong actually cost the Australian taxpayer. [More…]
-I have written a paper on the law of China and I will send the honourable member a copy, if he likes. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that the position in China is quite different from that in Australia. [More…]
Yesterday afternoon the right honourable gentleman told us of information which he had received from Hong Kong on 7th September last about 2 matters - firstly, the possible visit to China by the Minister for the Army, and secondly, to use his words ‘a private trade mission which we were only too happy to arrange’. [More…]
I ask him now: What progress has the Government made with the arrangements for this private trade mission to China? [More…]
For some time we were in negotiation to try to ensure that an Australian trade mission led by a very distinguished Australian should go to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
That article stated that goods had been flooding in from cheap labour countries and industry leaders claimed that they could land in Australia cheap garments made in China, Hong Kong and Singapore at about half the cost of manufacturing them in Australia. [More…]
I refer to the subject of trade between China and Australia. [More…]
We all would like to see expanded trade with China. [More…]
But the type of products we can sell to China is limited wheat, wool and semi-finished mineral products. [More…]
But the representatives of China made it quite clear to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and myself when we were there that they would expect Australia to play its part and to take some of China’s products. [More…]
What products can China export under a bilateral arrangement? [More…]
I bought back from China a pair of pure leather shoes which cost 92c Australian. [More…]
This is the type of commodity that China can supply to us, providing it is a 2-way agreement. [More…]
In this instance we can sell our wheat and our wool to China. [More…]
It is completely fallacious to compare the wage standards in Australia with the wage standards in China, Hong Kong or anywhere else. [More…]
So it is completely fallacious simply to argue that because we can import a shirt from China or Hong Kong for 20c we must scrap all our cotton and processing industries in Australia to import cheap shirts. [More…]
The Taiwanese, and the people from Hong Kong and Red China do not provide a wide variety of fashion. [More…]
President Nixon’s announcements on China and the United States dollar parity adjustments constitute a watershed in world foreign and economic relations. [More…]
Take the example of China. [More…]
China’s total trade is about 25 per cent less than that of Hong Kong. [More…]
Hong Kong has about 5 million people; China has between 700 million and 800 million. [More…]
China has a selfcontained subsistence economy. [More…]
I think that we ought to get our textiles from China. [More…]
However, might I prognosticate we ought to get our textiles perhaps from China. [More…]
As to the first part of the honourable gentleman’s question, 1 have said before that 1 believe that in our pursuit of a dialogue in order to have better bi-lateral relations with the People’s Republic of China we must proceed in a cautious and, indeed, a quietly diplomatic way. [More…]
I want to see trade develop between Australia and New Zealand, i want to see trade develop between Australia and China. [More…]
Let us take trade between, say, China and Australia. [More…]
We want to sell our wheat, wool and other products to China, but if we have to take into Australia in return a flood of low cost commodities which will bankrupt hundreds of thousands of workers in Australia, we on this side of the Parliament would not under any circumstances tolerate it until there was a plan by which these resources could be shifted effectively and profitably as far as the people are concerned, whether they be employee or employer. [More…]
Does he wish to oust New Zealand in favour of China? [More…]
Obviously we will have closer associations with China later but regard must be had to our sister nations in the Pacific area. [More…]
Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to a statement by Mr James Kibel that if he told the true story regarding the negotiations with Chinese officials over the proposed visit of the former Minister for the Army to China the Government would be forced to resign? [More…]
Fortuitously or otherwise, the replacement of the market in the People’s Republic of China by the market in the United Arab Republic has resulted in the latter country taking approximately 20 per cent of Australia’s wheat export. [More…]
These countries include China, Egypt, Russia and Japan. [More…]
I think it is worthy of note that the Australian Wheat Board has looked for new markets in this field and has successfully fo ind them, despite the lack of sales to Mainland China - if that is the latest term that should be used. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China might be the popular name today. [More…]
‘Mainland China’ I used previously, and it is not a bad name. [More…]
He estimated last year - that is, a year ago - that if the Board made its sales to China we could end last season with a carry over of 1 19 million bushels. [More…]
With the dairying industry, which has revolutionised our exports to China and other Asian countries, the Wheat Board stands as our most experienced and expert seller of our products. [More…]
The Wheat Board has had its hands tied behind its back for many years because of the attitude of this Government to the People’s Republic of China and the Board has had my gratitude throughout these years because it was out fighting for markets in a country that was not recognised by this Government, the Government that at this moment is backing the Wheat Board. [More…]
The Government has been deliberately insulting to the People’s Republic of China over the last 20 years. [More…]
During those long years the Wheat Board has tried to sell wheat to that country at a time when the Government was condemning the People’s Republic of China left, right and centre. [More…]
Finally last year the Wheat Board found the doors closed in China. [More…]
Canada then moved in and sold 98 million bushels to China. [More…]
The Government’s attitude had to catch up with ;he Wheat Board eventually and the sooner this Government really gets into conversation at the top diplomatic level with China, as President Nixon has done over the last lew weeks, the sooner our market in that country will bc restored. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China was the next biggest purchaser, taking 1,287,881 tons for $57,402,000. [More…]
The United Arab Republic, which of course has taken over the position held by the People’s Republic of China, bought 1,249,777 tons for $56,252,000. [More…]
The United Arab Republic, particularly Egypt, comes to mind as a new market which has been developed and it has helped to fill the gap left by the cessation of buying by the People’s Republic of China, which I have already mentioned. [More…]
In the year of China, a year when we seek a dialogue with China and to sell wheat, wool and eggs, as the honourable member for Mallee knows - in this the Year of the Rat - what a splendid opportunity to impress Chairman Mao and set a precedent for future generations. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to a statement made in Singapore by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that the right honourable gentlemen’s latest statements on China were unwise, in fact stupidity? [More…]
Has he noted further Senator Sim’s comment that sending the Minister for External Territories to China would be sending a boy to a country where age is venerated and respected? [More…]
A major attack from the North Vietnamese, supported by equipment from Russia and China, is expected very shortly. [More…]
Firstly, there was a report printed in one of the Sunday newspapers about Mr Kibel making a statement that if all the facts of the China negotiation, so-called, were revealed the Government would have to resign. [More…]
stupid over China: Liberal’ and had this to say: [More…]
A senior member of the McMahon Government today dismissed the Prime Minister’s latest statement on relations with China as, ‘unwise, in fact stupidity’. [More…]
There was no point in blindly accepting China’s terms on any visit by an official Australian party. [More…]
Dealing with mainland China needs caution or even over-caution. [More…]
Referring to recent attempts at contact between China and Australia, Senator Sim said he was appalled by the thought that two businessmen brothers could have been acting for the Australian Government in China or that their opinion seemed to carry weight. [More…]
‘Sending Andrew Peacock (Territories Minister) to China would be really stupid’, he said. [More…]
-I rather gather that what the honourable gentleman is complaining about regarding our policy towards China is that it differs from that of the United States, and that what he wants us to do is to follow President Nixon. [More…]
I do not believe that question time is the time to debate foreign policy at any length, but I can assure the honourable gentleman that the Government, with caution and in a proper way, is making approaches to the People’s Republic of China and I do not think that any good purpose is served by discussing the details of these approaches. [More…]
In regard to the result of the President’s visit, we are hopeful that the approach of President Nixon to the People’s Republic of China will lead in the long run to some reduction of tension in this area. [More…]
Its overseas trade is the same as that of the whole of the People’s Republic of China and it is now largely able to look after its own defence. [More…]
I think this Is going to work mainly because after the communique between the US and China, this area, South East Asia, will not be in the foreseeable future an area either of conflict or confrontation among the big powers … it makes the five-powers defence arrangements fairly irrelevant. [More…]
Whom we all know to be the Foreign Minister of Singapore - has maintained - and I agree with him - that China is not aggressive. [More…]
Mr Rajaratnam said that he thought China was not aggressive. [More…]
What would a small country like Singapore, which is not very far from China, say? [More…]
Would it say ‘We believe that China is aggressive’ or would it pretend, whatever it thought, that it did not think China would be aggressive? [More…]
He mentioned the attitude that the Singapore Government takes towards China. [More…]
I will quote from a publication called The Asian’ in which Mr Rajaratnam had this to say about China. [More…]
China is not economically or even militarily in a position to give any kind of direct aid to revolutionary movements. [More…]
There are now 5 major power groupings: The United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the European Community. [More…]
But this is a far cry from assuming that things like Mr Nixon’s trip to China mean that we are in a new golden age where human nature has also taken a great leap forward. [More…]
Honourable members will recall how the senator reflected in the grossest possible terms on the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) because of the stupidity of his China policies. [More…]
Perhaps it is China. [More…]
They know that all the circumstances of the last 20 years have shown up the eccentricities of our policy; that our Vietnam policy on which we squandered so many lives and so much treasure did not mean a thing when it came to the crunch and the Americans were going home; that our China policy did not mean a thing when President Nixon changed his course. [More…]
On 9th March I asked the Prime Minister a question without notice in which I drew attention to a statement by Senator Sim, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, that the right honourable gentleman’s last statements on China were unwise, in fact a stupidity. [More…]
In December 1971 no opposition was offered by the ACTU nor any unionist to the export by ship of 29 rams to the People’s Republic of China consigned ex the Port of Melbourne. [More…]
The Government does not intend indefinitely to leave the question of delivery of rams sold within the agreed terms of relaxation of the ban to be determined by the whim of the ACTU and the Labor Party, particularly as the whim is orientated in one direction where the sales are to Communist China and another when elsewhere. [More…]
Then the Minister has what I think are very serious things to say about our trade, particularly with China. [More…]
We have had again a pattern of attacking China. [More…]
But is it not incredible that the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony), on the very first day that he took over this portfolio, sought to denigrate and smear China? [More…]
In fact, he said he would not jeopardise his soul to sell wheat to China. [More…]
I am not sure of the state of his soul, but I know that we have not sold any wheat to China. [More…]
What a poor thing to say when we have an industry which hopes to join the world rush for trade with China. [More…]
I suggest that we as members of this Parliament have a responsibility to see to it that we are not out of step with the march of time now in regard to trade with China. [More…]
It is a reprehensible situation to find that sales have been made from Australia to overseas countries, including China, much as the Government may not like it, and contracts have been entered into in a situation of complete indecision by the Government, the Parliament and the nation. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina at one stage had me worried a bit when he got on to wheat sales to China. [More…]
We have heard some discussion about the fact that the Australian Council of Trade Unions has allowed - I put the word allowed’ in inverted commas - the export of sheep to Communist China but to no other country. [More…]
Evidently it is all right to allow these sheep to go to China but the ACTU is deliberately denying the export of these sheep to countries such as India. [More…]
The United States of America maintains its global balance with the Soviet Union and it has a marked superiority in strategic nuclear strength vis-a-vis China. [More…]
The United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan are exploring each other’s attitudes and examining the effect of initiatives taken. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of the North Vietnamese throughout IndoChina, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent wi.h the hopes entertained by the President of the United States of progressively negotiating understandings which will reduce tensions among the 4 great powers: The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the United States and Japan - and particularly among the 3 great military powers in this group. [More…]
In South East Asia the impact of subversion and insurgency has been restricted by massive sacrifices of men and material on the part of many countries - not least the states of Indo-China under attack from North Vietnam. [More…]
China’s military power is of growing rather than lessening importance in Australian security. [More…]
I want to return, however, to the subject of China, whose military inventory contains a good deal more than nuclear weapons. [More…]
The Defence Review has pointed to the expansion of China’s conventional naval and air forces and to the modernisation of all three of the Services. [More…]
While these forces are organised today essentially for the defence of China’s borders, they already possess some offensive potential and it is clear that this capability will be developed further. [More…]
They are the foundation for maintaining an effective balance of power in relation to a nuclear arming China - a consideration of great concern for Australia in the years immediately ahead as will be seen from the description of the subject in the Defence Review. [More…]
There are no comparable restraints on the growth of the mobile strategic strength of the Sovietnor on the unannounced expansion of the land, maritime and nuclear forces of China. [More…]
It is necessary to remind ourselves, because we tend to forget about these things, that when the Second World War ended every independent country in South East Asia was ravaged by internal communist aggression and that very often this aggression was aided by either China or Russia. [More…]
By 1965 - it is interesting to think back on this because up to that time North Vietnam was denying that she was taking any active participation in the action or the aggression which was taking place in South Vietnam - it became obvious that, with the active support of and propped up by Russia and China, the North Vietnamese had in many ways overrun the south and the South Vietnamese were unable to help themselves. [More…]
Now that almost all Australians have been withdrawn from Indo-China and it appears that Americans are being withdrawn, we are being asked to conclude that it was all worth while. [More…]
But the documents to which I have referred and many others show that the war in Indo-China, carried on by Americans and Australians, has always been an unjustifiable, immoral,, illegal and even criminal war, and it remains so. [More…]
Among them were whether what was being fought was aggression from the North or a movement strongly supported by the people of Vietnam and Indo-China; whether the war that began in South Vietnam had been started by the people in South Vietnam oi whether it had been started and carried on by North Vietnam; and then whether the war in South Vietnam had been started by the Diem Government by attacking those it called communists, or whether it had been started by an attack by those called communists upon the Diem Government. [More…]
Australia was wrong to go into the war in IndoChina, and those who have died in that war have unfortunately died in a bad cause. [More…]
Because of its guilt in the war in Indo-China, far more than for any other reason, the Government of Australia should be rejected by the people. [More…]
This great question about guilt in the war in Indo-China cannot be answered only on the basis of recent years, or on cliches such as those which we have just heard from the honourable member for Bennelong. [More…]
The war in Indo-China did not begin in 1965 when Australians were sent there. [More…]
It did not begin in 1954 when Americans were sent there, or in 1945 when the French returned, or in 1941 when the Japanese invaded Indo-China. [More…]
It began at least as early as 1847 when a French naval expedition arrived and in 70 minutes killed more people than had been killed in 2 centuries of war in Indo-China before that. [More…]
The war in Indo-China in which Australians became involved in 1965 and Americans in 1954 can be understood only if we realise that Indo-China had been occupied by foreign powers for over a hundred years and that resistance against them had never ceased. [More…]
When thinking about Indo-China few people think of events before 1965 or 1954. [More…]
The first stage of the war in Indo-China was at an end by about 1890. [More…]
Now the Indo-Chinese nationalist middle class, and intellectuals, were no longer able to lead the fight against the French with guns but turned to politics and to Japan and China for aid. [More…]
Does not any honourable member opposite know that that is the history of Vietnam and of Indo-China? [More…]
The fully documented evidence of the Pentagon Papers shows that the EisenhowerDulles Administration rejected the Geneva Agreement and its election, set up the Diem Government and began immediately to supply it with military power for only one reason - so that it could immediately set out to destroy the communists, as it was put, in South Vietnam and equally as much elsewhere in Indo-China. [More…]
The eighth and last stage of the war in Indo-China began with Nixon’s hidden war of the automated electronic battlefield. [More…]
It will be people, not machines, that win the war in Indo-China. [More…]
It may be that the war in Indo-China can remain hidden enough for President Nixon to be elected again as President. [More…]
But it is hardly likely that the war in IndoChina can long continue after that election. [More…]
The eighth stage of the war in IndoChina is the last stage. [More…]
It must be seen as part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
The Australian people have a right to know their Government’s view of China’s activities and its intended activities. [More…]
The main honey exporting countries in the world are first, Argentina; second, Mexico; third, the People’s Republic of China; and fourth, Australia. [More…]
The following countries have announced pledges to the UNFPA: Barbados, Botswana, Canada, Ceylon, Republic of China, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Guatemala, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, [More…]
The People’s Republic of China has a quite substantial distribution through the New China Newsagency and so on. [More…]
An example is a reference to the war in Indo-China contained in the paper. [More…]
The long war in the Republic of Vietnam, though posing now a reduced threat to national survival, has spread territorially elsewhere in Indo-China. [More…]
The war in Indo-China is likely to go on though perhaps at a lower level of intensity. [More…]
Quite obviously these bases are related to the United States early-warning and surveillance systems of Russia and China. [More…]
In practice, the United Nations has proved a broken reed in this regard, largely because of the veto power of Russia and now China. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of North Vietnamese throughout Indo-China, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
I do not disagree with President Nixon’s visit to China. [More…]
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentine; Austria; Barbados; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Cambodia; Canada; Ceylon; China: Costa Rica; Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Equador; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic; Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (South); Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia: Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua - literate or married persons; Poland; Romania; Sweden; Switzerland - males; Tanzania; Thailand - Thai nationals; Tunisia; Turkey; United Kingdom - British and citizens of Irish Republic living in United Kingdom; Uruquay; U.S.S.R.; Venezuela; Vietnam (South); Vietnam (North); Yugoslavia; Zambia. [More…]
Is it a fact that this Committee discussed such matters as trade with the People’s Republic of China, immigration and selected treaty matters? [More…]
Let me remind the gentlemen on the Government side that because of their fears of the downward thrust of China they wanted new friends. [More…]
An official United States Senate Committee’s report quotes the figure of 13.3 million people liquidated in China alone from 1961 to 1965. [More…]
China and Russia have a veto on such decisions by the United Nations and they are the countries which will increasingly have nuclear submarines and missile-equipped ships off our very coast. [More…]
The Labor Party wants to pull out of ANZUK and bring the troops home from Malaysia and Singapore, choosing to forget Lee Kuan Yew’s words that if Indo-China fell to the North Vietnamese then the rest of South East Asia would soon go through the Communist mincing machine. [More…]
We have China emerging with great manpower, but at present lacking in weapons. [More…]
Perhaps we have to face threats from China. [More…]
The White Paper states that China at present is working on the production of nuclear propelled submarines and it also states that not later than 1975 China will have intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of 3,000 miles. [More…]
I do not say that the threat will come from China, but 1 say that here is a super power in our area which has not in the past been friendly to us and against which we may - I hope we do not - need protection, and we will have to turn to the Americans for it. [More…]
France and China are today the only countries testing nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. [More…]
The overall world situation on radioactive fallout is, therefore, that the only new injections of this material into the atmosphere, currently, are from testing by France and China. [More…]
Finally, we have the Leader of the Opposition when he visited China last year supporting, as I understand it, the substance of the 7 points put forward by the provisional revolutionary government of South Vietnam for settling the war there - proposals which the President of the United States has reportedly described as joining with your enemies in order to destroy your friends’. [More…]
That is what Government policy on indo-China has come to - empty words as a substitute for any action. [More…]
Ambassador in Peking - the most experienced diplomat from Europe in all the affairs of China and of that region. [More…]
Russia, much more than China, has been responsible for supplying the means of war to Hanoi. [More…]
Because the whole basis of the Government’s propaganda, the only way this wretched war and our futile, wasted commitment to it could have been sold to the Australian people was by depicting it as a long distance war against China - a war to stop the downward thrust of Chinese communism between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
So the villain of the piece had to be China. [More…]
The tanks, the surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs, all the sophisticated weaponry there now - the things that have made what was a guerrilla war into a massive war between 2 of the largest and best equipped armies of the world today - have been brought about not by China but by the Soviet Union and by the United States. [More…]
It has always been to support every move to get a political settlement of the war and to end the war, not only in Vietnam but in Indo-China, and that Indo-China should be neutralised in the ideological contest among the super powers. [More…]
What I repudiate is any view which does not record our objection to and rejection of any action, by either side - not just by the Vietnamese but by all the powers, namely, the United States, the Soviet Union and China, who in pursuit of utterly mistaken ideas of national interest have hurled Indo-China into this crucible of blood - which prolongs the sacrifice and suffering of the people of Vietnam. [More…]
We have seen them support China rather than their own country. [More…]
They would rather support China than our ally, the United States of America. [More…]
But even then their hypocrisy was obvious because at that stage, they traded with communist China. [More…]
Indeed they are falling over backwards to enter into some negotiation with China now. [More…]
With the qualification that one cannot guarantee the accuracy of the figures, I can say that the evidence at the moment points to the “fact that the Soviet Union would have supplied aid to North Vietnam to the extent of SI, 000m in the past year whereas the People’s Republic of China would have provided aid to the extent of about $300m in that time. [More…]
In so doing he assailed the Government’s Indo-China policy in terms which ripped it to tatters. [More…]
There seems a determined attitude on the part of North Vietnam to prove to the United States and China that it can go it alone for an extended period if need be. [More…]
The second reason is to impress the allies of North Vietnam - ‘the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China - of its capacity to strike at this time and to involve them, particularly at a time when the United States President is visiting the capitals of those 2 countries. [More…]
1 sent it from China. [More…]
Russia, much more than China, has been responsible for supplying the means of war to Hanoi. [More…]
The Government has been saying consistently that it is a war of aggression supported by Russia and China and we have been condemning this. [More…]
One does not want to go into a long dissertation on history, but it is a fact that the Government of France, having been defeated by the Germans in the Second World War, attempted to reassert its sovereignty over Indo-China in a way that other countries such as Britain had learnt was no longer relevant. [More…]
One can remember those Liberal pamphlets, ‘ Government pamphlets, usually printed in blue but for this purpose printed in red or perhaps yellow, showing arrows extending down towards Australia with the explanation that this was the thrust of Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
Under the heading Indo-China’ the following resolution was adopted: [More…]
An Australian Labor Government will stand ready to work with the Geneva participants or the United Nations or any other agency established for the purpose of rehabilitating and neutralising Indo-China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlan) recently criticised the massive commitment of the Soviet Union and, of course, the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) came back from Peking with a message from the Chinese Prime Minister, Chou En-lai, that China looks forward to the time when Labor takes office? [More…]
No country in Asia, perhaps not even China, could accept the arrival of a unified Vietnam with much inward calm. [More…]
When I first came into this Parliament in 1945 the United States policy was to prevent France from reasserting its authority over its former colony of Indo-China. [More…]
The French Government wished to return to Indo-China. [More…]
Ho Chi Minh received Japan’s arms and started his campaign for sovereignty over Indo-China. [More…]
Their policy became one of trying to assist the re-establishment of French authority, with certain adjuncts to this policy relating to the restoration of the former Emperor of Indo-China, Bao Die. [More…]
For a long time we were told that China was involved. [More…]
China, of course, has provided comparatively insignificant weapons. [More…]
As one distinguished Australian soldier put it, China has provided the ginger beer and Russia has provided the champagne. [More…]
Equally, China has not the slightest reason to regret United States involvement in Vietnam, and the whole of American policy now is directed to getting out of Vietnam with honour and then deploying her strength in the areas of confrontation that do matter, and the areas of confrontation that do matter are the Middle East and Eastern Europe. [More…]
As for her attitude towards China, President Nixon has followed the rather amazing policy of discussing with China India’s possession of Kashmir - an extremely dangerous policy because if it led to anything, it could bring China over the Himalayas into Kashmir. [More…]
The reason for this is that the US is trying to exploit the divisions between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
General de Gaulle believed that a ‘union des patries’, a united Europe, would be possible because the Soviet Union was distracted on her eastern border by China. [More…]
To support China in that distraction has become America’s policy. [More…]
So all the commentaries over recent years about Chinese involvement in Vietnam and about America really opposing China in Vietnam, not a minor communist power, like so many other things in American policy, will be disposed of in a 180 degrees turn in foreign policy. [More…]
Was the Prime Minister asked by the Australian Table Tennis Association to express formal Government approval of a proposed visit by a table tennis team from the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
The fact also appears in the reports coming to me that, with the massive support of Russia and the support of China, North Vietnam is making an all out effort. [More…]
The increased pressure of textiles from the Orient is most obvious from the following figures: In 1967-68 Mainland China exported textiles worth $14.4m into Australia. [More…]
Has the Minister received any questions or representations with respect to the attitude of the Australian Labour Party or the Australian trade union movement concerning the testing of atomic weapons by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
No, I have not received any suggestions or representations from the Australian Labor Party that we should protest against the tests in China. [More…]
As the House will know, there has been published recently by the Institute of Strategic Studies an assessment of the progress at present being made with the nuclear programme in the People’s Republic of China, both as to the intercontinental ballistic missiles and the movement into nuclear submarines. [More…]
Significantly President Nixon named Russia alone, not China, as North Vietnam’s major supplier. [More…]
But the seaward interdiction can only mean total reliance on the China route. [More…]
The blockade therefore is almost certain to increase North Vietnam’s dependence upon China and increase co-operation between China and Russia in continuing the war. [More…]
Essentially it is because in 1954, after the Geneva agreements which recognised Vietnam as a single country, the United States chose Indo-China as the place where China was to be stopped and where the ideological war between China and the United States was to be fought out to the bitter end. [More…]
For the President conceded that China was not the main outside adversary. [More…]
The tragedy of today’s announcement is that if nothing worse happens, if our worst fears prove unfounded, the war in IndoChina will involve China more heavily and directly than it has hitherto. [More…]
Even the 300 tanks collected by General Giap for the present offensive came by rail, overland through China. [More…]
Therefore the ability of Russia and China to supply Hanoi will not be drastically reduced in the long run by the interdiction. [More…]
On a wide range of great matters, but particularly Vietnam and China, he defines a yawning gap between public policies and private knowledge. [More…]
Where does the menace come from in IndoChina. [More…]
My answer is - the Viet Minh, not Communist China. [More…]
It was the first significant debate ever to occur in this House on Indo-China. [More…]
The majority of Australian people believe that before Australia becomes involved in Indo-China the whole matter should be thrashed out not between the American and the French on one hand and the Viet Minh and Chinese People’s Republic on the other, but by the United Nations. [More…]
There is a threat to the peace of the world in Indo-China. [More…]
And yet, as I have said, at the very same time Lord Casey was confiding to his diary and, one must assume to Prime Minister Menzies at least, his real view about the nature of the Viet Minh and the impossibility of a military solution in Indo-China. [More…]
Similarly Lord Casey reveals his hopes - more than 20 years ago - for early recognition of China. [More…]
As regards recognition of Communist China, I said that the matter had to remain on ice while the Korean affair lasted, but that at some appropriate time after the fighting ended, recognition of Communist China and her admission into the United Nations seemed a necessary and logical step. [More…]
It seems impossible to believe that any State Department man of consequence (from Dean Acheson down) still believes in Nationalist China. [More…]
democratic) sponsoring of the entry of Communist China into the United Nations (whether or not we specifically recognise Red China diplomatically) would ease the acid attitude of Peking. [More…]
China has served the Liberal Party well, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. [More…]
And in the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs this evening we have the full acknowledgement of where 20 years of China as a domestic political issue has brought the Liberal Government. [More…]
He would take the initiative in severing relations with Taiwan and he would visit Peking as the sole capital of China. [More…]
The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Straits maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China. [More…]
When the governments of Canada and China announced on 13th October 1970 that they would exchange diplomatic representatives, their joint communique stated: [More…]
The Chinese Government reaffirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Canadian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China. [More…]
Whereas Canada did not endorse or challenge Peking’s position and Italy was not required to express a view upon it, the United States does not challenge the assertion that there is only one government of China and that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
No amount of twisting or turning about 2 Chinas, about one China and one Taiwan, about one and a half Chinas or any of the other newfangled propositions invented over the past year to escape the inevitable will provide escape from this choice. [More…]
There is no choice about the terms on which we shall have to recognise China. [More…]
Eight months ago I was confident that an Australian government - the present Government as much as a Labor government - could achieve full diplomatic relations with China on terms as favourable as Canada’s or Italy’s. [More…]
If we recognise the People’s Republic as the government of China, we automatically cease to recognise the Republic of China - the regime of Chiang Kai-shek - as the government of China. [More…]
How much better would be our situation and our record today if Lord Casey’s insights on Indo-China and China had been followed through. [More…]
The President’s visit to China was one of those events which, in his own words, ‘changed the face of the world’. [More…]
Canada in the Pacific and Herr Brandt in the Atlantic community have been true friends of the United States because they have eased the United States’ path to sane relations, in the one case with China and in the other case with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Japan, with her very special difficulties in reaching normal relations with China, cannot hold the ring between these 2 great powers. [More…]
We must not lose the opportunity in 1972 that we lost in 1954 - the opportunity for sane relations with China, the opportunity for a settlement of the war in Vietnam, the opportunity to institute an era of peace and progress in our region. [More…]
Has there been a reduction in the staff of the China Section of his Department from 5 officers to 2 in the last 2 months. [More…]
If so, why has this reduction been made when the question of relations with China has become so important. [More…]
There was no reduction in the normal number of positions in the China/ Korea Section, but for a period of some days recently only. [More…]
This situation arose because of the resignation of the research officer, the temporary absence overseas of the China desk officer, and a short gap which occurred during a routine .transfer of duties from one officer to another” [More…]
I close by commenting that it is remarkable that this royal family that the honourable member speaks of has as its main supporter in the world at present the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Albania; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentina; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; China; Republic of Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador - all literate citizens; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic (East Germany); Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia; [More…]
If it were stationed above Australia, it would cover all of Australia, plus New Zealand, the islands of the South Pacific, New Guinea, all the states of South East Asia, the Philippines, Japan, and significant parts of India, China and Russia. [More…]
China is building a railway from Tanzania across to Zambia. [More…]
The Republic of China is a party to agreements 1 (a) and 1 (b). [More…]
I ask: Has Australia made any representations to the Soviet Union where, unlike China, we have an embassy, in support of the British representations? [More…]
On this issue of China and Vietnam the policies of Australia and the United Kingdom have diverged very considerably. [More…]
He has often said to me that there is no point in Australians drawing any consolation or comfort from the serious differences of opinion which exist between Russia and China. [More…]
This involves Indian doubt of the prospects of an accord with China and Indian fear of China, and also Indian criticism of the United States made because of the United States detente towards China. [More…]
The third factor is a consequence of the American detente towards China - a new emphasis by the United States on the value of Pakistan as an ally and a chill in Indian-United States relationships. [More…]
The fourth new factor to develop is the United States detente itself towards China. [More…]
The basis of this detente is that the Soviet Union could destroy China and could destroy the United States. [More…]
Hence the emergence of a common interest in the United States and China, despite idealogical differences. [More…]
I would like to say to the honourable member for Henty that I think the assessment by his friend that the dispute between China and the Soviet Union is a dispute as to who is to be ‘the boss’ of the communist world is a very serious error in analysis. [More…]
China fears the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union could destroy China. [More…]
Equally, the Soviet Union suspected that Chinese policy over Cuba in 1962 was an attempt to involve the Soviet Union in a war with the United States in which they would both destroy one another, leaving China as the gainer. [More…]
The analysis of the dispute between the Soviet Union and China is not as trivial as the honourable member’s friend says. [More…]
I refer to China’s growing significance as a distraction to the Soviet Union, forcing a Soviet military concentration on the eastern border of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Another new factor is the defeat of China’s strategy to disintegrate India. [More…]
The main instrument in China’s strategy to disintegrate India was our SEATO ally, Pakistan. [More…]
Many of the people in the Soviet Union - Ukrainians, Georgians and so forth - in essence are colonial people and ideological comments from China aimed at those people are interpreted by the Soviet Union as an attempt to disintegrate the Soviet Union. [More…]
Krishna Prakash Gupta, who is one of the leading thinkers in the field of Indian foreign policy, had this to say about China and the over-simplifications of Chinese policy that are sometimes put forward: [More…]
This brings us back to the enigma of China’s basic motives. [More…]
He asked why China, on the one hand, embraced military dictatorships like Pakistan and, on the other hand, spoke in terms of liberty. [More…]
It is through these tactics that China’s strategy can be easily inferred. [More…]
In other words, most of China’s external postures have to do with internal politics. [More…]
Is China unique in that respect? [More…]
I am only saying that these attitudes are rather similar to China’s. [More…]
The attitudes that we strike in external policy are in’ fact often for internal consumption, precisely in the same way as is the case with China. [More…]
President Nixon is making approaches to the Soviet Union and to China. [More…]
If true peace and national integrity are to be secured on the world scene, the countries constituting the European Communities, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan and the People’s Republic of China, will need to arrive at some balance. [More…]
The Foreign Minister continued to speak of New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia, the Indian sub-continent, the South Pacific, Indo-China, the People’s Republic of China, Africa and the United Nations. [More…]
This thrust has been assisted by heavy wartime hardware from both Russia and China. [More…]
Even the 300 tanks collected by General Giap for the present offensive came by rail, overland through China. [More…]
Therefore the ability, of Russia and China to supply Hanoi will not be drastically reduced in the long run by the interdiction. [More…]
When questioned on the proportion of war essential imports that could come into North Vietnam over the rail or road lines from China, even if all imports by sea were denied and a strong effort made to interdict ground transport, the State Department reported to President Nixon as follows: [More…]
believe that interdiction of Haiphong and heavy attacks on the rail line from China would over time prevent North Vietnam from receiving sufficient economic and military aid to continue the war effort. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition concentrated on the war in Vietnam and recognition of China. [More…]
But the height of hypocrisy is reached in the Minister’s comments on Communist China. [More…]
This Government has actively opposed the recognition of Communist China. [More…]
It has actively opposed in the past the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has been reported as saying that China has served the Liberal Party well. [More…]
On China, as on every other foreign policy issue, this Government is hopelessly out of step with reality. [More…]
As the Prime Minister and other members of the Government have said, Communist China still has the smear of the mud that this Government has thrown on it in the years past. [More…]
He said that Communist China was still carrying out its subversion and insurgency in other countries. [More…]
Let us look - and the Minister referred specifically to it - at the speech made by the Communist China delegate to the United Nations. [More…]
However, as China’s economy is still comparatively backward, the material aid we have provided is very limited, and what we provide is mainly political and moral support [More…]
But, of course, every time that question of subversion has been raised, honourable members opposite reply back to Lin Piao, who is now somewhat in eclipse in Communist China but who has been a whipping horse for this Government in times past. [More…]
That is an observation made by the renegades, by the subversives of Communist China. [More…]
The point I want to make here is that if Communist China is regarded as an enemy - and obviously the Government regards China as such - then one should analyse very carefully what it says, what it does and what it is capable of doing. [More…]
This Government supported and continued to support the French in Indo-China. [More…]
China has now also moved into a more active diplomatic role that should encourage the normalisation of her relations with other Asian countries on the basis of peaceful coexistence, though she will enter into sharper competiton diplomatically and ideologically with the. [More…]
The war in Indo-China and the fostering of such concepts as the so-called domino theory have added fuel to Australian fears. [More…]
It is not nearly so exclusively devoted to the situation in Vietnam or Indo-China; it makes a wide-ranging attempt to look at the situation throughout large areas of the world and to give Australia’s attitudes towards these various situations. [More…]
I think we can all remember that, when the Mao Tse Tung administration took over in Peking at the end of 1949, it was the view of this Government and the United States Government that it was an agent for the Soviet Union and that this was the eastwards thrust of Soviet Communism into China. [More…]
The desire of people to obtain their own independence and to run their own affairs as the people of Indonesia, India and the Indian sub-continent, of Ceylon, Burma and many other places were able to do was denied to the people of Indo-China and, from that decision made by the French, all these things have followed through. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in this recent debate says that we have a situation now which is highly dangerous, in which there is confrontation between 2 great world powers and, be said, that that has come about essentially because in 1954 after the General agreements, which recognised Vietnam as a single country, the United States chose Indo-China as the place where China was to be stopped. [More…]
When techniques are able to use the low wages of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Vietnam - one of the important purposes of fighting the war in Indo China always has been to bring Japanese and American capital together with low wage workers - the result is one with which Australian industry cannot ever compete. [More…]
For example, countries not on the Minister’s list, which have provided Australia with 5,000 or more permanent or long term arrivals since 1945 include Belgium, 7,000; Czechoslovakia, 5,000; Finland, 13,000; Hungary, 14,000; Poland, 22,000; Sweden, 8.000; Switzerland, 16,000; Fiji, 12,000; Egypt, 30.000: South Africa, 21,000; Canada, 46,000; United States of America, 109,000; Ceylon, 11,000; Cyprus, 16,000; Hong Kong, 25,000; India, 34,000; Malaysia, 49.000; Singapore, 21,000; China, 17,000; Indonesia, 12,000; Israel. [More…]
Did the former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, when announcing the proposed commitment of an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam, state in the House on 29th April, 1965 (Hansard, page 1061) that the takeover of South Vietnam must be seen as part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
If the analysis is correct, what evidence is available to him of a thrust by Communist China. [More…]
It must be seen as part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
and (3) There is very substantial evidence, including publicly available evidence such as statements by the Government of the Peoples Republic of China, of Peking’s continuing political and material support, given in a variety of ways, for the attempted take-over of South Vietnam. [More…]
China: Visits by Officials (Question No. [More…]
Which employees of the Commonwealth and of Commonwealth statutory authorities have made visits to China since his predecessor’s answer on 16 February 1971 (Hansard, page 98). [More…]
and (2) Since 16 February 1971 employees of the Commonwealth and its statutory authorities have made the following official visits to the People’s Republic of China: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the report in ‘Asian Outlook’, published in Taipeh in September 1971 and distributed by the Embassy of the Republic of China in Canberra, that Mr McGrath was sent by the Australian Ministry of Education and Science. [More…]
Did he state in March 1972 that Australia would like Taiwan to be independent and that his Government still accepts the claim of both Chinese regimes that Taiwan should be part of one China. [More…]
Trade statistics indicate that 6 countries have supplied citrus fruit to Japan in recent years, namely, the United States of America, New Zealand, South Africa, Republic of China, Mexico and Ecuador. [More…]
Details in respect of the Bank of China, Bank of New Zealand and Banque Nationale de Paris are not included is these figures. [More…]
Is the Minister for foreign Affairs aware that recently the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd negotiated a small but very important sale of sugar to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
There is every indication that this sale will be the beginning of a major trade with China. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that the Government and his Department do nothing to jeopardise the trade in sugar between Australia and China just as the Government and his Department jeopardised the trade in wheat between Australia and China? [More…]
In other words, will he ensure that the Government and his Department keep their noses out of negotiations between the experts of Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd and representatives of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
-I am aware of the sale of sugar to the People’s Republic of China which followed, I might point out, my statement on 9th May in this House of our policy on China. [More…]
When the People’s Republic of China needs something and is unable to purchase it from the usual source it makes a purchase where it can do so successfully. [More…]
For the 10 years up to 30th June 1970 we had in total outsold Canada in wheat sales to China. [More…]
For the year ended 30th June 1970 we had a substantial trade with China. [More…]
Our sales were worth SI 26m and China’s sales to us were worth $32m. [More…]
When he stops doing it, remains silent and allows the country to trade and to carry on in a proper and dignified way, as it has done successfully in the past, then we will sell wheat again to China. [More…]
In view of the answer given by the Minister to the honourable member for Dawson, can the Government take any further action which would help to prevent the sale of sugar to the People’s Republic of China being made a political issue by the Australian Labor Party and thus jeopardising the continuing trade in this commodity as happened in the case of wheat? [More…]
This is done by private enterprise or, in the case of wheat, by the Australian Wheat Board dealing with its opposite number in China. [More…]
We have been endeavouring to get this treaty generally accepted by other nations including France and China, but, in the case of those 2 countries, so far without success. [More…]
There have been 14 atmospheric tests conducted by China. [More…]
I have not heard the honourable member for Reid suggest that we should break off with the People’s Republic of China the diplomatic relations which we have not yet established or to cease the trade that we now have with that country. [More…]
Nor have I heard the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), who is sitting opposite, suggest that he wants the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to assist by giving $5,000 from his political slush fund to permit the honourable member for Lalor to travel to China and place himself in the way of that country’s nuclear tests in the atmosphere. [More…]
We have been protesting against both France and China. [More…]
The other point made by the Minister was: What have we got to say about the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Well I certainly have not stopped China from doing it and neither has the Minister. [More…]
I would be quite happy to go to China to tell the Chinese the same thing. [More…]
I have told the French and I would be happy to go to China and do it there. [More…]
We all remember the emotion that was engendered in this country when the French nuclear tests were about to take place, but have we ever experienced the equal of it when Russia was about to test or had tested nuclear weapons or when China was about to test or have tested nuclear weapons? [More…]
He challenged me, I took it, to state whether I had ever protested against nuclear tests by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I have also protested against the continuing testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere by China. [More…]
I made my protect in July last year in Peking to Mr Chi Pengfei, then the Acting Foreign Minister of China and now confirmed as Foreign Minister of China. [More…]
I refer honourable members to a monograph ‘Talking with China’ by Dr Stephen FitzGerald in the Australian National University’s ‘Contemporary China’ papers where it is paper No. [More…]
If I may transgress for a short time, I was about to say that not one member of the Government has taken himself overseas seriously concerned with the marketing problems confronting the people he purports to represent, as have the representatives of Canada in China because it represents 90 per cent of their overseas trade. [More…]
Is he referring to China? [More…]
Is there any evidence anywhere that China has that kind of an ambition? [More…]
One of the American experts at the conference said that he did not believe - that nobody believed - that the People’s Republic of China could even successfully launch an assault upon Taiwan. [More…]
Has the Minister for Primary Industry seen reports of a statement by the Canadian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Mitchell Sharp, in Peking that Canada in future will have first preference on sales of wheat to China? [More…]
It is true, I understand, that there has been a suggestion that the Canadians henceforth are to receive initial opportunities for the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
It is equally true also that over the course of that 10 years Australia has made a greater volume of sales to China than has Canada. [More…]
It is also true that, at a time when all members of the wheat industry are becoming increasingly concerned that more and more wheat is being sold on terms, sales to China have been on terms. [More…]
Could one imagine a more graceless, a more demeaning performance - surveying mankind from China to Peru’ in search of a scapegoat, blaming indiscriminately the Australian employees, the Australian employers, the Australian consuming public but never, never a word of apology, a hint of responsibility for the blunders of himself and his colleagues, and the needless hardships they have caused. [More…]
The Opposition is making great play of the lack of wheat sales to mainland China. [More…]
I again remind honourable members opposite that China wants a variety of wheat that is in short supply in Australia. [More…]
I refer to the hard types which China wants to purchase on credit. [More…]
Had we sold wheat to China this year, what would have been the position? [More…]
Today only 2 countries are exploding nuclear devices in the atmosphere and they are China and France. [More…]
They are tired of a government that gets its policies from the gallup poll; that reacts to every test of leadership and statesmanship by playing on every prejudice and fear lying dormant in the community; that acts in every national or international crisis only in terms of the political advantage it can squeeze out of it - whether it be China, South Africa, Bangladesh or French nuclear tests, or whether it be poverty, industrial relations, racism or rural depression. [More…]
We have sold more wheat without China’s custom than we have ever sold. [More…]
China did not want our wheat. [More…]
God help us, we must keep him out of China and out of Russia or he may mess that one up too. [More…]
Sugar, steel, manufactured goods and equipment are all being sold to China in increasing quantities. [More…]
But the same people tell us that even if we do not agree with Communist China we should play ping-pong with people from that country, trade with them and have diplomatic relations with them. [More…]
The same people who tell us that we should recognise Communist China and admit it to the United Nations - it has been now - because it is the effective government of mainland China, tell us in the same breath that we must cease to recognise Taiwan and expel it from the United Nations even though it is the effective government of Taiwan. [More…]
Conversely we find that the new Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Tanaka, the leader of a conservative government, is now making a bold bid for close friendship ties with China. [More…]
But why does Australia not negotiate with China for the purpose of opening up a similar trade centre in Peking for the purpose of cultivating trade relations? [More…]
China is almost totally an untapped source. [More…]
The only virtue in all this is that once again the nation has been reminded - the reminder is most timely coming as it does on the eve of an election - that if by any horrible quirk of fate the Leader of the Opposition should attain the Prime Ministership, we can expect to be governed with a degree of responsibility roughly equivalent to that of a maddened bull in a china shop. [More…]
In academic circles Professor Arndt of the Australian National University has resigned from the Labor Party organisation because of the behaviour of the Leader of the Opposition in China. [More…]
He did not resign because of the Leader of the Opposition’s trip to China but ‘ because of his behaviour there. [More…]
While debating the estimates for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, let me say that we have seen the same sort of political dishonesty in relation to wheat sales to China. [More…]
loss of wheat sales to China. [More…]
One fact in relation to wheat sales to China is that in 1964 this Government deliberately stood oyer the Australian Wheat Board and directed that the Wheat Board pass a note to Chinese authorities, thus introducing politics into the wheat trade. [More…]
Australia lost the wheat trade with China after Canada recognised China, but we will regain it and we will regain it very quickly under a Labor government. [More…]
When I came back from China last year I stated quite categorically in this Parliament and outside the Parliament that I believed that the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd would sell sugar to China. [More…]
I am saying that when I made, that statement Cabinet Ministers ridiculed it, and now by strange coincidence trade in sugar is being developed with China. [More…]
Cabinet Ministers are accusing me of attempting to wreck our sugar trade with China. [More…]
They must allow the Queensland Sugar Board through the CSR company to conduct their operations with China completely free from dishonest politics. [More…]
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But it will not be quite so possible to do that as it once used to be because one cannot be sure any more that if we have the downward thrust of China Dr Kissinger will not be on the end of it. [More…]
I refer to Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Communist China. [More…]
What is the potential threat to the (a) knitted shirts and outergarments and (b) woven shirts, etc., industry from imports from the People’s Republic of China and other state-controlled economies once the import controls of these goods are removed? [More…]
If Australian manufacturers are forced into the position of having a smaller share, of the Australian market and so finding themselves selling less they must manufacture less and there will be less employment of Australians, with a corresponding boost to the employment in overseas factories, with Australian money going to pay the wages of workers in Japan, Hong Kong, China, Europe, America and the rest of the world. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noted the visit to Peking by Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan to heal the breach which has existed between Japan and China for 80 years? [More…]
In view of the fall in our trade with China from $168m 10 years ago to $37m in 1971-72, will he consider some new iniative with China which will get his Government off the slow boat which is leaving us so far behind the rest of the world in China trade and which is in fact leaving us somewhat lonely? [More…]
Trade between Australia and the People’s Republic of China is progressing very successfully, probably with the only exceptions of only wheat and zinc. [More…]
This is an indication that we are having remarkable success in trading a variety of products with China. [More…]
6m worth of pig iron to China. [More…]
Of course, we have succeeded in making 2 sales of sugar to China where we have never had sales before. [More…]
Does the reported sale of United States wheat to the People’s Republic of China mean that there is now full diplomatic recognition between these 2 countries, or does it simply highlight the absurdity of claims that wheat contracts flow only as a result of diplomatic recognition? [More…]
My understanding of the position between the United States and China is that diplomatic relations have not been established in that neither as yet recognises the other. [More…]
But it is true that the visit of President Nixon to China represents, as indeed does the visit of the Japanese Prime Minister to China, a significant advance in the furthering of relations between the East and the West. [More…]
As to trade connections between China, Australia and America I think the figures which my colleague the Minister for Trade and Industry gave to the House this day effectively demonstrates how Australia, working as it has consistently on a commercial basis, has been able, over a significant range of commodities, to increase its volume of trade with China irrespective of diplomatic recognition. [More…]
I am told that the sale of wheat by the United States to China was a result of a French vendor’s being unable to supply it. [More…]
A statement has been put out by the Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board, Mr Cass, that a contract has been negotiated with the People’s Republic of China for 1 million tons of wheat to be delivered during 1973. [More…]
It is evidence of growing goodwill and the improvement in our relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On Tuesday last I stated in this House that we had been having remarkable success in selling a wide range of commodities to China, with the exception of wheat and zinc in relation to which sales had either gone down or we had not made sales in recent years. [More…]
To have made this sale now is a continuation of the excellent performance and the relations of the Wheat Board with China during most of the decade of the 1 960s. [More…]
It proves that the Government has been trying to maintain good trading relations with China. [More…]
It was unfortunate that previously we did not make wheat sales to China, but this was probably for a number of reasons. [More…]
But there is a real, keen desire to get into closer relationship with China. [More…]
Exactly 5 weeks ago the honourable member for Dawson put out a lengthy statement to the effect that no sales would be made to the People’s Republic of China while the Australian Government maintained a hostile attitude towards the Government of that country. [More…]
But the great sin in his statement is that he deliberately told the world that this Government had a hostile attitude towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The honourable member, on behalf of his Party, has deliberately tried to give to the world a distorted impression of this country’s attitude to the People’s Republic of China, and he did so knowing full well, or saying now that he knew, that a sale would be made. [More…]
It is to be noted that under the contract with the People’s Republic of China wheat will be delivered from January 1973. [More…]
During the 1960s, of course, Australia was amongst the first 5 major traders with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Australian Government has consistently followed a policy of hostility to China. [More…]
As far as China is concerned, trade, economics and politics are inseparable. [More…]
We regard the political relationship between Australia and China as the fundamental question as regards further wheat sales. [More…]
Because of Australia’s hostility to China it follows that such an attitude cannot but affect our trade policy with the Australian Government. [More…]
Firstly, Australia is supporting Chiang Kai-shek and has established diplomatic relations with Taiwan; secondly, Australia has continuously opposed the restoration of China’s legitimate seat in the United Nations; thirdly, Australia supports and follows United States aggression in South East Asia; fourthly Australia refuses to recognise the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government representing all the [More…]
Chinese people, including the people of the Province of Taiwan; and lastly, Australia is collaborating with the United States of America to create 2 Chinas, or one China and one Taiwan and is, therefore, interfering in the internal affairs of China [More…]
On my return to Australia the first statement I made was that the door to trade with China was open. [More…]
I said that in regard to wheat I was convinced that this was only a temporary loss for Australia and that as soon as political considerations became more normal Australia would share in imports of wheat to China. [More…]
We notice that never does the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) refer to China now as ‘Red China’ or ‘Communist China’. [More…]
Who will forget the occasion in 1966 when he ranted around Australia about the Red arrows coming down from China to invade Australia. [More…]
No, of course he does not, because the Prime Minister himself has admitted in writing that a note was sent by the Australian Government to the Wheat Board to be passed on to China. [More…]
To nail this once and for all, I refer to the first statement I made in the Parliament after J returned from China. [More…]
As regards the restoration of the wheat trade with China, the facts are that while in China I did everything possible to persuade Chinese authorities to alter their wheat policy as it presently discriminates against the Australian unheal grower and to resume wheat purchases from the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
I argued that if China were prepared to trade with Australian private companies like Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd which comprised people or shareholders, China should be prepared to trade also with Australian wheat farmers who are really shareholders of the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
On the day I left Peking I was informed that consideration would be given to my request to resume the wheat trade with Australia on the grounds that Australian wheat farmers, like the shareholders of an Australian private company, were not responsible for the Australian Government’s foreign policies and hostility to China. [More…]
That is, the Australian Labor Party - made to China’s trade policy makers on behalf of the Australian wheat farmers. [More…]
It was the first statement I made in this Parliament after returning from China on the restoration of the wheat trade with China. [More…]
All he has done during the course of the last 2 years has been to be a mischief maker as regards the relationship between the Australian Wheat Board and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
If anything, he has made trade with China more difficult. [More…]
I think the unfortunate thing about the honourable member for Dawson making a personal explanation is that he has deliberately again tried to bring a political aspect to our trade relations with China and has endeavoured to exacerbate our relations with that country. [More…]
He is continuing to say that this country is hostile to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Dr Patterson said the recent statement by Chou En-lai assuring Canada of long term wheat sales with China is clear evidence that China will not buy any wheat from Australia as long as the Australian Government continues its policy of hostility to China. [More…]
We want to build up better relationships with China. [More…]
This is not only a demonstration that we can sell any commodity to China, but also that China wants to improve its relations with us and we want to improve our relations with that country. [More…]
He knew after his trip to China that he was wrong and one member of his Party has said publicly that he was wrong. [More…]
We had an example of this when the United States Government prohibited the Ford company’s subsidiary in Canada from producing trucks for export to Communist China, even though there was considerable unemployment in Canada’s motor vehicle industry at that time. [More…]
I want to make a couple of observations on the monumental hypocrisy of this Government in its relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Lack of formal recognition will not detract in the future, any more than it has in the past, from our perception of the important place of China in the world and our respect for the individual people of China. [More…]
It is our purpose and our intention to move rapidly towards a recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We have heard recently that the Australian Government has not been and is not hostile to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Do supporters of the Government not recall that Australia led in the United Nations every movement, every motion and every resolution that came up to have the admittance of Communist China, the People’s Republic of China, to the United Nations regarded as an important question so that it could circumvent a simple majority decision of the United Nations and replace it by a twothirds vote? [More…]
Now the Prime Minister has indicated that it is really the attitude of the countries around the area that will dictate what we do in our relations with China. [More…]
Japan has just recognised China. [More…]
If I may take up another flirtation with the truth which was mentioned last night by the Prime Minister, he said that Indonesia has not recognised China. [More…]
I am surprised at the attitude of the Opposition which is bursting to get involved with China. [More…]
We are getting along very well indeed with China. [More…]
Why do we want to change this relationship, when probably recognition of China would create other difficulties with closer neighbours and so on? [More…]
The great nations such as the United States of America, Japan and China are using trawling fleets to take out the fish resources from the Pacific Ocean. [More…]
In the Indo-China conflict - perhaps the most serious issue in international security since the end of the Second World War - the United Nations has played no role whatever. [More…]
Its double standards were also apparent when the People’s Republic of China was admitted to the United Nations because it was the effective government of the mainland, but Taiwan was expelled even though it was the effective government of Taiwan. [More…]
The presence of the People’s Republic of China on the Security Council has meant that the trend will be towards more vetoes, more verbal confrontation and even less agreement than there has been in the past. [More…]
In the past year the People’s Republic of China has been admitted to membership, but the initial attitude of its delegates and its blocking of the admission of Bangladesh into the United Nations can scarcely be regarded as an auspicious beginning. [More…]
According to a gallup poll published in May/ June 1972 the Australian people are closely divided on the China problem. [More…]
Everybody is tremendously preocupied with China. [More…]
But let us not forget for a moment that we should not be deluded into thinking that China will become a great trading nation in the near future. [More…]
Anybody who thinks that simply by recognising China Australia will avail itself of vast trading opportunities just does not know the facts. [More…]
However, of course, the position of China is one of the imponderables in the area. [More…]
In this context I mention the effect President Nixon’s visit had in helping to bring about to a much greater degree the emergence of China into the concert of nations. [More…]
The effect on China was not as strong as it was on Japan. [More…]
We have seen already the very quick movements which have taken place between Japan and China. [More…]
It could move gradually towards incorporation within China or alternatively the Taiwanese - as opposed to the Chinese on Taiwan - could assert their independence and say that they have no particular wish 10 become absorbed within China and in fact could work towards becoming an independent nation. [More…]
Let us take the situation in relation to China. [More…]
But what is so secret about the situation in China, Tibet, Peru or anywhere else? [More…]
The point I made was …that last night the Prime Minister categorically stated that Indonesia ‘did not recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Indonesia does recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry whether it is a fact that the Australian Wheat Board has recently sold 1 million tons of wheat to China. [More…]
Six years ago Government supporters told us of the threatened invasion by the hordes of Red China. [More…]
Now they are selling wheat to China and it is acclaimed as a tumultuous event. [More…]
The Government is trying to establish diplomatic relations with Red China. [More…]
We have heard about China for so many years. [More…]
But the history of China as far back as one would care to go is that [More…]
China as a nation has never yet moved outside of its traditional boundaries in an aggressive manner. [More…]
There are the Vietnam Moratorium, anti-apartheid, abortion on demand, anti-State aid, the immediate recognition of the People’s Republic of China and the selling out of Taiwan, support of the National Liberation Front, which is even incorporated in the Labor Party’s policy, opposition to the New South Wales Summary Offences Act, and many others. [More…]
I recall the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the emergence of mainland China, the closure of the Suez Canal and the Middle East situation. [More…]
It is determined to do all in its power to ensure that the opportunity is not lost to bring about a lasting settlement in Indo-China as, it believes, it was needlessly and tragically lost in 1954. [More…]
It welcomes and supports initiatives for an international endeavour in the economic and social rehabilitation of Indo-China. [More…]
My Government believes that our close relations with the United States, our growing partnership with Japan and the speedy and successful normalisation of relations with the People’s Republic of China provide a realistic and fruitful basis for such an Australian initiative. [More…]
One would not quibble with the recognition of China. [More…]
He probably really wanted to go further and say the Government wanted Australia to be aligned with China. [More…]
To say that the Labor Party was in any way under a cloud because there was some talk of China offering to withdraw a wheat deal just does not hold any water. [More…]
This Government is setting up ambassadorial representation in Communist China, in North Vietnam and in East Germany. [More…]
I have never seen anything more servile or obsequious than the acceptance of the terms laid down by Communist China. [More…]
It is my understanding that Australia has accepted 23 of the 29 conditions which Peking said we had to accept if we wanted the friendship of Communist China. [More…]
The people in China know all about this agreement which Australia has accepted. [More…]
These militant trade union leaders obviously realise that in Hanoi, East Berlin and Communist China there are not any strikes, there are no stop work meetings, there are no go slows, there is no discussion about more money or more benefits for the workers simply because in those countries big brother makes the decision and if anyone argues for better conditions in those countries they are shot. [More…]
As someone remarked to me recently: ‘China has its Chou En-lai; Queensland has its Lying’ Joh’. [More…]
It is time Mr Whitlam lost his preoccupation, indeed his obsession with China and became preoccupied with Australia. [More…]
And while the Government has been gaily rushing into recognition of Red China - upon what terms we do not know, except that we know that China got everything that it asked for - welcoming North Vietnamese trade unionists, lifting the ban on travel to North Vietnam and establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany and North Vietnam - it has done everything possible to undermine our assistance to our allies. [More…]
The same applies to Russia and China, both of whom operate a police state and both of whom in recent times have been responsible for committing mass murder amongst their own citizens. [More…]
But it is time Mr Whitlam lost his preoccupation - or is it obsession - with China and became preoccupied with Australia. [More…]
It was they who were then embarrassed when a contract arrived to supply wheat to China and the ground had not been tilled and the seed had not been sown, lt was not possible to fulfil that contract from Australian wheat stocks and it looked as though stocks would have to be bought from overseas to fulfil it That is a disgraceful situation. [More…]
The first thing which occurred was the rushing, with inde-cent haste, into the arms of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is notable that in the case of most of the diplomatic relations that have been established with the People’s Republic of China the negotiations have been slow and carefully considered and have dragged out over some considerable time; a very close bargaining process has accompanied them. [More…]
The details are said to be available in China, but the only real guidance one can get is from broadcasts from Peking and from people who are Chinese experts. [More…]
To determine whether Australia can fulfil its commitments to our allies, to follow up and support our fundamental security interests, one has to look, in these circumstances, to the machinations of the Labor Party Conference. [More…]
Some of these things do arouse considerable misgivings amongst a good many of us, particularly in view of the Peoples Republic of China negotiations with the recognition immediately of Eastern Germany and even more so just recently with that of North Vietnam. [More…]
But is it really in Australia’s interests, for example, for the Prime Minister to dump the 18 million people of Taiwan in his headlong rush to recognise China? [More…]
Why has there not been a single word of protest against China’s nuclear testing programme from the Prime Minister and others who are so critical, and rightly critical, of the French tests? [More…]
I think that this House and the Australian people need an explanation as to what the Prime Minister did in trying to get this man out of China when he knew, as Leader of the Opposition, that Mr James was in China. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for Secondary Industry (Dr J. F. Cairns) did his bit to help achieve his Leader’s alleged policy on the American alliance by saying on 21st December that President Nixon was using the ceasefire negotiations in Indo China for electoral purposes. [More…]
The Whitlam plan for reshaping Asia with a new pact to include China and Japan, but excluding the United States and the Soviet Union, lost its last possible South East Asian supporter when Malaysia weighed in against the proposal last weekend. [More…]
The 15 million people on Taiwan do as much trade each year as their 800 million counterparts in Mainland China, and while this trade continues Taiwan will remain very much a going concern. [More…]
I know that great play has been made of the supposed loss of our wheat trade to Mainland China, but Mainland China has always bought wheat when she has needed it. [More…]
Six or 7 years ago Mainland China purchased SI 00m worth of wheat. [More…]
Mainland China has always purchased our wheat when she has required it, irrespective of the influence of Taiwan. [More…]
It is interesting to note, too, that the communist controlled countries Mainland China and Russia have great, difficulty in getting their government farmers to grow grain and hand it over to the government because farmers,, being what they are. [More…]
The honourable member for Patterson spoke also about mainland China. [More…]
It is rather interesting to recall that as soon as China was recognised by Australia Mr Murray Byrne, a Liberal Minister of the Victorian Parliament, went off to China to try to promote trade and tourism between the Liberal controlled State of Victoria and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I have already mentioned that one Liberal State Minister has taken the opportunity to scarper to China to see that his State gets its slice of the cake. [More…]
There is no doubt that, in the speeches that were made in this House on foreign affairs - at least after 1964 and 1965 - there was a thread of appeal for the People’s Republic of China to be recognised as something other than that country which had attacked, for example, Tibet and been guilty of genocide some 20- odd years ago. [More…]
That the present Australian Prime Minister made overtures to go to the People’s Republic of China cannot be denied. [More…]
When arrangements were made for the President of the United States to visit the People’s Republic of China, it looked as though the then Leader of the Opposition in Canberra had been looking into a crystal ball and making assessments which would prove remarkable in their future application. [More…]
What was the real reason for the American decision to seek a closer relationship with the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
lt is interesting to wonder whether, if the People’s Republic of China had not proceeded to establish its own nuclear capacity and if, for example, from the period of Premier Khrushchev onwards there had not been a deterioration in relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, the present situation would have existed at all. [More…]
The countries in our region which are most vitally concerned with the relations between the People’s Republic of China and the USSR are, of course, Japan and, unquestionably, Taiwan and India and Pakistan. [More…]
Australia, being so far away, has watched the deterioration in relations between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China and wondered whether this deterioration was an indication that nuclear war would take place in due course. [More…]
It can be observed and must be admitted that the People’s Republic of China is moving towards normal relations with more countries at a greater rate than would have been deemed possible 10 or even 5 years ago. [More…]
However, it is vital for us to remember that, at present, relations between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China remain very sensitive. [More…]
The Japanese, of course, who would be vitally concerned in any war between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China, have done all that they can to normalise their relations with the Government in Peking in order to establish, if possible, a measure of influence and understanding with that Government in the hope that peace will be maintained in our region. [More…]
This leaves Taiwan - the Republic of China - to be considered. [More…]
Ever ready to denounce the denial of human rights in Russia, China, North Vietnam and other communist countries, the former Government was noticeably reluctant to apply the same yardstick to South Africa, Rhodesia, Greece, Spain, Portugal and the Philippines. [More…]
Votes for 18-year-olds, the abolition of national service, recognition of the People’s Republic of China, and more control of and information about United States bases in Australia are all measures that daily add to the program introduced by the new Government. [More…]
The Indonesians were not willing to see the influence of the People’s Republic of China extending so rapidly into our region. [More…]
Whilst recognising the People’s Republic of China, let us make sure the people of Taiwan are not sacrificed. [More…]
People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It used to be Red China. [More…]
They fell from office because they lost the confidence of the Australian people, because they could not get away any more with their lies about Vietnam and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Before I pass from this subject of the People’s Republic of China, what did the Victorian Minister for Tourism, Mr Byrne, say according to today’s Press? [More…]
He had much praise for the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On his return a day or two ago from a visit to China he shouted high praise and said that China is going to regard Australia, from the point of view of imports, as one of its most favoured nations. [More…]
He said that China was opening up for tourism. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe), whose electorate adjoins mine, was not critical of the People’s Republic of China in his remarks in this debate, but praised Taiwan. [More…]
He said that the People’s Republic of China had always bought our wheat when that country needed it. [More…]
Then overnight China became respectable. [More…]
Why did China become respectable? [More…]
The true reasons why China has become respectable in the eyes of the United States have never been stated in this House. [More…]
China became respectable with the United States because the American Chamber of Manufactures put the pressure on and said to the Nixon Administration that it wanted to sell some surplus goods. [More…]
China was contemplating the purchase of some modern transport aircraft. [More…]
China was contemplating buying some British aircraft and had placed orders for, I think, a couple of Concordes. [More…]
Pressure was applied to the Nixon Administration to get on to the bandwagon and get over to China to try to sell some aircraft, thus relieving the redundancy in the Boeing aircraft factory in the Seattle region. [More…]
That was one of the reasons why China became respectable overnight. [More…]
I remember the words of Mr McMahon, the former Prime Minister when Mr Whitlam went to China or just before he was contemplating a visit to that country. [More…]
The ALP’s commitments included: The withdrawal of all our forces from Vietnam - those forces should1 never have been there; the cancellation of conscription; the release of conscientious objectors from prison; the release of conscripts from the Australian Army; the recognition of the People’s Republic of China; the withdrawal of our diplomats from Taiwan; the granting of a passport to that great Australian Wilfred Burchett whose passport was cancelled 17 years ago by the previous Government. [More…]
China is now the Government’s best friend. [More…]
to the unusually bad seasons in most of the agricultural countries, especially the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
China has been a big importer of wheat from both Canada and Australia. [More…]
For many members of the Labor Party America can do no right - and China can do no wrong. [More…]
There is one thing that I think we on this side can say and that is that certainly when the previous Government was in office it did not follow the United States so slavishly and without question as this Government has followed communist China, the communist section in Vietnam and apparently other communist and left wing orientated countries. [More…]
There has been a subservience to communist China by this present Government far beyond anything which the previous Government might have done in relation to the United States. [More…]
It has been stated in the Press on a number of occasions - I have copies of the statements - and it has never been denied by the Government that, at a send off party given in Sydney for the Australian Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China, Dr Fitzgerald, at which about 550 guests were present, including some members of the Ministry, when the toast to Her Majesty the Queen was proposed, many remained seated or acted perfunctorily. [More…]
The ALP must be forced to take a clear position in support of the following demands: The complete withdrawal of all Australian military forces and material support of any kind from Indo China; and an end to any form of complicity and political support for US policies there. [More…]
When one looks at the unions under communism or left-wing control today, and contemplates the potential pincer movement constituted by the Russian progress across the Indian Ocean and the now apparently inevitable communisation of Indo China, one hopes we shall not too brashly thumb our noses at old friends. [More…]
We do not want to find that our only friends are Communist China and East Germany. [More…]
Australian Ambassador to Communist China. [More…]
Since this Government took office we have experienced the most indecent rush to recognise the 3 communist countries of China, East Germany and North Vietnam, with communist North Korea soon to be added to the happy throng. [More…]
But a more astute statesman would have found a more astute formula for the recognition of Communist China. [More…]
It may well be desirable, and I believe it is, that we should establish diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
But as soon as the Government got into office, it was in a tremendous hurry and flurry to recognise China. [More…]
We know also that it was intended to send some merino rams to Mainland China until some outside force said that this must not be done. [More…]
The recognition of the People’s Republic of China has already occurred. [More…]
Opposition side whenever one refers to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Yet I find it fascinating and indeed interesting that the first official visit to China from Australia should in fact be by a Liberal Minister in the Victorian State Government. [More…]
Decisions have been made in relation to Indo-China and the East German Republic. [More…]
But quick as a flash we embraced China. [More…]
It did so when tests were carried out by Britain, by the United States and by the Soviet Union, and it continues to do so now that it is carried out by China and France alone. [More…]
We deplore the fact that China and France have not joined the treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere to which America, the Soviet and Britain long since subscribed. [More…]
We must take a second look now at the European Common Market and also, of course, we must look very carefully at China and Russia. [More…]
France and China are the only 2 countries currently testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere and thus contributing to nuclear fallout. [More…]
When I say that I definitely include the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We are a signatory whilst neither France nor China has signed this treaty. [More…]
There are now only 2 countries testing nuclear devices in the atmosphere - China and France. [More…]
Now that the new Government has established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, similar channels for specific protests are open to it. [More…]
This is not a possibility because both France and China would veto any Security Council action. [More…]
If we cut off diplomatic relations we will be in the same position as we were with China and will be able to make only general appeals to the United Nations without direct communication with the French Government. [More…]
I come to the question of the recognition of China. [More…]
But let me point out that the United States which has made an accommodation with the People’s Republic of China - that is, Peking - has retained an accommodation with Taiwan. [More…]
Tt has de facto relations with the People’s Republic of China but each has liaison officers with full relations with Taiwan. [More…]
Canada simply found a formula of noting the position of the People’s Republic of China in Taiwan and retained a neutral position. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China, after looking inwards for so long, was looking outwards to an increasing degree. [More…]
Mainland China finally was admitted as a member of the United Nations. [More…]
Indeed, when the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) was Minister for Foreign Affairs he initiated a major study of the relationship of Australia with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
What will happen if the Senate decides by resolution that it considers the question of our relations with the United States of America or perhaps the details of the recognition of Mainland China are more important international matters that this Committee should consider? [More…]
Let us look back very briefly, particularly in relation to this foreign affairs discussion, at Australia’s recognition of Mainland China. [More…]
In addressing my question to the Prime Minister I refer him to the Press conference he gave on Tuesday, 13th March last, during which, in answer to a question, he said: ‘Australia is not discernibly affected by nuclear tests by China’. [More…]
There is a jurisdictional element which applies to France and does not apply to China. [More…]
In other words, Australia can, we believe, take action in the International Court of Justice against France because of her atmospheric tests, action which is not available to Australia to take against China in the Court. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the AttorneyGeneral have blundered into this mess like bulls in a china shop. [More…]
He reverently lifted one down, stood it in a china wash basin and advised us to stand clear. [More…]
United States in particular to building up trading relationships with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
China 17,000, Indonesia 12,000, Japan 12,000, Lebanon 33,000. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China has not accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court. [More…]
It is not open for Australia and China to take- [More…]
France and Australia both have accepted, on conditions which they have set out, the jurisdiction of the Court; the People’s Republic of China has not. [More…]
Accordingly, as I was going on to say, while France and Australia can, in the circumstances which apply in their documents of accession, take proceedings against each other before the Court it is not possible for Australia and China to take such proceedings. [More…]
We believe that France and China, the other remaining nuclear powers, should both accede to the treaty. [More…]
I made that plain when I was Leader of the Opposition, in conversations with the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China in July 1971. [More…]
They are concerned only about machinating around the world and increasing their profits from one country to another. [More…]
It wants rapport with China or Russia to get high grade coking coal and crude oil. [More…]
Indeed, what the Australian Government is seeking to achieve in its relations not only with Britain but also with a number of other countries - the United States, China, Canada, and our Asian neighbours, for instance - is to give formal recognition to what has already happened, as the necessary foundation for a realistic, more independent, more mature foreign policy. [More…]
I found a close identity of views between our 2 Governments on all matters which we discussed, for example, the recognition of China and North Vietnam. [More…]
Many honourable members would have liked to have said something about the Government’s nuclear adventures with France and the lack of its nuclear adventures with Communist China. [More…]
If this is so, why are we not threatening to do to Communist China what the Government is threatening to do to France, namely, to break off diplomatic relations unless it comes to the party? [More…]
If this is so, why should we be sensitive against Prance, our ally, and not sensitive against Communist China which, diplomatic ties or not, proclaims itself to be our enemy? [More…]
In talking about the attitude of the Government to the French nuclear tests the honourable member criticised its approach to tests carried out by China. [More…]
I also wish to inform the House that the Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for Secondary Industry, Dr J. F. Cairns, leaves Australia today to lead a trade mission to China. [More…]
It is the objective of the Australian Government to increase trade between Australia and China, both ways. [More…]
Last year Australia’s exports to China totalled about $37m and imports about $41m. [More…]
It is true that there are representatives of textile industries and other major industries in this delegation who will be going to China to explore the possibilities of trade between that country and Australia. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that the matter will continue to be kept under active consideration and that any major contracts or major trading arrangements between China and Australia involving textiles or for that matter any product which will endanger employment of the work force in general in Australia or have an effect on our trade will be kept under close scrutiny and policy action will be taken accordingly. [More…]
Will he now give me an assuurance that neither he nor any member of his staff unofficially gave the media information that Dr S. Fitzgerald was to be appointed by him as Australia’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, when he officially stated he could not announce the name of the Ambassador until the Chinese Government had agreed; if not, why not. [More…]
I am reminded also that with all his great outcry he still sat silently by while the Australian Country Party sold its wheat to Red China - as it was called at that time - and he did not utter a word of protest about that at any stage. [More…]
Has the Labor Government received representations from the People’s Republic of China about this application? [More…]
Does this demonstrate that the present policy of the Labor Government with respect to domestic matters is to be determined by representations by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Now that an Australian delegation has gone to Communist China perhaps we could ask the members of that delegation to look at what happened in Tibet where religious persecution was accompanied by wholesale genocide, where the Dalai Lama, the religious leader of the country, is in exile and where that country is still being closed by its Chinese overlords to any visit by observers from democratic nations. [More…]
I hope that the fine sentiments expressed by the honourable member in regard to an African country will find more coherent and cogent expression in regard to Communist China. [More…]
Now that an Australian delegation is to visit that country, surely we can ask members of the delegation - 1 am sure that the honourable member for Hunter will be writing to his friends in that delegation; the air mail is available to him - to make inquiries about religious persecution in Communist China and particularly religious persecution of the Tibetan people. [More…]
The Australian delegation to China will be led by the trusted friend of everybody in this House - the Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for Secondary Industry (Dr J. F. Cairns). [More…]
How much is paid to the people who are making the articles which we are to import from Communist China? [More…]
When we have an economic delegation going to Communist China, surely the most important thing that it should bring back to us is the facts. [More…]
I ask the Government now to send instructions to the economic delegation that we now have in Communist China to find out what the wage levels are and to bring back a factual report. [More…]
I believe that in the past it has been difficult to find out what has been going on in Communist China, which does not have quite an open Government, if I may use that phrase. [More…]
House may correct me - that 2 members of the Opposition parties will be going to China shortly. [More…]
Let us explore this implication a little more because the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) started this argument tonight in relation to clothing and other Australian produced goods when he referred to the cost level of some countries - in this case, China - which could be competitors of Australian companies or the work force, depending on what happens. [More…]
1 think it is fair to say - I disagree, perhaps, a little with the honourable member for Mackellar on this point - that the price level set by countries such as China, nine times out of ten, bears no relation to costs. [More…]
mainland China, lt is a stupid remark. [More…]
I have not been to China; very few honourable members have. [More…]
If nobody else will invite us perhaps we should accept the invitation of the honourable member for Corio fo visit China. [More…]
But anybody who has read enough knows damn well that the returns from secondary industry in a place like China are nothing. [More…]
The labour in China is directed. [More…]
China’s industry cannot be compared with those vital emerging economies based on entrepreneural tactics and free enterprise of Hong Kong, Singapore and, indeed, Taiwan, where the wage levels and conditions are advancing at a very good pace. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister inform the House whether he realises that the way in which he has advanced his proposal for a wide regional association of Asian nations, including the People’s Republic of China, with his specific statement that he would in this matter consult with Indonesia and Japan, has caused some offence in India? [More…]
When, as a result of your question, his status as a Minister of the Government of Taiwan was brought to notice, the Department of Foreign Affairs received representations from the Charge d’Affairs of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I think perhaps the best thing we can do is to point out that all of the countries in the Asian area that were, previously underdeveloped and have really achieved industrialisation and near full employment are those countries - I am thinking particularly of the People’s Republic of China and of japan - which have financed all their development as far as possible without importing foreign capital. [More…]
The suggestion that what goes on in the People’s Republic of China could be followed in Papua New Guinea leaves one wondering where the basic philosophy on the other side of the House is coming from these days. [More…]
For example, in countries such as Communist China, there are industries which technologically are just as efficient as any industry in Australia or the United States of America, perhaps not overall, but in the smaller areas where these industries - for example, the textile industry - apply principles which they have imported from overseas. [More…]
At the moment, for example, we have a delegation in Communist China looking at its industries. [More…]
This is what is happening in Communist China today. [More…]
I am sure that he is sincere in what he has told us about Communist China, although I must remind the honourable gentleman that he is 3 years out of date. [More…]
The current expression is ‘the People’s Republic of China’. [More…]
For the information of the House, the threat to the Australian textile industry does not come from the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The honourable gentleman sought to drag in China, Albania, Spain, Saudi Arabia and Portugal to show that this convention is not being recognised. [More…]
In view of his reply yesterday contradicting his earlier answer on the granting of a visa to Mr K. T. Li, will the Government accept as binding all future representations from the People’s Republic of China even when, as in this instance, they conflict with the publicly expressed position of the Australian Government? [More…]
Further, will the Prime Minister explain why he allows the People’s Republic of China to dictate to Australia in matters of this kind? [More…]
Has he noticed that similar attitudes are not imposed on the United States by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
The United States recognises the Government in Taipei as the Government of the whole of China. [More…]
Australia and most other countries, including practically all those between Australia and China, recognise the Government in Peking as the Government of the whole of China. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) said that during question time I had speculated as to what would have happened if a Minister of the People’s Republic of China had sought to visit Australia while he was the Prime Minister. [More…]
The honourable gentleman went further - it did not seem to relate to his personal explanation - and said that if one of his Ministers had received an invitation from the Government of the People’s Republic of China it would have been considered. [More…]
Apparently it was only through subsequent representations received from the People’s Republic of China that that view was changed. [More…]
Prime Minister alleged that through actions of the preceding Government the Australian Wheat Board lost sales to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The position was that in September 1972, while the previous Government was in office, a contract for 37 million bushels of wheat was negotiated with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
’, he said: ‘The protest to China was oral, so there would be no written response’. [More…]
Finally, precisely what form did the Australian protest to China take? [More…]
He overlooks the fact, when dealing with the regime in Communist China, that there are no real freedoms in China. [More…]
There are no elections in communist China. [More…]
After independence who knows what group of people from America, Japan, Canada, Russia, China or anywhere else will have a dominating say in the affairs of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
People’s Republic of China: Recognition by Canada (Question No. [More…]
The Australian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China, acknowledges the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China, and has decided to remove its official representation from Taiwan before 25th January 1973. [More…]
The Chinese Government reaffirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Canadian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China.’ [More…]
Canada did not have official representation in Taiwan at the time of the establishment of diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
People’s Republic of China: Recognition by Britain (Question No. [More…]
A joint China-United States communique issued on 23rd February 1973 (Canberra time) announced that each side would establish a liaison office in tha capital of the other in the near future. [More…]
The United States continues in diplomatic relations with Taiwan and thus has achieved an exchange of representatives with both China and Taiwan. [More…]
The United States does not, however, have formal diplomatic relations with China and the liaison offices do not have the status of embassies. [More…]
and (3) The path to normalisation of relations with China now being taken by the United States was not open to Australia or to others, including Japan. [More…]
Due to insults by that Government it lost the wheat trade to China. [More…]
Only 2 days ago I received a cable in the following terms in connection with the visit of the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) to China: [More…]
But we look not only to rural finance and the wool reserve price plan to find this dichotomy of opinion between the Liberal and the Country Parties in the previous Government; also, the Country Party wanted to recognise China, while the Liberal Party did not. [More…]
The previous Government by its action in refusing to recognise Red China in a political way denied us the opportunity of selling additional wheal to China and this, of course, is to its everlasting discredit. [More…]
It is a fact that a substantial quantity of sugar - 50,000 tons - has just been sold to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
China is not a member of the Agreement and all aspects of the sale were conducted within the provisions which apply to the sale of sugar to countries which are not members of the Agreement. [More…]
The sale is excellent news as far as Australia is concerned because following on the successful achievements of the trade mission which is at present in China with respect to wheat and wool it is now clear that this very large sale of sugar heralds the expansion of good trading relations between Australia and China. [More…]
I believe that Australia also has an excellent chance of selling more sugar to China. [More…]
Accepting, as members on this side of the House do, the necessity for all reasonable steps to be taken to try to prevent future nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, whether by the People’s Republic of China or by France, what purpose does the Minister believe will be served by the dispatch of HMAS ‘Sydney’ or any other Australian naval vessel to Mururoa Atoll or thereabouts, apparently in order to intrude on the nuclear explosion area? [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
None of these great objectives - sensible relations with China, the limitation of nuclear weapons and the end of foreign intervention in Indo-China - have yet been brought to ultimate fruition. [More…]
Our immediate efforts to secure normal relations with China were part of an international endeavour. [More…]
Our ending of the last vestiges of Australia’s military commitment in Vietnam and Cambodia signalled our determination to do all in our power to end foreign intervention in Indo-China. [More…]
The most glaring distortion in our pattern of overseas representation was China, which ignorance, prejudice and Cold War hostility had excluded for a generation from her rightful place as a member of the international community of nations. [More…]
As soon as we took office, we initiated the process towards recognising the People’s Republic of China - in essence, towards removing our China Embassy from Taipei to Peking, the capital of China of which Taiwan is a province. [More…]
December 1972 I was able to announce that the negotiations had been successfully concluded, that Australia had recognised the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and that diplomatic relations would be established at an early date. [More…]
Australia’s Ambassador has already arrived in Peking to assume charge of our mission and on the 17th of this month China’s Ambassador to Australia, Mr Wang Kuo Ch’uan, presented his credentials to the Governor-General. [More…]
We plan to develop a substantial relationship with China based on friendship, cooperation and mutual trust, comparable with that which we have, or seek, with other major powers. [More…]
We aim at developing policies which will promote understanding, mutual benefit and a growing degree of co-operation between Australia and China. [More…]
China’s policies, particularly in areas of direct interest for Australia, will be of great importance to us. [More…]
But China will by no means be the central preoccupation of our foreign policy. [More…]
Our relationship with China will not develop at the expense of our relations with other countries. [More…]
Honourable members will be pleased to know from the Press reports this morning that we have now concluded a most satisfactory deal in sugar sales to China. [More…]
Similarly, we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China, Australia will no longer maintain restraints different from those applied to any other country. [More…]
In March this year we welcomed to Australia the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr Patolichev, and a high-level Australian trade delegation led by the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) has just completed a successful visit to China. [More…]
We believe for instance that the South East Asia Treaty Organisation - conceived as an instrument for the containment of China in the cold war era - must be modified if it is not to become completely moribund. [More…]
This year’s overseas missions - to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the South Pacific Forum, Britain, the Vatican, Mauritius, India, Mexico, North America, Japan and China - are part of my responsibilities as Prime Minister, even more than as Foreign Minister. [More…]
Similarly we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China, . [More…]
There have been suggestions that we might have guest workers from the South Seas for harvest purposes; guest workers from Norway to become fishermen temporarily; guest workers from China to build roads in Victoria; and guest workers from Europe to fill some of the gaps in the building trade. [More…]
Is the Minister not aware ‘of the fact that in the past 10 years Australia sold over , $k000m worth of wheat and over S200m worth, of other produce to China? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the China wheat market was regained last year when Australia sold a million tom of wheat to China in December? [More…]
If the honourable member had been present in this House during the various debates when Australia was placed at the bottom of the list as regards wheat sales to China and when it was made quite clear following the Canadian recognition of China that we would continue to be placed at that level, he would realise the truth of the content of what I se id and that it was the action and the disastrous foreign policies of the previous Government that caused the Chinese Government to take this action. [More…]
As regards sugar sales to China, let me inform (he honourable member that prior to the visit of the Prime Minister to China we had never sold any sugar to that nation. [More…]
Whilst there we had extensive discussions with the Chinese authorities on sugar soles to China. [More…]
We were informed that In the event of Cuba not being able to supply the needs of China, Australia would be given a high priority in relation to selling sugar to China. [More…]
In China we informed the authorities of the proven performance of Australia in relation to both quality and quantity. [More…]
CSR has for several years now been negotiating with Chines authorities with respect to the selling of sugar, This Government backs the sale of sugar to China to the hilt. [More…]
We believe that there will ho more sales of .raw sugar to China and wo give full credit to the work, of CSR. [More…]
in China. [More…]
It certainly was noi becked by the previous Government regarding sales of commodities to China; [More…]
As we know there are only 2 countries at present which test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, and they are France and China. [More…]
Firstly, he put to us the extraordinary position that because China was in the northern hemisphere and the winds went one way in the northern hemisphere and the other way in the southern hemisphere the Chinese testing did not have any influence on Australia. [More…]
The fallout goes right across China - its own country - and then goes immediately across Japan and finally on to the North American continent and around on to Europe. [More…]
Can he provide details of (a) the nuclear weapons tests carried out by the People’s Republic of China during the last 5 years, (b) the dates on which these tests took place, (c) the location of these tests and (d) the explosive power of each device tested. [More…]
There appear to have been six test explosions carried out by China in the last five years, the most recent one being on 18 March 1972. [More…]
All these explosions are reported to have taken place at the Lop Nor test site in the Sinkiang Region in North West China. [More…]
Is he aware that the report stated that, in answer to a question directed to him about whether he had received any response from the Chinese Government to his protest note on the nuclear tests, he said that the protest to China was oral so there would be no written response? [More…]
program Dr Fitzgerald, Australia’s Ambassador to China, stated that his predecessor, Mr Cotterill, lodged a protest note with the Chinese Assistant Minister? [More…]
It was not necessary for him to read the report of the conference in the daily Press to know that he had stated unequivocally that the protest to China was oral and that for that reason he did not expect a written response. [More…]
The transcript states quite clearly that the protest to China was oral so that there would be no written response. [More…]
As Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs he should have been aware that the Ambassador to China whom he appointed had stated in a radio interview that a protest note had been lodged with the Chinese Assistant Minister. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Will he now cease acting like a bull in a china shop and follow longestablished protocol in accord with proper diplomatic approaches in this matter in order to avoid unnecessary embarrassment to Australia and the United States of America? [More…]
The Prime Minister’s lack of interest in and opposition to the aggressive actions taken by the communists in IndoChina must surely support the view that his Government is dominated largely by pressures from communist sources inside and outside this country. [More…]
Firstly, on assuming office in the first week the duumvirate Whitlam-Barnard dictatorship moved to recognise communist China and to dump Taiwan. [More…]
One such occasion was in his reference to the recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister gave less than due credit to the progress which the previous Government had initiated and advanced towards normalisation of relations with China and the extent to which the previous Government had factually recognised China in its dealings. [More…]
But Australia and the People’s Republic of China both had embassies in capitals such as Paris, Cairo and Belgrade. [More…]
China subsequently supported us in our election to the Security Council. [More…]
I believe that had the Liberal-Country Party been returned to government we would have recognised the People’s Republic of China in a relatively short time - perhaps within a year. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said in this House that the formula he secured with China was the same as the Canadian formula. [More…]
Canada simply noted China’s position regarding Taiwan; Australia was required to acknowledge it. [More…]
Any increase in our trade with the People’s Republic of China will, in turn, have to be substantial if it is even to make good the ground which has been lost. [More…]
As I have said, I believe that most Australians consider that the formal recognition of the People’s Republic of China was right. [More…]
A true example of resources diplomacy would rather be the action of the People’s Republic of China in assigning political reasons for its refusal to purchase wheat from Australia during 1971. [More…]
It was done to bring political pressure on Australia at a time when China was seeking admission to the United Nations. [More…]
Japan might look more to Brazil, to India, to Russia, to China. [More…]
The association was to include the Peoples Republic of China. [More…]
In mentioning that he would consult with Indonesia and Japan he failed to take account of India’s views regarding its role in Asia, or, indeed, of the fact that it is not so long since India was defending itself against troops of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We supported a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly to admit the People’s Republic of China though, as is known, we opposed the simultaneous expulsion of our friend Taiwan. [More…]
There are many factors which made the United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Europe and India the major actors on the world stage. [More…]
We sought, when in government, to normalise Australia’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There were differences on both sides, determined in large part by the events of the tumultuous post-war years when the Government of the People’s Republic of China was established. [More…]
We would not wish to damage Australia’s existing relationship with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On the contrary, what we have done is solidly based on a clear appreciation of the gradual but nevertheless real shift in international affairs which has been going on for years and which can be summed up as a change from the bipolar world which characterised the years of the Cold War to the multipolar world which emerged from such events as the split between the Soviet Union and China, the integration of Europe through the European Common Market, the emergence of Japan as a major power and the Nixon Doctrine of greater self reliance in defence preparedness. [More…]
It was we who took the initiative in opposing our participation in the Vietnam conflict, in calling for more foreign aid, in proposing an end to racism in our international dealings, in co-operating with the movement of self government and independence for Papua New Guinea and in opening up normal relations with China. [More…]
It is true that we are opening up normal diplomatic relations with China, North Vietnam, East Germany and Poland and normal trading relations with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China. [More…]
The officers in the Department in Canberra occupy positions in the China, Korea Section, the Japan Section and in other sections. [More…]
Pacific neighbours prior to its recognition of (a) the People’s ‘Republic of China and (b) the Democratic Republic of Vietnam? [More…]
In both instances a number of Australian missions were instructed to inform in advance the governments to which they were accredited that Australia intended to open negotiations with the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam for mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations. [More…]
The governments in the Asian and Pacific region so informed (and the dates on which the aboveinstructions were sent) were those of: (a) People’s Republic of China, 5 December 1972: [More…]
In respect of China it could be to recognise or not to recognise; in regard to North Vietnam it could be to bomb or not to bomb. [More…]
China for its part has effected some rapprochement with both the United States and Japan, and has strong interests in the avoidance of major international conflict. [More…]
Fighting continues in Indo China, but in our view only the people of that region themselves can reach the political settlements necessary to bring an end to military conflict. [More…]
This Government has ended completely all Australian military involvement in Indo China, and we have no intention of involving the nation there again. [More…]
We know that already nuclear weapons are in the hands of the United States of America, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Great Brittain and France. [More…]
I conclude my remarks by asking why on earth did the Prime Minister not get some technical information from the experts before he rushed into this like a bull into a china shop? [More…]
I agree with his recognition of China, though not of the typically clumsy way in which it was done. [More…]
The first is a vague proposal for a neutral zone in South-East Asia to include not only the countries in the Association of South-East Asian Nations but also Japan and China. [More…]
There was no community of interest among the members: Japan’s and China’s interests are quite different from those of the ASEAN countries. [More…]
New relationships have been established with countries such as the People’s Republic of China and the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
Mainland China, North Korea, or North Vietnam’. [More…]
I also read today that the Minister is going to be in China, so it is a case of ‘Where is our wandering boy tonight?’ [More…]
Even though we are now out of Vietnam, even though the Republican President of the United States has forged a new detente with China and with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and even though there is not a country within 1,000 miles of Australia that appears to be remotely aggressive or expansionist - unless of course one thinks that New Zealand, since it went socialist, is a threat to Australia - clearly the Liberals would have spent some hundreds of millions of dollars more on defence. [More…]
I see that the Minister is to be one of the 3 Ministers, including the Prime Minister, going to Japan and the People’s Republic of China for discussions in October. [More…]
I refer particularly to the wheat trade with the People’s Republic of China and the negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade now taking place in Tokyo. [More…]
I am reminded by my colleague of a saying that comes from mainland China: You can always tell that you are out in front when the mob starts to throw stones. [More…]
It secured markets for Australian wheat in China. [More…]
Members opposite would not sell their soul to China, yet they arc happy to sell their wheat to China. [More…]
Because this Government has a contract with China which members opposite could not secure they do not want to give the Government credit for it. [More…]
Honourable members opposite could not even go to China. [More…]
Also, after my visit to Japan where I am to represent the Government as Minister for Foreign Affairs as well as Prime Minister, and my visit to China, Senator Willesee, who is himself now abroad representing Australia at the United Nations General Assembly and other international meetings, will be sworn as Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Does he include the People’s Republic of China, Japan and India among the great powers. [More…]
In Washington on 30 July I said, the fact is that Australia would benefit from some arrangement whereby nations of the Western Pacific could regularly consult and, obviously China is one of those countries’ … ‘so one would hope that it would be possible in the Western Pacific, irrespective of ideologies, to have some arrangements where countries like Australia and Japan are able to consult regularly without motive, without imputations, on the matters which concern them as neighbours.’ [More…]
Afghanistan, Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Congo, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Mali, Sierra Leone, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, U.S.S.R., United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. [More…]
Since 1 January 1971, the following countries have joined the Special Committee: Australia, Chile, China, Congo, Czechoslovakia and Indonesia. [More…]
My question, Which I direct to the Minister for Overseas Trade, is in connection with the sale of Australian wheat to China. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether in recent times China has placed a substantial long term order for Australian wheat with the Australian Government? [More…]
That is precisely what the Minister for Foreign Trade for the People’s Republic of China told me. [More…]
He also told me, in the presence of the Prime Minister, that the statements made by the Leader of the Opposition on returning from China were a distortion of what he had been told in China. [More…]
So, I am very pleased to be able to announce, as I did at the end of last week, that we have reached agreement to sign a 3- year agreement for the sale of Australian wheat to China. [More…]
Was the recent agreement for the sale of wheat to the People’s Republic of China negotiated by the [More…]
Having obtained this, it was then possible for the Wheat Board to go to China and conduct the detailed negotiations necessary to put that agreement into effect. [More…]
The Australian Government recognises China on the best possible terms- [More…]
The Australian Government recognises China on the best possible terms for Australia. [More…]
It preserved other vital national interests that Australia has in China and Taiwan- [More…]
The Australian Government recognises China on the best possible terms for Australia, lt reserved other vital national interests that Australia has in China and Taiwan, including trade with both. [More…]
by leave - As honourable mem bers will be aware, I have recently returned from a series of trade discussions in Japan, in the Republic of Korea, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Third, although developed countries like Japan and large countries like China will be very important in the future, Australia must not be concerned with them alone. [More…]
It was necessary, in order to travel to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to pass through China where I was able to renew contacts, particularly with the Chinese Minister for Foreign Trade, Minister Poi Hsiang-kuo, and with the Foreign Minister, Chi Peng Fei. [More…]
It is particularly pleasing to me .to see the way that trade with China has developed this year. [More…]
All Australian officials and others in China have witnessed in recent weeks and months the increasing willingness of the Chinese to assist Australians in everything they are trying to do and the extremely friendly relations that they exhibit towards Australians at every level. [More…]
This will be the first time that Australia has negotiated such an agreement with China and it is an historic step in the development of trade relations between our 2 countries. [More…]
China, when I was in Hong Kong I was discussing this with some individuals there, who were asking me what the prospects were like for investing money in land in Australia. [More…]
There is widespread suspicion of the communist powers, both Russia and China, and deep concern at the prospect of withdrawal of United States influence. [More…]
There is no doubt in their minds - and I spoke to the same persons to whom the Minister has spoken in those countries - based on previous and current experience that Russia will move into any vacuum created by a Western withdrawal, and that if this happened China would be bound to follow. [More…]
In big power terms and stating the position baldly, I expect the next few years to be marked by a fairly stable equilibrium between the 3 major nuclear powers - the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I have had figures taken out and these show that no country in Asia, including China, today has a capability to invade our continent, nor is any of these countries likely to have the capacity to do so in under 5 to 10 years. [More…]
To find technologically comparable fighter aircraft one would have to go as far abroad as either North Vietnam, China or Japan. [More…]
The latest Middle East crisis between Israel and the Arab States has produced an even more important crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, and between the United States and the Communist Government of China. [More…]
It was also big news when Nixon and Premier Chou En-Lai of China signed the Shanghai declaration of February 27 1972, declaring that ‘both wish to reduce the danger of international conflict . [More…]
Though President Nixon appealed to Chairman Brezhnev to co-operate in getting a cease-fire along the Suez, and Secretary of State Kissinger urged Huang Hua of China here to co-operate in a big-power effort to stop the fighting, the plain fact is that Washington got no co-operation. [More…]
This proposed new bureaucracy with power to follow its own initiatives, power to restrict the authority of Cabinet and to restrict the opportunity for quick action to be .taken by the Government, really resembles the central planning authority which is a feature of the socialist systems in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People’s Republic of China and some other countries. [More…]
He did not mention that Mr Anthony, the Leader of the Country Party, jeopardised Australia’s wheat contracts with China and lost them. [More…]
He did not recognise that our Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) has just negotiated $600m worth of wheat contracts with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On Thursday night next I am to go to Japan and China as Prime Minister and as Foreign Minister. [More…]
But on 1 October he appeared on the television program ‘Monday Conference’, when he described the Government’s recognition of China as common sense, and later as eminently sensible. [More…]
He comes into this House with great aplomb because he has negotiated a long term agreement for the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
Perhaps he does not realise that the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey), in an earlier capacity, was one of those who pioneered the first contract for the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade is apparently now giving some credit to the Australian Wheat Board for negotiating the sale of 170 million bushels of wheat to China, but he claims the principal credit. [More…]
Perhaps he does not realise that the 170 million bushels which he has negotiated to sell to China over the next 3 years represents less than 60 million bushels a year. [More…]
Does the Minister realise that the previous Government, in association with the Wheat Board, last year sold 40 million bushels to China and that the Wheat Board said it could have sold twice as much if it had had the wheat to sell? [More…]
Does he realise that Australia has sold up to 82 million bushels of wheat to China in previous years? [More…]
I note with great interest his journeys in Japan, Korea and China and the discussions that he has had with the leaders of those countries. [More…]
In his statement the Minister made a triumphant reference to the 3-year wheat agreement with China. [More…]
I need hardly say that wheat sales to Communist China from Australia did not begin on 2 ‘December 1972. [More…]
One has only to go back over our trade figures to find that there have been many sales of wheat to China over the years. [More…]
Great play has been made on the statement with regard to our trade with China. [More…]
Looking at the figures for 1972-73 I find that we have exported to China goods to the value of $62,849,000 and that we have purchased in return from them goods to the value of $49,924,000. [More…]
As I have said before, with the cutting of our tariffs cheaper textiles and goods will come in from China and textile industries in this country will be under threat unless the Government imposes quantitative restrictions or takes some action in this regard. [More…]
Little Taiwan which the present Government booted out of this country when it took over purchased more goods from us than mainland China did. [More…]
It outlines our trade relations with Japan, South and North Korea and China. [More…]
The agreement to sell wheat to China is the best ever negotiated by an Australian [More…]
I have referred to some of those areas in which I have been trenchantly critical of the Government, and the one for which he takes more credit than anything else - China - I would like to refer to very briefly now. [More…]
Of course, as he said, I accept the fact of recognition of the People’s Republic of China, and my Leader has said it and properly so. [More…]
But we have been critical of the method whereby this Government recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
This Government has recognised 2 Vietnams, 2 Koreas, 2 Germanys and one China and has given no explanation for doing so other than it had to be done. [More…]
Enough said about the aspect of China. [More…]
But with this tremendous movement which nearly took over Indonesia, the Indonesian authorities are very sensitive to relations with the People’s Republic of China and with the rest of the communist world. [More…]
They see, as other people see, that the current changes in China have brought about a much more civilised type of government, if we may call it that, which is anxious to converse and have relations on a broadening basis with the rest of the world. [More…]
Cries of outrage amounting sometimes to hysteria echoed down the corridors of the conservative Party when early in its term of office the new Government recognised the People’s Republic of China as the only valid government of that country. [More…]
Who apart from those in the other place, who seem to spend their time looking up the China references in the Hansard reports of the early 1950s, would fail to appreciate the more flexible and co-operative patterns of relationship which for so long have been advocated by Labor which, alongside other major powers including the United States of America, has accepted China’s role in world affairs? [More…]
The fruit of this Government’s total reversal of previous policy on China is seen not only because we have adopted a new stance based upon mutual trust, friendship, and, wherever possible, co-operation similar to that which we enjoy with other major powers, but also because of the practical benefits resulting from increased trade, particularly in the areas of sugar and wheat. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns), for so long a thorn in the flesh of the anti-China clique but himself a prophetic and hopeful interpreter of political realities, was able to move confidently following the decisions of this Government in respect of the People’s Republic of China to establish, despite a heavy load of responsibility, a special rapport with both China’s trade representatives and also with the leaders of industry here in Australia. [More…]
The accepted version of this is that the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics alone no longer dictate the pattern of events, and that China, the European Economic Community and Japan are now significant in the ordering of world affairs. [More…]
I am not sure that Japan yet fits into the league of America, Russia and China. [More…]
China also will have to rely on skilful diplomacy rather than an exchange of material assets. [More…]
China can be expected to try to drive wedges between East Europe and the USSR for world communist leadership. [More…]
But China will never be a large enough market or source of products to exceed most other regional groupings which will arise. [More…]
China and Russia pose the only serious military threat to world stability at present. [More…]
I wish to take this opportunity to make a constructive suggestion to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who, I understand, is to go abroad shortly to represent Australia in various countries and particularly in Communist China. [More…]
As he says that he is a friend of all oppressed people, I suggest to him that he ask his good and trusted friend, the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, to arrange for a deputation from this Parliament to visit Tibet. [More…]
The Prime Minister considers the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China his friend. [More…]
If this friendship is really as deep as the Prime Minister has suggested and if the distinguished chairman of the People’s Republic of China has nothing to hide, it will be a simple matter for the Prime Minister to ask him whether he would allow a deputation of members from this Houst to visit Tibet and, with the proper facilities for seeing affairs there, to observe for themselves what the conditions are. [More…]
If it be true, as some people in China say, that the stories relating to Tibet are utterly unfounded, it would be good for everybody, including the People’s Republic of China, for the truth to be reported. [More…]
If there is nothing to hide, I would think that the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China would welcome a visit from members of this House who would be able to assure themselves and the world that all is sweetness and light in Tibet. [More…]
I hope that when he visits the distinguished Chairman of the People’s Republic of China he will ask permission from him for a delegation from this House to visit Tibet so that the members of that delegation can see for themselves what is happening there and can make a report to the people of Australia and to the people of the world, because the people of the world surely should be interested in what is happening to a few million people on the roof of Asia. [More…]
Of course it is true that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has friendly relations with the Premier of China. [More…]
I am glad that he has, because somebody has to do something about overcoming the damage of the past and endeavour to get some good relations and some understanding between Australia and China. [More…]
What about the enormous amount of money that is spent on maintaining the Great Wall of China? [More…]
At the present moment nuclear arms are held by the United States, by Soviet Russia, in a small way by the United Kingdom and France, certainly by China and probably by other countries as well but those other countries have not yet revealed in full what they possess. [More…]
I refer to the dispute between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The SinoSoviet dispute was forcibly brought to my notice during a visit I made to China in June of this year as part of a delegation from this Parliament which was led by the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]
During our visit to China, the delegation had discussions with representatives of the Chinese Government, including one meeting with the Chinese VicePremier, Mr Li Hsien-nien. [More…]
For that reason I believe that the Australian Government will continue to oppose nuclear testing, whether it is by China, by France or by any other country. [More…]
The overwhelming impression given to our parliamentary delegation in China, as far as the foreign policy of the Chinese is concerned, was that their great fear is of the Soviet Union. [More…]
They say that unequal treaties were imposed on China in the nineteenth century - that is, treaties between czarist Russia and imperialist China. [More…]
My first practical suggestion, therefore, is that the SALT talks which are at present bipartite should be tri-partite ‘and should include China, so that all decisions taken will have regard to the fact that the interests of more than 2 great powers are involved. [More…]
Is it too much to ask that the United States could, in view of its improving relations with both China and Russia, act as an honest broker in the Sino-Soviet dispute? [More…]
The detente between the United States and China indicates a similar situation there. [More…]
I was interested in the remarks of the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun), who travelled as I did, to China during the recess as a member of the first parliamentary delegation from Australia to visit that country. [More…]
I was very interested in all that was shown to the parliamentary delegation when we travelled to China and in the attitude exhibited by the Australian Government towards the Chinese Government. [More…]
I have been almost nauseated at times by the lap dog subservience shown by some of the present Government Ministers towards everything that happens in China. [More…]
In fact on a number of occasions during our visit to China we were pulled up quickly when some of the compliments became a little flowery. [More…]
This applies also to China. [More…]
I was most interested to see the real accomplishments and achievements which the British have managed to bring about, particularly in trade, in their relationships with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is ridiculous for people like Dr Cairns to say that China will become the third leg of our world trading stool, America and Japan being the other 2 legs. [More…]
China. [More…]
Despite its enormous population the world trading pattern of China is simply not in the same class as those of a great many other trading nations, so let us not go overboard in our efforts to ingratiate ourselves with this nation. [More…]
As he said, this is of wide interest to and has wide ramifications for many countries other than simply China and Russia. [More…]
Obviously the situations obtaining in all South-East Asian states, in the Indian Ocean area and on the Indian sub-continent are affected greatly by the relationships existing between ‘Russia and China and between all the other great powers operating in the area. [More…]
The cultural revolution had an enormous effect within China in a number of areas. [More…]
It can say to China: ‘If you do not supply us with the materials we want we can always get them from the Russians’. [More…]
I believe that if either Russia or China markedly expands its influence, the other will react. [More…]
It is in China’s long term interests for the situation to be stabilised until it can sort out its problems of economic development. [More…]
The other problem China has, and which it is attempting to solve, is that of succession. [More…]
These 2 problems bring about a situation in which, for the time being, China would like to see a little more stability in the South-East Asian area. [More…]
In returning from China I passed through Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. [More…]
We should realise that in fact they are defending their countries from the aggression of guerrillas who are financed by and trained in Soviet Russia and Communist China. [More…]
Communist China, which is a single party state, is also a member. [More…]
How can anyone from Communist China support resolutions attacking any nation on the ground of discrimination, when one remembers what she did to the Tibetans? [More…]
The new accords with China, the so-called detente between the super powers, impressed them not one bit. [More…]
Is the honourable member for Chisholm suggesting that we unrecognise the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
We have arrived at the question whether the Liberal Party, if it ever came back to power, would not continue to recognise China. [More…]
Opposition members will continue to recognise China. [More…]
The point is that the Australian Labor Government came to power at a time when the whole world’s approach to China had changed not so much because of the attitude of the rest of the world to China but because of the attitude of China itself. [More…]
China is a country that was seeking dialogue with the rest of the world. [More…]
I clearly recall in my own Party moves being made months ago to try to accommodate Mainland China without throwing down the drain our friends, the people of Taiwan. [More…]
That is one point of difference between our policy on China and that of the Government. [More…]
The real reason why the former Government could not recognise the People’s Republic of China is that it had condemned the People’s Republic of China for so long that it did not want to take a complete political somersault which would have made it appear ridiculous in the eyes of the Australian community and the peoples of the world, particularly of South East Asia. [More…]
I challenge him to deny this: He advocated that the time was ripe to drop the hydrogen bomb on the People’s Republic of China not so many years ago, but he never repeated it because powerful influences went to work - I think it was in the days when Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister - and warned him never to say it again. [More…]
He advocated the bombing of women and children in the People’s Republic of China, which was figthing for a new way of life. [More…]
He said: What is wrong with recognition of the People’s Republic of China?’ [More…]
They will go to Japan and probably move through that country with the delicacy of a herd of elephants in a china shop. [More…]
There has been no more certain or concrete piece of evidence relating to the change in identity of Australia as Australia than the announcement by the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) of the new contract for the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
Do they want us not to recognise the People’s Republic of China now that the contract has been signed? [More…]
Do they want us to say that we will wipe the contract and go back to not recognising the People’s Republic of China but recognising Taiwan? [More…]
The members are Afghanistan; Bulgaria - both those countries are military dictatorships; Chile; Czechoslovakia, which is a satellite of the Soviet Union; Congo Brazzaville; Communist China - I do not suppose that Communist China could ever claim to be anything but a country that discriminates against Tibetans; Ethiopia- [More…]
Of course he now admits that even his Party would have recognised China eventually. [More…]
Council are China, Russia and the United States. [More…]
All over the world, not only to your friendly China. [More…]
I refer especially to the vital role that the Australian Government has played in creating the relationship with China that has led to the signing of the greatest long term contract ever negotiated in any Australian rural commodity. [More…]
There can be no belittling of the importance of this agreement with China. [More…]
The agreement sign’ -1 recently in Peking by the Australian Wheat t Board and the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation guarantees the Australian wheat growers chat over the 3-year period they will be able to sell China up to 4.7 million tonnes of wheat. [More…]
Let us not forget also that, as a result, Canada was given priority as a seller of wheat to China because of the realistic step that the Canadians had taken in recognising China. [More…]
Thanks to the work of the Australian Labor Party and this Government, Australian wheat growers are now back in the China market with the best arrangement ever made to guarantee an outlet for a large proportion of their produce. [More…]
Yet, he was a member of th - previous Government which could have taken the initiative to establish sensible relations with China and could have taken steps to safeguard our wheat market in China. [More…]
Where do the Oppos ition parties stand now on the question of China? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) claims that his Party would not disrupt the new relationship with China. [More…]
Before he went to China in July last, the Leader of the Opposition told a meeting of the Australian University Liberal Federation in Melbourne that a Liberal government would renew relations with Taiwan. [More…]
It means that a Liberal government - if ever elected - would treat Taiwan as a separate, independent government, separate from China. [More…]
I am convinced that this reactionary policy would ruin Australia’s long term wheal agreement with China and wreck the possibility of it being renewed under a LiberalCountry Party government. [More…]
What is the policy of the Country Party with respect to China? [More…]
Nobody knows for certain because their Leader, who has been preoccupied with trying to arrange a marriage of convenience with the Democratic Labor Party, has not had the courage to say whether he is for or against the recognition of China. [More…]
So, if the Country Party were ever returned to office it would jeopardise the relationship established by the Labor Government with China. [More…]
The Government has negotiated long term stability for the wheat industry by the magnificent and successful negotiations with China. [More…]
Yes, I will come to China in a minute. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration referred to sales to China. [More…]
What about sales to China? [More…]
He virtually says that his Government made the sales to China. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Board - I am glad to see that the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey) is present because he had a very important part in this - was responsible for selling over $ 1,000m worth of wheat to China. [More…]
China today produces the type of wheat that is produced in large quantities in Australia and when the [More…]
It must have given a great deal of encouragement to a great many people that the Prime Minister was able to deal with this matter in a most useful and constructive way in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I informed the Chinese that because the 1973 crop now being harvested was tightly committed, particularly because of the suspension next year of the economic provisions in the current International Sugar Agreement and also because of the problem of bulk handling facilities in China, it would not be possible for Australia to commence any agreement involving such huge amounts of sugar until 1975. [More…]
The details of the agreement will be the subject of further discussions between the Australian sugar industry and the Chinese National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation and the Governments of China and Australia. [More…]
The agreement by China to purchase these very large quantities of Australian sugar each year, on a long term basis, is the culmination of continued discussions with China initiated by myself during the Prime Minister’s visit to China as Leader of the Opposition in July 1971 and subsequently carried on, as well as detailed discussions with China by the Australian sugar industry, through the CSR Company. [More…]
Therefore, the agreement with China will be of tremendous importance to the Australian sugar industry. [More…]
When I visited China recently with a parliamentary delegation I had some discussion with the Chinese public health officials. [More…]
It is my belief that an outlook which is far less materialistic in a country like China conduces much less to mental illness than the materialistic, acquisitive society in which we live. [More…]
In the case of China, long term arrangements over a 3-year period have been negotiated, involving about $600m in sales of wheat and about $250m in sales of sugar. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Queensland Sugar Board negotiated the first sale of sugar to China, then negotiated the second sale - not of bagged sugar but in bulk - and has recently been in the process of negotiating a long term contract with the Chinese? [More…]
It is totally untrue that the Queensland Sugar Board was in any way embarrassed or put in difficulties because of anything that the Minister for Northern Development did in China. [More…]
I want to point out quite clearly - obviously the Country Party does not know this - that sales of wheat and sugar to China which continued through the 1960s were made in a totally different situation after 1969. [More…]
Up to 1969 the diplomatic status of Taiwan was not significant for the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
After 1969 the position was stated by the Premier of China, by the Foreign Minister and by the Trade Minister to me more than once that after 1969 contracts would not be entered into for wheat or sugar with Australia except on a residual basis unless the attitude of the Australian Government to Taiwan was not that of identifying Taiwan as a separate country. [More…]
1 remind the House that that applies as much to the Opposition, and should it become the Government again it will have to put itself right in respect of Taiwan if it wants to continue doing business with China. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development, Dr Patterson, on his first visit to China with the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister himself, were able to discover this and were able to see what was necessary for satisfactory relations with China. [More…]
The ridiculous fiction that Taiwan was China could not stand up to historical development. [More…]
This stage has now passed and the possibilities for the unlimited, or almost unlimited, arrangements with China that have come about in respect of wheat and sugar have been made possible only by that diplomatic event. [More…]
Both visits were marked by great warmth on both sides; both visits were characterised by frankness and firmness from both sides; both visits notably advanced the interests of Australia and our friendship and understanding with these two great neighbours, Japan, and China. [More…]
On the visit to China - from 31 October to 4 November, I was accompanied by the Treasurer and the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson). [More…]
In China I consider that our visit symbolised the successful ending of a generation of lost contact between Australia and the most populous nation on earth. [More…]
Japan is our major trading partner in the world and China is the only one of the world’s 5 major powers with which, until last December, Australia has not had any meaningful or regular official contact. [More…]
I believe my visit to China was most valuable in restoring balance to our foreign policy and in diversifying our foreign relations. [More…]
I believe that the warmth of the reception I and my party received in Peking demonstrates that China like Japan recognises, to a greater extent than some Australians may believe, the growing importance of Australia as a middle power, especially in the Asian and Pacific region. [More…]
As honourable members will know, important and valuable arrangements were made for the sale to China of up to 300,000 tons of sugar a year for a three to five year period commencing in 1975. [More…]
It was also agreed that we should develop a planned program of cultural, scientific, and technological exchanges between Australia and China, and that representative missions in these fields would be exchanged in 1974. [More…]
Honourable members will be pleased to know that an understanding in principle was reached between the 2 sides on travel from China to Australia by relatives of Australian citizens of Chinese descent and Chinese citizens residing in Australia. [More…]
I believe that my visit will give new direction and increased momentum to our existing relationship with Japan and will lead to the development of a more meaningful relationship and a continuing dialogue with China which, for so long - for much too long - has been a closed book to our country. [More…]
The Prime Minister and former Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Whitlam) has made a brief statement and tabled documents relating to his recent journey to Japan and China. [More…]
However, the Prime Minister has developed our relationship with China. [More…]
The Liberal Party has made it clear on many occasions that it accepts the reality of Australia’s relationship with China. [More…]
When in Government last year we made some efforts to normalise relations with China and the Prime Minister, then Leader of the Opposition, conceded this in talks with the Chinese Premier as early as [More…]
The present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) has visited China, symbolising the Liberal Party’s desire to strengthen relations with China, despite the uncertainties and some of the difficulties we have faced in the past. [More…]
The Prime Minister developed Australia’s dialogue with China. [More…]
We must ask what the Prime Minister meant when he said that Australia’s new aspirations are symbolised more in our relationship with China than with any other country. [More…]
Ties with China are important but there must be limits on the extent to which Australia’s ‘aspirations’ depend upon them or are symbolised by them. [More…]
It is important also that the Australian people should know the extent of the Prime Minister’s commitment as an emissary explaining China’s policies. [More…]
He said that if necessary he will explain to the countries in our region particularly the Association of South East Asian Nations, China’s attitudes. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister forcefully put Australia’s opposition to China’s pro-Arab stance and state that it is unacceptable to his Government. [More…]
He alleged in answer to a question on China that the previous Government looked at a country’s ideology and then decided whether it would be friends’. [More…]
I preface it by reminding honourable members that yesterday the Prime Minister told this House that he had made strong protests in China about Chinese nuclear atmospheric testing. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Northern Development whether he is aware of the criticism that by securing the basis for a long-term sugar agreement with China he undermined and damaged the Australian Sugar Board’s negotiating positon on quantities and price while the Board was engaged in negotiating a long-term contract with China. [More…]
Secondly, it is true that the industry has been trying to secure permanent access for sugar to China but without success. [More…]
Before I went to China the CSR Company, in writing to me, said that the CSR is anxious to do all that it can to enlarge the opportunity for permanent access to China and has welcomed the formal exchanges at government level which have undoubtedly strengthened the trading relationship established at the commercial level. [More…]
In China the Prime Minister and I achieved this access at permanent level. [More…]
The only person in this country who is trying to throw water on this sale to China is the Leader of the Country Party who is in effect sabotaging the sugar industry and its future efforts in regard to the details of these negotiations. [More…]
Naturally I am concerned at the continuing tension between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
When I returned from the parliamentary delegation tour of China via Thailand and [More…]
Does the Prime Minister see any paradox between his declaring that he will act as a bridge between China and the outside world and his apparent inability to communicate with his own back bench? [More…]
A week ago I happened to have the opportunity to visit China. [More…]
We have heard a good deal about sugar sales to China. [More…]
These are welcomed but I think it is necessary to keep it all in perspective because we are selling 4 times as much sugar to the United States as we are likely to be selling to China under this new long term contract, and we are selling 10 times as much sugar to Japan. [More…]
I would welcome as much effort being put into a long term contract for the sale of sugar to Japan as has been done in respect to China. [More…]
He has again mentioned China. [More…]
Surely he is aware that the industry asked me to secure permanent access for Australian sugar to China. [More…]
Firsly, he said that Australia sells four times as much sugar to the United States of America as it will sell to China. [More…]
We shall sell at least 300,000 tons to China. [More…]
He then went on to say that we sell ten times as much sugar to Japan as we will sell to China. [More…]
We sell approximately 600,000 tons to Japan, which is twice as much as we will sell to China. [More…]
I have no doubt that the Leader of the Country Party is aware that some of the honourable members who sit behind him are openly disgusted with his attitude towards the sale of sugar to China. [More…]
It is what Hitler did, it is what Mussolini did, it is what is done in Russia, and it is what is done in China. [More…]
I appreciate the interjection because in the last couple of weeks we saw the Prime Minister of this country charter a Boeing 707 to travel to Japan and China. [More…]
Is it not true that in Washington on 30 July the Prime Minister said that China was ‘obviously’ one of the countries which ought to be involved? [More…]
While accepting that the Government is flexible on the timing, structure and membership of any arrangements, will the Prime Minister say whether he sees any objections to China and the Soviet Union being included in the sort of Asia-Pacific arrangement which he has in fact already suggested? [More…]
There are some difficulties at this stage in having such a regional organisation because the countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations do not have active diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Two of our fellow members of the South East Asian Treaty Organisation, the Philippines and Thailand, still recognise, however tenuously and faint heartily, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as the President of all of China. [More…]
Indonesia has always, since it was internationally recognised itself,- recognised the regime in Peking as the legitimate Government of the whole of China including the Province of Taiwan. [More…]
Malaysia and Singapore were British colonies at the time that Britain recognised the change of government in Peking and therefore technically they recognise the Government in Peking as the Government of the whole of China including the Province of Taiwan. [More…]
Nevertheless Malaysia and Singapore have never had diplomatic relations with Peking or with any government purporting to be the Government of China. [More…]
But since some of those who sit behind him are less informed and responsible on these matters it is well to point out that the rival governments the governments which contend for recognition as the Government of China have always agreed that Tibet was part of China. [More…]
Both Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Peking Government have always asserted in the whole world that Tibet was as much part of China as they have both asserted that Taiwan was part of China. [More…]
The fact is that it is well to contemplate and there is no single country in the region which would reject the notion that China must sooner or later be in any regional association for consultation in our region. [More…]
The credibility of the man who did that is seriously under examination by the whole rural electorate, reinforced by his attempt to do the same thing in regard to sugar contracts with China and wheat sales to Egypt. [More…]
Discussions are being held in these areas in order to establish long term contracts for the sale of products to China and Japan. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I will refer to the Prime Minister’s recent trip to China. [More…]
I have here a letter from an individual who is somewhat perturbed at some of the statements, which were made in China recently. [More…]
Because of his lack of respect for our anthem in China, I state quite bluntly that he did not represent me, and I hope that it will not be long before this arrogant buffoon- [More…]
It is a worn out cliche, just as the cliche about communism which the former Government employed for 20-odd years has now become worn out because President Nixon has gone to China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I remind Australia’s answer to Mohammed Ali that only a fortnight before his visit to China the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Trudeau, also had visited China, had been received with the same organised enthusiasm, had secured a trade agreement to plan long term commerce between the 2 countries, had secured agreement to the establishment of the first non-communist consulate in China, probably to the established Shanghai, and Mr Trudeau had also met Chairman Mao - but no shades of Cassius Clay from Mr Trudeau. [More…]
Also in China the Prime Minister of Australia said that Australia’s new aspirations are symbolised more in our relationship with China than our relationship with any other country. [More…]
Ties with China are important, but there must be limits on the extent to which Australian ‘aspirations’ depend upon them or are symbolised by them. [More…]
The honourable gentleman next mentioned China. [More…]
I should have thought he would have shown a little modesty on this subject because he in fact was asked to visit China while he was a Minister and his attendance was vetoed - there is some doubt whether it was vetoed by the leader of his Party or the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony). [More…]
He did not go to China. [More…]
I believe that the honourable gentleman supports the Australian Government’s establishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I have always given the honourable gentleman credit for pursuing an enlightened, contemporary point of view on many subjects such as Papua-New Guinea and China. [More…]
Australian Ministers are allowed to go to China and are welcomed in China. [More…]
We now have the situation in China as we had in Japan. [More…]
Our predecessors pursued the fruitless idea that one quarter of the world’s population could be ignored and that there could be recognised as the President of the whole of China a man who has not set foot on the mainland since 1948 or 1949. [More…]
We at least wholeheartedly and promptly restored between Australia and China relations which should never have been severed. [More…]
Australia wholeheartedly and uninhibitedly welcomes the change in our area brought about by the detente between the United States of America and China and diplomatic relations between Japan and China. [More…]
I presume to say that the Government of Singapore sooner or later will establish diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
As I said in answer to a question without notice by the honourable gentleman last week, technically Singapore recognises the existence of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It has never recognised the pretentions of the Chiang Kai-shek regime in the province of Taiwan but it has not had diplomatic relations with Peking, that is, with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Why, only a few weeks ago the *China Mail’, one of Hong Kong’s 4 English daily newspapers, carried an attack on Mr Whitlam. [More…]
He stresses his concern not only at the situation in the Middle East but also at the deteriorating situation between the Soviet Union and China and their constant border confrontations, with 67 divisions from each force facing one another across the boundary between the 2 countries. [More…]
In particular his journeys to China, Japan and Ottawa have been seen as an assertion of Australia’s role not in our immediate region but in the world beyond that immediate area. [More…]
I instance China. [More…]
In China there are children’s palaces to care for children after school hours, in other words, the latch key children, the children waiting till their parents come home. [More…]
When he was in China recently did he call on Prince Norodom Sihanouk with the Australian Ambassador to China, Dr Fitzgerald, and his personal private secretary, Dr Wilenski? [More…]
Republic of China, and Dr Wilenski, my principal private secretary. [More…]
The same goes for China. [More…]
I very briefly - I too have only 10 minutes, unlike the Minister for Defence, who has unlimited time - want to refer to an article by Professor Arthur Burns, on which I have commented now on 2 previous occasions in this Parliament, in the ‘Bulletin’ of 10 November in which he refers to the conflict which might emerge between China and Russia from the confrontation of 67 divisions on the ChinaSoviet border. [More…]
There are 2 particular problems that concern honourable members on this side of the House - firstly, the intervention in sales to China and secondly, the intervention in sales to Egypt. [More…]
Of course, it is true that the representatives of the Australian Wheat Board when they visited China last year had an offer to enter into a long term wheat contract. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade claims that it was his intervention alone which resulted in the 3-year wheat contract with China. [More…]
At the moment wheat is in short demand throughout the world and anybody who thinks that the sale to China was negotiated in a market where the Chinese were other than willing buyers knows nothing of world market conditions. [More…]
China wants to buy our wheat, as indeed do so many other countries. [More…]
It had negotiations with China. [More…]
There were sales to China before the Labor Government came to office. [More…]
If we are looking at the politics of this matter, I think it can be said also that Canada attained better contracts than we did with China, for political reasons, especially the fact that we knocked at the door at a later time. [More…]
The Board welcomed the market with open arms when the China market went bad. [More…]
I refer to April 1971 when Dr Rex Patterson, who was then Labor’s shadow Minister for Primary Industry, directed a pointed question to the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, on political interference in the wheat trade with China. [More…]
In all the contracts which have been made with the People’s Republic of China, it has been found necessary to include a clause strictly limiting the tonnages which the Chinese may nominate for loading at these ports. [More…]
It is timely to remind the Labor Party that in September last year the Australian Wheat Board sold to the People’s Republic of China one million tons of wheat. [More…]
Incidentally, total sales to the People’s Republic of China over the past 10 years have been 16,485,600 tons. [More…]
This gives a veritable rebuttal to the Minister for Overseas Trade and Secondary Industry as he then was, who said that the only body which could negotiate long term contracts with the People’s Republic of China was a Labor Administration. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey) on the magnificent contribution he has made in selling wheat to the People’s Republic of China over many years. [More…]
I was asked by the sugar industry before I went to China to do 3 things. [More…]
I have always - and I do so again - paid a tribute to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd for the pioneering work it has done in the last 2 years on aspects of our trade with China, particularly with respect to bulk handling facilities. [More…]
I gave credit to that company when I was in China too. [More…]
One of the reasons I have mentioned the intervention of the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) is the reservation I have because he in fact implied almost by way of blackmail to Australian wheat growers that if there should be a change of government there would be no future sales to China. [More…]
I noticed in a newspaper the other day that a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules, if my memory serves me correctly, conveyed to China a bull that had been presented by the Australian Government. [More…]
At this stage we have almost lowered Australia’s prestige by the attitude that we have shown towards Communist China. [More…]
I am not, by any manner of means, saying that we should not have an association, that we should not trade or that we should not talk with Communist China, but there is no necessity, to my mind, for us to go as far as we have gone in our attitude to Communist China at the moment. [More…]
Does he realise that the answer he gave at his Press conference yesterday that Australian officials would not be allowed to visit Southern Rhodesia in a private capacity because you cannot divorce the private from the official life of an official directly contradicts the attitude he took last year when he argued that the then Minister for the Army should be permitted to visit the People’s Republic of China in a private capacity without relinquishing his official position as Minister? [More…]
The right honourable gentleman draws a comparison with the situation under his Government when, through whose veto nobody knows, the then Minister for the Army was precluded from visiting the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The inhibitions which were then placed on the Minister for the Army visiting China were not of an international character. [More…]
They were self-imposed by the then Australian Government, which adhered to the archaic notion that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was still the President of the whole of China, including not only the province of Taiwan, where he had been in residence for more than 2 decades, but also the mainland where the Minister for the Army of that time had been invited to make a visit. [More…]
There were no international reasons but only reasons based on sheer indigenous archaism why Australian Ministers were not able to visit the People’s Republic of China last year. [More…]
I am happy to say that those lost decades during which the Australian Government sought to impose a blackout - a veto - on communications with the People’s Republic of China have now been happily forgotten. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister implied, in an answer that he gave to a question by me in the House this morning, that my Government was not prepared to permit Ministers to visit the People’s Republic of China, prior to recognition of that country, on an official invitation from the Chinese Government itself. [More…]
I had made it clear that I was prepared to permit the then Minister for Foreign Affairs and the then Minister for Labour and National Service to visit the People’s Republic of China if an official invitation was received. [More…]
The second point is this: The Prime Minister must know, as he was Foreign Minister for a short period, that the advice tendered to me as the Prime Minister was that the then Minister for the Army could not visit the People’s Republic of China in a private capacity- [More…]
The second point relates to the fact that the Prime Minister, having ‘been the Minister for Foreign Affairs for a short period of time, will know that the recommendation given to me by both the Department of Foreign Affairs and the then Minister for Foreign Affairs who is now a Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal was that a Minister would not be able to visit the People’s Republic of China in a personal capacity. [More…]
It ought to be supplying 20 per cent as that is the world average figure, excluding the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Australian Labor Party, at its own expense, sent a delegation to China. [More…]
We were accused of trying to make friends with Red China or Communist China. [More…]
It announced that it was negotiating with nationalist China or mainland China. [More…]
It cannot be Red China and Communist China one day, and Nationalist China and Mainland China the next day. [More…]
It is essential in the view of the Government, and it was essential in the view of preceding governments, that there should be diplomatic relations between Australia and China. [More…]
There has been no dispute between the political parties in the Australian Parliament that there ought to be recognition by the Australian Government of a government of China. [More…]
Except for an interval between 1949 or 1950 and 1966, when there was an ambassador from the Republic of China in Australia but not an ambassador from Australia in Taipeh, the capital of ti Republic of China, there has been diplomatic representation by each country. [More…]
The dispute between the political parties in the Australian Parliament has been about which was the government of China. [More…]
Our predecessors took the attitude, from 1949 to the end of their period in office, that they should recognise as the government of China the government headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and resident in Taipeh, the capital of the province of Taiwan. [More…]
My Party had taken the attitude since 1955 - I myself had expressed the attitude since 1954 - that Australia should recognise the government in Peking as the government of China, lt has not been possible for any country to have diplomatic relations with or to extend recognition to both the government in Taipeh and the government in Peking. [More…]
Every other government in the world has had to make a choice as to which of those rival governments it would recognise as the government of China. [More…]
Both rival governments asserted that their writ ran or should run over the whole of China. [More…]
Both rival governments asserted, and still assert, that Taiwan is a province of one country - China. [More…]
Both also have asserted that Tibet is part of one country - China. [More…]
There are some minor border differences between them concerning Mongolia, North Vietnam or some other countries, but on matters such as Taiwan and Tibet and their position in the country of China there has never been any dispute between the 2 rival governments. [More…]
Whatever other countries may think or whatever people in Australia or successive governments in Australia may think about the geographical or political realitities of the situation, the fact is that one can have recognition of a government of China or have diplomatic relations with a government of China only on the basis of there being one government of China. [More…]
After all, he was the greatest and he was going off to China. [More…]
On 7 November 1973, after the Prime Minister’s return from his recent visit to Japan and China, he spoke in the House about those visits and tabled certain documents relating to them. [More…]
The matter has been taken up by the Visual Arts Board of the Australian Council for the Arts and the procedures and costs that would be involved if the Government of the People’s Republic of China were to allow the exhibition to come to Australia are being examined. [More…]
It is enough for me to say that 1 welcome the continuing detente in relations between China and the United States and the continuing detente between each of those countries and some others. [More…]
We are no longer in thrall to bogies and obsessions in our relations with China or the great powers. [More…]
In its relations with the People’s Republic of China, my Government will make further efforts to develop the understanding and accord already achieved. [More…]
While our foreign policy interests have been diversified and our horizons are now wider than the United States, the United Kingdom and South East Asia - we no longer ignore, for example, the existence of Communist Asia, including China with its 800 million people - the fact remains that it is in our own immediate neighbourhood that we are most likely to find an effective role for Australia. [More…]
I found that the new friendships which we have developed with countries like China and North Vietnam have in no way diminished our traditional friendships with the countries I visited. [More…]
In the sixties the main thrust of United States policy in this area was the containment of China by military involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
In particular, we now have very greatly improved relations with China, a country which was deliberately isolated from 1949 until last year. [More…]
I am glad to say that today we are in a position where our relations with China are vastly improved. [More…]
Let me take China as an example. [More…]
There were no sales of wheat to China last year, but so far this year we have sold $17m worth of wheat to China. [More…]
There were no sales of sugar to China last year, but so far this year we have sold $6m worth of sugar to China. [More…]
Last year we sold $6.9m worth of wool to China. [More…]
This year we have sold $19.4m worth of wool to China. [More…]
We sold $ 11.5m worth of iron and steel to China last year, and this year we have sold SI 3.1m worth of iron and steel to China. [More…]
The total value of those few items that we have sold to China has increased from $19.3m to $58. [More…]
Previously there was hardly any trade with China. [More…]
His concept was based on the idea that the People’s Republic of China should be included; the United States would be excluded. [More…]
And as should have been well known, Tun Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who so recently duchessed the Prime Minister in Kuala Lumpur, and not so long ago duchessed me as well, the author of the idea of a zone of peace, freedom and neutrality, has stated over and over again that his proposals are for the distant future and will require the guarantees of security, territorial integrity and independence by the super powers, the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Thus, after Menzies’ aloofness and Holt’s warmth, the track record of Gorton and McMahon was of prime ministerial bulls in the Asian china shop. [More…]
The long term wheat and sugar agreements recently negotiated between Australia and China, and the rice agreement with Indonesia, should be of value to Australian producers insofar an they ensure that a guaranteed quantity of each commodity will be sold over a specified period at world prices to China. [More…]
For sugar, an arrangement has been reached for the sale of about 300,000 tonnes annually to China over a three to five year period. [More…]
Nobody would say that a country such as China should be ignored, but to have discussions or an association with a country does not mean that we have to give away every single piece of prestige. [More…]
If China had really and truly wanted to have dealings with Australia she would have accepted certain conditions that we would have put up. [More…]
We heard just a few minutes ago once again a member of the Country Party denigrating our association with China. [More…]
For years in Government the Country Party refused to accept the fact that China existed. [More…]
The Country Party thinks these things do not matter and that it is better to bury its head in the sand, to pretend that China is not a country at all, and that one-third of the world’s population does not exist. [More…]
The Minister for Science and Minister assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs says by way of interjection that the development of those trade ties has been the achievement of China. [More…]
He has cited the recognition of China. [More…]
Japan and China have established a new dialogue. [More…]
I can understand why the Leader of the Opposition was so embarrassed when I talked about China. [More…]
What did the previous Government do about China? [More…]
What did the Australian Country Party, as part of that Government, do for the wheat and sugar farmers in arranging contracts with China? [More…]
The Labor Government in its presentation of foreign policy apparently sees Australia’s relations with China in one box, Australia’s relations with Japan in another box, and Australia’s relations with [More…]
Neither Manila nor Bangkok took kindly to being told they needed nudging into relations with China. [More…]
It is unfortunate that, at a time when the development of a meaningful relationship has become increasingly important, he has divorced Australia’s relationships with Japan and China from the relationship of Australia with South East Asia. [More…]
He also said that the Liberals would recognise China and he mentioned a few other matters. [More…]
We recognise China and Chile on more or less the same grounds and criteria that the government is in effective control of the nation. [More…]
see that there is some sense in the United States naval presence and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics versus China conflict, or whatever it is, and the fact that the United States in many circumstances in the future can possibly be regarded as a proxy ally of China. [More…]
The major struggle is still continuing in Indo China and this will have enormous consequences on the region. [More…]
The Prime Minister considers only the advantages of a multi-polar system; not the complications it also brings to the region through competition for influence, whether by the USSR against the People’s Republic of China or whether it be through competition because of the growing Japanese economic influence in the region. [More…]
Nothing flowing through the speeches of the Prime Minister and the few speeches of the new Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) indicate any realistic appraisal of the consequences of the struggle still going on in Indo China and the ramifications of the competition of interests between the USSR, the People’s Republic of China and, to some extent, Japan. [More…]
Does he recognise that the inclusion of the People’s Republic of China in this forum that he proposes is contrary to the aspirations of the Association of South East Asian Nations for a regional neutralisation? [More…]
By putting China into the region in this way in his proposed regional forum has he not given impetus to further competition between the Soviet and China? [More…]
I think it was on 20 December last the Chinese communist government launched an attack on the islands in the China Sea which had been occupied by South Vietnam. [More…]
My own view is that probably South Vietnam had the best claim but China did put forward a colourable claim and I think the Philippines also put through a colourable claim. [More…]
When it found that Communist China, which is on the Security Council with the power of veto, was going to exercise that power it wrote a pathetic note to the President of the Security Council. [More…]
However, the permanent delegate of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Security Council had subsequently issued a thoroughly negative statement, presenting a distorted version of the facts and clinging to the false claims of Chinese sovereighty over the Hoang-Sa (Paracels) and Truong-Sa (Spratley) archipelagoes. [More…]
Since the People’s Republic of China is apermanent member of the Security Council and has veto power, this leaves little hope for any constructiva debate or positive action. [More…]
Therefore, I wish to inform you that all my communications to the Security Council are for the purpose of drawing the attention of the Council to the grave situation existing in the South-East Asia region as a result of China’s encroachment on the Republic of Vietnam’s territory. [More…]
I think it is stronger than the claim of Communist China to these islands but neither is beyond question. [More…]
If the bullies in Communist China want to use their veto on the Security Council to paralyse the Security Council, at least let them be exposed for what they are. [More…]
I brought my knowledge up to date by contacting the Communist Chinese Embassy in Canberra to find out the extent of China’s claims. [More…]
A few moments ago members on the Government side wanted to laugh off the thrust southwards by Communist China. [More…]
He said that there were no sales of wheat to China last year. [More…]
But so far this year we have sold $17m worth of wheat to China. [More…]
There were no sales of sugar to China last year but so far mis year we have sold $6m worth of sugar to China. [More…]
Last year we sold $6.9m worth of wool to China, this year we sold nearly $20m worth of wool to China. [More…]
They are very worried indeed at the 25 per cent tariff cut and the recent lifting of quotas to allow cheap textile consumer goods to come in here from China and other eastern countries where the labour cost is about 75c to 80c an hour. [More…]
According to this and other newspaper reports an office of a group describing itself as the Australia-Free China Society’ has been established in Taiwan. [More…]
I wish to make it clear that the ‘Australia-Free China Society’ was formed without even the knowledge of the Australian Government, let alone its approval or backing. [More…]
In particular, any office of the ‘AustraliaFree China Society’ in Taiwan has no official status and cannot perform any consular or official acts on behalf of Australia. [More…]
The Government has not provided, and will not provide, any financial or other assistance to the ‘AustraliaFree China Society’. [More…]
A United Nations report published in 1972 showed that 6 main military spenders account for more than four-fifths of the world’s armament expenditure, namely, the United States of America, the United Socialist Soviet Republic, France, China, the United Kingdom and Germany. [More…]
Except for the Middle East and Indo-China, developing countries spend less on arms and military personnel than the industrial world. [More…]
Our claims and arguments are given wide publicity in that democracy whereas in China no publicity can be given to the attitudes of the Australian people. [More…]
It is very doubtful whether it could contemporise its attitude even to concede that China exists because that was the way in which it approached that issue for 23 years. [More…]
The Minister asks whether I was going to China. [More…]
I was duc to leave the next morning to visit China. [More…]
I arrived back in Brisbane on the Saturday morning after having thrown to the wind a trip to China, a trip on which I would have been breaking new ground for myself as a Liberal. [More…]
In foreign affairs the orientation away from the free world to the third world of socialist states, the rejection of a concern for the Indian Ocean in favour of a dominance of it by the Russians, a concern for the development of relations with North Vietnam, North Korea and the other communist states of the world and excessive concern for countries like the People’s Republic of China - for example, the failure to condemn it in the South Pacific Forum for its nuclear explosions but the preparedness to condemn France- [More…]
We have sold 4 million tons of wheat to China. [More…]
Notwithstanding the great claims made by the Minister for Overseas Trade, who, in a deceptive and treacherous manner, seeks to mislead the people of Australia by saying that the Government has saved the wheat industry, those of us who have some practical experience in the industry know that long before he became a Minister the Australian Wheat Board sold not 4 million tons of wheat to the People’s Republic of China but 16 million tons. [More…]
We also know that in September 1972, some 2 months prior to the socialist government being inflicted on this country, a delegation of Australian wheat farmers renegotiated a contract with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
For example, what happens if somebody in China such as the great friend of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), that evil goon Chairman Mao, wanted to extradite somebody from Australia, perhaps some Taiwanese whose only crime was that he opposed the Communist regime? [More…]
The Prime Minister’s great and powerful friends in Communist China let off a rather big bang only recently, but we have not been given the contamination figures from that big bang. [More…]
It has not sponsored any holding up of the mails to China. [More…]
He has protested to France and he has protested to China about their experimenting in the atmosphere with nuclear weapons. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies - advocated that the time was ripe for dropping a hydrogen bomb on the people of China. [More…]
Has the Government made efforts to enable the United Nations Security Council, of which Australia is presently an elected member, to meet and discuss physical conflict and loss of life on and near the Paracel Islands involving China and South Vietnam? [More…]
In January 1974, the South Vietnamese Government, in a letter to the President of the Security Council, requested that the Council consider the dispute between China and South Vietnamese Government, in a letter to the discussions involving all members of the Council, including Australia, were held, the South Vietnamese Government withdrew its request. [More…]
The Government has a strong distaste for procedural tactics, such as were used for many years to prevent China’s admission to the United Nations. [More…]
The Australian Ambassador to China and my Principal Private Secretary. [More…]
We are going to have the ‘Fiddler of the Electoral Boundaries’ starring the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), who cannot even send carpet tacks to China. [More…]
He cannot even organise sending a kitchen sink to Red China. [More…]
Representatives of the Australian Government attended a meeting of interested donor countries in Paris on 16 October 1973 to discuss the possible establishment of an aid group for Indo-China. [More…]
In practice, neither the World Bank nor its affiliate the International Development Association have extended any loans to any of their member countries in Indo-China. [More…]
This was an important provision, required as much by North Vietnam, the PRG, the U.S.S.R. and China (in relation to their non-recognition of the Government of Vietnam) as by the United States, South Vietnam, France, Britain, Canada, etc. [More…]
The Australian Government has also provided aid to areas under PRG control through multilateral bodies such as the Indo-China Operational Group of the International Red Cross and the United Nations Childrens Fund. [More…]
China: Visit by Prime Minister (Question No. [More…]
1 ) During his last visit to China how much time elapsed between his meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his invitation to it [More…]
Has he ever suggested elsewhere that testing nuclear devices in the atmosphere by France is more reprehensible than testing nuclear devices in the atmosphere by China. [More…]
For instance, as recently as 17 and 18 June and 8 July 1974 I have expressed my opposition to such testing by France and China in similar terms, namely, that the tests conducted by both countries are a matter of deep concern to the Australian Government [More…]
Nuclear Weapons Testing by China and Russia (Question No. [More…]
20) recommended that the Australian Government take action to restrain the level of certain knitted and woven apparel items entering the Australian market from Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, India and China. [More…]
In accepting and acting upon the Textiles Authority’s findings and recommendations, the Australian Government has had regard to its rights and obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles (The Textiles Arrangement) and the Australia-China Trade Agreement. [More…]
In the case of China, the Textiles Authority recommended that restraint action be taken only in respect of imports into Australia of certain knitted products. [More…]
Having regard, inter alia, to the reciprocal most-favoured-nation provisions of the Australia-China Trade Agreement, the Australian Government considered that the only responsible course of action was to consult with the Chinese authorities to seek to reach a mutually acceptable level of restraint on trade in the products concerned. [More…]
Will he supply statistics of Australia 's trade with the People 's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) since the withdrawal of diplomatic recognition from the latter in December 1972. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1974/19740823_reps_29_hor90/#subdebate-73-68)
The Acting Commonwealth Statistician has supplied the following statistics of Australia 's trade with the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, for the period December 1972 to May 1974. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1974/19740823_reps_29_hor90/#subdebate-73-68)
The Textile Authority reported marked disruption from imports from Hong Kong, India and China, and export restraint arrangements have been negotiated with these countries. [More…]
Protection is being sought for the industry against imports of mushrooms from the Republic of China and Taiwan, which have doubled. [More…]
The answer is a doubling of the importation of knitting material from South Africa- not from China but from South Africa- and the imports are synthetics. [More…]
The Embassy at Peking is leased from the Government of the People’s Republic of China and action is in hand to secure premises on lease from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
Discussions have also been held with the Chinese Government to undertake a feasibility study for the introduction of a direct AustraliaChina liner service. [More…]
Officers of the Australian National Line are visiting China in October of this year to examine port facilities and to have further discussions on the practicability of a direct liner service between Australia and China. [More…]
I will act as Prime Minister until my departure for China on 4 October. [More…]
Also, do not forget the wheat deal with China that was initiated by the Government. [More…]
If the Deputy Prime Minister were genuine in his belief and his expressions of his point of view, would he resort to the devious device of saying that the Royal Australian Air Force uniforms are not acceptable in Communist China? [More…]
The farcical reason given for this was that the uniforms of the Royal Australian Air Force officers on the aircraft were not acceptable to the Peoples ‘ Republic of China. [More…]
He has illustrated how little respect he has for the excuse which the Acting Prime Minister has announced publicly as the reason for his non-visit to China. [More…]
We have the Prime Minister away from the country, the Deputy Prime Minister about to go to China, and the Treasurer also out of the country. [More…]
If the Deputy Prime Minister leaves this country tomorrow for China, throughout next week, which will be a critical time in the affairs of this country, we will have as Acting Prime MinisterHeaven forbid- the Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
said tonight that his proposed visit to the People’s Republic of China had unfortunately to be postponed. [More…]
He stated that he had been informed that the Royal Australian Air Force personnel manning the BAC-1 1 1 service aircraft could not wear uniforms whilst on a visit to China. [More…]
Dr Cairns said that he felt this misunderstanding should be cleared up and had informed the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China accordingly. [More…]
That is pure and utter, unadulterated, 5 -star hogwash because when a Murray grey bull was sent to China it was taken there by the Royal Australian Air Force and the members of the Air Force who took it did not have to strip off and get into a pair of BVDs or anything when they arrived in China. [More…]
Nixon went to China in ‘Air Force One’ with the United States Air Force and its members wore uniforms over there. [More…]
He also tried to make capital out of the fact that the Acting Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) was taking the point of view that the Chinese people might be wrong in saying that Royal Australian Air Force officers should not wear their uniforms when they visit China. [More…]
1 ) Have there been instances of shaving brushes imported from China, which have not fully met quarantine requirements, being released for sale. [More…]
The quarantine legislation which prohibits imports of shaving brushes from many countries including China, is at present under review to take into account modern manufacturing technology methods which may have diminished the risk of anthrax transmission. [More…]
This will mean that the Asian trade with countries besides Japan- countries like the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Malaysia- will benefit from the Australian Shipping Commission bringing in an increased number of ships. [More…]
The Prime Minister heads off overseas after insulting his own colleagues; the Treasurer (Mr Crean), who is not of much consequence anyway in economic affairs, goes abroad; the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) goes to see his great friends in China. [More…]
Another great pearl dropped from Chairman Jim when he said that China may export oil to Australia He thinks this would be a great thing. [More…]
It does not intend to look for our own minerals and oil but is going to allow oil to be imported from China. [More…]
We will be getting the oil intended for the lamps of China, although that country does not appear to have enough oil to fill its own needs. [More…]
Unlike his Deputy, the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) who at least pleases someone- as he did when he went to the Peoples’ Republic of China and declared there to the world that he admired the revolutionary tactics of that country- the Prime Minister loses credibility wherever he goes. [More…]
Or does he suggest that it was inappropriate for the Prime Minister to go on then from Tokyo to Peking to set the seal on the relations that he had established with China during the period when he was Leader of the Opposition? ‘ [More…]
One of those nations was China, to which we are anxious to sell wheat and we are delighted to do so because honourable members opposite could not do it when they were in government. [More…]
Because the Prime Minister was successful in being able to go to China before anybody else on this level, honourable members opposite are a bit jealous. [More…]
By agreement between the two parties, the terms of sale, prices received and amounts and types involved in the Corporation’s recent sale of wool to the Peoples Republic of China are confidential matters between the Corporation and the Chinese authorities. [More…]
The Corporation considers that this sale was useful in that it opened the way to acceptance by China of the new selling methods based on objective measurement now being strongly promoted by the Corporation. [More…]
I recently returned from a short trip to China. [More…]
One I visited recently is China. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned that while he was in China he noticed that there was no discrimination between first class and second class airline passengers. [More…]
I also have been to China. [More…]
There is certainly a very clear demarcation between the equals and the not so equals in China. [More…]
To my mind, it is even inadequate on Japan, China and other nations in our region, if we want to get some sort of balance and find out where our interests lie. [More…]
Let the honourable member for Wilmot answer this one: The Government spent thousands of dollars on a display in China. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) went to China to see it. [More…]
What plans does the Government have for trying to stimulate overseas trade in the export of beef cattle7 Never mind about crawling and snivelling to the Chinese at a display in China. [More…]
We have also established new overseas markets, particularly in China, for wool and wheat. [More…]
We then instituted immediately a system of negotiating voluntary restraints with overseas exporting countries- Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India and the People’s Republic of China- with considerable success. [More…]
Will the Minister for Overseas Trade and the Minister for Manufacturing Industry tell the House and these people whether they have sold out the textile, clothing and footwear industries to their communist friends in China and other places? [More…]
As a result the Textiles Authority, which was set up within the Industries Assistance Commission, recommended restraints to take effect from 1 July on the following products: Items of knitwearmen’s and boys’ shirts; coats, cardigans, jumpers, sweaters, women’s blouses, shirts and the like; dresses; tracksuits, playsuits, rompersuits in respect of imports from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China; women’s and girls’ dresses, blouses and shirts of woven fabric in respect of imports from India and Hong Kong; and women’s, girls and infants’ coats of woven fabric in respect of imports from Hong Kong. [More…]
One of the finest records of this Government so far, for which it does not get any credit, is the way it has extended markets for our rural products, particularly in China and other parts of the world. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) concluded his speech by praising the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) for his tremendous efforts in China. [More…]
But he sits opposite; if he did, he would know or he should know that this is exactly what we have negotiated in the terms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade with India, China and Korea- no, not with Korea because it would not be in it and we had to take action unilaterally at our own end pursuant to our international agreements under the GATT arrangements. [More…]
He is a representative of a party that during its whole period in office continued to ignore one quarter of the world’s population- the People’s Republic of China or communist China as members of the Opposition still prefer to call it. [More…]
Will it revoke Australia’s recognition of communist China? [More…]
I have been fortunate this past year in being able to study at first hand Australia’s relationships with the United States of America, Canada, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Japan and the Philippines. [More…]
-People have been waiting 25 years for different policies in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and in the People’s Republic of China, but we do not hear much about that. [More…]
Similarly, should we by recognising the People’s Republic of China desert the people of Taiwan? [More…]
The facts are that the People’s Republic of China considers Taiwan to be a province of China and the People’s Republic will not, in any circumstances, exchange diplomatic emissaries with any country which recognises Taiwan as a separate entity. [More…]
Do we choose Taiwan or China? [More…]
Taiwan is in exactly the same position in China’s view. [More…]
China maintains that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
For that reason China will not accept recognition of Taiwan by any other country and would not exchange diplomatic emissaries with Australia if we recognised Taiwan. [More…]
I have visited the People’s Republic of China and it has no objection- contrary to what the honourable member for Maranoa says- to other countries trading with Taiwan. [More…]
In fact, the latest development is for the Chinese Government to encourage Taiwanese people to visit China in certain circumstances. [More…]
For this reason we recognised China and we recognised North Vietnam, and on the other extreme we recognised Chile. [More…]
I instance the recognition of China. [More…]
I was impressed by the way China had increased its knowledge in the comparatively short period between the 2 visits of the viewpoints of the rest of the world. [More…]
I recollect a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clem Attlee, saying some years ago that he was very frightened indeed of the lack of knowledge in China of the viewpoints of the rest of the world and that the sooner the isolation of China was ended the better it would be for the peace of the whole world. [More…]
China has increased its knowledge of the views of the world. [More…]
One could not have anything stolen in China. [More…]
I also noted the great improvement in the technology and the types of equipment in the factories in China. [More…]
Indonesia in particular has a profound distrust of Mainland China and knows that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) and this Government are utterly subservient to Peking. [More…]
Japan is clearly much more powerful in a military sense if she wanted to mobilise, and so is China. [More…]
A very senior Army officer, Brigadier Hooton who last year resigned as the head of Army intelligence in protest against cuts in defence expenditure, has pointed out that Japan, China and India, as well as the Soviet Union, have the nuclear capacity to threaten Australia. [More…]
In the last few weeks, however, as an exxample, its representatives have held discussions- in New York, Geneva, Vienna and other capitals- with representatives of, inter alia, the USA, the UK, the USSR, India, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Netherlands, China, Romania, New Zealand and Canada. [More…]
I refer to the alleged no- threat theory of the Government which ignores the instability in the region, particularly in Indo-China, and which ignores the instability and fragility in regard to detente itself. [More…]
The only time that I can recall the Prime Minister making a statement to the Parliament on an overseas visit- and there have been plenty of them- was when he returned from a visit to Japan and China last year. [More…]
What will his answer be to questions about the extraordinary statement he made when he was in China? [More…]
The Soviet Union, with its conflict with China and the conflict over borders will be interested in the statement made by the Prime Minister when in China in which he said: [More…]
With no nation is our new aspiration symbolised more than it is with China, a power not only in our region but in the world. [More…]
Does anybody in this place feel that there is no other country in the world with which we share closer relations or with which our aspirations are symbolised more than they are with China? [More…]
Peoples’ Republic of China. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of reports emanating from China that during the Fair and within the Australian Embassy in Peking, following a dinner, a member of the Australian party attached to the Deputy Prime Minister punched an Australian exhibitor, drawing blood, assaulted the Australian Ambassador to China and scuffled with a United States diplomat resulting in that diplomat’s clothing being ripped? [More…]
Have diplomatic protests been received either from the United States of America or from the Peoples’ Republic of China? [More…]
I would be surprised if there was any truth in the honourable member’s allegations because as Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister, and being in frequent contact with the Minister for Overseas Trade during and since his visit to China, I have heard nothing of these matters. [More…]
The People’s Republic or China carried out nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, over the mainland, in each year from 1964to 1974. [More…]
Does anyone in this country say that the wheat contracts that we were able to sign with China for 4.7 million tons had no effect on that dramatic improvement in the output of rural industry? [More…]
Export restraint arrangements were negotiated with Hong Kong, India and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the July 1974 issue of Channel, the official journal of the ABC Staff Association, that ABC Commissioner Dorothy Edwards, speaking to This Day Tonight staff, claimed it was just as well they had not shown the Antonioni film on China as the ABC’s representative in Peking, Paul Raffaele, could have been killed. [More…]
As for a zone of peace, it is perfectly obvious that if there are 2 superpowers, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, in competition with each other and if they both have naval forces in the Indian Ocean the threat to Australia can come from the ripples of competition between those 2 superpowers. [More…]
Can he say what will be the effect of the recently announced voluntary restrictions on textile imports on the exports of textiles from the following developing countries: (a) China, (b) India, (c) Pakistan and (d) The Philippines. [More…]
The effect of the bilateral textiles arrangements entered into in August and September 1974 between the Australian Government and the governments of the People’s Republic of China and of India respectively, will be to restrain exports in the twelve month period ending 30 June 1975 from the latter countries to Australia of certain textiles items detailed in those arrangements to levels which it is considered, having regard to the findings of the Textiles Authority, will not disrupt the Australian market. [More…]
There is a developing competition between China and the Soviet Union for influence in regions adjacent to Australia. [More…]
The balance of stability, as China itself clearly appreciates, depends on a continuing presence in the area of the United States. [More…]
He went to China for about 2 days in 1973 but we did not hear a report on that. [More…]
Never once has he offered to go to China, except on a very fleeting visit, and yet he is making suggestions tonight about this power that is likely to invade us. [More…]
They have to be with China. [More…]
There are such things as Polaris submarines in the Indian Ocean, so arranged there that they constitute a threat not only to the Soviet Union but also to China. [More…]
Republic of Korea, India and the People’s Republic of China : Imports (Question No. [More…]
Will the restraints promised by India and the People’s Republic of China also be at the same level. [More…]
Will he provide details of the (a) quantity and (b) value of imports from (i) the Republic of Korea, (ii) India and (iii) the People’s Republic of China during the last 2 years. [More…]
Restraints agreed to with India and the People’s Republic of China provide for comparable degrees of restraint of exports to Australia in the twelve month period ending 30 June 1975 of specified apparel items. [More…]
The regulations that flow from that legislation do not have the sort of far-reaching national and international consequences of regulations that might flow from an agreement that we could enter into with Japan, Russia, China or other countries which could not only involve the preservation of flora or fauna, but could also have a far-reaching effect upon the environment of man. [More…]
1 ) Have the contracts or details of contracts or arrangements between the Australian Wheat Board and China concerning wheat sold, or to be sold, since 1 January 1973 been made public. [More…]
In announcing some time ago the wheat that would be sold to China over a number of years, was the supply of wheat to be given priority over sales to other countries. [More…]
What is the list of the main contractual relationship embodied in his announcement that 4:7 million tons would be sold to China. [More…]
and (2) On 11 October 1973 the then Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, issued a public statement concerning the negotiation of a Long-Term Wheat Agreement between the Australian Wheat Board and the China National Cereals Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation. [More…]
In addition to announcing that the Agreement is for a period of three years commencing 1 January 1974 and provides for the sale of up to 4.7 million tonnes, Dr Cairns drew particular attention to the fact that the LongTerm Agreement had been negotiated specifically in accordance with the Trade Agreement between Australia and China which had been signed in July 1973. [More…]
The Board, in line with established commercial practice, has made public certain details of a non-confidential nature concerning individual sales contracts it has subsequently entered into with the China National Cereals Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation. [More…]
The Agreement specifies the base quantities which are to be sold by the Australian Wheat Board and bought by the China National Cereals Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation during each year of the Agreement- 1 . [More…]
Sales amounting to 2.6 million tonnes have been made to China since the Agreement was signed. [More…]
Has the Government or the Prime Minister used the fact of their friendly relationships with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China and asked either of those nations to stop providing North Vietnamese regular troops in South Vietnam with arms or other forms of support? [More…]
Nevertheless, of course the war has kept on so long and so murderously because the United States has supplied so much equipment, such sophisticated equipment, to the South, and Russia and China have supplied it to the North. [More…]
I will not attempt to apportion the blame, but this war would have ended long ago had the United States, the USSR and the People’s Republic of China abstained. [More…]
Since then it has been the duty of successive Prime Ministers to report to Parliament and people on Australian activities, on Australian actions, including activity by the armed forces, in Indo-China. [More…]
They shared, and encouraged the Australian people to accept, a delusion about the nature of the conflict in IndoChina. [More…]
It was a mistaken attitude after the revolution in China that led, step by step, to the mistaken view of Australian interests and American interests and mistaken actions in Indo-China. [More…]
The Australian Government last year contributed $1.5m to international organisations to be spent in Indo-China- on both sides- during the current financial year. [More…]
On 28 March the Australian Government announced a further contribution of $200,000 to the Indo-China Operations Group of the International Red Cross, which operates throughout Indo-China. [More…]
On 2 April I announced a further contribution of $ lm to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ‘ relief work among refugees in all parts of Indo-China, on both sides of the lines of military control. [More…]
This brings the total Australian Government aid to international humanitarian organisations operating in Indo-China to $3.4m this financial year. [More…]
There could be only one other motive- to shame the United States back into Indo-China. [More…]
If that is not the proposal, then what criticism of substance can it have against my Government ‘s attitudes or actions with regard to IndoChina, now or at any time in the past 2 years and 4 months? [More…]
In the heady days when Vietnam was a popular war, when it was a political goldmine, before the people of Australia came to see its implications and consequences for Indo-China, for Australia, for the United States, the constant challenge made in this House, not least from the present Leader of the Opposition, was, ‘stand up and be counted’. [More…]
It was in 1954 that in this House I first warned against Australian or American military involvement in Indo-China. [More…]
But the United States’ honour and interests do lie in helping rebuild a unified Vietnam, the unification of which misguided policies, mistaken policies of the past so long delayed; the United States’ honour and interest lie in helping to rebuild an Indo-China to the devastation of which those policies so greatly contributed. [More…]
The really important factors and relations are those which have been developed by the Australian Government since December 1972- our relations with our closest and largest neighbour, Indonesia; our relations with our greatest trading partner, Japan; our relations with China; our active support for the development of cooperation between the members of the Association of South East Asian Nations; our efforts to ensure that the Indian Ocean does not become the next area of confrontation between the super-powers as Indo-China became, in a sense, the first. [More…]
Above all, Australia’s security, as with the peace of the world, rests ultimately upon making the detente between the United States and the Soviet Union a success and upon associating China in a wider detente. [More…]
The United States has drawn the attention of the Soviet Union, China and other countries to the actions of North Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian Government should approach the Soviet Union and China to seek observance of the Paris Accords. [More…]
North Vietnam tends to look to the Soviet Union for help, aid and military supplies much more than it does to China. [More…]
With some of the largest armies in the world, it is still likely to be closer to the Soviet Union than to China. [More…]
The Chinese see the Soviet Union as attempting an encirclement of China, and that will lead to countervailing action and competition on the mainland of South-East Asia and in other parts of South-East Asia. [More…]
I believe that is an objective that every ASEAN country would want to support, but the Prime Minister had the grand proposal that would have resulted in those countries being dominated by China. [More…]
It is significant that the dominance he has encouraged has been the dominance of China. [More…]
But it still remains that China under Mao Tse Tung is no worse off than would China have been under Chiang Kai Shek; North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minn no worse off than North Vietnam under the French; and South Vietnam under the National Liberation Front is no worse off than South Vietnam under Diem or his successors or under American bombs and firepower. [More…]
It has been shattered by the events in Indo-China. [More…]
The Government’s spasmodic reaction to human suffering throughout Indo-China was matched only by the form of donation when it was advised that an Opposition team was visiting Indo-China. [More…]
There is now a daily dodging of death throughout Indo-China, and the forms of government which are bringing this about are supported by honourable members opposite. [More…]
After all, humanitarianism must not get in the way of ideological consequencesthe consequences we are seeing enacted in Indo-China at the present moment. [More…]
What protests have been registered with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which continue to supply the Government of North Vietnam with arms? [More…]
Have we explored the prospects of a concerted regional action in Indo-China? [More…]
Before anyone condemns a person who seeks on most occasions to advance what are colloquially put forward as progressive views and alleges that this is a change of stance, let me remind honourable members opposite what my attitude has always been on Indo-China. [More…]
That aircraft stood at Tan Son Nhut airport for approximately 2 days fully loaded with the mire of human misery throughout Indo-China not being alleviated until the following day when the shuttle flights commenced. [More…]
-The honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) regrettably has learnt very little from his visit to Indo-China. [More…]
I am absolutely staggered that anybody who pretends to comprehend Indo-China would come back with the old Democratic Labor Party statement, the League of Rights statement, the point of view that has been held by reactionary forces in Australia and throughout the world, that old tired cliche about people voting with their feet. [More…]
So, as in the old days with Diem and the Geneva Agreements, when the important thing was the elections throughout the whole of Indo-China which Diem, with the support of the United States and the Australian Governments, did not allow to come to pass, exactly the same thing has happened with Thieu, who has argued against the National Council. [More…]
These are all matters of fact, not matters of a fleeting visit to Indo-China. [More…]
The folk who put forward that proposition completely ignore the fact that there is probably as much difference between the Soviet Union and the United States as there is between the Soviet Union and Communist China. [More…]
Article 7- the oneforone replacement provision- has been demontrably breached by North Vietnam, by the People’s Republic of China and by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Indeed, the inclinations of the Government of North Vietnam have been contributed to in an alarming degree by the Government of the Soviet Union and the Government of the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Indeed, this is only the second occasion, apart from the travelogues which he occasionally effects, on which the Prime Minister has reported to us on what is happening and then not Indo-China but South Vietnam. [More…]
What I want to do is to try, first of all, to indicate my disappointment that this is not a statement on the whole of the circumstances of Indo-China. [More…]
What we seek is the intervention by the Government of Australia, with the Government of North Vietnam, the Government of the U.S.S.R. and with the Government of the People’s Republic of China in order to ensure that it might be a realistic cease fire. [More…]
The Paris Accords, which set down a prescription by which the lives and livelihoods of the people of the region could be protected, are now being breached entirely in their military aspects by North Vietnam, the U.S.S.R. and the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Therefore, I have heard all the versions of the Vietnam debate from the time when it was a question of maintaining French authority in Indo-China to the debate that is current in Australia today. [More…]
Let me say that I believed Sir Robert Menzies when I was a young man and I thought Australia had an interest in maintaining French rule in IndoChina. [More…]
The first attitude about the maintenance of French rule in Indo-China was a standard Australian attitude. [More…]
I am old enough in this Parliament to remember that everybody in IndoChina who opposed the continuance of French rule in Indo-China was classified as a ‘red’- and that included Diem, who was later for a time supported by the U.S. Government. [More…]
Harold Holt went to IndoChina as the guest of Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodia and spoke back here with the utmost warmth of the government of Sihanouk. [More…]
The honourable gentleman opposite has asked us to consider all of Indo-China. [More…]
Well, the succession states of Indo-China consist of Laos, Cambodia or the Khmer Republic, and the 2 Vietnams. [More…]
When he was Minister for External Affairs, responsible for foreign policy, out came pamphlets showing the red arrows coming down from China. [More…]
We have the extraordinary spectacle of the Deputy Leader of the Country Party, the honourable member for New England, asking the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to get assurances from communist governments that nobody would be slaughtered and then saying: ‘You cannot believe communist governments anyway; look at the result of their agreements in Paris and elsewhere over the whole of Indo-China’. [More…]
As for the thesis of Chinese primary interest in this, China would be totally undisturbed if we sent one million men from Australia back into [More…]
It did not matter to China if the French fought for 10 years. [More…]
It did not matter to China if the Americans fought for 7 years. [More…]
It is perfectly clear what their major preoccupation is, and it is not Indo-China. [More…]
The Government approach the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China to seek observance of the Paris Agreement [More…]
According to some people in the world, it was important that the power struggle be brought into play, that the Foster Dulles concept of China being contained be immediately implemented in Vietnam. [More…]
But the assistance to North Vietnam from China and from the Soviet Union continued. [More…]
The same situation exists with Vietnam and China today. [More…]
But what is the free world, the United Nations, indeed Australia, doing to ensure that tens of thousands of innocent people are not massacred in the wake of the communist advance in Indo-China? [More…]
The agrarian reform campaign was carried out under the supervision of Chinese cadres familiar with the similar campaign in China, and Truong Chinh identified himself publicly with it. [More…]
He makes the claim that, becuse of the recognition of Hanoi and China, Australia has been placed in a position where it can bring about, where it is bringing about a cease fire, or at least is attempting to do so. [More…]
For what reason other than strategic reasons would China have played a major part in the construction of this railway in the southern part of the African continent? [More…]
Finally, with regard to the matter of detente to which I referred earlier, surely Australia and the rest of the free world should take careful note of a speech reported to have been made by the Premier of the People ‘s Republic of China, Chou En-lai, at the Fourth National People’s Congress in Peking last January. [More…]
7503 dated 26 January 1975 issued by the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I think we would all agree that these are very disturbing words, to say the least, and if in fact there is no detente in the eyes of the leaders of the People’s Republic of China then surely it is high time that the free world made a re-assessment of the situation. [More…]
The long term wheat agreement between the Australian Wheat Board and the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation was signed on 18 October, 1973. [More…]
The Agreement provided for the sale of up to 4.7 million tonnes of Australian wheat to China over a period of three years from 1 January, 1974. [More…]
and (4) The Agreement specifies only the base quantities which are to be sold by the Australian Wheat Board to the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation during the three years of the Agreement; these are 1.1 million tonnes in 1974 and from 1.5 to 1.8 million tonnes in each of 1 975 and 1 976, giving a total of up to 4.7 million tonnes over the three years. [More…]
No; the Agreement provides for actual quantities to be negotiated each year according to availability of supplies from Australia and the requirements of China within the stipulated base quantities, with provision for quantities to be increased above the base levels, by mutual agreement as to quantity and price. [More…]
The arrangements are embodied in a formal agreement between the Australian Wheat Board and the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation the full details of which are confidential as between these parties; but see answers ( 1 ) to (5) above. [More…]
and (8) The Australian Wheat Board, as seller, does have a contractual obligation to supply wheat to the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation, which for its part, has an obligation to buy Australian wheat. [More…]
Quite clearly what is happening in Indo-China at the present time does have an impact on other countries. [More…]
But it is also equally clear that what is likely to happen in Indo-China over the next few days will have an impact on other countries. [More…]
If the Prime Minister had his way and if that organisation were embroidered, lengthened and expanded to include China and North Vietnam it would be dominated by those countries. [More…]
As a result of these changes- this comes not from an Opposition judgment but from judgments inside China- the Sino-Soviet dispute competition is likely to become more intense. [More…]
Depending upon the future alliance of the North Vietnamese regime or its degree of independence from Russia or China, there is a potential for adding to that feeling of encirclement. [More…]
If North Vietnam stands aside from that dispute it might be a different matter, but hitherto the North Vietnamese have been closer to the Soviet Union than to China. [More…]
China’s feeling of encirclement is very real indeed. [More…]
Surely we could argue that the tension between China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a sign of peace for South-East Asia, for if these two great countries are in conflict how are they going to combine to subvert South-East Asia in a communist campaign? [More…]
We do not wish to tear up the recognition agreement with China, with North Vietnam and with North Korea. [More…]
For so long the Opposition refused to accept the existence of China. [More…]
If the Opposition Parties had been in Government it would have been impossible to send even a communication to North Vietnam because they would have continued to hide their heads, ostrich-like, as they did for over 2 decades in relation to China. [More…]
According to the authoritative, well documented articles in the ‘National Times’, our action was for our own selfish ends and to satisfy Sir Robert Menzies ‘ paranoid fears of red, or yellow, hordes invading us from the north, because Sir Robert’s simplistic solution for the whole problem was to interpose the American military machine between Australia and Communist China. [More…]
What has happened in Vietnam in the past 2 months is similar to what happened in China during the civil war in 1 948-49. [More…]
South Vietnam ell simply because the government of the South was as corrupt as that of Nationalist China and its armies and people had lost the will to fight. [More…]
Th j whole rotten structure came down in the same way as it did in China, because South Vietnam lacked leaders and a government which understood the needs of the people. [More…]
No doubt mindful of America’s great failure in China, Hubert Humphrey, President Johnson’s VicePresident, said last week concerning the outcome in Vietnam: ‘No outside force can save a country that lacks will or political leadership. ‘ [More…]
This was the case in the United States itself in the last century, and in Russia, China, Spain and many other countries this century. [More…]
It was also, as we know, the case in the Indo-China war. [More…]
History has shown that we have come to live on friendly terms and have profitable commercial relations with communist states, namely, Russia and China. [More…]
Has this Naval exercise taken place, in part at least, in South China Sea, in waters claimed by China to be Chinese waters. [More…]
The Australian Government understands that China’s territorial claims on the South China Sea relate to islands in that sea, and the waters within a twelve-mile radius of those islands. [More…]
It may interest people to know that we are now selling $25m worth of wool a year to China. [More…]
With all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop, it is reacting in fine authoritarian fashion to proper criticism of its policies. [More…]
Trade with China (Question No. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to indexed item 68- Strategic list on trade with China. [More…]
89 of 8 May 1973 the Prime Minister announced that Australia would no longer maintain on its commercial trade with China among other countries, restraints different therestraintsoncommercialtrade maintained on any other country. [More…]
What quantity originated from mainland China. [More…]
What is the name and address of the central authority responsible in China for the export of foodstuffs. [More…]
178 kilograms originated from mainland China in the nine months ended 3 1 March 1975. [More…]
China National Cereals Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation, 82 Tung An Men Street, Peking. [More…]
These letters have gone to eastern European countries and China, among others. [More…]
It is a flow-on from previous relationships that developed between the United States of America and Russia and their attitude to China. [More…]
Of course, subsequently they chose to see the People’s Republic of China also as a threat. [More…]
It ringed the world with submarines ready to fire upon both continental Russia and continental China. [More…]
The original agreement which was signed meant that we accepted a total involvement in any conflict between, in all probability, either Russia and America or America and China. [More…]
Surely nobody in the Parliament will suggest that between China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there is anything but rather unfriendly and arm’s length relations. [More…]
As there is no longer reason for debates on Vietnam, South-East Asia or Indo-China we are now getting back to the bases. [More…]
Since the liberation of China they no longer can proceed with the ‘fear of Asia’ debate which had been with us since 1949. [More…]
For many years members of the Country Party said: ‘Do not recognise China. [More…]
Do not go near China. [More…]
Just let China buy our wheat’. [More…]
I go to China as frequently as I am able to do so. [More…]
One trips over Australian farmers in China; one cannot move without running into bus loads of Australian farmers. [More…]
As the last speakers have said, of course there is great friction between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
There is perhaps some friction between the other countries that have been recently liberated and the People’s Republic of China and among themselves. [More…]
The Opposition has never got used to the fact that in 1949 the people of China decided to run their own country. [More…]
At that time 600 million people decided that it was no longer lit and proper to allow foreign countries to run China. [More…]
China made that decision in 1949. [More…]
There is no likelihood of the Government of China being changed in the future. [More…]
China is a major influence in Asia. [More…]
The non-recognition of China was his policy. [More…]
The threat arises in this way: The Soviet Union and China have great enmity towards each other. [More…]
We all know that the Soviet is fearful of being overrun by China in the longer run. [More…]
China, for its part, is fearful of an interdiction strike by the Soviet. [More…]
If we want a United States presence in the Indian Ocean as a balancing force to the competition between the Soviet and China then we must encourage the United States naval and air power into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
What is so unusual about that when all the major powers today- Britain, the United States, possibly China and certainly the Soviet Union and Francehave nuclear submarines and submarines with nuclear potential? [More…]
Papua New Guinea was known to the outside world, particularly in India, China and Malaya, well before Magellan entered the Pacific. [More…]
One major obstacle to the development of broad and constructive regional co-operation has been the war in Indochina. [More…]
Moreover, the fact that, of Australia’s near neighbours, Malaysia and, more recently the Philippines and Thailand have decided to enter into diplomatic relations with China is an encouraging sign also. [More…]
For example, in their meeting in Kuala Lumpur in May 1 975, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers pledged themselves to continuing efforts to promote greater regional co-operation in SouthEast Asia with specific reference to their readiness to enter into friendly and harmonious relations with the new governments in Indo-China. [More…]
They are the United States, Russia and China. [More…]
When we talk about the centrally planned economies and add together countries like Russia, China and Eastern Europe, we are talking about one-third to one-half of the world’s population. [More…]
For instance, in 1973-74 over 85 per cent of our trade with China was in grain, wool, iron and steel. [More…]
Look at the double-speak: The reality is that, while we were fighting in Vietnam and while the same right honourable gentleman was sending Australian boys to their death, his Government was still trading with China. [More…]
He was still flying to China trying to bring about wheat deals while we were at war with North Vietnam which was being supplied with food from China. [More…]
We did not hear any bleating from the National Country Party or its supporters, the wheat growers, about the fact that the honourable member for Lalor, Dr J. F. Cairns, went to the Eastern bloc countries and negotiated that deal or about the sugar deal that we made with China. [More…]
I believe that a country such as Australia has to accommodate itself with places such as China, Russia on its eastern front, Siberia- it will not be divided into two in our lifetimeand the centrally planned economies; that is, those who want to do business in Australia and nearly all of whom are represented here diplomatically. [More…]
-Accepted the position of Ambassador to China, as the new senator says. [More…]
-The new senator said ‘China’. [More…]
In February this year the Board sold $120m worth of wheat to China, the wheat to be shipped between April this year and March 1976. [More…]
The deal was made in Melbourne and Canberra with the China National Cereals, Oil and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation and payment is to be made with interest within 12 months of shipment. [More…]
This is a market on which Australia has always sold wheat, and whilst the present Government makes great play of the claim that more wheat has been sold to China while it has been in office, that claim is a fallacy because when the Liberal and Country Parties were in government huge sales of wheat were made to China, particularly in our last year of office, 1972. [More…]
China will always buy our wheat when the price and quality are right and when we have stocks to sell. [More…]
I do not think our opposition to the Overseas Trading Corporation Bill would have any effect at all on our trade with China and Russia. [More…]
I would like him to address his remarks to the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) who, when opposing the Overseas Trading Corporation legislation, spoke as though we were encouraging what he deemed to be our commie mates, by which I think he meant Russia, China or any other country to which we are anxious to sell our rural products at the present time. [More…]
and (4) The honourable member’s question appears to refer in particular to a paper, prepared in the Department of Foreign Affairs, .which formed the basis of a Cabinet submission on Australia’s policy towards China. [More…]
It has not proved possible to identify the particular background papers on Japan and Russia mentioned in passing in the context of the China paper to which the honourable member’s question refers. [More…]
In favour: (93)- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Democratic Yemen, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libyan Arab Republic, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia. [More…]
We have made major sales of wheat to Russia, to China and to Egypt, some of it through term agreements. [More…]
In answer to a question earlier this week I said that on the latest estimates available with respect to the coming wheat harvest, production would be in the vicinity of 10.8 million tonnes and after all commitments in the pipeline, including major sales to Russia, China, Egypt and Japan, there would be a carryover of stocks of about 500 000 tonnes, which is extremely small. [More…]
Bilateral relations with China will be further developed. [More…]
His death has been lamented not only by the people of China, for whom it was an occasion of profound national grief, but also by statesmen and people the world over. [More…]
With his great compatriot Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai embodied and expressed the aspirations of the people of China for national unity and international dignity. [More…]
In the eyes of the world he represented the authentic spirit of the new China and her people. [More…]
Only in recent years have all Australian governments and parties come to accept the place of China in our region and in the world and the legitimate claims of her people to recognition and full membership in the world community. [More…]
I believe the judgment of history wm confirm that on all momentous issues affecting the peace and security of our region China has been proved right and the Western nations paid a heavy and tragic price for their folly and short-sightedness. [More…]
Modern China owes much of its strength and confidence as well as its growing industrial development to the ideals he formulated and the inspiration he provided to his people. [More…]
It was a vision which encompassed the world, a world where China would neither dominate nor be dominated. [More…]
If the world now better understands China and the people of China it is chiefly because of this extraordinary man. [More…]
He deepened and extended China’s contacts with the world in culture and trade. [More…]
His per.sonality embodied both the spirit of contemporary China and the values of its ancient civilisation, the longest civilisation to occupy one part of the earth’s surface. [More…]
Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in support of this motion of condolence in respect of the death of the Premier of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Like so many people holding office in the parliaments throughout the world I have joined with the throng that has gone to China in recent years and have had the great privilege of meeting with Premier Chou En-lai. [More…]
In speaking of this man one must of course reconcile his history with the torment of China up to 1949 and the great achievements of China since 1949. [More…]
It has been an unfortunate aspect of Australian politics that the exploitation of foreign affairs during the 1950s and 1960s and the plight of Asia during that period clouded both the achievement of China and the ability and achievements of the individuals in the Government of China, one of whom was the Premier, Chou En-lai. [More…]
The responsibility of the Government of China in 1949 to tackle the problems of some 600 million people, to get the industries going, to overcome the illiteracy, to overcome the enormous health problems, to overcome the poverty, then to face the trade embargoes, the hostility of much of the Western world, was a responsibility that fell very largely on the person of Chou En-lai. [More…]
The greatness of China in 1976 can be very directly associated with his ability and with his contribution to his own country. [More…]
Events following the fall of Vietnam indicate that the North Vietnamese are still interested in carving out for themselves their own zone of influence in Indo-China and Thailand. [More…]
Of course we must not forget China. [More…]
In our policy announced yesterday- I take great pleasure in this- it was stated that we will improve and further develop bilateral relations with China. [More…]
It is obvious that the future of SouthEast Asia is going to depend principally on the relationship between Australia, Japan, China, India and, to a lesser extent, the United States and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Within that orbit there will continue to be potential for a growing conflict of interest between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. [More…]
What we have seen in Angola, and China’s reaction to Russia’s involvement in Angola, is symptomatic of the fact that wherever one of them moves there is going to be a counter reaction from the other. [More…]
But whereas China’s capacity to undertake any activity in Africa is obviously limited by geographical factors, that is certainly not the situation in South-East Asia. [More…]
I believe quite firmly that if the Soviet Union increases its influence in South-East Asia, through North Vietnam for example, a point will be reached where China might well have to consider taking action in its own interest. [More…]
The one thing that China is terrified of today is that it is going to be surrounded by the Soviet Union, its growing navy and its satellites. [More…]
Consequently, policies adopted by North Vietnam and North Korea and the long term future development of Japan, is of fundamental importance not only to China but also to the entire South-East Asian region, in fact to the world. [More…]
More than 60 per cent of Australia’s commodity trade surplus for 1974-75-that is, $300m out of a total of $5 80m- is accounted for by our other Asian trading partners such as China, Singapore and Thailand. [More…]
It was intelligently done with China. [More…]
Last Tuesday, included amongst many silly and pretentious performances in this House and its surroundings, there were a series of motions of condolence for recently deceased Prime Ministers, Premiers and Heads of State in Nigeria, China and Malaysia. [More…]
It was no accident that I went on the first all Party parliamentary mission to China and I must say now that I wish to assure His Excellency, the Chinese Ambassador here, and Dr Fitzgerald that there are many people in this country who are most anxious to improve cultural relations between the 2 nations and I will do all I can to assist. [More…]
De Gaulle was the first significant foreign affairs spokesman to recognise the significance of China’s fear of the Soviet Union. [More…]
China, studying the possibility of her own destruction, decided that the United States could not destroy China but that the Soviet Union could, and that the Soviet occupation of Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a claim to supervise other communist powers in the way that everybody supervised China in the nineteenth century. [More…]
China, finding this prospect intolerable, broke with the Soviet Union. [More…]
In this context I fully support the Governor-General’s statement that bilateral relations with China will be further developed. [More…]
1 reason- the failure to recognise Red China at that time. [More…]
The relationship which Japan will build between the Soviet Union on the one hand and China on the other could cause tensions. [More…]
In strategy too, we realise that we are also to be friends with China and all our neighbours. [More…]
So I say that communism is at work in Indo-China, Malaysia and Africa. [More…]
Russia, Cuba and China are all hell-bent on pushing South Africa, as a white nation and a bulwark against communism, into the sea. [More…]
And who rules these countries which are taking over in Indo-China and in Africa? [More…]
The newspapers state ‘communist victories in Indo China and United States setbacks in the region had combined to the point where the prospects for revolt had never been so good.’ [More…]
In 1905 when all the imperialist countries met in Shanghai to divide up China the only country that was not present to discuss what was to happen to the future of China was China herself. [More…]
All those observing the internal politics of China predicted to the outside world, as was indicated hi Edgar Snow’s book Red Star Over China, what would happen. [More…]
Who took control of China? [More…]
We have great trade links with China. [More…]
Australia no longer persists with a stupid policy of ignoring the 800 million people of China. [More…]
One needs only to look at the countries of Indo-China- at Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. [More…]
For example, on the forthcoming visit to China, for which very worthwhile arrangements have been made by the Chinese, about half the number of people who accompanied the former Prime Minister will be accompanying me. [More…]
In Laos at the present time China and Russia are vying for the final control of that country. [More…]
In Thailand there are the attempts by the communists, mainly from China, to rid that country of the last units of the United States of America. [More…]
The Russians intend to encircle China. [More…]
For years the present Prime Minister and his colleagues stirred the same irrational hatred of China and Vietnam. [More…]
The Soviet Union is an authoritarian and totalitarian country, but we have a distinction on the part of this Government between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
We criticise the Soviet Union and attempt to make friends with China. [More…]
His government’s strong denunciation of Soviet and Cuban involvement in Angola, its support for the American build-up in the Indian Ocean and most lately the joint defence talks with New Zealand have received favourable publicity in the government-controlled Press in China. [More…]
He goes to China in mid-June. [More…]
He is prepared to go to China. [More…]
I am sure other members of this House who have visited SouthEast Asia know what fear there is in South-East Asia of China. [More…]
There are many regimes in Eastern Europe of the same type and of course there are now a number of regimes in Asia and Indo-China of this extreme kind, and China itself. [More…]
Honourable members will find that this same situation pertains in countries such as Canada, the United States of America, the Soviet Union, China and India. [More…]
Japan and Mexico, and some new antiquities not previously seen outside China. [More…]
Those countries ahead of Australia include China, Indonesia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. [More…]
Several arguments were put forward in the United Nations Security Council, ranging from the views of Indonesia, supported by the Philippines and Malaysia on the one hand, to those advanced by Fretilin supported by China, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and the honourable member for Fraser on the other hand. [More…]
It is no accident that one of my first international visits- the first planned visit other than my visit to New Zealand- is to Japan and China. [More…]
To illustrate this crucial and central point, I quote from a journal called the New China News which is put out by Peking China. [More…]
No Unemployment in New China [More…]
Peking- There is no unemployment in New China. [More…]
In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. [More…]
Even before the Labor Government came into office in 1972, the Australian Labor Party was negotiating with China, Russia and other countries to find markets . [More…]
It is a world whose relations also depend, however, on the actions of other major powers- China, Japan and the European powers- and within particular regions also on the distribution of power between middle and small states. [More…]
It is not in China’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in South East Asia, nor in Japan’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
On the other hand, it is not, presumably, in the Soviet Union’s interests that relations between China, Japan and the United States should be too close. [More…]
As soon as one threat disappears- as the threat from Indo-china disappeared a year ago- the Liberals discover another. [More…]
The Opposition yields to no one in its desire for a sensible and balanced Australian policy towards China. [More…]
I have advocated friendship and understanding towards China since I entered this Parliament. [More…]
Above all I have advocated that Australia recognise China’s central role in the affairs of our region and her rightful claim to a place in the world community. [More…]
But I have never supposed that friendship with China required a wholehearted endorsement of China ‘s foreign policy, any more than friendship with the United States required a wholehearted support of American foreign policy. [More…]
If we look back on the Prime Minister’s statements on China we will see how sudden and remarkable his conversion to the cause of SinoAustralia friendship has been. [More…]
Ten years ago China was the arch-villain, the supreme threat to our way of life. [More…]
The Prime Minister publicly expressed regret that General Macarthur had not invaded China during the Korean war. [More…]
China’s alleged aggressive intentions continued to dominate the Prime Minister’s thinking for years afterwards. [More…]
In 1965 he lumped China in with Indonesia as a new kind of double-barrelled Asian menace. [More…]
In 1971 he was particularly alarmed about my visit to China as Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
As late as August 1973 he was still portraying China as the chief obstacle to harmony and progress in the region. [More…]
The time has come for China to give some indication that she is prepared to live in peaceful coexistence, to help in establishing a genuine peace in South-East Asia. [More…]
That cannot be achieved until China calls the dogs off. [More…]
What possible gain can there be for Australia in taking sides in the dispute between China and the Soviet Union? [More…]
They were wrong about China. [More…]
Later this month the Prime Minister and I shall be visiting Japan and China. [More…]
So far as China is concerned, we are in no way defensive about the fact that we are now approaching that country in different terms from those which prevailed a few years ago. [More…]
China’s position has changed in important respects. [More…]
China was hardly mentioned. [More…]
The Government has irresponsibly exploited statements made by American leaders for domestic electioneering purposes in support of an alarmist policy completely out of keeping with the real politik in which the highly sensitive relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and China is based. [More…]
Earlier than most, he foresaw the importance of bringing China into the international community. [More…]
He was years ahead of his fellow Australian conservatives in urging recognition of China. [More…]
Did an RAAF Hercules aircraft transport a Murray Grey bull from Australia to China, departing Melbourne on 24 October 1973. [More…]
Why not discuss the people being held without trial in Russia, China, Indonesia or Singapore?’ [More…]
-The House may recall that on the last day of the last session of Parliament I endeavoured to speak on the attitude of the honourable member for MacKellar (Mr Wentworth) with regard the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I was gagged after speaking for about 20 seconds, because the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was about to visit China. [More…]
It was rumoured at the time that he was to precede the Prime Minister to China to make advance arrangements for his reception. [More…]
I think it is important that the People’s Republic of China should understand the attitude of supporters of the Government and the views that they have expressed in the past. [More…]
I do advocate the denuclearisation of Red China. [More…]
It should be used to destroy the factories which are making nuclear material in China- not war with the Chinese people, not wholesale destruction in any way at all, but simply the removal from their hands of the weapons whereby humanity can be destroyed. [More…]
Again on 11 May 1966 he referred to the division between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
But the really important thing here is that the honourable member for Mackellar, who is a close associate of the Prime Minister and, as is very well known indeed, is a close adviser of the Prime Minister, had this to say about the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I think the more important thing is that the people of the People ‘s Republic of China should know and understand that that is the attitude of members of the Government. [More…]
At the present moment there is a split between the two communist giants- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and communist Red China. [More…]
Neither side, whether it be in the cleavage between Russia and China or in the cleavage between the communists and the democratic world, dare resort to the kind of force that could destroy both it and the people it attacks. [More…]
The Prime Minister made certain suggestions in China that the Chinese Government is our friend- the present Prime Minister was Minister for Defence at the time of our sorry record in Vietnam. [More…]
He was, as honourable members will know, the principal architect of China since 1949 and one of the very few men who had a major impact on the course of world history. [More…]
He led the Chinese Communist Party through a long and destructive civil war and in his writings set out a new conception of what China could be. [More…]
For the first time in many decades Mao Tse-tung gave China an effective administration, restored a country ravaged by civil war and secured the basic necessities of life to China’s people. [More…]
He sought for China self-reliance. [More…]
Under his leadership China assumed a major role in world affairs. [More…]
Mao Tse-tung ‘s conception of the desirable organisation of a society was not and is not ours, but he achieved peace internally and respect for China. [More…]
He came to symbolise the new China for his own people and for the world. [More…]
In recent years under his leadership China began to adjust her ideological objectives to the realities of world power. [More…]
For Australians it is of considerable significance that as China’s supreme leader he lent his personal authority to the establishment and further development of China’s relations with Australia. [More…]
In the closing years of his life important steps were taken in the improvement of friendship and mutual understanding between China and Australia- [More…]
That this House records its sincere regret at the death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, expresses to the people of China profound regret and tenders its deep sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
China and the world have now lost the second of the 2 great figures who dominated the country’s history for most of the 20th century. [More…]
All parties, though some more readily and graciously than others, have come to acknowledge the place of China in the world and the stature of her leaders, both as contemporary statesmen and historical personalities. [More…]
Whereas Chou was preeminently the skilled administrator and interpreter of China to the world, Mao was the inspiration to the Chinese people themselves. [More…]
He was the authentic father of his people and the new China. [More…]
He was a man who dominated his country’s history and development for half a century, guiding it from a state of political and economic collapse in the 1920s through the troughs and peaks of its development to the thriving, self-reliant and internationally respected nation that China is today. [More…]
By the people of China Mao was not only respected, he was loved. [More…]
His inspired analysis of the Chinese situation led to the recognition of the key role to be played by the masses of the people, who in China were the peasants. [More…]
Mao also based his strategy for the revolution and for a new China on a belief about the nature of man which is very different from the beliefs that dominate our society. [More…]
He believed that through persuasion and example, through correct ideology, people’s attitudes could be changed so that they would cast aside selfish considerations and, in the interests of all people, commit themselves to the tough struggle to build a new China. [More…]
As a result, China has undertaken a process in which material incentives are being steadily abandoned in favour of moral incentives. [More…]
The people of China have inherited the fruits of his work. [More…]
There will undoubtedly be struggles ahead in the course of China’s continuing revolution. [More…]
However, my visits to China, particularly the second visit a few months ago, have left me totally convinced that, for the Chinese people, no struggle is too great and that the will of the vast majority of the people will undoubtedly prevail. [More…]
His thoughts have guided the Chinese revolution for 50 years and they will live long in the future achievements of new China. [More…]
Mao Tse-tung took charge of a China which was weak, divided and exhausted, and created a nation which was unified, formidable and dedicated to the destruction of freedom. [More…]
That occurred nearly 20 years ago when China, having then no nuclear weapons, could only urge and could not herself act. [More…]
I do so enthusiastically because with the passing of Mao it has been a very sad year for China. [More…]
With the passing of those 3 men in one year we can look at the remarkable history of China since the formation of the Communist Party in 1921. [More…]
The Chinese Communist Party was almost wiped out in the Long March of 1934-36 but these men won sufficient support within their country to be able to take over the government of the country in 1949 and be the first government in history to unify China and have the support of all the Chinese people. [More…]
I think it speaks well of Australia and perhaps the maturity of our foreign affairs politics that the last 2 Prime Ministers of this country have visited China and have seen the significance of China in terms of future relations for Australia in this region. [More…]
We should not dwell too much on earlier relationships between Australia and China but rather see ourselves as partners working towards stability within our own region, and recognising the great part that this remarkable man has played for his country. [More…]
I expect, knowing a little of Chinese history, that the Chinese would regard themselves as having been rescued from the humiliation which they suffered with the decay of the Manchu dynasty; the period of unequal treaties when Western imperialistic powers- and they could truly be described as imperialistic colonial powers of that period- brazenly exploited and plundered China, sought to undermine the confidence of the people of that country and to sap any strength and cohesion which Chinese society may have had, in order to exploit China commercially. [More…]
I do not think that people should lose sight of the fact that after promising a revolution to restore the pride, confidence and strength of the Chinese empire, Chiang Kai-shek first turned the machine guns on the striking workers in Shanghai in the early 1920s- workers who had struck to facilitate his takeover of the country- then proceeded to collaborate with the very people who had been responsible for the destruction and subjection of China for so long. [More…]
He subsequently collaborated with the Japanese occupiers of China. [More…]
I suggest that the system of government, whatever we may think about the ideology of communism, has proved particularly successful in China. [More…]
I suggest that the future of mankind would be better served if, instead of trying to cut off and isolate countries with different ideologies and systems of government- countries like China- we worked more towards involving them in world affairs and in associations with other countries. [More…]
Although I found the statements of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on his recent visit to China a little fulsome in some respects, they were far preferable to the antithesis of his sort of approach. [More…]
Fulsome or not, at least they were helpful and showed a better understanding of the need to welcome China ‘s and the Chinese people’s participation in world affairs. [More…]
China is worse because of that. [More…]
I sincerely trust that China and the world will be well served by having to succeed him a man of at least somewhere near equal competence in all respects. [More…]
-Yesterday this House paid its respects to the passing of the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Foolishly, the former Opposition in its blind opposition to anything any opponent of the Labor Party cares to call socialist rushed in like a bull in a china shop. [More…]
The 4 countries are Canada, the Soviet Union, Mainland China and Australia. [More…]
The Long March in China of Chairman Mao is over. [More…]
The same applied to the islands off China. [More…]
Less than 4 years ago it would not even recognise that China existed. [More…]
I attach a great deal more importance to the brilliant analysis by the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) last week of the problem of China than I do to much of the advice given by the Department of Foreign Affairs on China specifically and on communism generally. [More…]
At least now he has been to places like Russia and China and is willing to acknowledge that Australia has to live with these parts of the world which contain more than a quarter of its population. [More…]
The only exhibition of china which the present Prime Minister has brought to this country is to be found on the dining table at the Lodge. [More…]
I need only to refer to the Government’s attitude to China as one small bit of hope on the horizon, and the Government’s attitude to South Africa, which is another case in point. [More…]
Incidentally, I can supply the Minister with information on orders, already committed from Taiwan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong and many other Asian countries, just as soon as this industry commences. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s visit to Indonesia was no less a fiasco than his visit to China in June. [More…]
In the same visit he made his fatuous proposal that a 4-power arrangement between China, Japan, Australia and the United States should be reached. [More…]
For years the present Prime Minister and his colleagues stirred the same irrational hatred of China and Vietnam. [More…]
For years Australian foreign policy was based on fear and suspicion of China, fear and suspicion of Asia, fear and hatred of the yellow peril. [More…]
Fear of China, fear of Indonesia, fear of Japan- it is all part of the same insistent, neurotic pattern. [More…]
The great fear at that time by the conservatives was the downward thrust of China. [More…]
His indiscretions in China, his hawkish view on the Indian Ocean and now the Jakarta follies have discredited Australia in the eyes of the world. [More…]
We all remember well the China dialogue. [More…]
The second visit by the Prime Minister was his very important trip to Japan and China. [More…]
It is interesting to look at the joint communique issued at the conclusion of the Australian Prime Minister’s visit to China and to see just one of the significant events that was concluded. [More…]
China agreed with the view that no great power should dominate the region of which the ASEAN nations form a most significant part. [More…]
It is in the context of the future strength and stability of South East Asia that I also attach considerable importance to China’s statement that it will not permit its relations with foreign communist parties to interfere with its foreign policy relations on a state to state basis. [More…]
What more significant conclusion could there have been from a visit, a first visit, by a LiberalNational Country Party Prime Minister to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
For many years the Australian wheat industry suffered because of the policies adopted by honourable members opposite in that they refused to recognise that there was a big market for our wheat in mainland China. [More…]
Although China did come to us early in the piece Canada beat us to that market to the extent that we were practically frozen out until late 1972 when the Chinese, because of their needs, decided to come back to us. [More…]
It was not until the Labor Government came to office that firm commitments were made with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I had the privilege of leading the first parliamentary delegation to the People’s Republic of China in 1973. [More…]
During that visit to China Ivor Greenwood and I, together with other members of the delegation, had many serious lengthy discussions with the leaders of the Chinese people. [More…]
This is also evident in the People’s Republic of China and in similar countries. [More…]
When one considers the programs for the development of nuclear energy, and even the testing of nuclear weapons, in the People’s Republic of China, for example, one must say that that country does not appear to have been terribly concerned about its own people living within the area of Lop Nor and in the northern sections of Mongolia. [More…]
China does not seem to have been too concerned about the effect on the people of Japan. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Prime Minister concerns the nature of Australia’s relations with China. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that when the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea visited China recently he was welcomed with various greetings which referred to his country as now being released from colonial aggression? [More…]
China is certainly building up its navy but it has largely a coastal defensive navy. [More…]
In any case, for a very long time into the future, China certainly will not be any threat to this country. [More…]
Having visited the country recently, I can assure honourable members that one comes away with the enormously overpowering impression that China will be altogether too preoccupied with her own domestic industrial development to consider those sorts of ventures. [More…]
China is developing a nuclear capability. [More…]
That is the tenor of those pages: ‘Watch out for China, there is going to be trouble there’. [More…]
I was in China in June 1973. [More…]
1 talked to Lee See En Nin Some honourable members have been to China. [More…]
In China one can understand that the real problem of China is its own internal management, the capacity to feed its 850 million people. [More…]
One can understand that those people had in mind the preservation of their country, dedication to their China, an ability to overthrow a regime which was not working in their interest. [More…]
By the enemies within China. [More…]
We may not agree with the politics of the situation but we understand China now. [More…]
One meets people in China who can tell, for example, of the famines of the 1 930s when they lost their parents and their brothers and sisters. [More…]
The most important aspect of China today is the ability to organise itself into land communes, basically on a food basis. [More…]
China is not interested in expansion, and it is a complete anomaly to suggest that it is. [More…]
I think this is even more important at the present time when what is happening in China is extremely debatable. [More…]
It is a pity that the Government has not seen fit, even in response to some Dorothy Dix questions, to give some information as to what is actually happening in China at the present time but I suppose the Government has very little information. [More…]
I noticed a news item in today’s Melbourne Herald suggesting that the Soviet Union has threatened to intervene in China at a time when the Chinese leadership is not at its strongest. [More…]
We have had the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund but at least with the Asian Development Bank we endeavour to provide assistance on what are called soft terms or less than normal market rates of interest to areas adjacent to Australia, fdo not think that we always realise that Indonesia has more than 100 million people, that Japan has more than 100 million people, that India has something like 700 million to 800 million people taking into account various other areas, and that China has 800 million people. [More…]
Does any honourable member seriously believe that India is going to invade this country or that China does not have enough on its hands in looking after its own internal problems? [More…]
The Prime Minister has sent the following message to China’s Chairman, Hua Kuo-feng. [More…]
The handout of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to the Press stated quite clearly that a message was addressed to Mr Hua on the basis of his being the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Peking. [More…]
We have sought to improve Australian-Chinese relations not merely for bilateral contact but because we believe strongly in the desirability of China being better integrated into the international system of diplomatic communications and discussions than it has been to date. [More…]
It seems to me that it is totally wrong for people to assume a one-to-one relationship between our policy towards the Soviet Union and our policy towards China. [More…]
We of course recognise China’s links with insurgency movements. [More…]
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The Japanese were never able to allot a substantial force to Australia compared with those that they had in Burma and China. [More…]
The editorial refers to certain remarks which were alleged to have been made in relation to China. [More…]
I have requested evidence for oft quoted principles in relation to our China policy. [More…]
The 2 principles for which I seek evidence are these: It has been stated that China has a policy now of promoting stability in South East Asia which is similar to our policy. [More…]
I am aware that China is responsible for promoting insurgency there. [More…]
In the face of that evidence I merely request evidence for the principle that China’s policy is related to a similar view held by Australians or others on stability in South East Asia. [More…]
The second point with which I want to deal in the few minutes available to me is this: I refer to the non-interference principle which has been promoted by China and accepted by the Age in a number of its comments. [More…]
The non-interference principle has been that China has said: ‘We will let government to government relations be quite separate and distinct from party to party relations’. [More…]
That principle has been quoted over and over again and it is then presumed to represent a new era of peace and goodwill in South East Asia for which China has a predominate, searching and apparently a sincere role. [More…]
When I listened to broadcasts which are made continually from southern China promoting insurgency I wonder whether the Age and other journals are aware of the fact that the activities of the Communist Party in China visavis Communist parties in other parts of the world are distinct from attitudes between the Chinese Government and other governments. [More…]
If that principle is stated without anyone seeking evidence for it, all it does is merely allow China a free hand through insurgency movements to promote instability in South East Asia. [More…]
Over the next 10-15 years the world could become a lawless place with the United States alliance breaking down and conflict between Russia and America with China being dragged in. [More…]
They will ask Australia not to mine uranium, while preserving a thunderous silence about Russia and China doing it. [More…]
I believe that the previous Government made a grave error and sold out our position to mainland China when it simply agreed to recognise China and to dismiss the presence of Taiwan. [More…]
The threat to Australia presented by the speakers varied between the ebb and flow of international politics, as suggested by Sir Arthur Tange, in contrast to the clear conviction by Brigadier F. P. Serong that there would be a major conflict between Russia and China within the next five to ten years and the side effects that would take place as a result. [More…]
Woodard, C. G., as Ambassador to the Peoples’ Republic of China [More…]
Is it a fact that an Australian citizen, Miss Susan Day, presently employed by the Government of the People’s Republic of China as a teacher, has applied to the Chinese authorities for permission to marry a Chinese citizen? [More…]
When I was in China I expressed to the Chinese Government the view that, as we saw the situation, permission ought to be given for Miss Susan Day to marry the Chinese to whom she wished to be engaged. [More…]
On that occasion did he raise the question of China in his talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggesting that the United States of America had been late in coming to terms with the Chinese. [More…]
We treated the female shoe hand made on the Italian last in the same way as we treated the mainland China thong or the Hong Kong thong. [More…]
The same applies to China. [More…]
China says: ‘Our greatest problem is famine. [More…]
If honourable members wish to compare our country with Bulgaria, China, Portugal, or somewhere else, let us hear it; but in both the United States and the United Kingdom trade unions do not come within the ambit of trade practices regulation. [More…]
And I presume Communist China. [More…]
Does the recent sale by the grower controlled Australian Wheat Board to the People ‘s Republic of China indicate that the Wheat Board is controlled by growers who are not only world class producers but also top class businessmen? [More…]
In January this year I was fortunate enough to visit Japan and China as a guest of those countries’ respective governments. [More…]
The projection was centred on those longitudes that cover China and which, of course, include Australia. [More…]
One wonders what those students of the English language in China conclude when they see their country with 900 million people, a quarter of the world’s population, and they compare it to Australia, a country of somewhat similar size with 13 million people. [More…]
I am astonished sometimes when I hear people talking with great adulation now about the sale of wheat to China and beef to Russia. [More…]
Looking at overall events that have taken place in the world I put the proposition that to a large extent what happens is influenced by the fact that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China are in conflict. [More…]
If China and the Soviet Union had a common policy, as they did up till about 1958, 1 think that it would be extremely difficult for the United States and for countries associated with the United Statesthe democratic countries of the world- to stand up to pressure from the 2 communist super powers. [More…]
Australia was lucky, the world was lucky and those of us who believe in individual freedom were lucky that a split occurred between China and Russia after 1958. [More…]
It is important for us that there is competition between China and the U.S.S.R. in the so-called Third World. [More…]
I think that Russia and China are both totalitarian countries completely opposed to what we stand for. [More…]
The only basis on which I would think it would be reasonable to support China vis-a-vis the Soviet Union is that the Chinese appear to be weaker. [More…]
It is important from our point of view that these 2 countries should be kept from confronting one another and that the point should not be reached where, as the Chinese would put it, there would be absolute hegemony on the part of the U.S.S.R. vi’savis China. [More…]
None of this happens in China. [More…]
The author is one of the few critics to visit China who has reported some criticisms when leaving that country. [More…]
After making the point that China is a weak country militarily compared with the Soviet Union he went on to state: [More…]
Nor is there anything to suggest that China will become a superpower in 10, 20, or even 30 years. [More…]
At this stage I would like to move away from the conflict between China and Russia and deal with the Indonesian situation and some of the problems that arise. [More…]
That is the sort of thing I would expect to happen in China but not in Australia. [More…]
For instance, in discussing China he refers to the need for modest processes and progress in developing our relationship ‘rather than spectacular gestures’. [More…]
He does not recollect -or more likely prefers to forget- the spectacular thud of the sortie of his Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) into Sino-Australian relations in China a little over 8 months ago when the Prime Minister proposed a 4-power alliance, including clumsily aligning himself with the Chinese on a fairly sensitive issue which the Japanese were trying to handle delicately; questioned the future security of Malaysia and Singapore; raised doubts about the stability of the Indonesian Government; and challenged India’s sincerity in its concern for world peace. [More…]
I was interested to hear his comments on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China and his description of those nations. [More…]
He said, however, that he thought it was of great international significance that the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union should continue, the inference being, of course, that were there to be established between the Government of Peking and the Government of Moscow a rapport and an understanding the probability would be that there would be a greater threat in the world because those 2 governments would be so powerful- in truth, two super-powers combined- that the rest of the world would need to tremble. [More…]
I doubt very much that there is any real basic animosity between the people who live in Western Europe and the Soviet Union and the people who live in the People’s Republic of China in the south. [More…]
They are there obviously because the Russians believe that there is a threat from the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
-I shall spell them out for the honourable member: The initiatives in regard to Japan, the recognition of China, the withdrawal from Vietnam and the recognition of Vietnam, and the normalisation of relations with those neighbours. [More…]
The Liberals had been wrong about Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South Africa, Rhodesia and New Guinea. [More…]
During my 8 years in the House there have been numerous debates on South East Asia, Timor, South Africa, Rhodesia, Russia, China and a host of other countries. [More…]
Let me take another example- communist China. [More…]
There is a complete contradiction between the way they treat these things in China and the way they use them to deceive us here. [More…]
There will be visits to China. [More…]
These people, well-meaning as they are, will come back from China giving us the version of things there which the Chinese communist authorities want to put over to us- a version which is a lie. [More…]
They are going to use these wellmeaning people, to encourage them to go to China and to come back and propagate a lie with all the authority of returned tourists. [More…]
In his remarks about the People’s Republic of China I do not know whether he is attacking purely this side of the Parliament or whether he is attacking both this side of the Parliament and his own side. [More…]
Without a doubt, if one were to accept the remarks which he made, one would realise very obviously that they were directed as well to members of his side of the Parliament who have visited China. [More…]
This is a pity- a tragedy, in fact- for future relations between Australia and China. [More…]
Everyone must remember that there are 800 million people in China and that China forms a very great part of Asia. [More…]
It is of very great importance for Australia to understand China and for China to understand Australia. [More…]
For that reason I think it may be a great pity indeed that the honourable member for Mackellar has not had an opportunity to visit China. [More…]
For example, I can recall speaking to Embassy officials in Peking after a visit to China by a delegation from this Parliament during the term of the Labor Government. [More…]
The officials said that he gained a good deal from the visit; that he went to China with a lack of understanding as to what was really happening there and he came away with a far greater understanding, particularly of the need for the 2 countries to work together to understand one another. [More…]
Yet he went to China and he came back with a greater understanding of China than he had previously. [More…]
I recall one night during an adjournment debate in this place bringing forward some Hansard quotes in which the honourable member had suggested military action against China. [More…]
As I have said, China represents 800 million people in Asia. [More…]
It is, I believe, very important that we should get to know and understand China. [More…]
China is one of the oldest civilisations in the world. [More…]
I think that one of the great pluses of the Whitlam era during the period leading up to the election of the Labor Government in 1972 and during the period of its term of office from 1972 to 1 975 was that we were able to get rid of the isolation of China. [More…]
He said he had just come from China and he made the point then that he was very deeply concerned about the ignorance at that point of time of the leadership of China about what was happening in the world outside. [More…]
He felt that the ignorance was dangerous and that it was very very important to involve China in the councils of the world. [More…]
Fortunately, that is what the Labor Party realised in that year of 1954 when it first adopted as its policy at the Hobart Conference that not only should China be given diplomatic recognition but also that she should be admitted to the United Nations, to the councils of the world. [More…]
That policy received a great fillip from the visit to China in 1972 by the then Leader of the Opposition Mr Whitlam. [More…]
Of course upon the election of a Labor Government in 1972 there was recognition of China by Australia, and not that long after the admission of China to the United Nations, to the councils of the world. [More…]
I believe this was a step towards achieving greater international understanding not only between Australia and China but also between China and the rest of the world. [More…]
I regret very greatly that there are people who have completely closed their minds to the need to get this understanding between China and Australia in particular and between China and the rest of the world. [More…]
It says that China was seen as the most likely invader. [More…]
He has been to China and his attitudes are in direct contravention of the attitudes expressed by the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth). [More…]
The movements in Asia, Africa and indeed most parts of the world- in China it was the Long March- were all part of nationalist movements. [More…]
During the 1960s the people of the world- the people of the greater nations and the lesser nations- whose governments had involved them in a warlike operation in the Indo-China region questioned the wisdom of this. [More…]
So the land war in Indo-China came to a close. [More…]
I applaud this Government for establishing a real and workable basis for relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We now have as a direct result of the highly successful visit of the Prime Minister to China a working relationship with the Chinese. [More…]
Provided they remain non-aggressive I believe that Australia and China can have strong friendship bonds. [More…]
I say that at the moment, rightly or wrongly, I believe that China wants peaceful co-existence. [More…]
But then, when speaking about China, he went on to kill his good speech and his image by such references as ‘the sham pantomime working relationship of the previous Government’. [More…]
As I have said, the honourable member used the words ‘sham pantomime’ in respect of the Labor Party’s policy on China. [More…]
He knows too well, through his superior intellect and training, the benefits of great schooling and the position he holds as a barrister at law that for years it was Labor Party policy that the People’s Republic of China should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
He knew for years that if the Labor Party got into power it would immediately recognise the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
I remember that after I came to this House in 1 960 abuse was levelled against the People’s Republic of China by the Conservatives and the Tories of this country. [More…]
My old friend the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), whom I respect in many ways and who has just come into this chamber, at one time suggested that Australia should use its influence to drop an atomic bomb on the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Children born in China had to be sold by the pound in the streets by their mothers. [More…]
They lost thousands of lives in fighting for a new social order, for which we should have applauded them from the day the members of the Mao Tse-tung Government became the people in charge of People’s China. [More…]
The honourable member for Kooyong, the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock), in his speech on foreign policy which we are now debating in this House, 1 1 times in 10 minutes very courteously used the expression ‘China’. [More…]
Only a few years ago the constant remarks were ‘the Red barbarians’, ‘Communist China’, ‘the Reds of the North’ and ‘the atheists’. [More…]
There was a change overnight after the Whitlam Government came into power and recognised People ‘s China. [More…]
Dr Kissinger did not give the tories of this country prior notice that he was going to People’s China to cement good relations and to get the recognition of his own Government of People’s China. [More…]
He rebuilt the bridges in Asia and in People’s China that had been torn down by the privileged and the tories in this country and wherever else they had influence. [More…]
I am talking about the prospects of developing labour intensive industries which can improve the conditions of people’s lives in the big countries to our near north, in Indonesia, Malaysia and, most importantly if we are to have peace in this part of the world, in Indo-China including Vietnam. [More…]
It is being perceived in China which has a system that we do not share and which, while we understand the historical origins, we clearly do not aspire to emulate. [More…]
Only tonight some members of the Labor Party had the privilege of welcoming to this place for a social function His Excellency, the Ambassador from the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There have been on many occasions from this side of the House expressions of concern about what happened in Indo China, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. [More…]
If one takes mainland China out of the consideration and looks at countries such as India, in particular, Pakistan and countries in South East Asia, one is dealing with something like 1000 million people and their needs. [More…]
More recently, fertility has fallen in some countries, rapidly in some instances (Taiwan, the Peoples’ Republic of China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore), less rapidly in other instances (Malaysia, Thailand. [More…]
The standards of health care in China are far better than the standards in Indonesia. [More…]
China has largely overcome the major problems of malaria, tuberculosis and so on. [More…]
Yes, it was rife in China at one stage, but that is not so today. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Sudan, Turkey, United States. [More…]
We had a situation a few years ago in which Australia did not have diplomatic recognition of mainland China but recognised Taiwan. [More…]
What would happen with respect to Australia taking an action or intending an action of one kind or another defined as widely as is clause 6 (3) of the Bill in respect of mainland China? [More…]
I refer to statements he made in the United States of America, which were reported widely here, that China is a force for stabilisation in South East Asia. [More…]
If not, does his statement as an expression of Government policy merely acknowledge China’s ability to act as a counterpoise to Russia in this part of the world? [More…]
In fact what it says is that we will be watching the situation carefully following the assurances given and the interpretation placed upon them by the previous Australian Ambassador to China and accepted by the present Government as a significant change in the attitude of the Chinese Government. [More…]
I believe there is a requirement to involve China to a greater extent in the international community. [More…]
When I was there the Mozambique government officials were most insistent that they would accept aid from any country but they would not accept tied aid irrespective or whether it came from China, Russia or anywhere else. [More…]
They forget the rising and quite proper expectations and demands of the Third World and our obligations to refugees from this region, particularly our obligation to refugees from Indo China. [More…]
Conceding that there are proven reasons which would preclude our mining and exporting of uranium, I ask: Will there be a nuclear power industry around the world, including in Russia and China, regardless of whether Australia mines and exports uranium? [More…]
One cannot blame the more recent nonrecognition of Taiwan in favour of recognition of mainland China as the reason for these intrusions, although I am personally sorry to have seen Taiwan sacrificed in the power moves of years ago. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China is proving to be a most valuable trading partner. [More…]
Even now there is a highlevel delegation from China in Australia for the fourth round of meetings of the joint trade committee. [More…]
Nevertheless the experience of the past few years, not only for Australia but also for governments throughout the Western world and the centralised economies of eastern Europe, China and so forth, have been that we must get together. [More…]
We welcome also the comments that have been made on the growing relationship between Australia, the ASEAN countries, other Asian countries, and the People’s Republic of China which we predicted when in government would become a valuable trading partner and which has done as predicted. [More…]
Is there any concern or even hope that guarantees given with the new American policy will differ totally in their effect from the guarantees given to China from 1946 to 1948 and to South Vietnam from 1972 to 1975? [More…]
As to implications with respect to the American attitude to China, one can only say that in the progressive integration of China into the world in recent times there seems to have been a significant change in what was previously seen as a continuing aggressive policy towards the border states of that country. [More…]
I believe that the present relationship between China and the rest of the world gives one hope that there will continue to be regional stability. [More…]
Do they want to go on with this sort of nonsense because the title of the document includes the words ‘Little Red Book’, and they think that it has some connotation with China or something of that nature? [More…]
For example, the message should be made even clearer to uranium buyers that any nuclear explosion set off by countries other than the recognised nuclear powers- that is, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, China and France- will result in immediate and permanent cessation of uranium supplies from Canada, Australia and the United States. [More…]
There seems no reason, however, for Australia to contemplate selling uranium to any present nonsignatories of the NPT, although loopholes exist in the new policy for both France and China, while new safeguards for other non-signatories are foreshadowed. [More…]
On the other hand, one must admit that there has been no attempt to conceal that this was the very fear in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Could the situation arise where the United States and mainland China tapered off their interest in the Middle East and the African continent and left a zone of influence available for the exclusive exploitation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
ASEAN enjoys at this time only a small share of Australia’s imports of textiles, apparel and footwearunder 10 per cent of the value of such imports from Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan combined- and clearly there is room for improvement in this share so far as ASEAN is concerned. [More…]
There is also a problem with Eastern Europe, China and many other nations where the trading balance has been in Australia’s favour for over two decades. [More…]
It was a very distinguished Egyptian Ambassador who pointed out to me that back in 1955, at the time of the Bandung conference, the Soviet Union was the dominant influence in China, the dominant influence in Indonesia, the dominant influence in Egypt, the dominant influence in Syria and the dominant influence in India. [More…]
Estimates prepared by the United Nations for its Water Conference indicate that of the population of developing countries in 1975 (excluding the population of China), 38 per cent had reasonably adequate community water supplies and 33 per cent had reasonably adequate sanitation. [More…]
At a time when the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who made this statement was preoccupied with the countries which comprise the Association of South East Asian Nations solely as a means of containing China, at a time when he was clumsy and inept enough to give high State Department officials the impression that he supported the bombing of the dykes on the Red River to quell the population of North Vietnam, I said in August 1968: [More…]
Column A is the trade balance for Mainland China, Japan. [More…]
Column B is all of these without China. [More…]
Column C is all of these without China and Japan. [More…]
The Australian market was not geared to absorb that in addition to the imports which came from Taiwan and the imports which are now coming from China and South Korea. [More…]
There has been more wheat sold to China, lamb and live sheep to the Middle East and cheese to Japan. [More…]
The Opposition’s attitude is surprising in view of the fact that communist countries have a commitment to nuclear power, Russia and China are now in the nuclear energy business. [More…]
I have not included the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
China is reported to have announced its intention to develop nuclear power for peaceful use. [More…]
Israel, Egypt, Brazil, all the European countries, India, China, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, all the countries in eastern Europe if the Russians allow them to build the same sort of nuclear reactors, will have the ability to build nuclear weapons. [More…]
Three of the nuclear powers- China, France and India- are not members. [More…]
Will he provide similar information for the navies of (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom, (c) France, (d) the Peoples’ Republic of China and (e) South Africa. [More…]
In addition, as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) reminded us in another place earlier today, he visited China about 20 years ago. [More…]
first members of this Parliament to visit the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is a remarkable change in public and political opinion that has enabled us today to receive under the auspices of Mr President and you, Mr Speaker, a delegation from the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
China had an enormous influence on his lue. [More…]
He first visited China just prior to the liberation of China in 1949. [More…]
He again visited China after an invitation was sent from the People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs to Dr Evatt in 1957 inviting a delegation of the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
Three people were chosen by the Australian Labor Party Caucus to visit China. [More…]
On that occasion he met Chou En-lai and many of the other leaders of China. [More…]
When he returned he wrote a book entitled China Journey: The Republic Revisited. [More…]
When I was a young parliamentarian we discussed at great length the problems of the people of China and related them to the problems of the people in our own country. [More…]
I suppose that, when we look back and realise that the split was about bringing troops back from Asia, banning bombs and recognising China, symbolically we could say today that the great luncheon for the Chinese delegation was Leslie Haylen ‘s vindication. [More…]
He wrote many books and devoted one of them to his visit to China. [More…]
-I have to inform the House that Mr Ulanfu, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People ‘s Republic of China, is within the precincts. [More…]
-I desire to inform the House that Mr Ulanfu is the leader of a delegation from the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, United States of America. [More…]
This excludes potatoes from Europe, North and South America, South Africa, India, China and Nepal. [More…]
As the months of 1975 rolled on there seemed to be a massive public relations campaign to brand Fretilin as a communist organisation, presumably supported by either Russia or China or both, and as such representing some sort of potential threat to Australia. [More…]
In the Security Council there is a further protection of the veto power which may be exercised by the United States of America, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and China. [More…]
Why do they not go to China and see its reactors? [More…]
The same situation occurred with respect to China. [More…]
In relation to the old India-China conflict of 1962, a passing reference was made to the annexation of part of Indian territory by China. [More…]
The principle which has been quite clear in determining the policy of both the Australian Labor Party and of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition with respect to a whole series of countries, such as Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and India, has not applied in relation to Indonesia. [More…]
For a number of years some of those assessments were quite outrageously wrong, not the least of which was our political assessment of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
That could not really have been deemed a threat to this nation but we based the whole of our defence structure on the assessment that there would be a downward thrust by China. [More…]
The point I am making is that this led to the Vietnam situation as it was thought that China must be contained through Vietnam. [More…]
I also take to task the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) for taunting honourable members on this side- particularly the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil)- for continually parroting the phrase the downward thrust of China’. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith might be concerned about the downward thrust of China, but what everyone should be worried about is the downward thrust of communism. [More…]
It goes on to explain that Soviet Russia is not really interested but China and Hanoi have constantly been barraging the world with the great injustices being perpetrated by the Indonesians. [More…]
Recognition of the Administration of Taiwan as the Government of China (Question No. [More…]
Yet, by our political decisions we were denying wheat growers access to the market in China- a market that had been available previously. [More…]
When China did come back into the market our wheat industry improved. [More…]
It is so much greater than any other nuclear danger that in comparison the others are really not worth talking about I remind the House that countries such as France, Communist China, South Africa and Israel, which are now believed to have nuclear weapons capacity, did not get that capacity in any way through nuclear power. [More…]
I understand that he will be in China on that day. [More…]
Does it explain the official Government attitude towards China, Russia, Vietnam or Cambodia; if so, when was this made clear. [More…]
The official Government attitude towards China, the USSR, Vietnam and Cambodia has been stated in the Parliament on various occasions by the Prime Minister and by me, including in my ministerial statement of 1 5 March 1977. [More…]
1239, when have there been evident different policies and practices enunciated by the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Communist Party of China. [More…]
1239 carried no implications with regard to the matter of whether or not there are differences between the policies and practices enunciated by the Government of the People ‘s Republic of China and the Communist Party of China. [More…]
The assurance given to the Prime Minister when he visited China last year is a matter of public record and is best assessed by examining China’s record in the area of foreign policy. [More…]
and (5) I draw the honourable member’s attention to my address to the Deepdene Branch of the Liberal Party on 9 August 1976 in which I outlined the Government’s longstanding and continuing concern about this matter, and in which I commented on the assurances given to the Prime Minister during his visit to China- ‘. [More…]
I now wish to discuss a short visit I made to China recently because that country has had some problems with the rest of the world. [More…]
He at least began to understand that China would play an important part in the affairs of the region in which we live. [More…]
I believe he was right when he sent Dr Fitzgerald as the first Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China and to open negotiations between our country and the Chinese people. [More…]
What progress are we making in China at the present time? [More…]
In 1955 I had the opportunity to visit China with the first parliamentary delegation from the United Kingdom, which was drawn from the House of Commons and the House of Lords. [More…]
We travelled to China because back bench members decided that there would be a visit of members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. [More…]
We went to China to see whether the China that was developing would be of any consequence in world affairs. [More…]
When I arrived in Paris I spoke to a French ambassador who said that any person who thinks that he speaks with authority on international affairs and discards China does not understand the balance of power in the world. [More…]
He suggested that the two great factors in the world economy will be the European Common Market and the balance of power between China and Japan. [More…]
On returning to China after 20 years, what were the main changes that I noted? [More…]
The first thing was that one realised that the Peoples Army runs China. [More…]
Everywhere one travelled one could not be other than impressed with the tremendous impact that the army has had on China today. [More…]
In China we are regarded as imbeciles; we do not understand world power; we have not comprehended the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In China I walked into a shop with my guides. [More…]
The balance of power between China and Japan is important to us. [More…]
We must never overlook what friendship, what guidance and what else we may receive by co-operating with China in the world in the years ahead. [More…]
America and Australia might recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Is the nature of the links of the Australian Government with Taiwan completely acceptable to China, that is, to Peking? [More…]
Further, has the Government considered pursuing a less rigid and exclusive approach to Taiwan than it is claimed is presently required due to the nature of our diplomatic accord with China? [More…]
There is no doubt that the relationship between this Government and the Government of China has developed very extensively as a result of the personal visit of the present Prime Minister as well as other visits. [More…]
Relationships between the United States and China are somewhat different in many respects. [More…]
I believe the bases by which our relationship with China have developed are in the mutual interests of our countries and I see little reason to move away from them. [More…]
Come to China’. [More…]
It was an advertisement for people to travel to China. [More…]
The Government should stop the hypocrisy of its assault on European Economic Community trade barriers and exploit the opportunities which exist for rural sales to expanding markets like China, Vietnam and the Middle East. [More…]
But for the much grander design which the Prime Minister has in mind for these regional meetings, one cannot ignore the handicap of not having represented at them such major forces in the region as Indonesia, Japan, China and the Philippines. [More…]
In line with the policy of successive Australian governments since recognition of the People ‘s Republic of China on 21 December 1972, passports issued by the regime on Taiwan are not accepted as travel documents. [More…]
He did so also with China and Malaysia. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the statement by Mr Liao Cheng-chin, a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, made in Peking on 28 February 1978, that the United States of America should sever its diplomatic and military links with the Republic of China. [More…]
Has the Australian Government pursued relations with the Republic of China in a manner completely acceptable to the Chinese Peoples’ Republic. [More…]
If not, what actions concerning diplomatic relations with the Republic of China has the Australian Government pursued which are not completely and totally acceptable to the Chinese Peoples’ Republic. [More…]
Can he say whether the United States of America and Canada require the same guarantees of a person visiting their countries from the republic of China as are required by Australia. [More…]
Has the Australian Government since 1973 discussed with the Government of the Chinese Peoples’ Republic any softening of its rigid attitude towards the Republic of China; if so, when did these discussions take place. [More…]
(2), (3) and (3) Australia on 21 December 1972 recognised the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and acknowledged the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Canada, like Australia, recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
(6 and (7) The People’s Republic of China maintains that Taiwan is a province of China. [More…]
The regime on Taiwan purports to be the government of the whole of China of which Taiwan is a province. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen the three comments made by the first Australian Ambassador to China in his lectures and in his book, subsequent to his return to this country. [More…]
Firstly, that we- that is, Australia- lack the mechanisms for consultation with China, or even fear China as a threat to our allegedly free enterprise system; secondly, that in spite of undertakings on trade we imposed import restrictions in a manner which ultimately damaged credibility; and, thirdly, that on at least two matters Australia is rudely offhand when ‘it comes to China’s major exports to Australia’? [More…]
If there is an implication that there is a problem in our relations with the People’s Republic of China, I reject it. [More…]
I will go no further than saying that since this Government came to power the movement in relations with the People’s Republic of China has been most significant in regard both to the cultural agreements that we have discussed and to family reunion, consular agreements and other matters. [More…]
I will be wanting Dr Fitzgerald to head up an Australia-China foundation- I have indicated that elsewhereand the Government will be giving consideration to the membership of that body. [More…]
He was answering a question from Mr K. Cairns (Lib, Qld) who said that Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, former Australian Ambassador to China, had remarked that Australia saw China as a threat to the free enterprise system. [More…]
The question which I put was substantially different from that, and the point I made in relation to the remarks of the former Ambassador to China and his return to Australia was different from that. [More…]
Only recently I saw in China a traffic jam develop between bicycles in Canton. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I inform the House that the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) left Australia on 22 April for discussions in China and the Philippines. [More…]
Does the communique signed in December 1972 by Australia and the People’s Republic of China remain the basis on which that relationship should be conducted. [More…]
Does that communique state that Australia recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China and acknowledges the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is a province of the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Was the reference by the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Australia-Taiwan relationship during Question Time on 7 March 1978 in terms of existing opportunities for an exchange of points of view between citizens of our respective countries consistent with the status which Taiwan was accorded in that communique; if not, does the remark indicate that the Acting Minister appeared to be taking advantage of his absence to nudge Australia back in the direction of a ‘two China’ policy. [More…]
As my colleague the Minister for Primary Industry noted during question time on 7 March 1978, the principles upon which our relationship with China have been based serve the mutual interests of our two countries and the Government has no intention of attempting to change the basis of the relationship. [More…]
Now that, through the withdrawal of the United States and the inactivity of China, only 8 out of a possible 10 Members of ILO are classified by its Governing Body as being those of chief industrial importance, what steps have been or are being taken to secure the recognition of Australia as one of the 10. f [More…]
My question, which I direct to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, refers to an announcement he made the other day in answer to a question that the former Ambassador to China is likely to head an Australia-China foundation. [More…]
Does the Minister know that the former Ambassador has repeatedly stated- a statement with which I agree- that an awareness of the Chinese view of the world is essential to any process of conducting negotiations with or seeking to understand China? [More…]
Therefore, does the Minister consider that these are appropriate stances to take in an objective, disinterested post which the position of chairman of the Australia-China foundation should be? [More…]
India’s record, in fact, is one of peace, although India was assailed many years ago from across its northern borders by the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
He did not see fit to make any reference to the development of the industry in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I noted only the other day in the newspapers that a distinguished serviceman of the United Kingdom was making statements in Peking which appeared to be acceptable to his hosts, to the effect that having regard to the threat of a nuclear war the People’s Republic of China and the United Kingdom should be seen as standing side by side against a potential adversary which he went on to name as the USSR. [More…]
He went to China and established diplomatic recognition of China and diplomatic relations between China and Australia for the first time. [More…]
We are glad to see the continued growth of the relationship with the People’s Republic of China, for which the basis was laid with a communique signed on 21 December 1972, less than three weeks after Labor took office. [More…]
We established relations with the real government of China; we took matching steps to improve communications with Moscow; we recognised the existing governments in North Vietnam and North Korea. [More…]
The Fraser Government has not backed away from diplomatic relations with these countries, but it has upset the balance of our relations with the U.S.S.R. and China because of the Prime Minister’s anti-Soviet inclination. [More…]
Having behaved like the proverbial bull in the china shop, the Prime Minister claimed the next day that his tough line had produced an immediate response, and therefore there would be a meeting in June. [More…]
In fact, that is one of the reasons the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) went to China in the last week or so. [More…]
That is what the trip to China was all about. [More…]
He has already been assured by the Chinese Government that China will be prepared to take substantially increased quantities of Australian iron ore which will to a large degree offset the loss of iron ore exports to Japan because of the cutback in intake by the Japanese steel mills. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister on what he has managed to achieve in China in the last week. [More…]
-I concede that Labor recognised China. [More…]
That is what the visit to China was all about. [More…]
I particularly note its attitude to the Common Fund, the Commonwealth Conference, the Australia- Japan Foundation and the negotiations at present in progress with China. [More…]
I am happy to say in response to the question posed by the honourable gentleman that my recent visit to China did open up substantial new trade opportunities for Australia in raw materials and industrial equipment as well as in technology and expertise. [More…]
These opportunities derive directly from China’s new plans for economic modernisation and in addition reflect the strengthening of political and economic ties between our two countries. [More…]
In China I received top level assurance that as long as prices are competitive China will import considerably larger quantities of iron ore from Australia to underpin the very rapid expansion in steel output which is planned up to and including 1985. [More…]
In general discussions with Chinese leaders I emphasised that apart from Australia’s natural resources we have technologies and equipment which are well suited to China’s needs. [More…]
Over the course of the next few weeks I shall be following up the matters which I canvassed during my visit to China with industry leaders in Australia and also with ministerial colleagues. [More…]
I am of the view that he is not suited to hold the first appointment as Chairman of the AustraliaChina Foundation, for five reasons, not the least important of which is that he has come desperately close in his own views not only to saying that Australians should understand the Chinese view of the world but also that Australia should support the Chinese view of the world. [More…]
From the time of the Han dynasty there has been the tradition of the kow-tow in respect of other nations’ rulers who go to China. [More…]
The modern version of that has been that China has regarded both super powers as being equally objectionable. [More…]
That would leave China as the leader of the Third World. [More…]
The most notable statement whereby he comes close to supporting the Chinese view of the world as his own view is found at page 18 of his book China and the World. [More…]
I do not support the proposition that the chairman of an Australia-China Foundation should equate the United States of America with Soviet Russia in terms of the reprehensibility of their external behaviour and I hope that nobody on this side of the chamber would do so. [More…]
He repeats, in terms of American relations with China, the proposition that America for 1 7 years refused to have such relations. [More…]
What he forgets is that from 1950 to 1954 it was impossible to have relations with China on her own term. [More…]
From 1955 there was an agreement between the United States and China in terms of the repatriation of persons, which China did not uphold. [More…]
The only period during the 1 7 years in which it was possible to have the relations which Dr Fitzgerald proposes, in accordance with China’s point of” view, was from 1956 to 1957, after which there was an anti-rightist coup which was in fact promoted by Mao Tse-tung. [More…]
Under present circumstances, that has operated merely as a cover for China to promote her own revolutionary movements in Malaysia, in Thailand and, in particular, in Burma. [More…]
In respect of the fifth point, I refer to page 105 of his book, in which he casts serious doubt on whether a private enterprise system such as that of Australia can by its very nature negotiate trade with China. [More…]
There are some rather undergraduatish comments upon the nature of our system, but under those circumstances I say without hesitation or reservation that Dr Fitzgerald has insufficient judgment, insufficient understanding and insufficient balance to fill this most important position- one of very great prestigeas the first chairman, recommended by the Government, of the Australia-China Foundation. [More…]
It would do Australia no good and it would certainly give China a misunderstanding of what Australia’s point of view of the world ought to be. [More…]
In the interests of this country he performed a great service as Australia’s first Ambassador to China. [More…]
At the time the Labor Government, in accordance with its policy, initiated the action which brought about the exchange of diplomatic representation between Australia and China there was no man in Australia with such a great depth of knowledge of China. [More…]
The facts are these: China has 25 per cent of the world ‘s population. [More…]
It is ridiculous to suggest that China should be kept in isolation from the rest of the world and not be brought into the councils of the world. [More…]
It is ridiculous for anyone to oppose the idea that China should get to understand the attitudes of other countries and that other countries, including Australia, should get to understand the attitudes of China. [More…]
That must be true because, if there is going to be advancement within the nations that constitute our region, if there is going to be advancement in the economies of the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Philippines, and those other countries to which I have referred, it will be in the manufacturing area. [More…]
For instance, the attitude to China of honourable members opposite has changed dramatically in the last three or four years. [More…]
But I think one of the greatest signs of hope around the country is the total change in the attitude to China. [More…]
Six or seven years ago- m fact, up until five years agohonourable members on the Government side would not even recognise the existence of China. [More…]
We are all keen to be friends with China. [More…]
If a long-held attitude to a country such as China can change as dramatically as that, we can change our attitudes to the rest of the world by applying ourselves to these matters. [More…]
-China is already a very important market for Australian iron ore. [More…]
I read in the reports of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, who has just recently been to China, that China is anticipating increasing its steel production to something like 60 million tonnes of crude steel by the middle of the 1980s. [More…]
The Japanese will be constructing some of the new blast furnaces in China. [More…]
Those representatives pointed to the fact that, with the increasing steelmaking capacity of China, Australia could be looking to that market for additional sales. [More…]
I emphasise that at a time when the world market for iron ore is difficult it is very encouraging to have the opportunity of increasing our sales to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia-Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance in that region; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]
But five short years ago, this Parliament did not recognise the existence of China. [More…]
Suddenly the gates to China have been opened. [More…]
This is the sort of thing he was saying on his return from China and it points up the stark difference between the ideologies of those in the Government parties and those on this side of the Parliament. [More…]
I applaud what Mr Huang Hua, the Foreign Minister of China, has said. [More…]
It rejects out of hand what China is saying and it rejects, of course, what the United States is saying. [More…]
This comes from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition who was a senior Minister in a government which, for example, in negotiating the Accords with Peking China negotiated the most stringent and strict Accords that have been applied by any Western nation according recognition to Peking. [More…]
I have seen reports that an organisation is fitting out a ship which, as I understand it, is to assist refugee vessels in the South China Sea. [More…]
Australia, and in the short term, where we have provided a lead to other countries in our attitude towards the problems of the unfortunate people in Indo-China, is such that we as a nation can be very proud of the fact that we have demonstrated in a positive and tangible way an attitude that can provide an example for other countries. [More…]
As I mentioned in the House and on a number of other occasions, there are very strong prospects for additional exports to China which is now a very significant market for Australia. [More…]
In response to what the honourable gentleman has said I can say that China is a significant market for Australia. [More…]
I have provided to a number of business people notes on the general strategy of trading with China. [More…]
That will be followed later in the year by Australia’s involvement in an agricultural exhibition in China. [More…]
-For a few moments this evening I would like to refer to Australia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Ambassador of the People ‘s Republic of China, Mr Chou Chiu-yeh, for inviting me and my wife to go to China and spend 10 days in that country observing the changes that have taken place there over the last 10 or 20 years. [More…]
In 1956 I went to China with the first mission of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. [More…]
Therefore, I was in a good position to be able to observe the changes that have occurred in China over a number of years. [More…]
Remarkable changes have been made in the petrochemical industry and in many other manufacturing industries in China today. [More…]
It was interesting to see how seriously China takes defence. [More…]
My wife and I were taken for a walk for two and a half miles under the city of Peking to observe and see at first hand China ‘s defence in the event of a nuclear war. [More…]
I was impressed too with the view of leading experts in international affairs in China when they said that the Western world today does not appreciate the threat posed by the Soviet Union through its activities in Africa. [More…]
It is therefore very good news that recently at the United Nations China decided that she too should be consulted about the changing pattern of world events. [More…]
Any country in the world which thinks it can conduct foreign affairs without consulting the People’s Republic of China is indeed making a mistake. [More…]
We can do nothing but congratulate the Chinese People’s Government in realising that they are now anxious to establish themselves, to work with the rest of the world and to improve China’s technology. [More…]
We can be proud of our relations with China. [More…]
VISIT TO CHINA [More…]
The visit which I made to the People’s Republic of China between 25 April and 4 May had two main purposes- to maintain and develop contact and communication between the Australian and Chinese Governments, and to explore the prospects of increasing and diversifying an economic relationship which is highly important to both our countries. [More…]
The good political relationship which has been developed between China and Australia has under-pinned a substantial growth in trade. [More…]
Australia is now China’s fourth largest trading partner and China was Australia’s fifth largest export market in 1977. [More…]
Indeed in 1977 China sent more high level visitors to Australia than went from here to Peking- an unprecedented development in our relations and an unusual fact in China’s relations with any country. [More…]
The Chinese Government is aware, as a result of my visit, that the Australian Government had noted the significance of Chinese high level visits to Australia in 1977 and fully reciprocates China’s interest in the maintenance of contact and dialogue at a high level. [More…]
China sees global balance and regional stability as being in its interests because it is seeking to direct the energies and talents of its vast population into the monumental tasks of modernisation. [More…]
Despite its great achievements the People’s Republic of China is very aware that it is still a developing society. [More…]
The timing of my visit to China was connected with the plans for China’s modernisation which were announced by Premier Hua Kuo-Feng in his report on the Government to the National People’s Congress on 26 February. [More…]
This statement has not attracted the attention it deserved in Australia and should be the starting point for examination of our future relations with China and the opportunities open for developing them. [More…]
Premier Hua Kuo-Feng announced that China has embarked on programs which aim to take it to the forefront of world economies by the turn of the century and he announced with some specificity ambitious targets to be achieved by 1985. [More…]
Indeed, as I have already described it in China, the Chinese have now embarked on their second long march. [More…]
If China succeeds in the aims it has set for itself for modernisation, or makes substantial progress along this road, the implications will be significant for the world and for Australia. [More…]
The program and the policies of Premier Hua Huo-Feng’s Government have opened up new opportunities for the development of closer relations between China and Australia at the government level, at the commercial level, and in the highly important area of technical exchange. [More…]
The Australian Government has already indicated in practical ways its wish to strengthen links with China by encouraging people to people contacts through its cultural exchange programs and, most recently, by its decision to establish the Australia-China Council, by financial support of scientific exchanges and by taking the initiative in arranging with China programs of potentially great importance to both countries to exchange experience and expertise in the fields of agriculture and minerals production. [More…]
I received assurances at the top level from those directly concerned in both Peking and Shanghai that as long as prices are competitive, China will import considerably larger quantities of iron ore on a long term basis from Australia, which it looks to as its main supplier. [More…]
China will require significantly increased quantities of iron ore to meet its steel production targets and has indicated that Australian ores are suitable for blending with domestically produced ores. [More…]
China is an important market for Australian iron and steel. [More…]
I was assured by Chinese authorities that although China planned to rapidly increase its own production of steel the planned rate of production would be insufficient to meet their needs. [More…]
Apart from iron ore and steel I discussed the possibility of the export to China of other Australian minerals and nonferrous metals, including aluminium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel and mineral sands. [More…]
My visit to China also opened up prospects for Australian industry in new fields. [More…]
China is interested in acquiring advanced mineral and metallurgical technology and in developing its infrastructure to support its modernisation program, in this regard Australian techniques in the extraction of minerals, their transport from the mine and the construction of deep harbours are of direct relevance to China ‘s conditions. [More…]
I am confident that much Australian technology is suitable for China’s conditions and requirements, an obvious example being our agricultural machinery. [More…]
In this context it is relevant that China’s agricultural modernisation objectives include: achievement of 85 per cent mechanisation in all major processes of farm work by 1 985 a four to five per cent annual increase in agricultural output over the next eight years. [More…]
Australia manufactures a full range of agricultural equipment and it was indicated to me that there are good prospects for use of Australian technology and equipment in the further mechanisation of China ‘s agriculture. [More…]
Plans are also under way for an early exchange of missions between China and Australia which will initiate an ongoing program of exchanges of agricultural expertise and information. [More…]
It is a remarkable fact that Australia ranks second only to Japan in the number of tourists visiting China. [More…]
Around 4,000 Australians visited China last year and I was informed that some 10,000 will be visiting China in 1978. [More…]
China has an overall plan for tourist numbers including quotas for individual countries, and the very significant increase in the number of Australians visiting China reflects the importance China attaches to our bilateral relations. [More…]
The possible involvement of Qantas in servicing the big increase in tourist traffic to China was discussed. [More…]
For example, our teachers and students in China on government exchange programs, some of whom I met, and over 20 teachers directly recruited by the Chinese authorities, are making an important contribution to better understanding. [More…]
My first task on my return will be to report to my colleagues on my discussions in China so that appropriate consideration can be given to follow up action. [More…]
I will also consult with industry in order to ensure that industry leaders are fully aware of the significance of China’s long term plans for modernisation and of the opportunities and challenges for participation by Australian industries. [More…]
The potential for increased trade with China, combined with the recently announced arrangements for expanded export incentives should provide a stimulus to business expansion in Australia. [More…]
It is appropriate that I should put on record in Australia as I have expressed directly to my Chinese hosts, my appreciation of the warm reception which I received in China ‘s three major cities and of the positive and practical approach taken by Chinese leaders in all my discussions. [More…]
I return from my visit to China with a heightened awareness of the scope which exists for the further development of Sino-Australian relations. [More…]
In addition to that unsettling factor, we have the fact that the move would inevitably tend to push Vietnam towards closer and closer links with the Soviet union in contradistinction with its relations with China. [More…]
Its values are largely obsolete and its vision of Australia as an outpost of Empire, tied to the United States alone in this region and resisting contact and cultural exchange with our neighbours in China, Japan or Indonesia, seems dangerously anachronistic. [More…]
On one occasion on a visit to Japan and China the former Prime Minister took 53 people with him. [More…]
Yet he has made no criticism of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
It seems to me that if there are two classic illustrations of the great socialist state, they would be the USSR and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Because of the bluetongue situation in Australia, the following countries have total bans imposed on the importation of ruminants from Australia: UK, Ireland, USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, German Democratic Republic, Canada, Argentina, Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China, New Zealand, Fiji and Western Samoa. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Trade and Resources whether he is able to tell the House what results have come from a recent visit to Australia of representatives of the China National Metals and Minerals Import and Export Corporation? [More…]
It is a mission that I invited to Australia to survey the situation regarding China’s requirements for iron ore and other metals and minerals. [More…]
I can say that very substantial sales have been made to China. [More…]
Government’s desire to build up our trading relationship with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Since the new regime came to power a conscious effort has been made to seek technology and raw materials from other countries to help industrial development in China. [More…]
I believe that Australia can play a very significant role in supplying China with a good deal of its raw materials. [More…]
The main potential markets are probably China and perhaps Russia. [More…]
On my recent visit to Japan, China and Hong Kong, the aspect that interested me most was the density of population in those countries- the number of people living within a limited space. [More…]
In China 800 million to 900 million people use every scrap of available land. [More…]
I note from the Laurie Oakes report of today that the Minister was rebuffed in the Chinese negotiations when he found, much to his surprise, that the prices which had been negotiated by the Japanese had also become the benchmark for negotiations with China. [More…]
If we do not, before we know where we are we may find that Japan, having lost faith in the American alliance, will have re-armed and sought alliance with China. [More…]
Vietnam is a country which is striving to maintain its independence and freedom from all sides whether it be China or the Soviet Union on the one hand or the United States on the other. [More…]
The conservative side of politics is similarly shocked by the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China supporting Zaire, Somalia and Eritrea. [More…]
It is hard to believe that two countries which up until about three years ago were being bombed and devastated by outsiders by complete outsiders as far as Indo-China was concerned are now bombing and devastating one another. [More…]
Until fairly recently many of us tended to worry about the so-called domino effect of what was happening in Indo-China and feared that authoritarian and communist regimes would take over in Vietnam and spread down to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. [More…]
There is no more obvious way to prevent people in those other countries who may have been sympathetic to communism from embracing communism or from devoting themselves to overthrowing the governments in those countries than for them to see what is happening at present in Vietnam and in Indo-China in general. [More…]
I have here an article by William Shawcross which was published in the New York Review of Books of 6 April 1978 and is called ‘The Third Indochina War’. [More…]
In the article he discusses what is happening now in Indo-China. [More…]
Steel products are going into China. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Post and Telecommunications hear the radio program AM on 10 October in which it was reported that Peter McLullan, President of the Young Lawyers Association of Victoria, and Neil McLean, former national leader of the Australian student movement, broadcast from China to Thailand calling for continued communist revolution in Thailand? [More…]
I am not responsible for broadcasting matters in China or Thailand, and I did not in fact hear the broadcast to which the honourable member has referred. [More…]
Was an agreement signed by representatives of Australia and the People’s Republic of China enabling a Chinese Consulate to be opened in Sydney with appropriate rights for Australia to open a Consulate in China. [More…]
If so, did the Australian representative seek at any time during the negotiations to clarify or renegotiate the 1973 Articles of Agreement governing diplomatic relations between Australia and the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Australian Ambassador on behalf of the Government of Australia, which constitute an agreement between the two Governments for the establishment of Consulates-General in the two countries. [More…]
In view of the increasing importance of China as a market for Australian products, can the Minister indicate what steps the Government is taking to encourage the development of further trade with this country? [More…]
In fact, in the year just ended our sales to the People’s Republic of China have doubled to $400m and it is now our fourth largest export market. [More…]
Two other missions visited Australia in the two previous months, all reflecting the interest of China in forging closer links with Australia. [More…]
In a week’s time I will be leaving with a mission to visit China for a period of one week. [More…]
This will give these people the opportunity of meeting their counterparts and also becoming involved in the new trading environment that is building up in China. [More…]
The businessmen’s group includes Mr Espie, President of the Australian Mining Industry Council, who will be leader of the group; Sir James McNeill, Chairman of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd; Sir Samual Burston, President of the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council; Professor Badger, Chairman of the Australian Science and Technology Council; Mr Neville Blyton, President of the Australia/China Business Co-operation Committee; Mr Eather, past president of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation and General President of the Queensland Grain Growers Association; Mr Gough, Deputy Chairman of the Trade Development Council; Mr Harris, Chairman of the Australian Sugar Board; and Dr Hughes, Chairman of the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation. [More…]
These people will be having discussions in China and assessing the future prospects for trade in commodities and technology and for developing closer economic ties between the two countries. [More…]
I think that the standing of the businessmen who are coming with me indicates the importance that they and I attach to the mission that is going to China and reflects the concern that Australia and this Government are showing in developing the best trade links possible with a country where there is obviously immense potential under its new policies. [More…]
In the 1970s we have done an enormous amount towards working out our relationship with China, but it does seem to me that there has been a neglect of the Indian sub-continent. [More…]
We recall the great embarrassment that was caused a few years ago to our Government when it had to face reality and recognise mainland China in the forums of the world. [More…]
Significantly the new markets that have been found for our primary industry products have been found in nations such as China. [More…]
I dare say that the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) would have terrible reservations about our trading with China- the dreaded China. [More…]
Does the honourable member remember when Mr Whitlam made his visit to China in 1971 the uproar that occurred in Australia? [More…]
I do not hear honourable members opposite these days referring to China as Red China. [More…]
China is one of our big trading partners, and honourable members opposite should thank the Labor Government for developing that market and for making them realise that China is not the ogre or the bogeyman depicted for 200 years. [More…]
I repeat, as one travels around one sees that manufacturers are looking overseas, are trying to get exports going again; are begining to see Australia in the context of South East Asia, in the context- as the honourable member for Parramatta so rightly pointed out- of China, which represents an enormous market to our north. [More…]
I would not want to detract from the good work that was done by Mr Whitlam in going to China and opening up that area, or the good commonsense of our leader, Prime Minister Fraser, in following that up. [More…]
I inform the House that the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) left Australia this morning for China to have discussions over a wide range of trade matters and to attend Australia’s national day at the Peking Foreign Agricultural Machinery Exhibition. [More…]
Now, China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Indo-China countries are each in various ways seeking better relations with these countries. [More…]
We have established very good relations with China. [More…]
We are very mindful of the fact that as far back as 1971 the present Prime Minister said that he was very fearful of the consequences of ever recognising China. [More…]
They were wrong for a generation on the recognition of China. [More…]
A further possible threat in the future could come from attempts by the Soviet Union to destabilise the South East Asian region in order to encircle or contain China. [More…]
This could take place as part of the Soviet Union’s long term quarrel with China. [More…]
My colleague, the honourable member for St George, (Mr Neil) a little while ago drew attention to the growing conflict between China and Cambodia. [More…]
Our nearest neighbours- South Africa, India, China and the United States- all have nuclear weapons. [More…]
My visit to China and the discussions I had there added very substantially to the framework that had been established by the visits of Mr Whitlam in 1973, the present Prime Minister in 1976 and other Ministers in recent times. [More…]
I am certain that, as a result of this, there will be a flurry of activity between representatives of industry in Australia and China to build up trade between our two countries. [More…]
In a few weeks’ time the Australia-China business co-operation committee will be leaving for a 17-day visit. [More…]
Keng Piao, a Vice-Premier of China, is expected to come here in the early part of next year. [More…]
While in China I also renewed the invitation of the Prime Minister to Premier Hua to visit Australia. [More…]
A coal mission will be going to China shortly to discuss areas of technical co-operation. [More…]
In fact the whole area of technology will be further explored between the two countries and I have put in hand the possibility of some special technological and science agreement, particularly a technological agreement, with China to protect the patent rights of Australian manufacturers and suppliers should they enter arrangements with China. [More…]
In addition to this sort of technology, China needs consultancy services, specialised equipment and skilled technicians. [More…]
Indeed, while I was in China I took up the question of the ban against Australian wool and livestock because of the outbreak of the blue tongue virus in Australia. [More…]
I believe that as a result of my discussions and those of Sir Samuel Burston with officials, and those of Professor Badger with scientific people, we have a chance of breaking through the ban which has been preventing about $20m of traditional wool trade with China. [More…]
I have suggested that as an interim measure China might take wool from the sourthern parts of Australia until Chinese technicians can come here to survey the situation. [More…]
In view of the $50m credit line that we have offered through the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, officials of the Bank of China will be getting together with officials of EFIC to see how the credit line might be fulfilled. [More…]
A long queue of countries is anxious to become involved with the modernisation of China. [More…]
China has enormous grassland areas which are virtually undeveloped- there are approximately 200 million hectares of this sort of country- and its development offers opportunities for us. [More…]
I hope that other Australian States will be able to provide help and get involved in these projects in China. [More…]
With respect to recent trade negotiations with the People’s Republic of China about the export of iron ore, what arrangements have been made about shipping. [More…]
1 ) Recent contracts concluded between Australian iron ore producers and the People’s Republic of China for the supply of iron ore to China were on an fob basis. [More…]
Consequently, responsibility for the shipping arrangements lies with the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Has the Government of the People’s Republic of China approached the Australian Government with a request for Australia to accept greater numbers of Chinese students in Australia. [More…]
In view of the publicly stated interest of China in rapidly expanding numbers of Chinese students studying abroad, what steps has the Government taken to consult with State authorities and tertiary institutions to establish what needs to be done to accept these students. [More…]
Similar requests have been made by China of the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States of America, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Canada. [More…]
When we as members of the Labor Party as long ago as 10 or 15 years advocated the recognition of the People’s Republic of China we were told that we were traitors. [More…]
As recently as three or four years ago, when the then Leader of the Opposition, Gough Whitlam, had been to China, and the then Minister for External Affairs sought the right to go to China, he was refused permission by a Liberal Prime Minister. [More…]
Now we cannot turn around without hearing that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) is waving a red flag, putting a line in terms of the position of China which the average member of the Labor Party regards as being somewhat chauvinistic. [More…]
We cannot turn around without hearing that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who also called members of the Labor Party communists and dupes, is walking around China looking like an American tourist with a bundle of cameras around his neck, almost singing The East is Red. [More…]
We were opposed to the policy of honourable gentlemen opposite, whose party on that occasion was distributing pamphlets around Australia which said ‘Better to stop them there than have them come here’, with a great red arrow pointing to China. [More…]
Suddenly this Government has discovered that it can have trade relations with China. [More…]
It is a simplistic view to divide complex communities with historic differences which are now starting to emerge between Vietnam and China and Vietnam and Cambodia. [More…]
Twelve miles: Algeria; Bangladesh; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; China; Colombia; Comoro; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Cyprus; Dominican Republic; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Fiji; France; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Kampuchea; Kenya; Democratic Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea; Kuwait; Libya; Malaysia; Maldives; Malta; Mauritius’; Mexico; Monaco; Morocco; Mozambique; Nauru; New Zealand; Oman; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Saudi Arabia; Seychelles; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Surinam; Syria; Thailand; Togo; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Ukrainian SSR; USSR; Venezuela; Vietnam; Western Samoa; Yemen Arab Republic; People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen; Zaire. [More…]
If one looks at the communes of China one will see that the revolution in China was directly related to land reform in that country. [More…]
Its contribution to this Fund, its friendship treaty with China and also the assistance it is rendering in Vietnam indicate that it wants to go further. [More…]
Certainly in China there is collective use of land. [More…]
Let us look at China also from the point of view of our foreign aid. [More…]
Perhaps in the future of the Asian Development Bank China might be a recipient of funds also. [More…]
Again I can only revert to the case of China but I think the situation would be the same in many of the other nations throughout South East Asia as far as their methods are concerned. [More…]
The recent visit by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) to China would indicate that within that country there is a potential for a great expansion of our trade. [More…]
I believe that Japan and China look to Australia not only as a friend but also as a potential trading partner. [More…]
If we are to trade and have strong friendly relationships with other nations, I would suggest that of the nations that I visited earlier this year Japan and China could be of mutual assistance to Australia. [More…]
I refer to the advice and the hopes made clear by the Government in respect of trade with China, particularly in relation to the export of technology from Australia. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Has the Government an attitude on barter arrangements between China and an Australian exporting firm such as those that have existed with a number of British exporters for whom marketing rights in Great Britain were reserved exclusively by China following the use of the original British technology? [More…]
-As we know, my colleague, the Minister for Trade and Resources, has recently returned from a very successful trade mission to China. [More…]
I have no doubt that trade with China is going to expand very greatly in the years immediately ahead of us, just as it has expanded very greatly with many other countries of Asia- Korea and South East Asian countries- and with the Middle East. [More…]
But up to the present time, trade with China has gone ahead on a very profitable basis. [More…]
A million tonnes of wheat goes to Japan, a million tonnes to Egypt, Vi million tonnes to China, 1 million tonnes to South East Asia and Indonesia and three quarters of a million tonnes to the Middle East. [More…]
Also, in 1976, South Africa and China increased their shares of the Japanese market to 25 per cent and 23 per cent respectively compared with 19 per cent and 17 per cent respectively the year before. [More…]
South Africa and China have got under our guard and increased their share of the Japanese market, as I just pointed out. [More…]
I want to say a few words on what is known as the great and growing market of China. [More…]
The glittering prospects of the China market may not exist in the way we have been led to believe. [More…]
The famous British house of Jardine, Matheson and Co. also had this prospect of a euphoric market in China after the treaty of Nanking. [More…]
The firm immediately exported knives and forks to China. [More…]
It was also told that the Chinese did not dress properly so it exported suits and western clothes to China. [More…]
It was told that the Chinese could have a sense of culture so it exported pianos to China. [More…]
Those goods rusted and rotted in ports along the coast of China. [More…]
The Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony), who is at the table, returned recently from China and quite correctly said that there may be wonderful prospects for the export of Australian technology to China. [More…]
The Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) a little earlier spoke about the capacity for exports to China. [More…]
China’s possession of foreign exchange is quite small. [More…]
It is the reason why China desires to engage overwhelmingly in the barter trade. [More…]
My information is that even at the present time 25 per cent of China’s trade is in terms of barter. [More…]
So, barter trade is important to China and will remain important in that country. [More…]
It means that Australia in her exports to China will have to look very carefully to see the way in which those exports will be consumated. [More…]
Those exports will have to contend with the fact that China is short of foreign exchange. [More…]
Recently, a British firm- a famous toy manufacturer- indicated that it had made trade agreements with China. [More…]
The general Manager and Director was in Australia recently and indicated that his firm had made similar deals with respect to China. [More…]
The firm exported its second division toy technology to China; the toys and the goods are to be made in China, in return for which it retains the marketing rights in Great Britain and in a number of other European countries. [More…]
I will go through a few of them: The goods which are made in China and are then able to be exported are made basically with slave labour. [More…]
The excellent article written by Professor Audrey Donnithorne in the issue of Quadrant on China- she is a woman with an impeccable reputation- pointed out, for example, that in the wage structure in that country there had been no adjustment in wages whatsoever from the late 1 950s to 1977. [More…]
China’s official wage policy is that wages rise below the rate of productivity. [More…]
Were such barter deals to exist between Australian exporting firms and China, the first question would be: What rights will exist for the exporting firm to market, similarly to what the Dunbee Corporation has done, those goods in this nation? [More…]
How competitive China is going to be with Singapore and other Southeast and East Asian exporters of light industrial goods remains to be seen. [More…]
But it also means a great deal to Australia, because the export of such technology to China, with results similar to those that occurred in respect of the British corporation mentioned, would interrupt and overtake the development of trade between ASEAN countries and Australia. [More…]
Therefore, I suggest to the House even at this late stage that various matters concerning trade between Australia and China need to be examined. [More…]
If so, will they be acceptable irrespective of the circumstances under which the goods will be manufactured in China with the technology that is expected to be exported from this country? [More…]
China’s possession of foreign exchange is not sufficient to tie in with the rate of growth which she proposes under the five and ten-year plans which she has promulgated. [More…]
At the reception to celebrate China’s National Day at the Canberra Rex Hotel last Thursday evening you distinguished yourself by becoming the only guest who could be heard above all others in that part of the room in which you and I were discussing, i.a. [More…]
I refer to the advice and the hopes made clear by the Government in respect of trade with China, particularly in relation to the export of technology from Australia. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister Has the Government an attitude on barter arrangements between China and an Australian exporting firm such as those that have existed with a number of British exporters for whom marketing rights in Great Britain were reserved exclusively by China following the use of the original British technology? [More…]
China is, of course, anxious to obtain a wide range of westem technology and is adopting a flexible attitude to the means by which it achieves that objective. [More…]
The Chinese party would of course insist on handling the sale of the product within China. [More…]
Although China has paid cash for much of her technology imports in the past, there is growing evidence of payment in kind forming part of her contractual arrangements in more recent deals with European and Japanese suppliers of technology in particular. [More…]
Australian companies contemplating ‘buy back’ deals with China, or any other country for that matter, should take early steps to satisfy the Reserve Bank, Treasury and Customs’ officials as to the commercial valuation placed on the goods being accepted as full or part payment for the Australian technology. [More…]
I ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Resources whether yesterday, in addressing the National Export Conference, he said that the Middle East was a better short-term market than China. [More…]
If so, was this statement, as has been suggested in Press reports today, a contradiction of recent Government and industry statements indicating that China is the most exciting export market for Australia? [More…]
I spoke of the enormous potential of China. [More…]
China obviously, because of the dimensions of its market, offers one of the most exciting prospects on earth now that it has embarked upon a course of modernisation which will in time lift its living standards. [More…]
With China, developments will be slower and longer term. [More…]
China is an immense market now for our wheat and raw materials. [More…]
Is he able to say what is (a) the number or nuclear power plants and (b) the nuclear electricity generating capacity of plants (i) in operation, (ii) under construction, (iii) planned or on order and (iv) planned or on order and subsequently cancelled or deferred during the last5 years in (A) the Soviet Union, (B) Eastern Europe, (C) Cuba and (D) the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Are Trade Commissioners presently stationed in the People’s Republic of China; if so, [More…]
Asserts that Australian relations with mainland China should not be interpreted more restrictively than applies to a host of other nations, especially as Australia has been so compliant with the wishes of mainland China in the past and therefore requests that the Australian Goverment immediately open an office or offices in Taiwan to promote a similar range of activities for the benefit of our mutual peoples and to help balance the Australian international current account. [More…]
In recent years our attitude has been to recognise one China, with its capital in Peking. [More…]
Before my last trip to the Middle East I asked for a factual report on how other countries that similarly recognised China and had a relationship with Taiwan handled their trade relations. [More…]
When I have that report I will be in a better position to comment further, but we must recognise that China is a very important market to us and a very significant country. [More…]
In particular, opportunities are opening for Australia in Japan, South East Asia, the Middle East and China. [More…]
I cannot think of anything that is doing greater damage to our national interest than a handful of louts taking upon themselves what should be Australia’s national policy in relation to trade with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
China has become an extremely important trading country for Australia. [More…]
In the last 10 years our trade with China has increased from $20m to $580m. [More…]
China has become our second largest market for iron ore, importing about 6.8 million tonnes last year. [More…]
We are hoping that the market will grow still more, but if there is to be this continual disruption and discrimination against China because somebody does not like its involvement in the Vietnam war all I can say is that those people are doing great harm to a great Australian industry, to the nation as a whole and to our relationship with China. [More…]
The United States and China have established full diplomatic relations. [More…]
However, events in Indo-China, Iran, Afghanistan, and many parts of Africa, demonstrate the volatility of the present international situation. [More…]
The Government has for some time identified the position in Indo-China as deteriorating and potentially dangerous. [More…]
Before the fighting between Vietnam and China we made known our concern to a number of governments about the dangers inherent in the situation. [More…]
In my discussions with President Carter in January and Prime Minister Desai later that month, we spoke about the situation in Indo-China and about the need to exercise an influence in reducing the tensions there. [More…]
Although China has indicated that it will act with prudence, there must no underestimation of the serious danger posed to our region and to the world by the present conflict between China and Vietnam. [More…]
Australia has a vital interest in China and Vietnam swiftly and peacefully settling their differences. [More…]
We have called and call on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea, and on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam. [More…]
No one can be certain of the course that the conflict in Indo-China will take. [More…]
Australians are penetrating the new and important markets emerging in China, South East Asia, and the Middle East, and the trade drive conducted by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Resources, and the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) and the trade missions that have left Australia for overseas are making rewarding progress for Australia. [More…]
But the point he does refer to, which is of concern to all people in this country, relates to the conflict in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
I find it impossible to establish beyond any reasonable doubt in my mind who is right and who is wrong, Vietnam or China. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was muted in his criticism yesterday of China’s attack on Vietnam, claiming that it was the direct result of Vietnam ‘s earlier invasion of Kampuchea. [More…]
In fact, Mr Fraser spent more time referring to Vietnam in his statements yesterday than he did to China. [More…]
I put to one side the very disturbing prospects which could arise if the escalation of the conflict between China and Vietnam were to get out of hand. [More…]
One of the results that will flow from this conflict is that China, I expect, will be playing a far greater role among ASEAN countries as a sort of counterpoise to what is expected to be greater Soviet influence in the South East Asian region. [More…]
I believe that unless a satisfactory conclusion can be arranged in relation to this conflict, and quickly, we will see an escalation of Soviet presence in the Indo-China peninsula area. [More…]
I have said before, and I repeat, that I believe the best way in which we can establish secure, long-term stability in the Indo-China peninsula is by providing aid for the peaceful reconstruction of” Vietnam and encouraging Western countries to provide generous aid for that purposenot so generous, of course, that Vietnam can establish herself as a supremely powerful industrial, and accordingly military, country in the area- so that she can feel more secure and confident in the future. [More…]
It is not until the fourth paragraph of the opening part of the statement that the Government says that it has ‘identified the position in Indo-China as deteriorating and potentially dangerous’. [More…]
It fought elections on the basis of the domino theory, the downward thrust of China. [More…]
The United States quite fairly and properly wishes to have normal relations with China and because of that, the Australian Government says: ‘That is the smart thing for us to do.’ [More…]
It recognised China and established diplomatic relations. [More…]
We have a fixation with alignments, particularly the espousal in 1976 of a treaty between Australia, Japan, China and the United States. [More…]
The Australian Government has failed to maintain a balance in relations with the Soviet Union on the one hand and China on the other hand. [More…]
-The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was quite right to draw to the attention of the people of Australia the great changes that had taken place overseas, in particular the recognition by the United States of America of China, and the problems in Iran and in parts of Africa. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Government are to be congratulated on asking China to withdraw from Vietnam and the Vietnamese to withdraw from [More…]
It was my pleasure recently to visit China and Japan. [More…]
In China petrol costs $1.50 a gallon; in Japan it costs more than $2 a gallon. [More…]
I mentioned a few moments ago that it was a pleasure to be a member of a delegation to China and Japan. [More…]
China. [More…]
China purchases $5 87m worth of our products; we purchase, in return, $11 lm. [More…]
The imbalance could be made up with the importation of oil from China. [More…]
China has 900 million people all of whom have to be fed. [More…]
Our wheat harvest will be a record one, and the long term contract just completed with China for Vh million tonnes of wheat over the next three years is further evidence of the healthy situation that is developing within the rural industry. [More…]
I have been greatly encouraged by announcements in recent weeks such as the decision by ICI Australia Ltd, to spend $900m on expansion in Victoria and New South Wales; the intention of General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd to spend $2 10m on a new engine plant; the $20m contract recently signed by a Melbourne company to supply prefabricated motel units to China; the $18m expansion to the Brisbane refinery by the Ampol company; and the possibility that the PekoWallsend smelter at Tennant Creek will be re-opened. [More…]
The China- Vietnam conflict can threaten millions of lives not only in this region but also in other parts of the world. [More…]
The Fraser Government does not understand the suffering of the people of China, the people of Vietnam and the people of Kampuchea today. [More…]
It is necessary for me to say now, before going into detail, that the Australian Government’s recent statements and actions concerning the crisis in Indo-China have been mere echoes of the statements made by the United States Government. [More…]
It is in this light that we need to examine the role that the Australian Government has played in relation to events in Indo-China. [More…]
I have had a long friendship with the people of China. [More…]
I visited China in 1960 and in 1976. [More…]
Conflicts on the China-Vietnam border again were stirred up over many questions, over the indigenous Chinese people in Vietnam whom we call the Hua people. [More…]
The conflicts in Indo-China are complex. [More…]
Secondly, we should call for the demilitarisation of the Vietnam-China border under international supervision. [More…]
Thirdly, we should propose that the independence and sovereignty of Kampuchea should be guaranteed by international agreement and that the Kampuchean people be left to resolve their internal problems free of interference from China, Vietnam or any other outside forces. [More…]
Fourthly, we should support the Vietnamese Government’s proposals for the resolution of all Indo-China border disputes by internationally supervised negotiations. [More…]
Finally there is China’s attack upon Vietnam. [More…]
I have not heard the latest news, but it appears imminent that Russia will attack China. [More…]
After 3 1/2 years of comparative quiet, South East Asia is again the scene of armed conflict- first with the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, then with the conflict between China and Vietnam. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
In our region the conflict in Indo-China is the greatest cause of concern and I now turn to look in more detail at this and the Government’s reaction to it. [More…]
The basic situation which now exists in Indo-China is a matter of great concern and disappointment to the Government. [More…]
The situation began to deteriorate last year with increasing hostilities between Kampuchea and Vietnam, a worsening relationship between China and Vietnam and the signing of a Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation- which included a military assistance clause- between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China for long term influence in the region- and, more generally, on the whole Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]
China’s subsequent incursion into Vietnam can only be understood as a reaction to Vietnam’s treaty with the Soviet Union, its invasion of Kampuchea and the installation there of a pro- Vietnamese Government. [More…]
China’s motives in striking across the border do not relate only to a border dispute but are aimed at Vietnam’s political influence in Kampuchea, which is beyond China’s immediate reach. [More…]
The issue between China and Vietnam therefore is not likely to be resolved with any element of permanence by a settlement on the [More…]
Vietnam-China border which leaves the situation in Kampuchea unchanged. [More…]
We have called on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea, on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam and on the Soviet Union to exercise restraint to prevent the last turn of the screw, which could be disastrous not merely for the region but for the peace of the world. [More…]
The Opposition has accused the Government of a proChina bias. [More…]
To the extent that China, if left alone and unprovoked, would prefer peace and stability at this stage of its development in order to concentrate on internal modernisation, and only to that extent, there is a convergence between its present interest and ours. [More…]
He emphasised that there should be immediate cease-fires in the conflicts, that Vietnam must withdraw its forces from Kampuchea and China must withdraw its forces from Vietnam and that there should be concerted efforts leading to lasting settlements, possibly using the good offices of the Secretary General. [More…]
Some of the changes which have taken place at that levelthe establishment of full diplomatic relations between, the United States of America and China, the expansion of Japan’s relations with Chinaare in themselves desirable; but what significance they will ultimately have will depend on how they fit into a picture which is not yet complete. [More…]
It is for these reasons that we made a real effort to prevent the situation in Indo-China from developing. [More…]
We must go back to considering the fundamental problems of Indo-China. [More…]
It is very important that all honourable members opposite should go back in history and look at the facts of the situation in Vietnam at that time because then Indo-China was a continuing festering sore. [More…]
There was a theory at that time of the downward thrust of China. [More…]
The John Foster Dulles position was that we must contain China and must be involved in Vietnam. [More…]
We saw then diplomatic efforts made virtually to involve the United States in Indo-China. [More…]
Elections were fought and won in Australia on a platform of being against China and the threat of communism by China. [More…]
We were the first government to recognise China because we went and saw the problems of China. [More…]
We had built good relations with China. [More…]
We turned over the ground that was poisoned in Indo-China and China by the likes of Menzies, Hasluck, Barwick and others. [More…]
The present Prime Minister and Foreign Minister could not sustain that relationship for its own virtue and instead proposed that we enter into another alliance, a treaty, between China, Japan and the United States. [More…]
They relate to Indo-China and China; the Association of South East Asian Nations; West Asia; and the global balance, arms control and nuclear proliferation. [More…]
We have seen war again in Indo-China in the past two months. [More…]
However, the Foreign Minister will know, as a former Army Minister, that imperialist armies of occupation in Indo-China find victory elusive. [More…]
But in fact it has yet to be shown that any war in Indo-China in the past 30 years has posed any threat to Australia. [More…]
-Members of the Liberal and National Country parties have always said that a Liberal-National Country Party government had to be elected to prevent the downward thrust of China. [More…]
We did not recognise when that was said that they were going to take the side of China. [More…]
Second, there is the history of the Indo-China Communist Party, including the desire for domination by the Vietnamese within that group. [More…]
In that period, however, China established a firm tie to the Sihanouk regime which it nurtured in exile after Sihanouk was deposed by Lon Nol. [More…]
China became the champion of anti-imperialist Cambodian independence in a way clearly reflecting China’s desire to contain Vietnam. [More…]
With the collapse of the American-sponsored government in Phnom Penh in 1975, China became patron of a government that came in from the jungle after a quarter of a century. [More…]
China’s policy of support for that regime took it down a blind alley dictated by strategy and ‘consistency’. [More…]
In 1970 China was still in the process of emergence from the Cultural Revolution. [More…]
But it was not until after the collapse of another United Statessupported attack from South Vietnam- the Lam Son operation into Laos in February-March 1971- that China began to negotiate with the United States, which it saw as a declining threat. [More…]
It was not until after the purge of Lin Piao in September 1971 that the anti-Soviet line in China assumed clear ascendency and began to take the shape of a search for what Mao called a ‘united front’. [More…]
China embarked on this united front strategy because of its sense of encirclement. [More…]
The China of Mao, irrationally feared by those men opposite in this chamber in the 1960s, did not commit its armies to battle in Vietnam. [More…]
The China of Deng Xiaoping, embraced by these men, has committed its armies into Vietnam. [More…]
We opposed that as also we would oppose the cancellation of the Government’s $50 billion credit line for exports to China which the Government’s logic should force it to cancel. [More…]
At the time of the Korean War, the Soviet Union was pleased to see China at war and can welcome now in its own terms the dissipation of China’s energy in the south. [More…]
The Soviet Union need not lift a finger in the sense that it may well hope that China’s influence could fail. [More…]
With regard to China’s relations with the West, it can no longer be called the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s sixteenth member. [More…]
This Government should be able to anticipate the problems and should be able to exercise a moderating influence on China. [More…]
The Soviet Union was delighted when China was embroiled in Korea in the 1950s and those qualities of spreading the interest and flexibility which so characterise Soviet policy are likely to be satisfied to see China at war with Vietnam and China’s relations with Vietnam being shattered for a generation. [More…]
We make the point that the conservative elements in the United States could well think: ‘This is the right time to play the China card’. [More…]
They could say: ‘Now we will play the China card’. [More…]
In these perspectives then the Government has pursued a policy in relation to IndoChina that is as bankrupt and destructive to Western interests as its policy towards the last Indo-China war. [More…]
The gulf between the ASEAN nations and Indo-China and China will be widened. [More…]
All we have heard from the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) is an historical resume of events in Indo-China over the last 25 years. [More…]
It is so easy to imagine a situation where one mistake, one miscalculation, one rifle bullet across an international frontier, could well be enough to launch the Soviet Union against China- an action which would result, quite likely, in disastrous consequences for all of mankind. [More…]
The Minister has adequately covered the various problems relating to the China- Vietnam situation and there is no point in covering that matter any further. [More…]
Furthermore, current intelligence estimates are that between 1964 and 1977 the Soviets spent an average of about 10 to IS per cent of their defence budget on forces oriented towards the Peoples Republic of China. [More…]
One consequence of such a role would be that Australia would not seek to take sides in situations of tension or conflict, such as that currently raging in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
It does not mean that in all circumstances we avoid the obligation to choose who is right and who is wrong when clearly there is an aggressor and another nation which is a victim, but more generally in relation to Indo-China the principle I am stating applies. [More…]
I now move on to deal with Indo-China. [More…]
The Government has postured and blustered over recent events in Indo-China because it has no effective role to play. [More…]
The Government has painted itself into a corner by its anti-Soviet and antiVietnam attitudes on the one hand and its excessive pro-China position on the other. [More…]
Given our involvement in the previous Indo-China war, that was an unusual and significant situation and one for which we should be thankful to the previous Labor Government. [More…]
The Labor Party, in office, was responsible for resuming normal relations with China. [More…]
Similarly, we welcome the resumption of relations between China and the United States- and we hope they too, will grow and prosper. [More…]
But we recognise that China has her own reasons for not wanting to see SALT II come into existence. [More…]
Frankly, it would suit China to see the United States with overwhelming weapons superiority over the Soviet Union. [More…]
Regrettably, over the years and particularly during the non-policy period of the Whitlam Government, our status in the Third World and everywhere else- in particular China- was lowered. [More…]
Possibly it created diplomatic relations of a kind with Mainland China. [More…]
But I think it is fairly obvious that the acceleration of the attitude towards Australia and the United States of America over the last few months has indicated that the present regime in China would have infinitely more confidence and infinitely more trust in a future allied to our philosophy and politics than that of members of the Opposition. [More…]
They have suggested that even China is now attacking Labor’s golden idol, Vietnam. [More…]
If one were to read the statements made by the foreign ministers of other great nations one would realise that there has been an obvious attempt in each case to try to appreciate a situation which involves the possibility of an unthinkable conflict, that is, the possibility of the Soviet Union and China coming into conflict. [More…]
I am not suggesting for one moment that they gave me classified information, but the general impression there is that America is getting nearer to a genuine understanding- and this is being achieved in a remarkable way- with the Soviet Union at the same time as this very wonderful association is being built up with communist China. [More…]
I suggest that the same would happen in the three countries in Indo-China, in China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Philippines and in many other countries of South America, Africa and the Middle East. [More…]
In some cases the difference may be only marginal such as in the disputes between the Soviet Union and China or between Chile and Argentina. [More…]
I would like to make this point in relation to the conflict in South East Asia: It is utter hypocrisy for the Soviet Union to criticise China or the United States for interfering in other countries. [More…]
It sets out Australia’s real concerns about what has been occurring recently, particularly in IndoChina and Iran. [More…]
Within that we have an intense competition between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, each with a paranoid fear of the other, each believing that the other is bent on world domination and each determined to take steps to prevent the other from achieving the aims that are ascribed to it. [More…]
As far as what is happening in Indo-China is concerned, it is my view that our role is one of urging caution and restraint, as the Minister has pointed out. [More…]
One would imagine that if a direct request were made and the Soviet Union attacked China in any force, the Chinese would neutralise their southern flank with a much, much heavier blow being directed at Vietnam than at present. [More…]
One of those strategic aims is the encirclement and containment of China. [More…]
Simple potentialities that could arise are threats to our offshore fields, such as those on the North West Shelf; the blockade of our shipping lines to Japan or China which would throw the Australian economy into serious disarray; and other regional instabilities that could arise at any time. [More…]
It was only in July 1971 when Sir William McMahon, expressed something like horror when Gough Whitlam announced that he was going to visit the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
When Mr Whitlam went to China the then Prime Minister was reported in the Age on 1 3 July 1 97 1 as follows: [More…]
Mr McMahon said the Labor mission to China had begun as an ingenuous exercise by the ALP to play party politics with wheat sales to China. [More…]
He accused the then Leader of the Opposition of allowing himself to be used as a spokesman for North Vietnam and China at the Paris peace talks. [More…]
That the communist states of the world are essentially monolithic and that, for example, Yugoslavia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vietnam and China had identical aims and worked virtually under a unified command. [More…]
Chiang Kai-shek’s regime in Taiwan was to be recognised as the legitimate government of China. [More…]
The United States was to be supported in its refusal to recognise the People’s Republic of China or to admit it to the United Nations. [More…]
Supporting and maintaining an anticommunist regime in South Vietnam would prove to be an effective means of containing China. [More…]
The present Prime Minister, who in the 1960s was the rising hope of the stern unbending Santamarians over China, is now an advocate of closer relations with the People’s Republic of China and has applauded the Carter Administration’s recent recognition. [More…]
I was disappointed to find very little reference in the Minister’s statement to China. [More…]
Reference was made to China in the context of the war in Vietnam but there was no reference to the enormous significance, both domestically and outside, of the political changes that have been going on in China. [More…]
When the honourable member for Dawson (Mr Braithwaite) and I paid a state visit to China in July 1978, we were both struck- and this is a highly bipartisan comment- by the widespread fear, which was expressed everywhere we went, about the Soviet Union. [More…]
In China at the moment there is enormous fear of the Soviet Union. [More…]
That fear is exacerbated by the presence of Russian vessels at the Cam Ranh Bay base and in the South China Sea. [More…]
There is no question from our point of view that China must get out of Vietnam and that Vietnam must get out of Kampuchea. [More…]
There is no reference in the Foreign Minister’s speech to the China-Japan Treaty. [More…]
The implications of the China- Japan Treaty are profound for us. [More…]
Will it, for example, mean increased opportunities for Australia to trade with the most populous trade combination in the world covering about 1,100 million people or will it simply mean a threat to Australia’s trading position whereby in the long term China sells raw materials to Japan instead of us and imports higher technology in return? [More…]
It is extraordinary, of course, that in China, we have had a strong move from ideology towards pragmatism, and that, in Iran we have had a great move from pragmatism back to ideology. [More…]
I am glad that my friend the honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) has given me an opportunity to present some facts relating to the recognition of the Peoples Republic of China which probably are not known to the House. [More…]
I can say to the honourable member that at the time I was Foreign Minister we drafted a number of the documents as a basis on which thinking could proceed, firstly as to the special question of whether there could be the requisite majority and, secondly, to ensure that a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council was voted to the People’s Republic of China while sustaining the position of Taiwan in the General Assembly. [More…]
I have been to China on two occasions in the last four years and I have been to the Soviet Union as well. [More…]
The prospect of successful negotiation between China and the Soviet is not good. [More…]
I do not believe for one moment that it is practicable for a small country like ours to be playing any sort of decisive role, but I agree with China which stated publicly today that it believes that the time has come for negotiations. [More…]
We want Vietnam to be contained within its own borders with possibly some border corrections between China and Vietnam. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon) has just spoken about the domino theory, the problems experienced by his own Government in obtaining access to China and about a whole range of what could be taken to be only slights against what is seen as the Western position. [More…]
Other members have spoken about what is going to happen in Indo-China and why the situation has occurred. [More…]
Iran, Lebanon, Cyprus, Kampuchea, China, Vietnam, Yemen, the Philippines, Irelandwhich is somewhat westernised- Uganda, Indonesian New Guinea, Israel, the Arab countries, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Namibia are a few of the places where there is actual armed conflict at the moment, or where the situation is very close to it. [More…]
What member of this Parliament, even with the benefit of hindsight, could seriously allege that these are arrows, coming down from China, pointed at the major cities of Australia? [More…]
The affairs in Indo-China are far more serious and the consequences could be very significant. [More…]
There is not to be a United Nations force there and there will not be some form of influence brought to bear on the countries of the region because the militarily significant countries of the region are Vietnam and China. [More…]
China is the alternative for the Vietnamese. [More…]
The present situation is dangerous for the rest of the world for the very significant reason that China’s position of influence in the world is at stake and it is extremely doubtful whether it can be more successful in the area than were the Americans or the French before them. [More…]
That normalisation was inevitable following the Shanghai communique when President Nixon visited China. [More…]
seen alongside negotiations of the United States .and the Soviet Union on the strategic arms limitations talks, the Camp David negotiations which have just resumed in regard to the Middle East, the situation in Indo-China and the African position. [More…]
It is interesting that China has put its money where its mouth is. [More…]
We have looked forward and do look forward to the industrial expansion which will take place in mainland China. [More…]
China may well become as important to us as a trading nation as is Japan. [More…]
Perhaps our sales of iron ore and coal will become at least as important to China as they are to Japan. [More…]
Similarly, notice has to be taken of any Soviet buildup that may occur as a result of the situation in Indo-China. [More…]
The fact is that when the former Labor Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam, as Opposition Leader went to China to lay the foundations for the diplomatic recognition of China when Labor assumed office, he was called the friend of communists, et cetera by those in the Government ranks today. [More…]
When Mr Whitlam went to China in 1972. [More…]
Let us have a look at the position particularly so far as Indo-China is concerned. [More…]
There has been a steady deterioration in relationships between Vietnam and China. [More…]
China, the middle kingdom, which has always been deeply concerned on the question of encirclement saw that as a direct threat- as a direct encirclement by the USSR to the north, the west and the south. [More…]
Accordingly, it is understandable in the light of all those happenings that China eventually felt it was being encircled. [More…]
There is a very difficult period ahead for the world because of the tensions on the China-Soviet border. [More…]
We should also be very thankful at this point in time for the restraint displayed by the USSR because when China invaded Vietnam everyone was concerned that there could be immediate intervention by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is to say, there would be a non-aligned communist country- a country not aligned with the Soviet Union or with China. [More…]
I want to make it clear that the Labor Party was the party, when it was in government and in opposition in this country, which furthered the relationships with China that finally led to the diplomatic recognition of that country. [More…]
It is the Labor Party which today understands the concerns of China on the question of encirclement and asks that there be a withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea. [More…]
But it would only need Soviet action against China, followed perhaps by action taken against the Soviets by the United States of America, for a very difficult world situation to develop. [More…]
Most of them have been completely unimportant matters of detail when one considers the international scene, at what could happen and at what is happening in South East Asia, in China and Vietnam. [More…]
Three weeks ago I was in China. [More…]
This House is being asked to condone this Government’s endorsement of the United States of America foreign policy on the Indo-China region. [More…]
It is a policy that historically has shown contempt for the people of China, contempt for the people of Vietnam, contempt for the people of Kampuchea and the people of Laos. [More…]
As the United States attempts to woo the present Chinese leadership for big markets for the big corporations, it is a most audacious act on the part of the United States to send its ambassador to China at a critical time when the Chinese have invaded the people in Vietnam. [More…]
It is wrong to support a new collusion between the United States of America and the Government of China in an attempt to muzzle an independent Vietnam. [More…]
Vietnam was attempting to free itself from the powerless, triangular balancing between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
There was the psychology of fear, which infiltrators had spread among the Hua people, that there would be an invasion of Vietnam by China and that if the Hua people remained in Vietnam they would be treated as traitors. [More…]
At that time 160,000 Hua people, who are Vietnamese people of Chinese descent, migrated north to China. [More…]
The periods of hostility on the Vietnamese and Kampuchean borders parallel the rise and fall of Pol Pot in Kampuchea and Deng Xiaoping in China. [More…]
He also dismisses the incursion by Vietnam into Kampuchea as the act of a client of the Soviet Union against Kampuchea as a client of China. [More…]
It can forget Kampuchea because it is, or rather was, a puppet of China. [More…]
During the past two or three weeks the whole world has held up its hands in horror at a possible confrontation between two giant nations, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Major disasters for the Western world have occurred in rapid succession on the international scene- in the Horn of Africa, in southern Africa, in the Middle East and, in the past few weeks, in Indo-China. [More…]
It is not that the People’s Republic of China was prompted by territorial ambitions in Vietnam, but they wished, probably naturally enough, to make sure that they were not outflanked by the Soviet Union in Asia. [More…]
The Chinese intervention in Vietnam aimed at showing to the Soviet that China would not sit idly by while her interests were put in jeopardy. [More…]
Overall the situation in Indo-China seems to indicate that here is another explosive situation, sparked by the Soviet Union, which has caught Jimmy Carter once again with his pants down. [More…]
If it was not for Watergate, Nixon would be remembered today as the man who pulled the United States out of a disastrous Asian war, and who made the first overtures by the United States to the People ‘s Republic of China, after nearly 30 years of non-existent communication. [More…]
He described events in Indo-China. [More…]
The honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Thomson) said that there was a chilling message for us in the events in Indo-China. [More…]
I venture to suggest that if these events had occurred in this way 20-odd years ago, or a little later, the Russians already would have invaded China. [More…]
In the United Nations Security Council the power of veto is in the hands of the British, the French, the United States, the USSR and China. [More…]
China has managed to create a different atmosphere about itself I do not know that the Government of China is so much more free but most of us feel that we can talk to the Chinese and come to some sort of negotiating position with them more easily than with the Russians. [More…]
What is the situation with Vietnam and China, a small nation and a huge one? [More…]
One very favourable indication of an upturn in the poultry industry and an example of an initiative which could be emulated by others in the industry was the announcement in December last year of the signing of a $6m contract by the Great Sincere Co. for the establishment of poultry farms in China. [More…]
Nonetheless, substantial forces from both China and Vietnam are in close proximity to each other and further fighting obviously could break out again. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the proposed Chinese withdrawal will result in talks being held, leading to a lessening of tension in Indo-China. [More…]
I should add, however, a cautionary note: The issue between China and Vietnam is not likely to be resolved permanently if the situation in Kampuchea remains unchanged. [More…]
In the United Nations Security Council we have called for immediate ceasefires in the conflicts in Indo-China. [More…]
We have also called on Vietnam and China to withdraw their forces from Kampuchea and Vietnam respectively. [More…]
At only 29 centimetres by 38 centimetres in size it is no mere squib, but its being printed in red would be enough to deter some of our erstwhile friends opposite who shudder at the very thought of that colour unless they are wanting trade with Red China or the like. [More…]
It is worth mentioning for the record that when this debate started, China was playing imperialistic gunboat politics on Vietnamese land in a somewhat massive manner. [More…]
Who knows; it could be that China will have withdrawn all its military presence in Vietnam by the time this present parliamentary debate concludes. [More…]
I can only hope that this most powerful, democratically-elected leader in the world has thought through his decision for America to be a major supplier of military equipment to China and what the results of this trading in arms might be for Australia’s part of the world during the next decade. [More…]
By all means let Australia trade with China; by all means let us be friends, even buddies, but for Heaven’s sake, let us not be blinded to the implications of the arming of China by certain Western countries. [More…]
I believe that we have been badly mistaken in confusing our natural and proper abhorrence of the policy of racial apartheid as practised in so many countries under a great variety of names with official disinterest and forgetting to observe very objectively the issue of international power politics, to quote the Minister, which have become of fundamental importance, particularly in the areas of southern Africa and Indo-China. [More…]
The honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter), while waxing eloquent against what he called ‘atheistic communism’ told us and the country that the ‘atheistic communists’, that is, the China brand, ‘have infinitely more confidence and infinitely more trust in a future allied to our’- that is the Country Partyphilosophy and politics than in that of the Opposition’. [More…]
If we give the central place to the traditional issues of power politics we may be led to forget that the threat to the peace of the world and to the security of this country derives much more fundamentally from the gap between the rich nations and the poor, between the developed and the developing nations than it does from the global ambitions of the Soviet Union or the paranoia of China. [More…]
To interpret the invasion of Kampuchea by Vietnam as, in essence, the actions of a Soviet puppet is the same order of misinterpretation as was the conservative interpretation of the Vietnamese civil war as part of the downward thrust of Communist China. [More…]
But if we are to understand and contribute to a solution in Indo-China, we need first to focus on the history, ambitions and objectives of Vietnam and not obscure the central problem by seeing everything through anti-Soviet eyes. [More…]
The United States, backed by the then Liberal-Country Party Government welcomed the destruction of the Cambodian regime of Prince Sihanouk in 1970, the last opportunity to keep Cambodia, now Kampuchea, out of the Indo-China holocaust. [More…]
Above all, we should not exaggerate the global menace of the Soviet Union to the extent that it blinds us to the local realities of Iran, Indo-China and Southern Africa. [More…]
I am simply saying that the great danger is to avoid the kind of geo-political outlook reflected in the Foreign Minister’s speech which blinds us to the local details of the problems in Iran, Indo-China and Southern Africa. [More…]
In the triangular balance of power between China, the United States and the Soviet Unionone could also include Western Europe- the odd man out at the moment is the Soviet Union. [More…]
In a sense the deep and bitter division between China and Russia gives the United States an opportunity to balance. [More…]
It is quite clear that the American strategy in respect of Asia and the West Pacific rests upon an alliance between three powers- the United States, Japan and China. [More…]
What Australia must be aware of is the simple fact that all the analyses made, both before Carter became President of the United States and subsequent to his election, especially since the China accord of late last year, have ignored Australia. [More…]
It was stated that by cutting off that aid we were reducing whatever leverage or bargaining power we might have in respect of Vietnam and her incursions in Indo-China- into what I call Cambodia but what these days all the clever people call Kampuchea. [More…]
In regard to China, a paragraph in the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) indicated that economic events in China do not necessarily mean that everything has altered, nor has it altered. [More…]
Very often when I consider China I ask myself what are the precise points in terms of foreign policy it has surrendered. [More…]
In terms of North Korea versus South Korea, Deng Xiaoping has not retreated one centimetre from China’s traditional support for North Korea vis-a-vis South Korea. [More…]
In relation to Taiwan, China has not surrendered its aim to take Taiwan by force if it needs to. [More…]
In respect of support for insurgency movements in IndoChina, Thailand and Malaysia, China was asked to desist from broadcasting support to the revolutionary groups in those countries. [More…]
I do not believe for one moment that mainland China would put an embargo on what we ought to be able to do legitimately. [More…]
I do not believe that China would do that, and certainly it is not in a position to do that today. [More…]
Taiwan must be considered, and guidelines ought to be drawn up in respect of the trade relationships now being pursued between Australia and China. [More…]
In future it is expected that contributions will be made from Argentina, Egypt, India and China. [More…]
The second point appears later in the statement where the Minister, when discussing the Indo-China situation, stated: [More…]
The basic situation which now exists in Indo-China is a matter of great concern and disappointment to the Government. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union ona client of China. [More…]
In that speech to the Security Council, Mr Barton emphasised that one could not look at the present violence in Indo-China independently from what has become known as the Vietnamese refugee problem. [More…]
I will refer to two specific matters linked with the Indo-China conflict which I believe give substance to the concern that I express. [More…]
Lest anybody be in any doubt as to where Indonesia is standing on the question of the Indo-China conflict, I say that one can be quite certain that it is not supporting the Chinese. [More…]
To wash its face from the failure in defending the ousted Cambodian Government, China now tries to launch an aggression on Vietnam. [More…]
Lest honourable members want other comments from the Indonesian Press, I refer to an article in which the ‘Chinese aggression’, as it is called, against Vietnam is described as reckless, and which says that there is no justification for the invasion of Vietnam by an expansionist China. [More…]
Jack Hill, the blind miner, can see why China did what it did. [More…]
When buildings and villages inside Chinese territories were shot, blown up, damaged and destroyed, as has been demonstrated clearly by television films and remains uncontradicted by the Vietnamese, what was China to do? [More…]
China was entitled to do what it did, and I support what it did. [More…]
Then there was a threat: The belligerent attitude of China. [More…]
From a distance, of course, armchair analysts can say that was only bluster- China has no intention of really doing what it threatens to do because it has other priorities. [More…]
It should concern Australians that the Foreign Minister of our nearest and largest neighbour is actually courting and encouraging a relationship with Hanoi and therefore with Moscow, and is permitting in his own country a denigration of China. [More…]
Whatever the right and the wrongs of the Vietnamese involvement in Kampuchea or even its border disputes with its northern neighbour, China in my view is not justified in ravaging through Vietnam in the way it is doing at this time. [More…]
It was at the 1954 Geneva Convention that relations between China and Vietnam began to deteriorate. [More…]
At this conference in Geneva China sought three main objectives: Firstly, it wanted to neutralise IndoChina and rid it of the threat of American imperialism; secondly, it hoped that this would enable it to break the military encirclement of China by means of an international treaty which in turn would allow it to break out of its diplomatic isolation and dependence on the USSR; finally, if China could achieve this by acting as the guarantor of neutral states such as [More…]
China’s isolation ended only when the war between Vietnam and the US ended and when it looked like being won by the Vietnamese who would be no longer beholden to Peking. [More…]
In President Nixon, China found a willing ally in the return to the Geneva agreement as China had conceived it. [More…]
As both the United States and China wanted the Paris peace accords to last, Vietnam was to remain divided. [More…]
The Vietnamese victory in 1975 was a smack in the face to both China and America. [More…]
There is no doubt that China sees South East Asia as its own sphere of influence. [More…]
Consider the longstanding dispute between China and Vietnam over the Paracel and Spratly Islands. [More…]
China occupies the Paracel Islands, after seizing them from Vietnam in 1974, and Vietnam occupies most of the Spratly Islands. [More…]
But the dispute is not simply over the islands; China claims the seabed over a vast area south of the Spratly Islands where oil deposits hold out the prospect of economic independence for Vietnam. [More…]
If it is correct, as reported in yesterday’s Press, that China is withdrawing its troops from Vietnam, I am pleased, but I am also wary as I recall the old saying: ‘When the shooting war stops the economic war begins’. [More…]
The main issue is China’s preoccupation with its own interests in South East Asia. [More…]
It was China which played the part of the aggressor and seized the Paracels when Vietnam was well and truly involved in its war with the United States. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, talking to China, through you, I say: You should have been supporting Vietnam in its struggle for liberation instead of making territorial claims to enrich yourself. [More…]
China, let us look at your track record. [More…]
China, you supported the United States and reactionary forces in the PakistanBangladesh conflict. [More…]
China, you backed the reactionary forces in the recent Sudanese situation. [More…]
China, did you not give support to the counterrevolutionary forces in Chile, the military junta? [More…]
China, did you evict from Peking by force the Chilean ambassador, to the joy of the United States? [More…]
It is somewhat difficult for me to understand why the leaders of a socialist government in China, a country with a long and eventually successful struggle against the bastions of the Western world capitalism, should give its support and encouragement to the actions of others who are the perpetrators of ruthless capitalism. [More…]
China has attacked and slandered the peace and friendship treaty between the USSR, Vietnam and Laos. [More…]
I think that you, China, are in a state of paranoia. [More…]
China, you have not yet learnt your lesson, and I appeal to you to do so. [More…]
Finally, I leave China with a statement made by one of its former prominent leaders after the Revolution, Liu Shao-chi. [More…]
This statement was made some years ago by one of the leaders of the revolutionary government in China. [More…]
China would do well to recall and to do something in connection with this very important statement made to its people. [More…]
The Australian Government very quickly and accurately assessed the situation in the China-Vietnam confrontation. [More…]
The Government conveyed this nation’s strong opinion that moderation and restraint should prevail on the China- Vietnam boundaries. [More…]
Australia has to realise that both in Indo-China and in Africa those who are hungry for power will resort to any means to obtain it. [More…]
We have seen starvation, systematic and selective murder of political opponents and, as is the case in Indo-China, straight, unadulterated war. [More…]
Deep conflict between Vietnam and China, on the one hand and Vietnam and Cambodia on the other hand was one of the main factors rapidly transforming geo-political alignments in South East and East Asia. [More…]
The consolidation of the three states under the wing of Vietnam looks like the fulfilment of Ho Chi Minh ‘s dream of a communist Indo-China federation, especially in view of the American withdrawal. [More…]
Marcos warns that a Soviet entrenchment in Indo-China could imperil the security of small South East Asian nations. [More…]
Australia has taken a middle stance in the China- Vietnam affair. [More…]
It is utter hypocrisy for the Soviet Union to criticise China or the United States for interfering in other countries. [More…]
In the case of the most recent flashpoint in world affairs, Indo-China, the Government’s criticism and protest has been so muted as to be completely unnoticeable in the world forum. [More…]
For the Prime Minister and his Government to remain even-handed the Government would have to consider severing such ties with China. [More…]
Its spokesman in another place cautioned that it was unwise to believe that future relations with China would be any easier or less complicated than they had been in the past. [More…]
China’s principal preoccupation at the moment is its dispute with its neighbour, the Russian bear. [More…]
China will continue to press this point, regardless of other countries’ viewpoints. [More…]
China’s shift in domestic policy, multilateral relations and public relations is as impressive as it is revolutionary. [More…]
The Prime Minister, in June 1976, made his position concerning China and the USSR crystal clear. [More…]
Thus, in the South East Asian situation, where currently there exist conflicts between Kampuchea and Vietnam and between Vietnam and China, we are told simplistically, if impressively, that the conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four States- the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
In the Minister’s terms, it was clearly in the United States’ geo-political interests, after the conclusion of that notorious and infamous war in Vietnam and Cambodia, to provide massive resources to rebuild Vietnam on the basis that that would be the only way to lessen the dependence of that country on either the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
The result is that Vietnam has been drawn into a struggle between China and the Soviet Union in which her own national interests ought not to be at stake. [More…]
The United States invested billions of dollars in the war in Indo-China. [More…]
It involved itself in that way and, as one of the consequences of that involvement, Vietnam has been drawn into what might be described, in the Minister’s terms, as a geo-political conflict between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
He must know perfectly well that everybody associated with foreign affairs in this country expressed their profound regret about China’s sudden action of punishing a next door neighbour. [More…]
He questioned whether China had any legality to occupy those islands. [More…]
From my knowledge of history, the islands of the South China Sea were under the control of the emperors- even the last empress- of China and the only reason those islands were under the control of Vietnam was due to the treaties drawn up by France in 1802. [More…]
On the last day of the session last year I recall that I asked the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) and Mr Speaker to recall the Parliament if Australian troops were to be committed overseas, or if the situation in Iran became worse, or if the events in Indo-China worsened. [More…]
I want to place on record my personal thanks to the officials in the embassies of China, the Soviet Union, the United States and France from whom I sought advice during the recent conflict in South East Asia. [More…]
Tonight I want to express my own views because I have been actively involved in foreign affairs since the first Parliamentary mission to China in 1955, through the Suez crisis, through Aden, and through the problems we have experienced since then. [More…]
The first major event that changed world history in the Far East was the complete disruption of the Soviet-China communist bloc which existed right through until the early 1960s. [More…]
Then there was the rise of the industrial power of Japan, the friendship treaty signed last year between China and Japan, and, in addition, the discovery of the oil field in the Gulf of Po-Ai. [More…]
The next events which precipitated the crises which we have experienced were the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam and, on the other hand, her recognition of the People’s Republic of China after 30 years. [More…]
Secondly, she did not quite understand that to continue to be antagonistic towards China was not in any way helping her policy in the Far East. [More…]
On the other hand when I visited China as the guest of the People’s Republic, a visit for which I am grateful, it was quite clear that the Chinese, for their part, could not countenance the existence of a bloc of Soviet organised states on their southern borders. [More…]
If the objective of the foreign policy of China is to make certain that Laos and Kampuchea are free and the objective of the foreign policy of Vietnam is to hold both Kampuchea and Laos we will be in serious difficulty for many years to come. [More…]
We pick on Russia, China, Indonesia or the United States as being to blame in various issues and crises round the world. [More…]
That is what has happened between Vietnam and China. [More…]
China is totally controlled by Communism. [More…]
My second point is that the dispute amongst the totalitarian gangsters- the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam- proves what I have always thought about them. [More…]
If that is true- I believe it is- how could we realistically expect help from the United States if we had a conflict of interests with China, Japan, Indonesia or even India? [More…]
I hope that the drum beats in Asia and the murderous antics of the gang of three- the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam- are heard and noted by every Australian. [More…]
Members of the Liberal and National Country parties were perfectly happy to distribute political pamphlets which, geographically, showed Australia very close to Asia and China. [More…]
I think part of the difficulty that we face in this situation is the fact that the Australian people’s own regional isolation and European heritage have left us singularly ill-equipped as a community to understand the complex mix of historical, cultural, territorial and international factors that have led to the war currently raging between China and Vietnam, and Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
In my view, looking at what has occurred between China and Vietnam and between Vietnam and Kampuchea, it is not possible to make the sorts of moral judgments that have been made in this House by the Prime Minister. [More…]
You would be deaf, dumb, and mentally deficient not to recognise that there was a greater accord between Australia and China in the region. [More…]
It is perfectly true that Australia has increasing trade relations with China. [More…]
It is true that our diplomatic and other relations with China are improving. [More…]
That of itself will increasingly exacerbate tensions between China and both of her neighbours. [More…]
Anyone who has been to China knows that throughout China, at almost every level and on almost every street there is concern and fear about an attack by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Equally, one can understand that China will be, and obviously is, concerned when it sees that in the communist world the Vietnamese are operating in an increasingly closer alliance with, and with an increasing dependence upon, the Soviet Union. [More…]
One fact that must be looked at- Australia would be making a grave mistake if it ignored it-is that actions by China have helped to produce that situation. [More…]
He mentioned that South East Asia is again the scene of armed conflict created by the hostility and rivalry existing amongst four states- the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
I should have thought that the whole of the Western world was interested in China, if for no other reason than the resources it has that we hope to get and the goods we can sell to it in the process of China’s development. [More…]
Part of the conflict between Vietnam and China revolves around who is going to control the oil that might be in the sea around that state. [More…]
Will it be China or will it be Vietnam? [More…]
He talked about the Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea as an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China . [More…]
China’s motives in striking across the border do not relate only to a border dispute but are aimed at Vietnam ‘s political influence in Kampuchea, which is beyond China’s immediate reach. [More…]
In other words, China wants to control something slightly beyond its reach. [More…]
China was apparently offering considerable support but it withdrew its support. [More…]
Why has it encouraged Vietnam, in its conflict with China, to seek refuge in the arms of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The events in Vietnam and Kampuchea are largely the continuation of a long historical struggle between the two countries and it is highly unlikely that any other country including China and the Soviet Union will become involved directly. [More…]
One of the main problem areas of the Opposition is the continuing outflow of refugees from Indo-China, and particularly from Vietnam. [More…]
They should recognise that many people of other than Chinese origin have sought to leave Vietnam and other countries of Indo-China. [More…]
The question she was asked, which was not reported in the Press, was: As China is having difficulty with respect to the payment of her overseas loans and overseas trade, what arrangements does she intend to make in relation to her modernisation program? [More…]
Firstly, she indicated that China intended to engage in compensatory trade, which meant that those countries selling goods or technology to China would be expected to buy back the products resulting from the manufacturing process in China. [More…]
Australia has been invited and induced to engage in increased trade with China. [More…]
Therefore, I suggest that a statement should be made setting out the conditions of trade between Australia and China as part of her modernisation program. [More…]
China is reported to be negotiating overseas loans amounting to between $30,000m and $40,000m. [More…]
There are already reports that China is proceeding very slowly with negotiating arrangements for paying back money invested in steel making and in many other overseas investments in China. [More…]
For example, evidence already exists that she has not sufficient oil with which to pay for investments in China. [More…]
The British have been exporting underground coal technology for China’s mines. [More…]
The first proposal was that Britain ought to buy back some of the coal which would be developed as a result of the use of that technology in China. [More…]
But that indicates the extend of the problem which China has and will have in meeting a number of her commitments. [More…]
For example, Thailand wanted to negotiate for oil in return for increased trade with China. [More…]
The Thai Prime Minister stated in Moscow very recently that the oil from China is not available to pay for Thai exports to China. [More…]
Therefore, I suggest that a statement ought to be made by the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) setting out the terms of trade between Australia and China as dictated by China’s lack of foreign exchange appropriate to the amount of trade that she desires for her modernisation program. [More…]
The British Minister, Mr Varley, who has recently been in China, will issue a statement on the nature of Britain’s trading agreement with China in view of the fact that Australia has played a leading part in encouraging and in helping the modernisation program in China. [More…]
China and Canada). [More…]
The trade agreement with China, which entered into force on 1 June 1978 and provides for most-favoured-nation treatment, falls into the latter category. [More…]
As the House is aware, the Government has commissioned an intelligence assessment following recent unsettling events in the Middle East and in Indo-China and its frontier with China and elsewhere. [More…]
It concerns current events in Indo-China. [More…]
Would the Minister also care to comment on the current status of negotiations between Vietnam and China on the border dispute and on whether a protracted war is likely to continue as a guerrilla war in Kampuchea? [More…]
-Dealing with the latter part of the question, the unstable situation in IndoChina continues to cause concern. [More…]
The easing of tensions which followed China’s announcement that it would withdraw its troops from Vietnam has proved shortlived. [More…]
There were to be talks on 28 March between Vietnam and China. [More…]
These developments therefore make it less likely that immediate negotiations between China and Vietnam will take place, although both sides earlier had agreed to negotiate. [More…]
Indeed, when I visited China recently on an Australian parliamentary delegation, although China has plenty of petroleum fuels I witnessed the use of diesel trains in its cities, but in the country areas all of its goods were being hauled by splendid steam locomotives. [More…]
After launching the guidelines policy the Deputy Prime Minister took a trip to China. [More…]
I will be there for a week on a goodwill visit to China. [More…]
Again I hope that honourable members on both sides of the House feel that this is a well worthwhile venture in the sense that there is a real need to concrete relationships between China and Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) left Australia on 3 May to visit China, Europe and North America on cultural and sporting matters and matters concerning the arts. [More…]
I do not know about China. [More…]
I refer to repeated charges and counter-charges by both Vietnam and China of armed incursions across their respective borders, and I ask the Minister: Has any progress been made in seeking a negotiated settlement to the conflict between Vietnam and China? [More…]
At the first session of the talks Vietnam put forward three major proposals which were rejected by China. [More…]
In regard to the second and very important element of the honourable member’s question concerning the possibility of further military force, I have to say that a further resort to military force by either Vietnam or China simply cannot be ruled out if a total breakdown in negotiations were to occur. [More…]
The Australian Government has made clear to both China and Vietnam that it strongly supports the peaceful settlement of disputes in accordance with international principles. [More…]
Hamhong, like so many towns in the north, was bombed literally back to the Stone Age; every day for four years, from five in the morning till two in the afternoon, the planes came in low from carriers in the South China Sea. [More…]
The Thieu regime was a creation of American policy in Indo China that led to unprecedented devastation in Vietnam. [More…]
The pre-occupation of Australian foreign policy with China and Japan and the pre-occupation of conservative Australian governments with security issues has obscured the rate of growth and economic importance of Korea. [More…]
Hostilities continue in Indo-China as Vietnam attempts to consolidate its position in Kampuchea. [More…]
The tensions which led to fighting between China and Vietnam are -still in evidence. [More…]
Normalisation, and the conclusion of the friendship treaty between China and Japan, creates new opportunities for these countries to play a positive and constructive role in the Asia-Pacific region. [More…]
A national trading corporation has to be set up with specialised negotiating skills and facilities to trade with countries like East Europe and China, and Third World nations where this sort of trading arrangement is understood and preferred. [More…]
Group of 77 (Developing Countries)- 10 percent; Group B (Developed Countries)- 68 percent; Group D (Socialist Countries of Eastern Europe)- 17 per cent; China- 5 percent. [More…]
Group of 77-47 per cent; Group B- 42 per cent; Group D- 8 percent; China- 3 percent. [More…]
A trip on one of these slow chug boats would be a trip on a slow boat to China. [More…]
I cite as examples the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. [More…]
China, Group D and other developing countries also supported the Australian resolution. [More…]
Of course, let it not be forgotten that Gough Whitlam ‘s sorties into China, with a subsequent real recognition of China as a trading partner, have also given us greater access to the Chinese wheat market. [More…]
It is a fact of life that although most members of this Parliament have been to Britain, Europe, China and elsewhere, only a handful have visited the Torres Strait. [More…]
The carry-over of stocks, excluding those from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, is expected to increase to a record level of 88 megatonnes. [More…]
(a) I am not aware of any public comment by the United States on the proposal but in the United Nations Security Council debate on Indo-China in March the United States representative urged those who were considering the proposal for an international conference to elaborate their views how it might achieve its principal objectives. [More…]
China has not specifically rejected it but there have been press reports to the effect that Chinese leaders have rejected the idea of an international conference on Kampuchea outside the United Nations context. [More…]
I inform the House that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) left Australia on Sunday for a visit to China, Europe and the United States. [More…]
-The Minister for Trade and Resources will be aware of reports that China is seriously reassessing its ambitious development program. [More…]
In fact, it has suspended some substantial contracts with Japan, I ask the Minister: What effects are China’s second thoughts about development likely to have on Australia ‘s trade with that country? [More…]
It is true that China is reassessing some of its development priorities. [More…]
However, these are not expected to have any significant effect on Australia’s trade with China. [More…]
The rate of expansion of the iron ore trade might be restricted but it is expected that China will still be a very important market for Australia. [More…]
When I returned from China last year I made the comment that if China’s modernisation program were to succeed it would need the support of the mass of the people. [More…]
We have had two important missions go to China this year. [More…]
A mission on livestock has also gone to China. [More…]
It was made up of representatives of the Queensland, New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian governments and will be reporting on the prospects of establishing pilot and experimental farms in China. [More…]
All told, I believe that there are no contracts under threat as a result of the reassessment of China’s programs. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the statements made by Chinese Vice Premier Madame Chen Muhua at the National Press Club that China’s trade in its modernisation program will follow practices such as (a) compensatory payments, which she defined as being payments with the products of the enterprises and (b) delaying payments for equipment. [More…]
I went to Japan and China. [More…]
Whether this Government would export to China is not clear. [More…]
The Government deliberately ignored the possibility of trade deals with both Iraq and China although I noted recently that the Government is wavering on the issue of government-to-government negotiations, no doubt stung by the urgent realities of the situation facing Australia. [More…]
Firstly, I was overseas, in China and Japan, as a representative of this Government when the decision was made to invite Mr Despoja. [More…]
The best example of that is the attitude of the leadership of this Government towards China. [More…]
But if it was a question of providing some sort of an evaluation on what China was doing throughout the world, no, it was absolutely out of its depth and it did not even have the books to rely on. [More…]
They then went up the China coast. [More…]
On the day I was there there were some 68,000 Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong in addition to the illegal immigrants from China. [More…]
It would be a delinquent Foreign Minister who said that Australia would not support a conference which would bring about a political solution to the problems of Indo-China. [More…]
What flows, however, and is implicit in the latter part of the honourable member’s question, and is implicit in a number of statements of members opposite- interestingly enough, not so much in the statement of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, more the statements of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate- is that there is a trend or tendency to have a bias towards Vietnam in discussions of Indo-Chinese questions concerning the conflict between Vietnam and China. [More…]
So, succinctly, the answer to the question is this: We would be most interested in a form of political settlement in Indo-China. [More…]
If it were to be brought about by means of a conference we would do what we could to ensure the success of that conference but we would want to know in participating that people were well aware of the background to the current events in Indo-China and did not allude to specious material and thereby draw the wrong conclusion. [More…]
We all remember the incident involving the shipload of sugar in the Panama Canal which was found to be impregnated with arsenic and which Cuba was shipping to another communist country, namely, China. [More…]
1 ) How many persons are employed in Canberra by the Embassies of (a) Afghanistan; (b) Bulgaria; (c) Burma; (d) China; (e) Czechoslovakia; (f) Finland; (g) the German Democratic Republic; (h) Hungary; (i) Mongolia; (j) Poland; (k) Romania; (I) the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and (m) Vietnam. [More…]
China- Number of persons employed: homebased 3 1 , locally engaged- nil, total- 3 1 . [More…]
China, Ambassador- 3 counsellors, 2 first secretaries, 2 second secretaries, 3 third secretaries and 6 attaches. [More…]
China- Number of persons employed: Australiabased 23, locally-engaged- 24, total- 47. [More…]
China- Occupational designations and duties. [More…]
An agreement with the People’s Republic of China was initialled on 6 June 1979 during my last visit to China. [More…]
I found that out not only in Vietnam and in China but in Cyprus and the Middle East. [More…]
A war between the Soviet Union and China is as illogical as it is unthinkable. [More…]
The treaty of friendship signed by China and Japan last year shows that they are both sincerely interested in helping each other. [More…]
Japan needs the raw materials and China needs the technical assistance. [More…]
The major point of my tour was to visit Vietnam to discuss with the Vietnamese Government the problems it is having with China and then to go to China, as the guest of the Chinese Government, to spend a fortnight in that country. [More…]
Therefore it is essential that the businessmen of Australia now take the opportunities that are available to them in the developing markets in China. [More…]
Let it be not thought that China is not very technically advanced in any field it so chooses. [More…]
China today is certainly one of the world’s greatest powers. [More…]
China has also found quantities of oil and it has adequate quantities of other materials. [More…]
Considering that today is China’s national day, I think it would be polite of me to extend the good wishes of myself and all other honourable members who wish to associate with me to the ambassador for China in this country when I go and see him in a moment, and ask him to convey my personal goodwill to the Government in Peking. [More…]
If there was a German buying mission there, they must have known that the tobacco of that part of China is low in tar content and is also low in nicotine. [More…]
But, of course, any of the five permanent members- the United States of America, Britain, France, the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union- has the right of veto. [More…]
-I am aware of the gathering of forces- not to the extent that was evident earlier this year- on both sides of the border by the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam. [More…]
The prime element behind what is transpiring in Indo-China is not restricted solely to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam, but in fact to the variants within the play of the four communist states- the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam and, to a lesser extent because of its control by Vietnam, Kampuchea. [More…]
What is quite clear is that the Australian Government was one of the very first- as it should have been because of our geographical position- to appreciate the fact that we had to take whatever action we could to alleviate the massive human suffering of the people of Kampuchea and, wherever possible, assist the border states such as Thailand which, as we are all aware, in the last two years in particular has been facing the enormous social and economic burden brought upon them by the refugees from all over Indo-China, Laos, Vietnam and now Kampuchea. [More…]
The record which we have demonstrated in the last two years in terms of the problem of refugees from Indo-China speaks for itself. [More…]
Although we are a nation of only 14.5 million people, we are among the foremost of nations of the western world which are absorbing refugees from Indo-China. [More…]
We ask for nothing more of Indo China than that the people of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam should live as neighbours in a state of peace. [More…]
What we are seeing today is the gradual but total destruction of the concept of sovereignty in Indo China. [More…]
While that problem remains, we will face continually major difficulties in terms of the basic political stability of the region, not only of Indo China but also of the entire area of South East Asia. [More…]
As has been indicated here, great loss of life has occurred and is occurring in the former Indo-China area of Kampuchea- Cambodia as it was formerly known. [More…]
In the tragic days of Kissinger, Nixon, Foster Dulles and others, the idea was that we would be militarily involved in Vietnam on the basis that we were going to contain China. [More…]
It is no credit to China for it to say that it wants to support Pol Pot. [More…]
I want the Government to talk to the representatives of China, if need be, as to whether something cannot be done in the northern section of the province which is still under the control of the Khmer Rouge. [More…]
The key to the situation is for our Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) to go straight away, this day, to the embassy representatives of Vietnam, China and Russia and talk about how we could go to Kampuchea with their support, both overt and covert, to see what we can organise for Phnom Penh and other areas. [More…]
China and the Khmer Rouge, Vietnam and its puppet regime in Kampuchea have been prepared to allow their political differences to permit the sacrifice already of thousands of innocent citizens. [More…]
Has bis attention been drawn to the collapse of the Travel Agency, Sea-Air Travel (Glenelg South Australia) Pty Ltd affecting 23 persons who stand to lose most of the sum of about $1,800 that each paid for his or her tour to China. [More…]
China and Japan, require them to fill in forms in the local national language. [More…]
We would have to go to the Soviet Union or China to see a comparable concentration of media control. [More…]
So far as regional policies are concerned, we consider the Government’s policy of taking sides in relation to the wars in Indo-China to be destructive to regional security. [More…]
-We recognised China, too. [More…]
You were never allowed to go to China. [More…]
Mr Man was born in Canton, China on 29 August 1956. [More…]
His wife was born in Canton, China on 6 March 1 956. [More…]
My constituents tell me that before they entered the office of the Chinese solicitor another Chinaman was going in with $7,000 in cash to pay the solicitor for some litigation. [More…]
I therefore suspect that that Chinaman was being exploited also. [More…]
When one hears of these things occurring in Australia one can well understand why the overwhelming population of China sought another form of government under Mao Tse-tung. [More…]
Some time ago a group of people with many years of experience in the field of emergency aid (Biafra, Sahel, Bangladesh, Indo China refugees) were shocked when they were visiting the area. [More…]
It is interesting to note that recently we have picked up spot contracts with Iran and China, it is hoped, at good prices. [More…]
Our large markets include China, Japan, Indonesia, Egypt and Russia, and there are many other smaller markets. [More…]
The other new reference that the Committee is taking is one that looks at Australia and Asia and is entitled ‘The Changing Power Structure in Indo-China since 1975, and its Effects on Australia and the Region’. [More…]
Events in the IndoChina region are of major concern at present. [More…]
There is the potential that the situation there may lead to further conflict between China and Vietnam, which in turn could possibly involve the Soviet Union in the area. [More…]
The changing power structure in IndoChina, the wars there and, more recently, the serious conflict in Kampuchea have been accompanied by the generation of an appalling refugee situation- a human tragedy. [More…]
All of this has put special demands on neighbouring states in the region of Indo-China and has at last attracted world-wide attention to the plight of the refugees. [More…]
The Australia China Council whose establishment was announced by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in June 1979, with an annual budget of $500,000, is becoming actively involved in encouragement of Chinese Studies in Australia. [More…]
The Council is also supporting exchanges between Australia and China. [More…]
In addition, the following countries have undertaken to make contributions to the Common Fund without specifying the amount or which window they may wish to have their contribution directed to: Australia, Canada, China, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom. [More…]
In respect of dextrose monohydrate imported from China, what is the current domestic value in China and how is it determined. [More…]
The normal value assessed for dextrose monohydrate in Malaysia (converted at the appropriate rates of exchange at the date of assessment) was applied to exports of this product from the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that the Government of the People’s Republic of China has declared four danger zones in the South China Sea to be operative from 23 October 1979? [More…]
Has he received advice from his Department, or on his recent visit overseas, about the likelihood of another incursion by China into Vietnam? [More…]
What action is he prepared to take to help avoid any further conflict in the Indo-China region? [More…]