china - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the word china was used in the Senate during the 1970s

Whom does Australia recognise as the lawful government of mainland China. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs: Is it not the fact that the Australian Government is adopting the international attitude that the Government on the island of Taiwan is actually the Government not only of Taiwan but also of the whole of mainland China? [More…]
Our relationship with Red China has been quite clear. [More…]
We trade with Red China in certain commodities and under certain conditions in accordance with United Nations provisions. [More…]
The short answer is, as I said earlier, that the Minister for External Affairs made a statement yesterday in the other place about Australia’s attitude to mainland China and I invite the Leader of the Opposition to read it. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs: ls it a fact that although Great Britain recognised Communist China in 1949, in the 21 years since then Communist China has refused to receive an ambassador from the United Kingdom on the ground that no ambassador will be received until the United Kingdom breaks off relations with Taiwan? [More…]
Does he believe that in those circumstances the Australian Government could possibly consider destroying our relations with Taiwan and establishing relations with Communist China, which has treated the British diplomatic representative, the charge d’affaires, as a second class diplomatic representative and has refused under any circumstances to receive an ambassador? [More…]
The views expressed by Senator McManns about the United Kingdom’s affairs with Red China are in accordance with my understanding of the position. [More…]
As for relations between the United Kingdom Government and Red China, that is a matter for those 2 governments. [More…]
As 1 said in response to the series of questions by Senator Murphy, there can be no doubt that even though the United Kingdom Government and Red China do have an understanding, this does not appear to have had any significant influence on the relationships between those 2 countries in the context of what Senator McManus said. [More…]
How long is the nonsense of Australia’s trading heavily with mainland China and yet refusing to recognise the existence of its government to go on? [More…]
ls it not a fact that many years ago the Government of Great Britain under Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill recognised the existence of the Government of mainland China? [More…]
How long are we to defy common sense by saying that the Government of mainland China is not the Government in Peking but is actually the Government in Taiwan? [More…]
Will not the Australian Government, for the sake of its citizens and to maintain any kind of dignity, follow the example of Canada and recognise the Government of mainland China? [More…]
The fact of the matter is that Australia’s attitude to the recognition of Communist China has been clearly stated. [More…]
Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate ascertain from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate whether the Australian Labor Party is in favour of selling wheat to Red China? [More…]
Any effects of the diplomatic recognition of China by Canada on our sales of wheat to mainland China at this stage can be only pure conjecture. [More…]
There is no evidence to suggest that China will cut down its wheat imports from Australia or turn away from Australia as a source of supply. [More…]
Canada has been selling wheal to mainland China in pretty large quantities only since 1961 and Australia has had wheat markets in China since before that time. [More…]
Expressions of considerable concern have been made by people in the wheat industry and wheat growing areas throughout Australia about the likely loss to Canada of a considerable market for wheat in China as a consequence of Canadia’s diplomatic recognition of the Republic of China, coupled with problems created by the drought, the quota delivery scheme, the cost spiral and inflation. [More…]
Will the Minister immediately consult his colleague, the Minister for Trade and Industry, and attempt to negotiate a longterm wheat contract with the Republic of China which would assist in getting the wheat growing industry off the hook? [More…]
At the same time will he give the marketing authority an assurance that the Australian Government will support the application of China for admission to the United Nations Organisation? [More…]
Having regard to the present price of wool, what would be the use of the rams in question either in Australia or in China, or elsewhere? [More…]
To the best of my knowledge, no wheat has been sold to China in recent months. [More…]
Has the Minister any comment on a recent Japanese report on the Chinese economy which stated that China will buy no wheat from Australia this year? [More…]
That the Senate discussthe loss of wheat sales to China as a result of the attitude of the Government and the public statements of the Leader of the Country Party. [More…]
I ask: Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate or the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs explain whether the Australian Government still asserts internationally that the lawful government of Mainland China is still the Government of the Republic of China, which is situated on Taiwan? [More…]
Will the Government inform the Senate how long this nonsense is going to continue of Australia pretending that the lawful government of Mainland China is not the Government of the People’s Republic of China, particularly as it has been recognised as such by even Conservative governments in Britain for over 20 years? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: In view of the recent statement by the Prime Minister that the Government intended to liberalise trade with China, and having regard also to the statement made yesterday by the Deputy Prime Minister that he now supports recognition of Mainland China, does the Government now support what the Australian Labour Party is trying to do in opening up new initiatives with China, or does the Government intend to display initiative especially in respect of trade and diplomatic relations with that nation? [More…]
Have any orders for the purchase of wheat been received this season from the Mainland China Government. [More…]
Will the Minister comment on a recent Japanese report on the economy of Mainland China which stated that China will buy no wheat from Australia this year. [More…]
Is there any truth in the story that Dr Patterson, the Labor shadow Minister for Primary Industry, may not go to China because the Australian Labor Party is now very concerned over the great opposition by the Australian Wheat Industry and the Australian Wheat Board to bringing politics into wheat sales? [More…]
In 1 962 it was described as a mass organisation which, as I understand it, is a semi-official body not part pf the formal structure of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is used as a convenient vehicle for communications to non-government bodies in foreign countries with which the Government of the People’s Republic of China wishes to communicate. [More…]
In view of the atmosphere of euphoria in the Press and in another quarter surrounding this matter can the Minister advise the Senate as to the identity and the authority of the body extending the recently publicised invitation to the Australian Labor Party for a delegation to visit Red China? [More…]
Has anything happened in the last day or so towards a normalisation of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Can it be expected that an atmosphere might eventually be created in which the Government of this country could take such further assertive initiatives as would lead to a total disengagement in Vietnam and recognition of continental China? [More…]
He would probably incorporate the actual trading figures between Australia and mainland China. [More…]
I ask: Does the Minister recall a statement on China by Mr Patrick Shaw, the Austraiian delegate to the United Nations, on 13th November 1968? [More…]
In view of the Prime Minister’s statement yesterday indicating a much more favourable attitude by the Australian Government towards China, can the Minister advise the Senate of the changes in China’s policy which justify the [More…]
When compiling the answer to the question asked by Senator Buttfield relative to trade with Taiwan and continental China, will the Minister list the goods upon which trade is restricted with continental China in order that a proper and realistic comparison can be made? [More…]
It is interesting to note that in some figures which I have it is shown that Australia’s exports to the Republic of China in Taiwan have doubled in money value since 1968. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry and has particular reference to those honourable senators who claim that Taiwan-Australia interests should be submerged for those of Red China and Australia in the recognition of Red China. [More…]
Is it a fact that the United States ambassador in Taiwan has publicly predicted that Taiwan’s international trade volume may be equal to or in excess of that of mainland China in 2 or 3 years’ time? [More…]
Is it a fact that, taking 1968 as a base year, Taiwan increased its international trade by 33 per cent last year and by 23.9 per cent in 1969 while mainland China increased its trade by 6.3 per cent in 1969 and 5.8 per cent last year? [More…]
Can the Minister give similar figures for the volumes and growth rates of trade between Taiwan and Australia and Red China and Australia? [More…]
The point is well taken that Mr Whitlam will search in vain for an Opposition or a Leader of it in mainland China. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, I wish to take 2 minutes, if I may, to amplify a matter arising from a small misunderstanding which appears to have resulted from a question that I asked this morning in relation to the proposed visit of an Australian Labor Party delegation to China. [More…]
POLO, MARCO (1254-1324), Venetian traveller, whose descriptions of his journeys across the world from Venice to China and back, and of his experiences in the vast dominions of the Mongol emperor Kublai, make one of the greatest books of a time. [More…]
Its author was the first to inform the West of the extent and power of China- [More…]
What factual evidence is there that Francis James was detained or is still being detained in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Australia is allowing the importation of millions of plastic bags from places in the East such as Hong Kong and China? [More…]
In view of consistent reports of potential markets for Australian produce in China, what endeavours have been made or are contemplated by the Department of Trade and industry to assess such market potential, particularly for dairy produce and dried fruits, which are affected by the loss of British markets? [More…]
did the People’s Republic of China incur when it recently accepted a seat in the United Nations? [More…]
The first was a statement by Senator O’Byrne that he has held discussions with representatives of Communist China on future relations between Australia and Communist China, and the other was a statement by Senator Turnbull that he has arranged with representatives of Communist China for a tour by parliamentarians to be held in the near future. [More…]
1 refer the Leader of the Government in the Senate to the visit of President Nixon to the People’s Republic of China by which the United Slates of America recognised China in the most formal manner possible. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government tell the Senate how long we must go on with this nonsense of Australia continuing to recognise still the regime on Taiwan as being the representative of all China, including Mainland China? [More…]
How long will it be before our diplomatic representatives are withdrawn from that island which, in the eyes of the world, does not represent the whole of China? [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONlt is true that the President of the United States of America, as the honourable senator states, did make a visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is equally true that our own Prime Minister issued a Press release on the subject of the visit to China of the United States President. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it a fact that the staff of the China section of the Department of Foreign Affairs has dropped from 5 to 2 over the last 2 months? [More…]
In view of the importance of improving our relations with China if we are to regain the loss of exports, particularly of wheat, does the Minister regard the situation as being critical? [More…]
What action does the Minister intend taking to ensure that the staff of the Department’s China section is restored to at least its previous strength? [More…]
Did he also state when referring to recent attempts to make contact between China and Australia that he was appalled by the thought that 2 businessmen brothers could have been acting for the Australian Government in China or that their opinions seemed to carry weight? [More…]
Did he further state that sending Mr Andrew Peacock, Minister for External Territories, to China could be really stupid? [More…]
Did he state that the Australian Parliament and the people were singularly ill-informed and uninformed about our foreign policy and that the average person just cannot see where he would fit in when it comes to dealing with China? [More…]
Was the Minister acting on advice from the Australian Wheat Board when he stated to the Japanese press, during his recent visit to Japan, that Australia had found that the People’s Republic of China does not mix politics with trade, that only good harvests had prevented China buying Australian wheat this year, and that when the Chinese needed wheat they wouldbuyit? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry: In view of the announcement this morning that China is to buy $25m worth of wheat from the United States of America, will the Minister say whether any approach was made to Australia to supply this wheat? [More…]
With the big sale of Australian wheat to Mainland China, as reported last night, can the Minister confirm that this sale was negotiated by members of the Australian Wheat Board without any outside interference? [More…]
Australia has protested to the Government of the Republic of China on a number of occasions, the latest being a protest over the recent incursions of Taiwanese fishing vessels into the fishing zones of Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The 30 rams in question were destined for China. [More…]
What were the terms of the Agreement, written or otherwise, for recognition by the Australian Government of the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The agreement the Australian Government and the Government of the People’s Republic of China reached on mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations is wholly in writing. [More…]
If I have the question right, an editorial was published on Christmas Eve in China - I suppose it was not [More…]
There has been no exchange of diplomatic representation on a permanent basis between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Media: What arrangements, if any, is the Australian Broadcasting Commission making to have an ABC correspondent stationed in Peking now that Australia recognises the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
In view of the Government’s bend ing over backwards policy towards China, does it intend to allow Chinese bases to be established in Australia similar to the American bases already established here? [More…]
On 15th January 1973. the Women’s Council of the Amateur Basketball Union of Australia wrote to the Minister for Foreign Affairs asking for a considered opinion concerning its proceeding with a visit to Taiwan by the Australian Women’s Basketball team and for advice whether the Government could grant any financial assistance for a visit to China. [More…]
The Government is hoping for an expansion of Australian-Chinese contacts at all levels and a visit to China by the Australian Women’s Basketball Team would fit in well with this, but again it was for the Council to decide whether to arrange such a tour or not. [More…]
The Council’s request for financial assistance in the event that it arranged a visit to China was under consideration. [More…]
Will the Government oppose or support any claims by Communist China for the former Embassy of Taiwan’s property in Australia which was referred to in Press Statement D/64. [More…]
The Government has taken no position on the question of ownership of property in the name of the former ‘Republic of China’ Embassy or Consulates at the time Australia recognised the People’s Republic of China.In the Government’s view, that question is strictly a legal matter which it is for the Australian courts to decide should the matter be brought before them. [More…]
The team was advised that its members would be permitted to travel to Australia in an individual capacity and that they should not identify themselves with the government on Taiwan, nor purport to represent ‘Taiwan’, ‘The Republic of China’ or ‘China’. [More…]
On 6th March Senator Sim asked me a question without notice relating to formulae for the recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
); if so, are the rams destined for export to Communist China. [More…]
On 24th January 1973 I announced that approval had been granted for the export of 30 stud merino rams by, the Compagnie d’Importation de Laines to meet an existing order from the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Subsequently, the Government decided that a referendum of persons affected would be held on the question of the embargo on the export of merino rams and merino semen, and the approval for the export of 30 rams to China was withdrawn accordingly. [More…]
Has there been any protest from Opposition members to the inclusion of Mr Kibel, referred to by Senator Sim as a Manchester Jew, as a member of the trade delegation of prominent leaders of commerce and industry which will accompany Dr Cairns when he visits China in May of this year? [More…]
Will the Minister for the Media make available to the Senate details of any arrangements made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to cover the arrival in Peking of Australia’s first Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Dr Fitzgerald? [More…]
O n Thursday, 3 May, Senator McLaren asked me, without notice, whether I would inform the Senate of the Oppositions senators who will visit China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as representatives of the Australian Parliament in June this year. [More…]
Senatorthe Honourable Ivor Greenwood (Liberal) has been nominated forthe delegation to China and Senator Maunsell (Country Party) for the delegation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Will the Government issue instructions to Australia’s Ambassador-designate to the People’s Republic of China, Dr S. FitzGerald, that diplomats should confine themselves to carryingout their diplomatic duties and not engage in political controversy. [More…]
In reply to a question last week about the refusal of the Government to grant a visa to Mr Li of Taiwan, the Minister stated that the refusal was based on an agreement between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In view of the announcement by the Government of the People’s Republic of China that its research and development program for nuclear testings, is not yet complete, has the Australian Government sought to ascertain the possible dates and locations of the next series of Chinese nuclear tests? [More…]
What was the date of the most recent protest to The People’s Republic of China by the Australian Government against the testing by China of nuclear devices. [More…]
The legal factors that make legal proceedings by Australia possible in the case of France are not present in the case of China. [More…]
Will the Government, in the light of its proposal to refer the question of French nuclear testing in the Pacific to the International Court of Justice, also be prepared to do likewise on the question of nuclear testing by Communist China. [More…]
I understand that an all-party parliamentary delegation from this Parliament will be going to China later in the year. [More…]
I cannot say whether any honourable members or honourable senators who are medical practitioners will be going to China on that occasion. [More…]
Doubtless all members of the delegation will be given the opportunity in China, as I understand Mr Whitlam was given the opportunity when he was there as Leader of the Opposition, to look at the art of acupuncture. [More…]
In view of the great public interest in the art of acupuncture, will the Government be prepared to sponsor a visit to Australia by 2 or 3 leading acupuncturists from China? [More…]
Does the Government propose to sponsor joint projects between Australia and Communist China as proposed by the Minister for Overseas Trade. [More…]
That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
The Australian Government does not presume to speak for the Government of China on this matter. [More…]
Atmospheric Nuclear Tests by China and France … On the motion by Senator Sim- That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
Does the Government of the People’s Republic of China consider the effects of nuclear fall-out to be of little significance to health, or does it display a callous disregard for the health and welfare of its people. [More…]
Which other countries that previously recognised Taiwan, but now have diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, have placed restrictions on their nationals visiting Taiwan. [More…]
1 ) Are air traffic rights being negotiated between Australia and the People’s Republic of China; if so, are the negotiations being carried out at the instigation of Qantas or on the direction of the Australian Government? [More…]
What criteria will be used in assessing whether commercial services would be operated to and from the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
Further to my question of yesterday I ask the Minister for the Media whether he has any further information on what coverage television stations will give to the Prime Minister’s visit to China and Japan? [More…]
What will be the situation of Taiwan vis-a-vis the People ‘s Republic of China in the future, I could not tell. [More…]
1 ) The report in ‘The Australian ‘ of 1 8 October 1 973 that I would be using the visit to China to press the claims of Advance Australia Fair as our new national anthem was not correct. [More…]
I did, however, ask that Advance Australia Fair be played when anthems were played during my visit to China. [More…]
and (3) No Prime Ministerial statement has been issued concerning the use of Advance Australia Fair during my visit to China. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact, as claimed in ‘The Australian’ of 1 8 October 1973, that the ‘Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, is using his visit to China to push Advance Australia Fair as our new arnhem’ and that ‘he’s already sent word to the Chinese Government that he does not want God Save the Queen played on official occasions. [More…]
Not to my knowledge did the Prime Minister ask the People’s Republic of China to play a greater role in South East Asia. [More…]
In directing this question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs I refer once again to the expression used by the Prime Minister, namely, that Australia’s new aspiration is symbolised more in our relations with China than with any other country. [More…]
If so, will he make a statement to the Senate as to his interpretation of what is Australia’s new aspiration and why it is symbolised more with China than with any other country? [More…]
Mr Burns was a guest ofthe Government and people of the Peoples’ Republic of China, as he and I had been in July 1971. [More…]
Apart from travel costs, his expenses were met by the Government of the Peoples ‘ Republic of China. [More…]
1 ) Did Mr Tom Burns, an Australian Labor Party member ofthe Queensland Parliament, travel with the Prime Minister’s party to mainland China. [More…]
1 ) Were 200 gallons of champagne consumed on the Prime Minister’s trip to China: if not what was the quantity. [More…]
The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: (l), (2) and (3) I am aware that the Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam holds the view that the Paracel Islands are a part of its territory, and that it has accused the People’s Republic of China of illegal military occupation of those islands. [More…]
I am aware also that the Government of the People’s Republic of China holds the view that the Paracel Islands are a part of its territory, and that it has accused the Republic of VietNam of attempting armed occupation of the islands and has stated that China was obliged to take action in its own defence. [More…]
The Republic of Viet-Nam, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of the Philippines each claims sovereignty over the Spratly Islands. [More…]
The statement said in part that ‘The Government of the People’s Republic of China definitely will not tolerate infringement on China’s territorial integrity and sovereignty by the Saigon authorities on any pretext’. [More…]
I note that the actions and attitudes of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Viet-Nam are explained by them as being in defence of what they hold to be part of their territory. [More…]
The Australian Government has not sought to raise the matter in the United Nations, nor has it protested to either the People’s Republic of China or the Republic of Viet-Nam. [More…]
Did the Government of the People’s Republic of China protest about the reporting by Australian journalists based in that country of interesting events now developing. [More…]
Did the Australian Government inform the Government of the People’s Republic of China that it defends the right of Australian journalists to report events free from coercion or threats. [More…]
and (2) Officials of the Government of the People’s Republic of China have expressed concern to Australian officials in Peking and Canberra over the nature of some recent reports about China in the Australian media. [More…]
Australian journalists resident in China have not been specifically mentioned in this connection. [More…]
People’s Republic of China: Reports by Australian Journalists (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that military forces of the People’s Republic of China recently seized the Paracel Islands from South Viet-Nam. [More…]
Did the People’s Republic of China indicate that it would act in a similar manner against the Spratly Islands, which lie hundreds of miles south of China and are close to Sabah and Sarawak; if so, is the Government’s apparent confidence that the Chinese Government is a peace-loving one disturbed. [More…]
Do the actions of the People’s Republic of China indicate that it is ready to use force to realise its political objectives. [More…]
What steps, if any, have been taken by the Australian Government to protest to the People’s Republic of China and/or to raise this matter in the United Nations Organisation. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister during his visit to the People’s Republic of China ask Chairman Mao whether the former President and heir apparent, Lin Piao, had been given a just trial before being killed; if not, has the Australian Government adopted double standards in world affairs by not expressing concern for the victims of Communist power, while non-Communist regimes are expected to treat their political opponents according to all the rules of British Parliamentary tradition. [More…]
Does the Minister support the Prime Minister’s statement that the meat industry, like the rest of rural industry, has never had it so good and that this Government has signed more trade agreements with China than had been signed previously? [More…]
If that latter statement is true, what agreements have been signed with China, and what have been the positive aspects of trade deals with China in dairy produce and meat? [More…]
What were the names of the persons, other than aircrew, who accompanied the Prime Minister on his flight to the People’s Republic of China during October-November 1973. [More…]
-I inform the Senate that the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr J. F. Cairns, will be absent from Australia until 1 7 October on his visit to China. [More…]
Diplomats in and from China: Travel Restrictions (Question No. [More…]
1 ) What travel restrictions apply to Australian diplomats in the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
What travel restrictions apply to diplomats of the People *s Republic of China in Australia. [More…]
1 ) What travel restrictions apply to Australian journalists in the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
What travel restrictions apply to journalists from the People ‘s Republic of China in Australia. [More…]
Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China [More…]
1 ) Were a sizable quantity of Australian Army uniforms labelled ‘Made in China’ landed at Darling Harbour, Sydney, recently. [More…]
After brief consideration, the Minister informed Dr Cairns that the purchase of vehicles and /or plant from foreign sources was not in accord with China ‘s policy on vehicle manufacturing. [More…]
Did the Minister for Overseas Trade offer the Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia Ltd’s plant in Sydney to the People’s Republic of China; if so, will the Minister make a full statement as to why the Government sought this particular type of investment. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate whether there is any truth in the allegations made recently by Mr Peacock, M.H.R., that an independent Papua New Guinea might turn to other countries such as Russia or China for aid? [More…]
Has a loss of some millions of dollars been incurred through dockages imposed by importing countries, particularly China, because of infested and damaged wheat? [More…]
3 ) Does the Prime Minister intend travelling on commercial aircraft during his forthcoming visits to Japan and the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
I am advised that there is little immediate prospect of Japan importing sizeable quantities of beef from the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
Imports by Japan of fresh, chilled and frozen meat from China are currently prohibited for quarantine reasons. [More…]
What does Japan’s recent statement concerning the importing of a proportion of their beef requirements from the People ‘s Republic of China mean to the Australian beef industry. [More…]
-I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is it not a fact that in 1966 the Liberal Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, described China as a threat to the whole of South East Asia and that the Liberal Government of the day and for many years after continually refused to recognise Communist China? [More…]
I ask: What is this Government’s policy on Communist China and what is the reason for the change? [More…]
I inform the Senate that the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) left Australia on 22 April for discussions in China and the Philippines. [More…]
1 understand that significant development of oil shale deposits has occurred only in the USSR, China, Brazil and USA. [More…]
As regards the USSR and China, information on costs of production is not available. [More…]
Did a Mr Robert Anthony accompany the Minister on his trip to China between 27 October and 4 November 1978; if so: [More…]
) Was the photographer paid for any other assignments undertaken during the Minister’s trip to China between 27 October and 4 November 1978; if so, what are the details of any such assignments. [More…]
1 ) Did any photographers accompany the Minister on his trip to China between 27 October and 4 November 1978; if so: (a) what are their names; (b)what organisations did they represent; (c) who paid their travel and accommodation expenses; and (d) what were the expenses in each case. [More…]
I am aware of what amount to mutual accusations by both Laos and China of aggressive acts and of troop movements near their common border, but I have no information of large scale Chinese troop movements near the Laotian border. [More…]
None of the principal parties involved- the DK and the PRK, Vietnam, China and the USSR- is understood to favour a negotiated settlement at present Nevertheless, the Government will continue to encourage international support for the principles that might form a basis for such a settlement: the two most important being the withdrawal of all foreign forces and the self-determination of the people of Kampuchea free of great power rivalry. [More…]
Prince Sihanouk has been calling for an international conference on Kampuchea for some time, but is reported to have acknowledged recently that such a conference could not take place while Vietnam, the USSR and China continued to oppose it. [More…]
An ironical twist to the whole sorry business has come from the fact that 12 of the rams were sold to Communist China. [More…]
The point I am making on the sophisticated approach is that the United States and Britain, if they can do so at any time, skilfully play off China against the Soviet Union in world politics. [More…]
Nobody knows what will happen in the next decade, but at least we know that there is a better chance in having the existing atomic powers joined in even some loose federation than by drifting out into the unknown while fearing that at any time China might achieve nuclear parity. [More…]
If we were to capitalise on any schism between the Soviet Union and China, that would be well and good. [More…]
I understand that 10 went to Argentina, 10 to Brazil, 10 to China - that is mainland China. [More…]
I suggest that we do not take a country adjoining China because that would be scorned. [More…]
We were involved, even in the Speech of the then Governor-General with the problem of the rise of China and the power that China represented. [More…]
Therefore, it should not be said that North Vietnam is the villain because if there is to be an invasion of Australia it will be from mainland China or some other part of Asia. [More…]
It is not the first struggle to occur in the portion of the world which was known as Indo-China. [More…]
They want us to declare war but they tell us at the same time that such a declaration of war would involve this country in a major conflict with Russia and China. [More…]
Yes, both of them, because they both support the North Vietnamese who fight not only in South Vietnam but who have 60,000 troops in Laos and 40,000 troops in Cambodia armed with weapons from both Communist China and Russia. [More…]
The Communist system has in the Soviet Union, the Communist Republic of China and North Vietnam slaughtered more of its own people than were killed in two world wars. [More…]
Only last night Professor FitzGerald, an expert on Asia and China, pointed out that military occupation troops are aiding the Communists. [More…]
This was the arrangement made to perpetuate the colonial history of Indo-China. [More…]
The Chinese invaded Indo-China and tried to impose their will on the people who, through their own efforts, with the same grit and the same courage as they are displaying today, threw out the invaders. [More…]
During World War II the Japanese, of whom Bao Dai was a puppet, took over Indo-China but the people cleared them from their country. [More…]
We have had propaganda thrust upon us often by the mass media - sometimes for political purposes, of course, but it is part of the whole machinery of keeping people fearful - to the effect that our potential enemy will be Red China or some other country far distant from Australia. [More…]
The Mission was led by the Honourable Rogaciano M. Mercado of the Republic of the Philippines, and included members from the Republic of Korea, Japan, the Republic of China, Laos, the Philippines and Thailand. [More…]
China bought our wheat. [More…]
That includes the sale of wheat to China which was announced last December. [More…]
Even though the wheat was sold to China last December, shipment started in January and wil continue until October this year. [More…]
This sale of wheat to China has helped tremendously in shifting a lot of the surplus. [More…]
This sale to China, however, does not alleviate the financial problem because, as I have pointed out, the money will not be recouped in full until October next year. [More…]
Anthony), details of the prices at which Australian wheat was being sold, particularly to Communist China. [More…]
We claimed that the sale of wheat to China raised problems. [More…]
We were told that it was necessary that wheat be sold to China to keep the industry on its feet and for the purposes of overseas exchange. [More…]
After I had been told on numerous occasions that the Wheat Board could not permit the prices at which it was selling wheat to be known because our competitors would be advantaged - Canada was mentioned particularly - I wrote to the Canadian High Commissioner and asked him would he have any objection to letting me have complete details of the prices and so on at which Canada sold its wheat to Communist China.I received a lot of documents containing all possible information from Canada, which made it rather obvious to me that the situation of fear of competition was phoney unless our wheat was being sold at prices which could not bear the light of day. [More…]
The next thing that happened was that I was informed by 2 or 3 economists at Australian universities that they knew the prices at which Australian wheat was being sold to Communist China. [More…]
In those circumstances my Party ceased to talk about Communist China and we devoted ourselves to trying to ward off the calamity that was due to happen. [More…]
I am going to ask one question in conclusion: Why are we not told the prices at which wheat is being sold to Communist China? [More…]
It has already been said that Australia is selling wheat .to Communist China at prices lower than those for sales being made to India and countries which are friendly disposed towards us. [More…]
By 1960 and up to 1965 stocks were at a low level as a result of restriction on acreages in the United States and the large purchases made at that time by China and Russia. [More…]
Our largest purchaser of wheat is the Peoples Republic of China which will take from us this year 88 million bushels. [More…]
On the other hand, observations are made and remarks passed such as the Senate heard from Senator McManus who would rather see a situation such as this than the selling of wheat to Red China, even though Red China is one customer of ours which has been able to pay its way, according to the Wheat Board. [More…]
No report has been made to show that China is not a very good customer of ours. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne, in an attack on Senator McManus, said that all we proposed to do was to prevent the sale of wheat to Red China. [More…]
Those who analyse this situation, and particularly the stand of the Australian Democratic Labor Party on it, must realise that our attitude towards sales of wheat to Red China has nothing to do with the political attitude of Red China in itself. [More…]
All of the arguments we have put forward over the years in relation to this matter have been an endeavour to protect the Australian wheat industry against the excesses in which it was being persuaded to indulge by the false market that was being created by selling wheat to Red China at prices below those at which we had been selling to our recognised markets such as India. [More…]
We believe also that the refusal to disclose the price at which the wheat was being sold to Red China besmirched the name of this country throughout the world and raised serious doubts as to whether we were meeting our international commitments in relation to the agreed price for wheat. [More…]
We further set out to show that there was an over-expansion of the industry brought about by the twin evils of the guaranteed price and the expectation of unlimited markets - the vision splendid created by the Wheat Board which set out to get contracts for our wheat from Red China at prices below those at which it was selling to other countries. [More…]
Our criticism of the undue development of the wheat industry in this country to meet the requirements of the market in Red China, in particular, was not based on the political quality of that country. [More…]
In the very early days of this trade we carried a resolution at our federal conference to the effect that where it could be shown that a country such as Red China was suffering from a famine or anything of that nature and had a tremendous need for our wheat, every opportunity should be taken to see that the requirements and needs of that country were met. [More…]
What has been the Government’s excuses for not producing to the Parliament of Australia the prices at which it has been prepared to negotiate wheat sales to Red China? [More…]
The DLP is the one Party which has been absolutely opposed to a diversity of market outlets in its attitude to sales to mainland China. [More…]
Certainly if we had not made sales to mainland China there would have been no complaint if the Canadian Government had sold wheat to China. [More…]
It is certain that the Canadian Government would be very pleased at this time to be able to sell wheat to China, which is quite a valuable market. [More…]
Senator Little referred to the sale of wheat to Red China. [More…]
Originally when I first heard of this it was a question of the Democratic Labor Party refusing to sell wheat to Red China. [More…]
When I say Red China, I mean the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Should we sell wheat to the People’s Republic of China at a lower price even though it may be second class or third class wheat? [More…]
The point is that we are selling more cheaply to Red China. [More…]
The point is that the price paid by China is known, but the quality of the wheat, the insurance costs, the extra costs, interest rates and so on are not known. [More…]
I heard one honourable senator say that Canada disclosed the price at which it sells wheat to China. [More…]
Canada has never disclosed the price at which it sells wheat to China. [More…]
Cyril Pearl, who went to Japan and China for background for ‘Morrison of Peking’; Gavin Souter, who went to Paraguay to interview descendants of the Lane colonists; and Elizabeth Salter, who not only has travelled widely in Australia but also in England and Ireland seeking information for her biography of Daisy Bates. [More…]
Did the Acting Minister for External Affairs see in the Sydney Press on Sunday last a statement by Miss Anne Deveson drawing attention to an English newspaper article about the missing Australian journalist, Francis James, and staling ‘whilst James languishes in gaol, somewhere on the mainland of China, nobody in Australia seems to be doing much to help him’? [More…]
As Australia is now the fourth largest trader amongst the countries of the world with mainland China, I ask the Minister: Should we not be able to secure reliable information as to the whereabouts of this Australian journalist? [More…]
The buyers who were present at this sale of 50 rams came from South Africa, the Argentine, China, Haly and Rumania. [More…]
Argentina purchased 10 rams; Brazil purchased 10 rams; mainland China purchased 1 1 rams; India purchased 3 rams; Italy purchased1 ram; Rumania purchased 9 rams; and South Africa purchased 3 rams. [More…]
Surely if that happens in Australia where we have our fine merino wools all over the place there will be the same result in South Africa, America, Uruguay, mainland China or wherever else they go. [More…]
It is quite obvious that a conflict is rising among the lower echelons as to whether people from mainland China can continue to be the rulers or whether people born in Formosa should be given their opportunity to rule. [More…]
Nobody knows how our relations with the USSR and China will develop. [More…]
1 know there was a time when thestock in trade of the Government, as stated by Sir Robert Menzies, was the talk about preventing the downward thrust of China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
It has some kind of reason for this, of course, because Pakistan has allied itself with Communist China. [More…]
Of course, the South Vietnamese Government did not sign the Geneva agreement, nor did the United States, Australia, Britain, Russia or China because the agreement was not drawn up for them. [More…]
We find recorded on page 13,689 for the period 24th to 31st July 1954 that the 8-nation declaration was signed by the representatives of France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the 3 Associated States - of which South Vietnam was one - and the Vietminh Government. [More…]
It was more than an insurgency; it was an actual aggression, and that actual aggression is taking place in Cambodia at the present time by the North Vietnamese, lt is taking place in Laos and it represents an overall threat to lndo-China from Communist forces based in Hanoi. [More…]
If it is Communist aggression, as Senator Greenwood says it is, why then does he not go to his Country Party colleagues and talk about the export of wheat to continental China? [More…]
Of course it is continental China when it is referred to in trade areas and Red China when it is referred to on a political level. [More…]
The only thing that Senator Greenwood is doing in trying to enhance his Government is to take the eyes of the Australian people and this Parliament away from what his Government is doing in the war in Indo-China, what it is doing in its whole foreign policy and the attitude it is taking to the dangers of the developing situation that we have in South East Asia. [More…]
We would have asked the Senate, as a matter of urgency, to debate the continued participation of Australia in the war in Indo-China. [More…]
We see that Communist China is also rumbling in the same direction. [More…]
We are opposed to the continuation of the war in IndoChina. [More…]
We call for the withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam because we believe that a continuation of Australian participation in this war is wrong, first of all because of the bloodshed which is taking place as a result of our intervention, secondly because of the hypocrisy with which every action of this Government in this struggle has been tainted, and thirdly because of the total stupidity of this Government and of the United States Administration in the policies which they have followed in Indo-China. [More…]
Little needs to be said about the bloodshed which has taken place in Indo-China, not only amongst the Vietnamese and now the Cambodian people, but also amongst the Americans and Australian conscripts. [More…]
We were told this by a government which at the very same time boasted of the amount of trade which it had with China, the very country which it claimed to be defending the Australian people from. [More…]
Vietnam was divided at the time that the French left Indo-China solely for the purpose of disarmament. [More…]
The history of events in Spain, Greece and Nationalist China shows that this Government always supports the military juntas that take over control. [More…]
We heard intemperate, emotional and hysterical remarks from various other honourable senators but 1 must say that at least Senator Willesee seemed to try to deal with the real issue - involvement in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
Cambodia, another part of the former French empire in Indo-China, has been ruled with brilliant but erratic skill by Prince Sihanouk, the king turned politician, but towards the end of 1963, the prince seemed to have decided that in time China was going to rule over everybody anyway, and asked the United States to drop its aid programme. [More…]
I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that this Moratorium is designed to disrupt the Australian community, so it is typical of the Communist philosophy that has been followed in China and through Europe and elsewhere during the years. [More…]
1 have pointed out that we have traded not only with Communist China but also with North Vietnam. [More…]
I have pointed out that when we ceased to trade direct with North Vietnam our goods went to Communist China and from Communist China into North Vietnam. [More…]
But for the wheat being sold by Australia to China our wheat stabilisation scheme would be in a very sorry plight. [More…]
I do not know how much you make out of the wheat when you sell that to China. [More…]
I have spoken about the wheat before and the importance to our economy of China purchasing our wheat. [More…]
China has the thermonuclear bomb and guided missiles. [More…]
I understand that he is now going to oppose the sale of wheat to China which is being organised by the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen), who is the Leader of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
Senator Webster told us this afternoon that anybody who does anything to assist China is a traitor to his country, and as the Leader of his Party is selling wheat to China, I have no doubt that Senator Webster includes him in that category. [More…]
In the context in which he said that, he was asserting that the Russianflag and the flag of China have more respect throughout the world than the Australian flag. [More…]
The Kingdom of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, the Kingdom of Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States were represented at that conference. [More…]
As the Australian Government understands the matter, neither the authorities of the People’s Republic of China nor the government of the Republic of China accepts any formula of recognition which would deny its claim to sovereignty over both the Chinese mainland and the island of Taiwan. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, Australia accords de jure recognition to the government of the Republic of China. [More…]
Those books include: The Philippines: Land and People” by Paul F. Cressey; China Today’ by H. R. Arthur; Asia in the Modern World’ edited by Helen G. Mathew; ‘The Far East. [More…]
In view of the encouragement and support given by some members of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party to the North Vietnamese, Vietcong and aggressive Communist imperialism, and acknowledging that China and Romania have purchased rams and that the Soviet Union has expressed interest in purchasing rams, will the Minister draw the attention of trade unions to the fact that the ban is opposed to the principle of solidarity of Communist powers expressed by some members of the Australian Labor Party and sections of the Australian trade union movement? [More…]
For some years Australia has been finding a small outlet for its wheat by selling to China. [More…]
Yet we have gone through the absolute charade of refusing to recognise these people and to send our most vigorous trading people up there to see whether China is willing to buy more of our primary products. [More…]
Mention was made today of what we should be doing in relation to selling wheat to China. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a report in the ‘Australian’ that China will give military aid to supporters of Prince Sihanouk in their fight against the present Government of Cambodia? [More…]
China has been providing assistance to North Vietnam for a long time in support of its aggressive aims throughout Indo-China. [More…]
This is an area of conflict between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
There must always be a question mark about future Ceylonese policies, particularly in relation to China because any change there would certainly not be welcomed by India. [More…]
The Soviet has also been providing substantial military support to India to counter the threat from China. [More…]
As I mentioned before, I do not think we should become too obsessed with Russia because, in the long term, it may well be that China will present a greater threat than the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean area. [More…]
Already China has strong influences in Pakistan. [More…]
With the change of government in Ceylon, China may well have some influence there. [More…]
China has strong influences in Tanzania and Somalia, particularly in Somalia, in conflict with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Also China is not unaware of the Persian Gulf area where today Russia is exercising strong influences as the British withdraw. [More…]
So we find China taking an active interest in this area and, in many portions of it, in conflict with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Thirdly - and I do not put these points in any order of priority - she wishes to counter the influence of China and establish for herself a leadership role in the cause of underdeveloped countries. [More…]
I think it is important that at some stage we should give a good deal of thought to the Russian objective of countering the influence of China. [More…]
I believe 1 should mention in this very brief review 2 factors influencing SinoSoviet relations, lt is very obvious that the Soviet Union has no wish to see China expand her influence in Africa or Asia. [More…]
He referred to the growing influence of China and Russia in South and South East Asia. [More…]
He stated that a fear about security does exist and that it concerns an awakened and determined China, aspiring to achieve a super-power status. [More…]
Doctor T. B. Millar of the Australian National University, writing in a publication of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre entitled Soviet Policies in the Indian Ocean area’, referred to Russia’s fear of China expanding her influence. [More…]
The Soviet Union is aware of the strong fears of China held in South and South East Asia, and it is entirely logical that she should seek to exploit these in order to limit Chinese influence in the area, increase her own influence and with a minimum outlay strengthen the military capacity of the states on China’s southern boundary at a time when the Sino-Soviet border is under dangerous tension. [More…]
So we have from 2 authorities a recognition that Russia is concerned with China. [More…]
Russia obviously has a fear of China expanding its influence into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Therefore Russia in the event of any conflict with China may well want to use the Indian Ocean as a thoroughfare for the movement of supplies to the eastern part of Russia. [More…]
But to return again to what is germane to this debate, that is, our relations with various countries, I was very intrigued when Senator Sim developed a thesis about a possible world struggle between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
When the final crunch comes the Soviet Union will go along with China.’ [More…]
Has the Minister seen an open letter from the intellectuals of Cambodia to intellectual friends throughout the world in which they solemnly accuse the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese, as well as their mentor, the People’s Republic of China, of trying to erase Cambodia and the Cambodian people from the face of the world? [More…]
Considering the above, we solemnly accuse the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese as well as their mentor, the People’s Republic of China, of trying to erase Cambodia and the Cambodian people from the face of this world. [More…]
Production in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China and eastern European countries together amounted to 21 per cent. [More…]
China and India are already buyers of our wool. [More…]
As a matter of fact, China is now rated sixth in the world of Australian export. [More…]
We should not rely on droughts in China or the Soviet Union; we should be looking for other areas in which to dispose of our surplus wheat. [More…]
I think that the majority of the nations represented at the United Nations believe that China should be represented. [More…]
One of the follies of our time, and one of the things that I had in mind when I referred to the polarisation of ideas which exists in the United Nations, is that people are not considering the inclusion of Red China on the basis of reason and logic. [More…]
I do not know the actual serial number of his Liberal Party ticket, but I am quite convinced that if Senator Young or any other member of the Government parties wanted to table a list of this nature this would be looked upon as being in the general realm of pimping, lt is significant that the list should have been mentioned by Senator Young, one of the better known South Australian wheat producers, who earns additional profits over and above his parliamentary salary by growing wheat to sell to North Vietnam through mainland China. [More…]
The Government has followed up all reports, and enquiries have been made on the assumption that reports of Mr James being in China have some substance. [More…]
in Australia - it is the policy of the Government - are in association with our allies to help the free , people of South Vietnam to preserve their freedom against the cruel and wicked invaders from North Vietnam who are being aided, .supported and for the most part directed by Communist China. [More…]
There are markets available in Mainland China. [More…]
We have been particularly stubborn in failing to realise the potential markets in China for many of our primary products. [More…]
Another section of our foreign policy in which there is large scale deception is that which involves Chiang Kai Shek and the Republic of China. [More…]
Last night I mentioned mainland China and spoke of the attitude that the Government has taken to trade with that country and to acknowledging the position of mainland China in relation to the United Nations. [More…]
The Government’s attitude has created in China an hostility towards Australia, even though the Chinese have been purchasing a considerable amount of our wheat. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Externa) Affairs aware of Malaysia’s new Prime Minister’s call for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, the United States and China? [More…]
If there was any doubt about what many of us said before that campaign it was made quite apparent by the Moratorium itself because on that day in the various capital cities of Australia we saw processions and marches under Vietcong flags, under Communist flags and under the flag of Red China, but a United States flag or an Australian flag was scarcely to be seen. [More…]
In all of this the objective to be achieved was the success of Communist forces in Indo-China by the withdrawal of United States and allied troops. [More…]
In lndoChina they want the war stopped not on terms that the South Vietnamese should have what all people should have - the right of self-determination - but on conditions that will enable the people of North Vietnam, the Vietcong and those who back and support them to overrun a group of independent and free people and to impose their own regime on those free people. [More…]
Did the Australian Minister for Externa] Affairs state that the present Australian Government would not change its attitude to the recognition of Red China whilst the Government of that country would not recognise the Declaration of Human Rights and whilst Red China continued to assert that it intends to pursue its political policies by the use of force? [More…]
Can the apparent intense interest of and the several questions asked by the Leader of the Opposition in this place indicate that, in the remote possibility of a change of political control of this Parliament, a government of Labor complexion would support Red China in its rejection of the Declaration of Human Rights and would also support a policy of force to achieve its political ends? [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…]
Is the Minister representing Minister for External Affairs aware that there is already a form of relationship between Australia and Communist China in that Mr Ted Hill, the head of the pro-Chinese Australian Communist Party Marxist-Leninist is received, on his regular visits to China, with the honours normally accorded an Australian ambassador or head of state, with full red carpet treatment and with a member of Cabinet to receive him? [More…]
Does this not indicate the attitude of Red China to Australia and the forum of diplomatic association with us that Red China prefers? [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is it not a fact that the Australian Government and the Australian Department of Trade and Industry have frequently used United Kingdom representation in Peking to facilitate the present trading arrangements of the Australian Government with Red China, by which various officials of the Commonwealth Trading Bank and the Commonwealth Department of Trade and Industry have visited Red China, been welcomed there and arranged certain trade deals in respect of wheat and other commodities? [More…]
The other part of my question is this: Is it correct that in recent times Australia has sold to the Government of Red China many hundreds of millions of dollars worth of wheat and other rural commodities, that it has permitted the sale to the Government of Red China of steel, zinc and other strategic materials in appreciable quantities and that it intends to continue trading with the Government of Red China and to continue permitting Australian persons and companies also to trade with the Government of Red China? [More…]
Bypassing the light hearted approach at the commencement of Senator Murphy’s question, it is true that Australia sells wheat and other commodities to Red China. [More…]
Does the Government seriously suggest that if China has aggressive aims which must be resisted by Australia, these aggressive aims would be advanced more by Australia having an embassy in Peking than they are by the extensive sales of Australian goods to that country? [More…]
There has been no change in the Government’s attitude in relation to the establishment of diplomatic relations with Red China. [More…]
I refer to the question addressed by me to the Leader of the Government in the Senate relating to the inference which a reasonable person might draw from the question raised by the Leader of the Opposition regarding the apparent desire of the Opposition to recognise Red China and its present external policies. [More…]
Awards under several schemes have enabled nationals of Japan and the Republic of China to do research and post-graduate work in the arts and sciences in Australia and Australians to study the Japanese language in Japan; [More…]
Today has particular significance because an aerial bomb explosion took place in mainland China. [More…]
On the news broadcasts 1 heard nothing about protests by this Government about the aerial explosion in mainland China. [More…]
Whilst I am on my feet, if I may, with your permission, Mr Deputy President, I wish to mention that at question time today I answered 2 questions asked by Senator Murphy about trade with Red China. [More…]
We see the outlet for our wheat in Mainland China being threatened now because the Canadian Government considers it practicable to recognise Mainland China. [More…]
At present the Canadian Government is negotiating with China for an extension of the arrangements between the 2 countries for the sale of wheat. [More…]
We are now within 2 weeks of the end of this month, at which time the arrangments which enable us to sell 82 million tons of wheat to China are due to expire, yet nothing has been done. [More…]
So far as I can gather from the Press and from statements that have been made we have done nothing at all to renew our contract with China. [More…]
At election time they endeavour to stimulate a fear of China by issuing maps with red arrows coming down towards Australia and by speaking of the occupation of Australia by the Chinese. [More…]
Then he wanders off on to the subject of wheat sales to China and the dairying industry, saying nothing constructive whatsoever. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne believes that all of our problems will be solved if we recognise China. [More…]
China does not want these products. [More…]
If she wanted them she would buy them from Australia because China will buy where she can best. [More…]
This is a policy which China is herself engaged in. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry been drawn to a report in the ‘Australian’ under the heading ‘Tougher Stance on Wheat by China’ which refers to a United States report, issued in Washington, that China is harvesting record crops and will this year export more primary produce than she imports? [More…]
Does this not place China in a stronger position with respect to her balance of trade? [More…]
I would not be in a position - I do not suppose anybody would be - to make a considered judgment on the implications of China’s productivity and her exports as related to her imports of wheat. [More…]
On 15th October, a fortnight ago, I asked the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry a pertinent question about trade with mainland China. [More…]
I now ask the Minister whether the delay in replying to my question has been caused by the fact that senior officers of the Department of Trade and Industry have been directed to carry out research for the Government’s Senate election campaign, or whether it is a fact that no figures are kept of trade between Australia and mainland China? [More…]
China and so on. [More…]
Russia - if I may call ii an Asian country - China, Japan and so on are importing great amounts of our raw materials or primary products. [More…]
Growers sell their wheat to the Australian Wheat Board which sends it to various parts of the world - whether it be mainland China or Rhodesia. [More…]
Many farmers to whom I spoke asked me when the Australian Government is to recognise mainland China, and how much longer this Government is to ignore the huge market that exists there. [More…]
I am not referring to members of the Labor Party who are constantly being told that we cannot recognise mainland China because it has a Communist Government. [More…]
Only a few days ago reports appeared in the Australian Press that Canada has recognised and established diplomatic relations with the Republic of China. [More…]
A few days after those reports were published Canada negotiated the sale to the Republic of China of wheat valued at $160m. [More…]
The time has long past when we should have recognised the Government of the Republic of China. [More…]
He brought China into the matter. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry, ls it a fact that mainland China has not yet renewed its order for Australian wheat and that it is now 2 months after the normal ordering date? [More…]
Is it correct that Canada received an order for wheat from mainland China which was 10 per cent larger than the usual order after Canada accorded Peking diplomatic recognition? [More…]
If these are facts - perhaps the Minister will indicate if they are nol - will he tell us for how much longer the Australian Government will maintain the fiction that the 700 million or 800 million people in mainland China are represented by the Chiang Kai-shek Government in Taiwan? [More…]
What are the current value and quantity figures for the following Australian exports to mainland China during the year ended 30 June 1970; (a) wheat, (b) other grains, (c) wool, (d) beef, (e) other rural products, (0 minerals, (g) machinery, (h) chemicals, (i) weapons, steel, ammunition and similar products? [More…]
Exports of these items from Australia to mainland China during the year ended 30 June 1970, were as follows. [More…]
“‘to the admission of Red China. [More…]
Some people say that we will be able to get out of our plight if there is a drought in Russia or if we are able to sell more wheat to China if that country has a bad year of production. [More…]
a big market in China. [More…]
While we seem to be keen to sell our wheat to these people, in the world councils, we are never keen to recognise China. [More…]
we do not seem to be in a fortunate position in regard to the sale of our wheat to China. [More…]
Some say that because Canada has recognised China it has sold a very large parcel of what to China. [More…]
It is completely fallacious to argue that if we were to export merino rams we would encourage the production of Australian wool in China, Russia, South Africa or somewhere else. [More…]
Yet he comes into this chamber and supports selling China steel that comes back in bullets in Vietnam and he and all his colleagues are worried that they will not be able to sell further wheat to China. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether only inferior grain, which is unsaleable elsewhere, was in fact being sold to mainland China and whether the statement by the Minister for External Territories has contributed to the apparent loss of this market? [More…]
I am aware that the Australian Wheat Board does not sell only inferior wheat to China. [More…]
sample to China. [More…]
China sought that wheat because it had use for it. [More…]
I ask: Is the Minister still confident that the Australian Wheat Board will increase its wheat sales to China over last year’s sales as he predicted in reply to a question from Senator O’Byrne on 16th October 1970? [More…]
What evidence does the Minister have, if any, of China resuming imports of Australian wheat? [More…]
It is true that at this stage China has not renewed the contract for wheat purchases that it has made normally about this time over many years past. [More…]
However, I still believe that China will come to Australia looking for wheat. [More…]
China knows, as do other nations, that there is a big surplus of wheat in the world. [More…]
I point out to the honourable senator that China has carried out wheat negotiations with and made wheat purchases from Canada for many years past. [More…]
I still hope that China will come into the market. [More…]
Canada recognises mainland China and, according to reports, Canada this year has received an order for $70m worth of wheat. [More…]
The Liaison Committee of Peace Forces in Vietnam proclaims that: The action of landing troops to intrude into Laotian territory violated rudely the Geneva Agreement of 1954 on Indo China, the Geneva Agreement of 1962 on L;os, and seriously violated the international laws on the principle of respecting the territory of any nation. [More…]
The action of sending Vietnamese troops into Laos in order to decrease the loss of American forces, as is President Nixon’s declaration, reveals the submissive nature of Nguyen Van Thieu’s government, using the lives of Vietnamese young men as cannon fodder for the American expeditionary soldiers in Indo China. [More…]
The United States Government should withdraw at once all its expeditionary troops out of Indo China and stop ail elkins at widening the war and obstructing the restoration of peace though disguised in any form. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether the Government is aware that one condition of Communist China’s entry to the United Nations on which Peking has indicated it would insist is that it receive the same right of veto as certain major powers. [More…]
What would be the attitude of the Australian Government to investing Communist China with this power completely and at will to nullify operations of the United Nations? [More…]
It is well known that Communist China insists that it be recognised as China for the purpose of entry into the United Nations, from which it would acquire the right of veto that was accorded by the treaty to China. [More…]
Did the Minister for External Territories, during the Senate campaign in November 1970, stale at a public meeting on the Queensland Gold Coast that he was not perturbed at the loss of the Mainland Chinese market for Australian wheat as in any case Australia was only disposing of its inferior wheat to that country; if so, is only inferior grain, which is unsaleable elsewhere, being sold to Mainland China and has the statement by the Minister for External Territories contributed to the apparent loss of this market? [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…]
We solemnly accuse the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese as well as their mentor, the People’s Republic of China, of trying to erase Cambodia and the Cambodian people from the fare of this world. [More…]
Would the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs consider it a good portent for proposals for Australian recognition of Communist China that Great Britain recognised Communist China in 1949 and in all the period since then Communist China has refused to receive a British Ambassador? [More…]
In addition, will the Government consider asking Mao Tsc-tung, in view of his invitation to ping-pong teams to enter China, his views on the entry into Australia of a South African cricket team because Communist China so obviously does not believe in mixing politics and sport? [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Primary Industry whether he is aware of a statement in today’s Press attributed to the Leader of the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation, Mr Price, in which he criticised the Australian Country Party, the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party in that order for their approach to the vital question of international trade as it relates to wheat sales to China and stated that they were guilty of national irresponsibility. [More…]
I think the question of wheat trade with China is a matter which has interested many sections of the community, and many people have had a lot to say ‘ on the subject. [More…]
I think it should be made clear that at no time has any official Chinese source said that the recognition of China is a prerequisite for trade with that country. [More…]
At all times there has been no dearth of mischievous people who have endeavoured to make political capital out of the question of recognition of Red China. [More…]
Is it a tribute to the magnificent work of the Australian Wheat Board that the current year’s sales are of record dimensions without sales to China and reflect a great widening of the market? [More…]
This year we have been able to make sales all over the world and to sell sufficient wheat to give us an estimated carry-over of well below 200 million bushels without sales to China. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Primary Industry: Is it not a fact that the considerable sales of wheat to Communist China in recent years were made possible because it was the policy of the United States of America, which has immense wheat production, not to sell wheat to that country? [More…]
Is it true that people who are endeavouring to bring about recognition of Communist China by forecasting possible sales of Australian wheat to that country as a result of recognition would have to take into consideration the fact that the United States, with its immense production, could become a competitor? [More…]
China for many years. [More…]
Quite likely if Australia recognised Communist China in order to get into this wheat trade, then possibly America, with its great surplus, would have to look to this market. [More…]
President Eisenhower, speaking at a Governors’ Conference, gave a very practical reason for American concern in the fate of Indo-China. [More…]
Now let us assume that we lose Indo-China. [More…]
If Indo-China goes, several things happen right away. [More…]
We are voting for the cheapest way that we can prevent the occurrence of something that would be of most terrible significance to the United States of America, our security our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of Indo-China and from South East Asia’. [More…]
This quotation was taken from a speech to a Governor’s Conference on 4th August 1953, which was before the Geneva Accords on Indo-China. [More…]
The Vietnam war is not for the so-called defeat of Communism in Asia but to ensure that the capitalists of Australia and the United States have uncontrolled access to the riches of Indo China and, as I said in this chamber a week or so ago, to the possible oil fields off the shores of South Vietnam. [More…]
Eisenhower said that if Indo-China fell that piece of land would be forgotten and the last great populated area would fall to the Kremlin. [More…]
It has survived on this myth of the Communists of the Kremlin and China raping women, of red arrows coming down and this type of thing. [More…]
That it is in the best interests of Australia that we should immediately recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Republic of China is not China itself; it is really Taiwan. [More…]
The first is the recognition of China, which is completely separate from the question of its taking a seat at the United Nations. [More…]
I am sorry that members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party are having a party meeting because I hoped to persuade them that they could support the first matter, the recognition of China, without getting too hot under the collar over its having 2 seats at the United Nations. [More…]
First, we have to deal with China. [More…]
There is no problem facing Australians who wish to enter China. [More…]
China is a country in its own right. [More…]
But for some unknown reason the Government turns a blind eye when it comes to China because China is Communist. [More…]
When one goes to China one realises what happy people the Chinese are. [More…]
I think we will find that the ping-pong players from America and Australia who are visiting China will confirm what I say upon their return. [More…]
Certainly the business people who freely enter China agree wilh what I say, that is, that the Chinese are a happy people. [More…]
When one is in China and mentions this the people laugh and say: ‘Where is Australia?’ [More…]
China will not advance this way because she is Communist. [More…]
Let us not hear any more statements about the Communists coming down here from China. [More…]
I believe that it is immature of the Government, Ministers and members of Parliament to keep on referring to China as continental China, Red China or any other China you like except the People’s Republic of China, which is the name the Chinese have chosen for themselves. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China is a country of 700 million people, if not 800 million. [More…]
It was the kingdom of China and they were Chinese people who migrated there. [More…]
In 1887 the Chinese Government declared Taiwan to be a province of China, but unfortunately in the war with Japan, in 1895, China had to cede Taiwan to Japan and Taiwan became Formosa. [More…]
There is no-one in China or among what are called the old China hands who will not agree that Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most successful of the corrupt warlords of China. [More…]
He was able to go there because when the war ended and Japan was defeated Formosa was handed over to the Nationalist Government that was in power in China at that time. [More…]
Formosa was given to China as a trust and nothing was determined as to what should happen to it. [More…]
They are Taiwanese, and no-one knows whether they want to go back to Red China, as the Government calls it, or whether they want to stay with Chiang Kai-shek’s China. [More…]
As I have said so frequently in this chamber, if Chiang Kai-shek, as he says he will do every year, did land on China with 3 divisions, 2 of them would desert him immediately. [More…]
They believe in China and want to go back to China, so much so that there is a Formosan Liberation Independence League which we should be supporting as we support the people in Vietnam. [More…]
It is of no use for the Government to say that we have an independent policy in regard to China. [More…]
It may have been incidental that American ping pong players went into China and then our ping pong players went into China. [More…]
The Americans suddenly say: ‘We will relax trade with China,’ and then Australia says: ‘We will relax trade with China.’ [More…]
I am pointing out that the Government said yesterday or the day before - I forget which - that it would relax trade with China. [More…]
That is why the Government will not recognise China. [More…]
I come now to the question of trade with China. [More…]
We should not be crying all the way to China that we must have her support - that she must buy our wheat to keep our country people on the land and buy our wool to help our country people and to keep the Country Party viable. [More…]
I believe that if we recognise China first, trade will follow. [More…]
Some people are worried that if we recognise China Taiwan will suffer. [More…]
Whether China should be admitted to the United Nations and Taiwan expelled is known as the Albanian question. [More…]
Australia supports the view that a two-thirds majority vote is required on the question of whether China can be admitted and Taiwan expelled because it is an important question. [More…]
At the October sittings of the United Nations only 8 countries need to change sides and vote for the inclusion of China on this important issue and the important issue is gone. [More…]
Then it becomes a simple majority question as to the admission of China and the expulsion of Taiwan. [More…]
Instead of worrying about the inevitable recognition of China the Taiwanese should be trying to foster enough friends to ensure that they keep a United Nations seat. [More…]
Taiwan should be busy seeing how it can retain its seat, rather than worrying about China’s getting on to the committee. [More…]
China. [More…]
The point is that we should be helping our friends and seeing that China gains a place in the United Nations. [More…]
A question of principle is involved in not recognising Red China but it is disappearing with America’s acceptance. [More…]
We should get to know China. [More…]
Honourable senators cannot know China if they have not been there. [More…]
Six years ago after I had returned from China I said in this chamber that the first thing we should do is to send a parliamentary delegation there. [More…]
This should be done so that we can get to know China. [More…]
Of course China shows the best when we go there. [More…]
A delegation of all members of Parliament, including members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party should go to China and see for themselves what is going on there. [More…]
The one issue is that we should recognise China. [More…]
A delegation of members from both Houses of Parliament should go to China and see for themselves. [More…]
The reason is that there are 2 great days in China. [More…]
There is only one China. [More…]
The point is that they have a day in China, whatever the honourable senator may like to call that China. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China has celebrations in October. [More…]
I hope that most honourable senators will support me in this view that we should give immediate recognition to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Republic of China I draw particular attention to the word ‘immediately’. [More…]
The establishment of lasting peace and security in Asia is possible only if the People’s -Republic of China is ready to co-operate. [More…]
Communist China has repeatedly asserted the need for the overthrow of established states by revolution. [More…]
This has been the case since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. [More…]
After the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in 1950, China committed itself to massive intervention on the North Korean side, an intervention which was sustained beyond the protection of the North Korean borders. [More…]
Subsequently China, has continued to lend support for the North Korean regime which sought to reunite that peninsula by force of arms. [More…]
In Indo-China the People’s Republic of China has declared its active support for the so-called war of national liberation of the Indo-Chinese people, a term which includes the military conflicts in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam. [More…]
Recently Peking referred to the struggle in the Indo-China peninsula, a geographical term which might possibly be taken as including Thailand. [More…]
Communist China has called for a people’s war in Burma and has given support to insurgents in that country. [More…]
In the case of India too, the People’s Republic of China engaged in military conflict to assert its border claims against India. [More…]
More recently China has adopted a more constructive foreign policy and has sought to increase its international support. [More…]
I believe that this record of hostile intent and hostile practice does not suggest that the People’s Republic of China is yet willing to live in peace with its neighbours or to adopt genuinely constructive policies towards them. [More…]
He then stated that China had acquired some greater international support and was showing more interest in representation in the United Nations. [More…]
The Minister said that as a result Australia had its policies towards China under review, and in this respect we were consulting closely with the United States of America, Japan and other friendly nations which have also had their policies under review. [More…]
Action of this kind would also be foolish because it would not be likely to lead to any changes in China’s aims and the means by which it has chosen to achieve them. [More…]
A further point that I wish to make is that for the last 20 years the Government of the Republic of China in Taiwan has shown itself to be able to live up to its international obligations within the United Nations and elsewhere. [More…]
It would indeed weaken our credibility amongst Asian countries if we were unilaterally to recognise the People’s Republic of China without seeking protection for the status and rights of the people of Taiwan. [More…]
We cannot concur in action that would leave 14 million people - more than the population of Australia - to face Communist China without recognition or the support of friends. [More…]
It seems to me improbable that the people of Taiwan would wish to come under the dominance of mainland China. [More…]
It is certainly substantially higher than that of the people of mainland China. [More…]
What lessons would the small Asian countries that border China draw from such an abandonment? [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) explained in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Government believes that the immediate problem for examination is not recognition of the People’s Republic of China but its possible admission to the United Nations. [More…]
In that respect it is appropriate to advert to what fell - I think without any consideration at all - from Senator Turnbull’s lips when he referred to the Albanian resolution for the expulsion of Taiwan and the admission of mainland China. [More…]
I do not know how anybody who adheres to the constitution of the United Nations could seriously contravert that it is an important question within the terms of Article 18. particularly when the proposition from Albania was to exclude Taiwan and admit mainland China. [More…]
Senator Turnbull dropped from his original proposal any reference to the sending of a parliamentary delegation to China. [More…]
It may be that the Australian Labor Party is not so ardently keen upon sending representation to China, whether it be in the form of Dr Patterson or of a parliamentary delegation. [More…]
Anybody who suggests a parliamentary delegation to China at present shows that he has an absence of knowledge of the conditions there. [More…]
We should remember, too, that there is no real equivalent of our Parliament in China and that the institutions of the People’s Republic are in a state of disarray after the cultural revolution. [More…]
On the other hand, the Australian Government has never sought to stand in the way of private individuals or associations which have sought to travel to the People’s Republic pf China for legitimate purposes. [More…]
If Senator Turnbull wishes to travel to China - as he has avowed and I confirm - he can apply for a visa and no obstacles will be placed in his way by the Australian Government. [More…]
We have been treated to a speech by the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) which has been provocative and insulting towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I would hope - and I would suggest - that no-one should take those provocative remarks made by the Minister as illustrating the official attitude of Australia or even of the Government towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The motion is based on the proposition that it is in the best interests of Australia to recognise immediately the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
For more than 20 years there has been a People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We should have recognised the People’s Republic of China at the commencement of those 20 years. [More…]
We know that Australia will recognise the People’s Republic of China and it will not be very long before it does. [More…]
It is in the best interests of Australia to recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The situation is that the Australian Government is maintaining that the lawful government of the whole of mainland China as well as Taiwan, well over 800 million people, is the Chiang Kai-shek Government on the island of Taiwan, the Republic of China. [More…]
The international claim by both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan is that there is only one China. [More…]
They are both adamant that there is one China and one only. [More…]
Whom does Australia recognise as the ‘lawful government of mainland China? [More…]
As the Australian Government understands the matter, neither the authorities of i the People’s Republic of China nor’ the government of the Republic of China accepts any ‘ formula of recognition which would deny its. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, Australia accords de jure recognition to the government of the Republic of China. [More…]
So in simple terms this Government is adopting the absurd position of saying that the government of those 800 million people on the mainland of China as well as those on Taiwan is the Chiang Kai-shek Government in Taiwan. [More…]
Only a stupid incompetent government such as ours would say that the government on Taiwan represents the 800 million people on the mainland of China. [More…]
It is in the interests of Australia and in the interests of the proper maintenance of that rule of law which should apply internationally as well as in domestic affairs that the government which is the true government of China should be recognised. [More…]
If both the government on the island of Taiwan and the government of the People’s Republic of China maintain that there is only one China and that everyone must accept and act ‘ on that proposition, then the choice for us is clear - the lawful gov:ernment of China must be the government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
But while the government on Taiwan and the government of the People’s Republic of China say that .there is only one China and only one government of China, then that government must be the government of the People’s Republic of China. ‘ [More…]
We trade with mainland China. [More…]
The United Stales wa.nt.s_ to have more contact with China and the President of the United States speaks of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
What is it really but recognition when the Head of State of the United States speaks publicly of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
For myself I would say that the United States has recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
A great number of countries have refused to follow any longer the lead of those who want to exclude the 800 million people in China from the councils of the world, who want to refuse to accord them any kind of recognition and who want to maintain the pretence that they do not exist except to say that they are repreented by the government on the island of Taiwan. [More…]
Last October Canada recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Bolivia and perhaps even Peru, soon will extend diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Malaysia and other States on the rim of the Asian mainland already have indicated that they will make certain changes in their posture towards China. [More…]
Asian tour, indicated that changes .were in store for Vatican-China relations. [More…]
In recent weeks the United States has taken steps which promise to alter dramatically its relations with China. [More…]
now by the fact that wheat sales to China, a matter of very great i importance to the economy of Australia and to a very large section of our population, have been -curtailed. [More…]
Over the last 10 years Australia’s exports to China have been worth $ 1,000m more than our imports from China. [More…]
In the last financial year China purchased Si 26m worth of goods from Australia while we imported Chinese goods worth only $32m. [More…]
More than 90 per cent of last year’s exports to China was wheat and its value was $1.1 8m, compared with S58m in the previous year. [More…]
Despite this trading relationship with the People’s Republic of China our Government has stubbornly refused to accord that country diplomatic recognition. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that the Government has never really had a policy of its own towards China; it has held on tightly to the apron strings of the United States and blindly followed the dictates of that country. [More…]
He spoke about aggression by China. [More…]
China has been moderate in its relations with its neighbours. [More…]
I do not know of any other country that would tolerate the position in Hong Kong and Macao as China has. [More…]
We will recognise the People’s Republic of China - there is no doubt whatever of that - and we will recognise the People’s Republic of China very soon. [More…]
He seemed to take the view that non-recognition of Communist China flowed from the fact that that country was Communist. [More…]
He went on to say - he laid great stress on this - that all we needed to do was to make friends with Communist China and trade would flow and everything would be lovely. [More…]
India is a country that has recognised Red China - in fact, almost to the point of nausea. [More…]
Nehru in particular lent over backwards in trying to placate Red China. [More…]
He did everything possible to try to make friends with Red China. [More…]
fact that if it suited the convenience of Red China to invade the territory of India it did so. [More…]
Whether India recognised Red China or not and whether India tried to make friends with the Red Chinese or not, if it suited their convenience to do that, that is precisely what they did. [More…]
So, I for one have no confidence whatever in the contention that all we have to do is to try to make friends with them, to recognise them and to send people to Red China on friendly missions and everything will be just as it should be between our country and Red China. [More…]
In my opinion the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Bury, summed up the position in regard to Red China very well when he said: [More…]
We accept that, perhaps more than any other government, that of China has great domestic difficulties. [More…]
But it is necessary to point out that the isolation of China from the international community has been largely the result of its own international attitudes. [More…]
In the conclusion of his remarks about China he said: [More…]
The Australian Government considers that the Republic of China is as much a fact of international life as is the People’s Republic of the mainland. [More…]
If it is a condition of recognition of Red China that we must recognise her right to do as she chooses with the 14 million people on Taiwan, surely that is enough to give pause to any idea that we should recognise her. [More…]
We have heard a good deal about trade and about the fact that China no longer requires wheat from Australia. [More…]
I point out that Red China and South East Asia have been caught up in what has been termed the green revolution’ in South East Asia inasmuch as the people of those regions are probably growing more food and, incidentally, more rice, now than ever before in their history. [More…]
Some time ago one of mainland China’s spokesmen said: ‘We import wheat from Australia but we export rice to other counties. [More…]
This arrangement is favourable to China. [More…]
Because there is a surplus of rice in South East Asia and because the available export markets for China’s rice have been restricted very considerably, there is not the need for China to import Australian wheat. [More…]
To send an emissary to Red China would only wake up the Chinese to the fact that they could play politics with the trade of this country. [More…]
If a political Party - a Party which is not the government of this country but is, in fact, the Party in opposition - goes over the head of the Wheat Board and visits a country such as Red China, then it must pinpoint clearly and beyond doubt the facility that is available to the Chinese to cause disruption within the borders of Australia and to play politics. [More…]
Red China. [More…]
1 repeat that recognition of Red China and her- admission into the United Nations involves all sorts of complications. [More…]
Another, as was reported some time ago, is that China wants the power of veto. [More…]
For the sake of extending this emply gesture of friendship - that is all it is - to Red China we are supposed to throw away 14 million people in Taiwan. [More…]
urgency motion moved by Senator Turnbull is that it is in the best interests of Australia immediately to recognise the .People’s Republic of China. [More…]
new arrangement for recognition of the People’s Republic of China was reached. [More…]
The 1st October is important to the People’s Republic of China because it is the anniversary of the day on which it formed its Government. [More…]
In dealing with Asia today, and particularly the People’s Republic of China, in looking back over thousands of years of history one can get into trouble because events are now moving very quickly there. [More…]
I remember talking about 12 years ago, to a diplomat in Djakarta who forecast the separation of the great Communist giants, Russia and Mainland China.I did not believe him.I thought it was , wishful thinking. [More…]
A thaw is starting between the United States of America and China. [More…]
He said that he wanted to welcome the People’s Republic of China to the family of nations. [More…]
There have been tremendous changes, one of which is the’ collapse of the alliance between Russia and China. [More…]
A newspaper commented the other day that even though Russia had sent an ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, to think that that would cement relations between them would be like asking the ReverendIan Paisley to take communion from thePope. [More…]
They have signed trade agreements with Communist China not greatly different from those of previous years,as I understand it. [More…]
Probably the most important influence on the psychology of the People’s Republic of China and Asia is the withdrawal of the American presence from South East Asia. [More…]
To some it may have seemed to be a protecting umbrella, but not to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister was taken to task for using 7 different expressions to describe China andI am frying to limit my terms. [More…]
It is easy to refer to Taiwan and Communist China, but I understand that the People’s Republic of China is the correct title. [More…]
Obviously relations between Russia and China have a bearing on the psychology of Asia. [More…]
As Senator Turnbull rightly pointed out, recognition does not mean that Australia approves of the type of government that has taken over in China. [More…]
But this did not happen when the Communists took over mainland China and I think there were good reasons for that. [More…]
In fact if you examine China’s history since 1927 and from the time Chiang Kai-shek took over, to the invasion by the Japanese and the subsequent fight against them with the allies you find that they have hardly been out of a war. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that China was at the great conferences which were held at places like Potsdam, Yalta and Quebec during the war. [More…]
Something which the western mind cannot grasp is called the ‘cultural revolution’ where young people were allowed to demonstrate on the streets but China found it had created a Frankenstein monster. [More…]
We must come up against another fact and that is that China is a member of the nuclear club. [More…]
Maybe in the field of technology and nuclear science China is a reasonably inefficient member of the nuclear club but there is no doubt and no gainsaying that it has nuclear weapons. [More…]
What would be the attitude if we were recognising Red China or the People’s Republic of China today? [More…]
There is no doubt that China is doing this, ‘i wc are worrying about this situation, what would be the situation if China recognised a country like Australia which is indigenous to this area? [More…]
able to apply pressure to China? [More…]
After all, the 2- China question will finally be settled in a Chinese way by the Chinese people. [More…]
There ought to be 2 Koreas, 2 Irelands and 2 Chinas in the United Nations. [More…]
We should move quietly into this area and recognise Communist China - or he People’s Republic of China - as Senator Turnbull has suggested. [More…]
I thought that Senator Turnbull’s contribution to the debate in the context of mainland China was very much in the same sort of mystical and amazing way in which Marco Polo described the China of his day in the thirteenth century, about 600 years ago. [More…]
Those words mean that the Senate is being asked to bring pressure of whatever nature is possible on the Government of Australia today immediately to recognise Red China. [More…]
As Senator Willesee said it is not possible immediately to recognise Red China. [More…]
China has to enter into some recognisance or undertakings before we exchange recognition by exchanging ambassadors. [More…]
The reason why the western world or, if you like, the United States, other countries and certainly our own country have refused to recognise Red China - or the People’s Republic of China - for the last 20 years Ls simply that before we exchange embassies or recogni- lion with another country three things have to be in existence. [More…]
The first point is that one country wishes to accept recognition from another country, l.have never seen any evidence of the People’s Republic of China wishing to accept recognition from Australia. [More…]
People’s Republic of China that would give, any assurance to any government of Australia, whatever its view, that it was possible to obtain and’ retain normal diplomatic relations, between 2 countries such as Australia and .the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There are all sorts of reasons why China may not wish to enter into ‘ what is described as the comity of nations, but certainly from the point of view of some countries - Australia is one of them- the People’s Republic of China through its ‘Government has not, by any of its attitudes in the last 20 years, displayed any of the characteristics that would lead any nation’ to” ‘trust ‘ft. [More…]
Our own kinsmen in the United Kingdom were among the first in the last 20 years and after the Korean War to recognise the People’s Republic of China, or Red China as it is sometimes called. [More…]
The United Kingdom sent a legation to Peking, but the People’s Republic of China did not even acknowledge its presence. [More…]
The Government of India became so fearful of the chauvinism of the People’s Republic of China that it entered into treaty arrangements with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
With this turmoil of the Red Guard movement in China it was obvious that over the last 3 years the Government in Peking was barely in control of its own country. [More…]
We must bear- in mind, because of ‘ what has been said by various senators in this place from time to time about the United States of America, that in the roundabout way in which international relations are sometimes conducted for at least 10 years the United States has been in almost constant consultation with the Warsaw Embassy of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is not true to assert, for example, that President Nixon has recognised the People’s Republic of China, any more than it can be said that the People’s Republic of China has expressed any willingness to exchange some sort of understanding with the President of the United Stales of America. [More…]
Foreign Affairs (Mr Bury) on 6th April - all honourable senators have a copy of the statement - in which he said, as Senator Willesee mentioned, that one of the problems and objectives of the Government of mainland China at present appears to be the maintenance of the security of its borders. [More…]
This can be acknowledged, although 1 sometimes wonder where the borders of the People’s Republic of China really end. [More…]
Maps produced in the last 10 years show that Mainland China extends its suzerainty to the ancient boundaries of the Chinese khans in the time of Marco Polo 700 years ago. [More…]
The only significant thing that the People’s Republic of China has attempted to do is to establish a strong bargaining position with the 2 super powers. [More…]
In the final analysis this amounts to good diplomatic practice by the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It would be almost fatal in diplomatic exchanges for Australia at present to concede unilaterally because of strong international bargaining by the People’s Republic of China positions which Australia would not wish to vacate under compulsion or persuasion at present. [More…]
I acknowledge the existence of a thaw in diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
But I have lived: long enough to witness a so-called thaw in the attitude of the Union of Soviet: Socialist Republics in 1953 and the subsequent freezing that took place after Mr Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Communist Party and to wonder what the attitude of the People’s Republic of China will be in another 5 or 6 years when Chairman Mao, the present great Khan of China, goes to the heavenly kingdom, and Mr Lin Piao and another group of men who are mostly Army men who have themselves embedded in the matrix of power in the People’s Republic of China take his place. [More…]
Therefore I welcome the diplomatic initatives that perhaps lead to a thawing of the .relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Western world. [More…]
Up to date we have heard an historical record of China. [More…]
During question lime today the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, was asked a question about the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
He declined to answer the question on the basis that an urgency proposal with respect to recognition of the People’s Republic of China was to be debated today and tha* Senator Wright, who would be the Minister in charge of that debate, would announce the Government’s- policy with respect lo the recognition of mainland China. [More…]
I hope that when an analysis of that speech is made the Government will have second thoughts as to whether that is its attitude towards the recognition of the People’s Republic of China, because 1 think that that prepared statement contained pretty well every insult that could possibly be thought of to be thrown at the people of that great country. [More…]
We constantly find reasons advanced why these 800 million people in China are not to be trusted and should not be welcomed into the community of nations, although Senator Wright early in his remarks said that the Government has always recognised that at some time the People’s Republic of China would be drawn into the community of nations. [More…]
Not only is his statement a prevarication of previous attitudes held by the Government towards the People’s Republic of China but it is too vague for anyone to understand. [More…]
Twenty years have passed and we have made no moves to recognise mainland China other than for the purposes of trade. [More…]
That is the Australian Country Party - to back recognition of China. [More…]
I was the first Australian Minister ever to say that the People’s Republic of China should, sooner or later, be recognised. [More…]
What sort of statement is it when a Minister of the Crown makes a vague statement that sooner or later the Government will recognise mainland China? [More…]
Senator Wright, speaking on behalf of the Government, said that China will be brought into the community of nations at some time, and now Mr Anthony says that sooner or later we will recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
If one looks more closely at the article - I do not know whom they seek to mislead - one will see that there was before the annual conference of the Victorian Country Party a proposal for the recognition of mainland China. [More…]
It was nothing to do with the recognition of mainland China and nothing to do with the Country Party recognising China, as the heading states. [More…]
But tacked onto the end of the substantive part of the resolution are these words: and the recognition of Communist China. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack said that not all the changes were taking place at this time, that there have been changes in the Australian Government’s attitude to mainland China over the 20 years that we have not recognised it. [More…]
But when the Minister in charge of the debate on this urgency proposal enunciated the Government’s policy he accused the People’s Republic of China of wanting to create revolution in practically every country in Asia right around to India. [More…]
But what did Senator Wright say about China’s attitude to the rest of Asia? [More…]
I ask: As far as the Australian Government is concerned, where is the change of attitude by China which has, for example, enabled us now to follow the lead of the United States and send a ping-pong team to China and engage in diplomatic relations of this sort? [More…]
Australia did not think of sending a ping-pong team to China before the United States decided to send one. [More…]
Senator Wright went on to say that Taiwan’s position must be protected in any recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I agree that Taiwan must be protected, but we should be realistic and face up to the fact that the Government of the people of China is the governmnt on the mainland and not the government on an island off the coast. [More…]
In order to prevent, recognition of the People’s Republic of China the Australian Government has taken certain action in various world bodies. [More…]
the People’s Republic of China from being admitted to membership of the IPU. [More…]
No matter what may be the feelings of certain reactionary people in this Parliament there is no doubt that within a very short period of time the Australian Government will recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
speech about .the attitude of small nations in Asia to the abandonment, of Taiwan it will be abandoned because, for the sake of trade, we will eventually and at a pretty early time recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Along with my colleagues on this side of the chamber, 1; oppose the immediate unconditional recognition of the People’s Republic : of .China. [More…]
In answer to the interjection of Senator Mulvihill I would point out that Australia’s attitude depends on the attitude from time to time of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
When the People’s Republic of China shows that it can live peacefully alongside its neighbours and become a part of them I have no doubt that many of the Asian nations living alongside the People’s Republic of China will recognise it, although they do not do so at present. [More…]
As Senator Sir Magnus Cormack mentioned, I am nol aware of any great wish by the People’s Republic of China to recognise other countries, including Australia. [More…]
Therefore, why should we rush in and more or less beg the People’s Republic of China to accept us? [More…]
The same situation applies in connection with the recognition of China in the United Nations. [More…]
Most nations which wanted to join a body such as the United Nations or, for that matter, any organisation would accept the terms and conditions laid down by that organisation for entry, but the People’s Republic of China has itself . [More…]
down what might be called impossible conditions, for entry into, the United Nations, lt wants the exclusion of Taiwan from the United Nations as well as a seat on the Security Council, which would ensure that nol only Taiwan but also any other country that was opposed to the People’s Republic of China would not have a seat in the United Nations. [More…]
There- is no doubt that most nations would have recognised China long ago if she had’, been prepared to accept the conditions that every other nation had to accept in order to obtain entry into the United Nations. [More…]
-One could be excused for wondering whether China really wants to be a member of the United Nations because she has laid down such impossible conditions about her entry. [More…]
This morning Senator Cant asked a question about the Country ‘ Party’s policy, and particularly about Mr Anthony’s policy, towards China. [More…]
Mr Anthony has been accused of insulting China. [More…]
At other times he has been accused of wanting to recognise China. [More…]
The statement is: ‘We hope that in time we will reach a stage at which we can recognise China - there will be mutual agreement end mutual acceptance - but at the same time we are not prepared to sink our principles of foreign policy just for trade’. [More…]
We would not do that for the very good reason that politics have never entered China’s trade policy, despite what some members of the Opposition might say. [More…]
The history of our trade with China, particularly in relation to wheat, is a very interesting one. [More…]
In the last 10 years Australia has sold to China 20.21 million metric tons of wheat. [More…]
Australia and Canada are the main suppliers of wheat to China. [More…]
This 20.21 million metric tons represents 40.36 per cent of China’s imports of wheat during that period. [More…]
Canadian exports were 17.24 million metric tons, which represents 37.2 per cent of China’s imports. [More…]
Argentinian wheat represents only 9 per cent of China’s imports. [More…]
France sells to China 7.1 per cent of China’s imports of wheat. [More…]
A look at the total wheat exports of these nations shows that in most years 30 per cent of France’s total wheat exports have gone to China. [More…]
That represents about 7 per cent of China’s imports. [More…]
The figure for Canada has varied, but about 17 per cent of her exports have gone to China. [More…]
That emphasises what I said earlier: China will buy her wheat where she can get the best deal and where she can get the type of wheat she wants. [More…]
The main reason why China is not buying wheat is that she has had a bumper crop of rice. [More…]
Also, China has relied on income derived from export ing rice to pay for the wheat. [More…]
Until we get the full figures, which will not be released for another few months, we do not know what any other country is selling to China. [More…]
The only thing that we know is that there has been a very small quantity of wheat, much less than in previous years, sold to China by Canada. [More…]
He said that Australia was following the United States of America, by sending a ping-pong team to China and that because a United States ping-pong team went there we had to follow. [More…]
No teams were invited to China until just recently. [More…]
Once China agreed to relax her restrictions on teams visiting there, China invited a sporting team to visit there. [More…]
China is a world leader in pingpong. [More…]
China invited the Americans to play there. [More…]
I have no doubt that, if the People’s Republic of China had. [More…]
f believe that the Government is adopting a sound approach, by gradually reviewing the position in regard to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We do not want to be begging for China’s recognition. [More…]
What is urgent about the recognition of Red China? [More…]
I would think that the recognition of Red China would depend a great deal on the admission of that country to the United Nations - an international community of nations and an organisation of which Red China has not been able to get membership up till now. [More…]
Peking should renounce the use of force and acknowledge the right of other nations to live in peace, free of the threat of wars of national liberation sponsored by China, before it is admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
China of the peace of other countries - its rape of Tibet, its aggression against India, its war against United Nations forces in Korea. [More…]
They deplored the fact that Senator Wright stated indisputable facts about the aggressive nature of Red China against peaceful countries. [More…]
1 am talking about Red China at the moment. [More…]
Red China demands, as a condition of diplomatic relations, acceptance of her claims of sovereignty over Taiwan and its 14 or 15 million people. [More…]
Also Communist China’s endorsement of an inevitable world war for the triumph of Communism renders her unworthy of recognition or entry to the family of nations. [More…]
So, we repeat and reaffirm our opposition to Communist China’s policies. [More…]
We stand opposed to the recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Tn our opinion there is no movement by Communist China away from these attitudes, which would justify recognition. [More…]
Communist China has the means at her disposal. [More…]
Following my visit to China some 7 or 8 years ago I have advocated visits to that country. [More…]
I have advocated visits to China because it is necessary for us to get to know the people of China probably more than any other country and for them to get to know us. [More…]
The propaganda which is put out by the Communist Government of Red China is designed to foster hatred. [More…]
It does not matter where you go in China - I went by train into the more outlying- areas - there is intense hatred of the people of the West because the Chinese do not know us. [More…]
I smiled upon the people as I smile upon the honourable senator in the hope of getting a friendly smile in return, but I did not get any friendly response from the Chinese people in mainland China. [More…]
The attitude of the people of Red China indicates that the propaganda being put out by the Communist Government is very successful. [More…]
I got a visa and I travelled through China. [More…]
While in China I sought an interview with the Minister for Trade because I wanted to find out for myself the attitude of the Chinese people towards future trade with Australia. [More…]
1 was told by the Minister for Trade that China would continue to buy wheat and other articles from us if our prices were right and if we sought to buy more goods from her. [More…]
Many more articles are coming into Australia now from mainland China than was the case previously, and I hope that that fact eventually will convince the Chinese people that we are keen to have friendly relations with them and to continue trading together on a friendly, reasonable and properly thought-out basis. [More…]
I am not sure that the wheat we have sold to China in the past has been a very economical exercise for us. [More…]
I went through China by train especially so that I could look at agricultural conditions in the country areas. [More…]
One must congratulate the people of China on their efforts to make their country produce. [More…]
They have done a very good job and for that reason I am not attacking the Government of China. [More…]
I was amazed to hear Senator Murphy claim that President Nixon had said that America was recognising the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The President said that being friendly with China and encouraging people to go there did not involve recognition. [More…]
Like Senator Gair, I think that it should come after the entry pf mainland China into the United Nations when it has demonstrated that it intends to recognise the principles of the United Nations in maintaining peace and in settling disputes in peaceful ways. [More…]
Senator Murphy said that we on the Government side claim that Chiang Kai-shek’s Government’ is the Government df mainland China! [More…]
However, we do claim that Chiang Kaishek’s Government was the last freely elected government in mainland China. [More…]
If we do recognise Red China I hope that we will never claim that Taiwan is not a country which we should recognise. [More…]
There are no elections in mainland China. [More…]
We intend to recognise both countries but we will not be bludgeoned into recognising Red China and massacring, if that is the word, the people of Taiwan. [More…]
That is an amazing statement because’ Hong Kong is of great value to mainland China for the entrance of overseas currency and as an outlet for its goods. [More…]
The situation of Hong Kong certainly suits China very well indeed. [More…]
Senator Turnbull wants a parliamentary delegation to visit China. [More…]
It would’ ‘not’ be possible to have an exchange of parliamentarians because Red China does hot have any parliamentarians. [More…]
I would hot like to see our representatives attempting to enter Red China at the time of the May Day or October celebrations. [More…]
I Have seen enough of the propaganda exercises carried on in China. [More…]
At those times the people of China rally in their millions to demonstrate. [More…]
I hope that that era is passing, but we should not visit Red China at such times. [More…]
I do not agree with Senator Cant that we have sent a ping-pong team to Red China. [More…]
I hope many more sporting, professional or other groups will visit China. [More…]
It says that H is in the best interests of Australia immediately to recognise the People’s Republic of China and I believe that the debate should be conducted on that basis. [More…]
Senator Turnbull does not say that it is in .the best interests of China that we should recognise China but that it is in the best interests of Australia. [More…]
I believe it is incontrovertible that it is in the best interests of Australia to accord recognition to the effective Government of China, which is in Peking. [More…]
If we say that we recognise that the Government of China is in- Peking we are doing no more -.hari acknowledging the reality of. [More…]
the situation in China. [More…]
China is in Peking. [More…]
The laws of China are made by that Government and all authority within China is exercised by it. [More…]
claimed by the Australian Government that the Government in Formosa- led by the octogenarian immigrant from mainland China - is. [More…]
the Government of the whole of China, but it is in effect the present policy of the Australian Government. [More…]
By continuing to insist that the seat occupied by China in the United Nations be occupied by representatives of the Taiwan regime, and that the permanent seat on the Security Council of the United Nations be occupied by representatives of the Taiwan regime, the Australian Government is recognising the claim made by Chiang Kai-shek and his elderly supporters in Taipei that he is the government of the whole of China. [More…]
It is not an indication of an opinion one might hold about China that one recognises the Peking Government as the effective government of that country. [More…]
Among the nations which recognise the Peking Government are a great many countries whose policies bear little resemblance to the policies of China. [More…]
In fact, in many instances they are very antagonistic to the policies of China. [More…]
Among the Commonwealth countries which recognise the Peking Government, the government of the People’s Republic of China, are Canada, Ceylon, ‘ Ghana, India, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Pakistan,- Tanzania, the United Kingdom and Zambia. [More…]
Most of them have, very little political or ideological affinity with the Government of China but they accord it recognition. ‘ [More…]
refer to some of the statements made about China. [More…]
I find it extraordinary that the Government which at present conscripts young Australians to fight in Vietnam in a war that is no business whatsoever of the Australian people and which engages in the butchery in Vietnam, has the audacity to say that China does not live up to our high standards. [More…]
What are the allegations made against China? [More…]
I believe that the history of China and the present Chinese Government shows that it has lived up to what it has said. [More…]
The only countries into which China has sent its forces are India, and North Korea when it was invited to do so by the Governments of those countries. [More…]
China issued a clear warning to the United States that if American forces crossed the Yalu River and thus threatened China it would send its forces to North Korea, and it did so. [More…]
For many years the western powers had recognised China’s claim that Tibet is a province of China, Whatever the present government in Peking has done in Tibet is no different to what preceding Chinese governments have done and what the government of Chiang Kai-shek himself would do if he were in power. [More…]
The other occasion when Chinese forces have been outside China was when they were in India as a result of the complex dispute about the McMahon Line. [More…]
In the past year there has been considerable research by scholars into what took place in the armed dispute between China and India several years ago concerning the north eastern frontier of India. [More…]
Whatever may be said about that situation, whoever was right or wrong on the issue, if China is an aggressive nation - which it is alleged to be - one can only wonder why it was content with merely occupying the limited areas which it claimed during the dispute. [More…]
All it took were those areas which were in dispute, areas which had been recognised by governments of the United Kingdom in the 19th century as being part of China. [More…]
The policy of the present Australian Government on the recognition of China is not based on any realities of the situation. [More…]
The Australian Government knows that when it wants to sell wheat, wool or rolled steel to China it is not going to see anybody in Taipei. [More…]
The Australian Government knows very well where China is. [More…]
Sometimes the Government will call it Communist China. [More…]
When Government supporters are at the South Kew Liberal Party Women’s Branch they will refer to China as Communist China or possibly Red China. [More…]
When they are talking about wheat or wool they will call it mainland China. [More…]
Now, with a touch of the French, it has become continental China. [More…]
But whatever it is called the Government knows precisely where China is. [More…]
China is a place which appears on the map. [More…]
This is the only reason the Government has had for refusing to recognise the government of China. [More…]
We are in an absurd situation where we find that at the present time countries in Asia which it has been claimed have suffered so terribly from the menace of Communist China, recognise China. [More…]
Pakistan, Ceylon and Indonesia have recognised and have diplomatic relations with China as have Afghanistan and Nepal, whose esteemed ruler will be visiting us tomorrow. [More…]
King of Nepal as being in any way a Red yet he recognises the government in Peking as being the government of China and his country is proud to send ambassadors to represent him in Peking and receive ambassadors from Peking in his capital. [More…]
We are precluded from taking part in discussions concerning our interests in South East Asia which could lead to peace in this area in which we are vitally concerned because we refuse to talk and negotiate with China. [More…]
It is not China which is suffering because of this. [More…]
China constitutes one-quarter of the world’s population. [More…]
For that reason I commend to the Senate the resolution moved by Senator Turnbull that it is in the best interests of Australia that we should immediately recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate whether the Government of Communist China has yet accorded full diplomatic recognition with mutual exchange of envoys at ambassador level to the Government of Great Britain? [More…]
If China has so recognised Great Britain, will the Minister advise the date of such recognition? [More…]
I remind the honourable senator that matters associated with diplomatic recognition of Communist China were debated fully last week in this chamber and in another place. [More…]
I reserve to the Minister for Foreign Affairs the opportunity to be precise about diplomatic recognition of Great Britain by China and the implementation of that recognition. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate noted that a United States presidential commission yesterday recommended that the People’s Republic of China be admitted to the United Nations? [More…]
Was the Australian Government then responsible for leaking that information so that Green Beret methods would be used to eliminate Francis James, or alternatively, was the information supplied to agents of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation or the United States Central Intelligence Agency in the People’s Republic of China in order to ensure that Francis James would be detained indefinitely in that country? [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Parliament of details of factual evidence that Francis James, the Australian journalist, was detained or is still being detained by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
What action would be taken by the Government if the Australian ping pong team which is at present visiting China were refused permission to leave the country at the termination of its visit? [More…]
Can honourable senators imagine what would happen if a number of students in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or Red China entered the office of an administrator or a leader in the Government and performed as these people did? [More…]
There were some funny aspects of our visit We had secret meetings and we were all told to rush about and contact as many people as we could to persuade them to vote against China’s admission. [More…]
I said: ‘But, Mr Ambassador, you do not expect me to do that, do you, because I have been around to try to get them to vote for China.’ [More…]
The Government is now worrying about relations with China. [More…]
Our young people hear from the DLP in election campaigns that we are likely to be invaded by China. [More…]
When an election is over no more is said about imminent invasion by China and the daily, or almost hourly, onslaught by television of the terrible things that could happen ceases. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he has read an article in today’s Melbourne ‘Age’ referring to Dr Jackson, the President of the Australian Table Tennis Association, who says that he has been profoundly moved by his expert?ences in China, where he has found that the people have been friendly and warm, and everyone is well fed, and that be is convinced that China does not intend any aggression. [More…]
So impressed is Dr Jackson with what he has seen that he intends to take 2 months off from his practice in Adelaide to write and lecture in Australia about China. [More…]
Does the Government intend to do anything at all to relieve the tension between our country and China which has had a disastrous effect on our rural industries, particularly on our wheat exports? [More…]
Now we do not mind playing ping pong with China. [More…]
I believe it is a good thing that Australians have been meeting with Chinese and I would have no objection to the People’s Republic of China sending a team to play ping pong against Australia. [More…]
Canada, which has a much more liberal policy, may take them, but in other cases they go over the border to Communist China which gets the advantage of their services. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate whether the Government of Communist China has yet accorded full diplomatic recognition with mutual exchange of envoys at ambassador level to the Government of Great Britain? [More…]
If China has so recognised Great Britain, will the Minister advise the date of such recognition. [More…]
The Governments of the United Kingdom and of the People’s Republic of China have recognised each other since 1950, and offices headed by Charges d’Affaires are maintained in the respective capitals. [More…]
Has he, as a member of Cabinet, read, or does he know of, the proposed statement to be made by the Minister for Trade and Industry, who is the Deputy Prime Minister, on exports now to be permitted to be sent to mainland China or, as my friends in the corner delight in telling us, Communist China? [More…]
Does he agree with me that such exports are the main component parts for arms and munitions which China has been and will now no doubt continue to send to the North Vietnamese forces to wound or kill Australians who are forced to fight in Vietnam? [More…]
How do the Government and its supporters in the corner reconcile their conscience to their oft repeated statements that Australia should not be a party to exporting to China materials to be used in the manufacture of arms and ammunitions which are used, I repeat, to kill Australians in the undeclared war in Vietnam? [More…]
Does the Minister still expect the Government to get the blind support of the Australian Democratic Labor Party irrespective of the decision to supply such exports to China? [More…]
If so, will he tell me what hold the Government has on those who strongly oppose, by their voices, such exports to China, but yet blindly, by their votes, support the action of the Government in sending to China iron, steel and chemicals for the manufacture of arms and munitions with which to kill or maim Australian soldiers? [More…]
Turning to the subject matter of the question, there is a list of strategic materials which nations do not supply to mainland China. [More…]
I would not know whether the honourable member mentioned by the honourable senator would be going to China, and if he were going to China I would not know in what capacity he would go unless it was as a private citizen. [More…]
There have been several reports from varied sources which have referred to the large grain crop in Mainland China and, as a consequence, the likely reduced demand for wheat from that country. [More…]
I would comment only that if China needs to import wheat there are factors in Australia’s favour. [More…]
In addition the quality of Australian wheat shipped to China has been very acceptable to the buyers, while the terms and conditions of sale have also met their requirements. [More…]
Has the Minister been advised of a resolution carried at the weekend conference of the South Australian Young Liberal movement supporting Australia’s diplomatic recognition of Communist China and support for Communist China’s application for admission to the United Nations? [More…]
Further, has the Minister studied the statement made by Mr W. R. Crocker, a retired Government servant who has held the position of Australian Ambassador to 11 countries over the past 13 years, that Australia should establish normal diplomatic relations with Communist China? [More…]
In view of that statement by such an enlightened diplomat, supported by a resolution of the politically biased Young Liberals of South Australia, will the Government reconsider its attitude to recognition of and diplomatic relationship with Communist China? [More…]
With regard to the Government’s attitude, Parliament was assured in the first statement on foreign affairs made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Bury, that the Government had noted the trend in matters affecting, firstly, the admission of Mainland China to the United Nations and, secondly, recognition of that country. [More…]
The type of pig that might be wanted in Japan or China would not be the type of pig that would be wanted if we could have access to the European Common Market. [More…]
One of the things that was discussed in this chamber in recent weeks and which is raised here in discussing this Bill is the relationship of Australia with the People’s Republic of China, particularly the promotion of our primary exports to that country and the breakdown in relations and the export of primary products to that country. [More…]
Our Institute will welcome an Australian Labor Party delegation to China in mid-June or the latter part of June for discussions on questions concerning the relations between the two countries. [More…]
To this end, please cable our Institute the names of the delegation members, their passport numbers, the date of departure and the route to China. [More…]
One can say that Russia and China are Communist countries, although 1 understand that they have different sorts or brands of Communism. [More…]
I do not think that any honourable senator is prepared at this time to say whether wc will have recognised China by 1974. [More…]
If, under the clause that I have read, the Americans consider China to be a Communist country and one to which these aircraft should not fly, they can say to Qantas: ‘Here is the bargain. [More…]
Using these aircraft, you cannot fly from any part of Australia to China’. [More…]
In private conversation he has the quite remarkable gift of being able to get through to the kernel of an argument In the early 1950s he travelled to China with Albert Monk and Frank Chamberlain. [More…]
It was indicated by Mr Bury, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in his first statement on foreign affairs early in April, that international opinion with regard to mainland China was changing and that this Government had been keeping under review and constantly studying in view of diplomatic exchanges from time to time, the effect of that change of opinion. [More…]
In view of the well known and unfortunate instances of visitors to mainland China, even those whose views were known to be favourable to the country, being held incommunicado for long periods without any justifiable reason being made known, can any action be taken by the Federal Government, through any diplomatic channels, to ensure the safe return to Australia of the Leader of the Australian Labour Party, Mr Whitlam, and his party at the end of their proposed visit to China? [More…]
I refer to the statement made by Mr C. J. Perrett, the former General Manager of the Australian Wheat Board, at a Legacy luncheon that the Federal Government’s failure to recognise the People’s Republic of China was a barrier to wheat trade with China and that Australia will have an uphill job regaining this trade. [More…]
In view of the Prime Minister’s statement yesterday on the likelihood of the recognition of China by the United Nations and Australia, will the Government commence as early as possible setting diplomatic and economic machinery in motion to recover our previous share of the Chinese wheat market? [More…]
It has access to mainland China and its representatives go there to transact business. [More…]
Those sales, on the last assessment that I read in the Press, roughly equal the sales which had been made previously to Communist China. [More…]
Since I am informed, on credible authority, that large quantities of the wheat sold to Communist China were sold at less than the cost of production, it does not appear to me that the loss of sales to that country is the major trade problem which very many of our commentators seem to think that it is. [More…]
Has the Minister seen recent reports that a Chinese authority has invited an Australian Labor Party delegation to China, stating that this invitation has been extended by the Chinese ‘for discussions on questions concerning the relations between the 2 countries’? [More…]
Abstaining from all references that might disrupt proceedings, Senator Hannan asks me a question that relates to an invitation by a Chinese authority to a Labor delegation to discuss relations between Australia and China, and also refers to Mr Whitlam, the Leader of the Opposition in another place, making some statement about by-passing the Government. [More…]
So far as I understand the situation it is perfectly legitimate, be he a private citizen or a public official, to travel to mainland China and engage in such activities there as he chooses. [More…]
He travelled to China and helped to establish economic, social and cultural relations - [More…]
Minister for Foreign Affairs that Taiwan’s place in the United Nations in the name of China for the past 25 years has been somewhat fictional mean that the Australian Government will now officially support China’s admission to the United Nations? [More…]
Will the Minister request the Minister for Foreign Affairs to facilitate arrangements for Mr Whitlam, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party delegation to Communist China, to meet his counterpart when he is in that country with a view to ascertaining whether his counterpart enjoys the same measure of freedom, liberty, privileges and concessions as Mr Whitlam enjoys as Leader of the Opposition in this Parliament? [More…]
Yes, but I do not know how that action would interfere with Mr Whitlam’s trip to China and with those members of the Labor Party who happen to be abroad. [More…]
What I have suggested will not affect Mr Whitlam’s proposed visit to China. [More…]
or alternatively, was the information supplied to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation or Central Intelligence Agency agents in the People’s Republic of China in order to ensure that Francis James would be detained indefinitely in that country. [More…]
It is known that Mr Francis James entered the People’s Republic of China from Hong Kong in October 1969. [More…]
It is known that Mr Jamesthen visited China and that he travelled from Canton to the Hong Kong border by train on 4th November 1969. [More…]
He informed an Australian passenger during that journey that he believed he might have difficulties leaving the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The British Government has, at the request of the Australian Government, made 5 formal written requests, and 1 oral request, to the Foreign Ministry in Peking, asking about Mr James’s whereabouts, but has received no acknowledgement, or confirmation or denial of his presence in China. [More…]
The Government has received no report to suggest that Mr James is at liberty, in China or elsewhere. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry whether he can provide details of trade during the past 12 months between Australia and the Peoples Republic of China? [More…]
I assume that the honourable senator is seeking a breakdown of exports to the Peoples Republic of China, specified by items, during the 12 months ended June 1971, and also details of Australia’s imports from that country during the same period. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry and has particular reference to those honourable senators who claim that Taiwan-Australia interests should be submerged for those of Red China and Australia in the recognition of Red China. [More…]
Is it a fact that the United States Ambassador in Taiwan has publicly predicted that Taiwan’s international trade volume may be equal ‘ to or in excess of that of Mainland China in 2 or 3 years’ time? [More…]
Is it a fact that, taking 1968 as a base year, Taiwan increased its international trade 33 per cent last year and by 23.9 per cent in 1969 while Mainland China increased its trade by 6.3 per cent in 1969 and S.8 per cent last year? [More…]
Can the Minister give similar figures for the volumes and growth rates of trade between Taiwan and Australia and Red China and Australia? [More…]
I understand that die United States Ambassador to the Republic of China said, when addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, that the Republic of China’s total trade volume may be equal to, or larger than, that of the People’s Republic of China within 2 or 3 years. [More…]
The Republic of China’s international trade increased by 34 per cent (exports by 33 per cent, imports by 35 per cent) from 1968 to 1969. [More…]
Trade statistics are not published by the People’s Republic of China and can be obtained only on a derived basis from statistics reported by other countries. [More…]
Some countries do not report trade statistics with the People’s Republic of China and therefore total People’s Republic of China trade can only be an estimate. [More…]
However, allowing for these assumptions, it would appear that the People’s Republic of China’s total trade increased by approximately 7 .per cent in 1969 compared with 1968. [More…]
Australia’s trade with the Republic of China increased by 29 per cent in 1969 (exports by 26 per cent, imports by 37 per cent) and by 27 per cent in 1970 (exports by 24 per cent, imports by 33 per cent). [More…]
Australia’s trade with the People’s Republic of China increased by 29 per cent in 1969 ‘(exports by 34 per cent, imports by 14 per cent) and by 7 per cent in 1970 (exports by 8 per cent, imports by 3 per cent). [More…]
As requested by Senator Cant in a later question on 17th May, I asked the Minister for a list of goods on which trade is restricted with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The products remaining under export control for the People’s Republic of China will now be the same as those under export control for the European Communist countries, excluding Yugoslavia. [More…]
Further, I have obtained the following trade statistics of Australia’s trade with the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China for the interest of senators. [More…]
One can imagine them boasting about some demonstration by one of their unions against the recognition of China; for the continuation of the Vietnam war; or in favour of the Springbok tour or if we believe the sentiments of Senator Gair, in favour of apartheid itself. [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…]
In the Prime Minister’s statement on the future of the Australian forces in Vietnam are repeated the same old untruths which we have been hearing for the past 6 years - the same weak, implausible explanations for the presence of young Australian conscripts in the unhappy countries of Indo-China. [More…]
When the President of the United States decided to go to China to pay court to Chairman Mao in order to salvage the few vestiges of American interests still left in that part of the world following the results of the United States’ absurd foreign policy, did the President give any consideration to the embarrassing situation in which he placed his loyal ally, the Prime Minister of Australia? [More…]
Did he pay any heed to the situation which existed in Australia at that time after the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) had been to China? [More…]
If Senator Hannan is suggesting that the Leader of the Opposition sold out Australia by going to China I suggest that he carefully read the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and ask for assistance on any parts he cannot understand. [More…]
Here was the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr McMahon) accusing the Leader of the Opposition, with words he has now dropped but which Senator Hannan still remembers, of selling out Australia by going to China. [More…]
President Nixon, the President of the United States himself, is to go off to China, his arrangements made for him by none other than Dr Kissinger, regarded as probably the most eminent - or, if ‘eminent’ is not the word, the most persuasive and well-informed - adviser to the United States Government. [More…]
The United States thinks it is in its interests to have an agreement with the Government of China and it will have an agreement with the Government of China, whether it is in the interests of Australia or not. [More…]
The United States Government consults with China without telling us a word about it. [More…]
The Prime Minister described certain dreadful things and referred to China, whose aims and policies in the area were causing great concern. [More…]
In view of the Australian Labor Party’s great concern to ensure that parliamentary elections are held in the countries of South East Asia, especially South Vietnam, I ask the Minister: What was the date on which the election was held which resulted in the appointment of Chou En-lai as Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
You, Mr President, the Leader of the Government in the Senate and the Leader of the Opposition will have been acquainted with the fact that the Australian Democratic Labor Party has given notice of its intention to move an urgency motion on 8th September in respect of Australia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China. [More…]
If such is the case, we would not proceed with our urgency motion relating to China on the scheduled date of 8th September. [More…]
The United States President is about to journey to Peking to do some hard bargaining with Communist China. [More…]
Whatever emerges from the dialogue between the United States and Communist China its shadow has already been cast over Asia. [More…]
Has loading of the boat been refused by the Barley Board as the master lacks a letter of credit for barley to nationalist China? [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware of the latest gallup poll which shows that 56 per cent of Australians are in favour of recognition of Peking as the legitimate government of China? [More…]
Will the Government accept this poll as evidence of the desire of a majority of Australians for the Government formally to recognise Peking’s legitimacy as the Government of China? [More…]
He was able to go to the China beloved of capitalists - Formosa. [More…]
If I may continue, the criticism made against Labor’s trip to China was shocking, lt was suggested that we were creating all sorts of problems by sending a delegation to China, but this is the greatest thing that has ever happened for Australia. [More…]
At the Liberal Party Conference in Tasmania the Prime Minister had a speech prepared and was ready to go in and castigate the Labor Party for its initiative in establishing contacts in the People’s Republic of China, but he found as he was about to enter the place that Mr Nixon had already arranged to go to China. [More…]
On the 17th August Senator Sim askedthe Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry whether he could provide details of trade during the past 12 months between Australia and the People’s Republic of China, including if possible, in those details the recent purchase of merino rams. [More…]
In mid-June, 1971 the Soviet Union advised the other four nuclear weapon states - the United States, Britain, France and the People’s Republic of China - that it ‘proposed to convene at the earliest time a conference of the Five Powers possessing nuclear weapons.’ [More…]
On 30th July, the People’s Republic of China issued a statement that it would at no time agree to participate in nuclear disarmament talks which did not include all countries of the world. [More…]
It called on the United States and the Soviet Union to issue undertakings, as China had repeatedly done, not to be the first to use nuclear weapons, and also to withdraw all nuclear arms resources to their own territories as a preliminary gesture. [More…]
We should not wait until some other country has won the markets, as happened when Canada got a big slice of wheat sales to China.- 1 believe that this Government should follow the example set by the Australian Labor Party when lt sent a delegation to China. [More…]
I am very confident, although the Government is not, that wheat sales will result from that delegation’s visit to China. [More…]
Nobody would expect that we will get wheat sales this year because China has already purchased its requirements for the current year. [More…]
It has purchased ample supplies from Canada, which adopted a different attitude to that of Australia so far as the recognition of China is concerned. [More…]
Has the Government decided yet what position it will take in the coming session of the United Nations General Assembly on the question of the seating of the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly and on the Security Council, and the continued membership of the Taipeh Government in the United Nations? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Wheat Board has made sales of wheat to Egypt and other Middle East countries amounting to some 2 million tons, which has more than compensated for the reduction in sales of wheat to mainland China this year? [More…]
It is true to say that shipments of wheat to mainland China were at the rate of about 2 million tons annually. [More…]
In fact, over the years about one-third of Australia’s export wheat has gone to Mainland China. [More…]
Last year the AWC endeavoured to sell a large quantity of wool to China and, I understand, to some eastern European countries in response to tentative offers made by agents acting on behalf of those countries. [More…]
Was the People’s Republic of China represented at the meeting. [More…]
If the People’s Republic of China was not at the meeting and that country decides to select its own frequencies, what effect will this have on the decisions arrived at in Geneva. [More…]
A decision by the People’s Republic of China to use a frequency other than that prescribed by a World Administrative Radio Conference would have no effect on the decision itself since such decisions can only be changed by another World Administrative Radio Conference. [More…]
In a practical situation it could be that if the People’s Republic of China did not use the recommended frequency band, interference could result to the radio communication services of other countries. [More…]
Conversely, similar interference could also result to radio communication services of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It should be noted that when the People’s Republic of China launched its first satellite on the 24th April, 1970, the frequency, used was within the band allocated to the standard frequency service in which space research services are permitted to operate. [More…]
First he pointed out that Australia at present lives in circumstances that are comparatively new to it in the matter of defence with the disappearance of the British presence from this area, with the impending withdrawal of United States forces from South East Asia and, of course, with the shock of President Nixon’s reversal of previous American attitudes towards China. [More…]
I refer to Mainland China and Russia. [More…]
1 do not want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but I must say that I have been Leader of the Government in the Senate for a long time now and I never have questions directed to me to elicit criticism of elections held in Mainland China or Russia, behind the Iron Curtain. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Does the Government expect the People’s Republic of China to be admitted to the United Nations Organisation and to be seated in the Security Council? [More…]
Will the Government consider the possibility of arranging a parliamentary delegation to China in order to. [More…]
This is important because at this moment similar treatment is being urged for Mainland China. [More…]
After the liberation of lndo-China, Burma will fall into line as a good foundation has already been laid there. [More…]
The Chinese were being most aggressive and we need only recall China’s activities in India and Tibet. [More…]
When national defence is concerned the Opposition’s policy is this: Hands off the Communists whether they be from Russia, China or anywhere else because they do not represent a threat to us. [More…]
May I say that the present Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was waltzing around this country when he was busily castigating the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) as having been played in China like a trout, I think was the word that he used. [More…]
I suggest that if members of the Country Party have got up to their ears in their involvement in the Vietnam war because they wanted to sell their beef and wheat - it should be remembered that they were selling their wheat to China until they lost the market - they ought to develop a proper attitude to defence and not give Australian blood for trade with any country. [More…]
It is an area dominated by the enormous armed might, conventional and nuclear, of Communist China. [More…]
As the United States withdraws militarily from Asia and Britain pulls out its forces, this area will lack a balance of power to offset China. [More…]
We will just let our country go to hell; let it be here for the taking, whether by China, Indonesia, Japan or Russia’. [More…]
The second matter negotiated was not really an agreement as much as a final declaration - an unsigned declaration - of the Geneva Conference, the parties to which were representatives of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, Laos, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Vietnam - I point out to honourable senators that South Vietnam was not recognised in the declaration - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]
It had arrows pointing dowm from China and said that C;ina was the big boy. [More…]
1 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that the Leader of the Opposition in another place, when recently visiting mainland China, returned information to Australia that the Government of that country would welcome and would be encouraged to learn of a change of government in Australia. [More…]
Perhaps this would cover an invasion of China by Russia. [More…]
From Senator Little’s interjections I take it that he would be in favour of our intervening in a war between Russia and China. [More…]
They said that there was a threat of world wide Communist expansion and that both the Soviet Union and Communist China - Red China as they called it when they were not talking about wheat sales - were determined to conquer this country. [More…]
Firstly they had taken over in Russia and then, by some strange process, they had taken over in China. [More…]
Here we were faced with this menace, but we were allied with the United States of America steadfastly opposed to Communism - a country which would never talk to Chou En-lai or Mao Tsetung; a country which would never recognise Communist China; a country which, with every fibre of its being, would oppose the admission of Communist China to the United Nations. [More…]
It is that the conflict has now extended from Vietnam into Cambodia and has been intensified in Laos, and a war that once could have been described as the Vietnam war is now referred to by most people as the Indo-China war because it would be quite inaccurate to talk about it as the Vietnam war; it is the Indo-China war. [More…]
There are not free elections in China. [More…]
What it said was: ‘We are different from the Communists in China, North Vietnam and those places. [More…]
We have not sent troops to North Vietnam and we have not sent troops to China in order to carry out some wild claim that we would preserve democracy. [More…]
When the President of the United States announced his intention of going to the People’s Republic of China, did he inform his loyal little ally, the Prime Minister of Australia, that he intended to do so? [More…]
Did he even give sufficient warning to the Prime Minister of Australia that he intended to go to the People’s Republic of China in order to stop the Prime Minister from making a fool of himself when he attacked the visit to China of the Leader of the Opposition? [More…]
They have come to the conclusion now that they cannot knock over the North Vietnamese and whether people like it or not, China is where it is and that is where it is going to stay. [More…]
Slowly but surely and reluctantly they are getting out and at the same time, with some hesitation and with a farewell wave to their old friends in Taipei they are putting forward propositions that Red China, now always respectfully referred to as the People’s Republic of China, become a member not only of the United Nations General Assembly but also of the Security Council. [More…]
1 speak of American policy because probably the major part of the propaganda for Australia’s involvement in Vietnam - in Indo-China - was because of our American alliance, whatever that is or may be. [More…]
Whether we like the form of government they are adopting or whether we do not like the form of government they are adopting, the people of Indonesia, Indo-China, Malaysia, India, Pakistan - both east and west - are going to choose their own form of government in the same way as the people of China have chosen their form of government. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Australian Government for many years has contended that there is only one lawful government of all China? [More…]
Is it a fact that this day the United Nations has overwhelmingly recognised the People’s Republic of China as the one lawful government of all China? [More…]
Will the Government now cease its foolish course of claiming that the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Taiwan is the one lawful government of all China, including mainland China, and will it give immediate recognition to the People’s Republic of China as the lawful government of China? [More…]
Further, I ask the Minister: As China is now to become a member of the community of nations, will the Government as a member of that community ensure that Australiansited bases are not used to spy on another friendly member country? [More…]
But I will say that BHP has to our knowledge been engaged in trading transactions with the People’s Republic of China to advantage. [More…]
With regard to that aspect of the honourable senator’s question relating to the Government’s initiative, it is well known that this Government has been taking purposeful initiatives over many months now with the object of establishing diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
China, [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise been drawn to the fact that samples of fabric have been imported into Australia from Mainland China which purport to be, and are labelled so as to lead a purchaser to believe that they are woollen piece goods when in truth the material contains no wool whatsoever and is manufactured from 100 per cent man made fibre? [More…]
If so, would it not be justice to apply this principle to the membership of Taiwan and Red China instead of the unworthy, despicable decision to expel a country which has done nothing to deserve such a fate? [More…]
The implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]
The 2 decisions to which I refer are, firstly, the decision of the British Parliament, through the House of Lords and the House of Commons, by an overwhelming majority to enter the European Economic Community and, secondly, the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to admit the People’s Republic of China as a member nation of the United Nations, to seat it on the Security Council and to expel the Republic of China - that is, Taiwanese China - from the world body. [More…]
The second important event was the decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly. [More…]
Singapore knows that if the Communists should break through from the Indo-China peninsula into Malaysia they will break through into Singapore. [More…]
The same position could well develop in South East Asia if China, for example, having a minority ethnic group available to it in some of the countries to our north, as a protecting power tried to subvert any one of these countries by the stimulation of the minority movements in any of them and that country became an accommodating power to China, or to any other nation not friendly to Australia. [More…]
Perhaps the relevance of this is that there may be some stimulation of this type of activity not merely with the takeover by a power hostile to Australia but also with the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations which gives that nation an aura of international respectability to which smaller nations may, and probably will, respond. [More…]
They will give to Mainland China an accommodation which might provide all these opportunities which otherwise could be provided only by armed control or by national hegemony over the smaller power. [More…]
That is one of the dangers that I see implicit in the international recognition of the People’s Republic of China as we saw it in the United Nations the other day. [More…]
The Prime Minister stated that Australia had moved away from the theories of containment of China and active hostility towards Communism. [More…]
It has been suggested that the People’s Republic of China can pose no military threat in this area because, although that nation now possesses nuclear capacity, it has no strike force which could provide a delivery stystem [More…]
It was said of Mainland China that she had no strike capacity, but in the last fortnight it has been publicly announced that China has a strike capacity of up to 1,000 miles. [More…]
Mainland China therefore now has the capacity to deliver nuclear warheads to countries within a range of 1,000 miles of her launching bases. [More…]
Another threat developing in this area is connected with the admission of Mainland China to the United Nations and with Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]
Mainland China is not withdrawing. [More…]
I refer to the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and to the decision of the United Nations to admit the People’s Republic of China and to allow it a seat in the Security Council. [More…]
With that background I want to come to the context of the matter of urgency motion, which says that the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community and the vote taken in the United Nations on Communist China’s admission to that body are linked to the defence of Australia. [More…]
The first concerns Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the second concerns the implications of the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations. [More…]
I turn now to that second element, namely, the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Albanian resolution brought the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations with a seat on the Security Council and led to the simultaneous expulsion of the Republic of China which- [More…]
Inherent in that resolution was not only the entry of Mainland China but also the expulsion of Taiwan. [More…]
The true position is that the Albanian resolution provided for the expulsion of the Republic of China on Taiwan, but Taiwan’s representatives walked out before that resolution was passed. [More…]
I wish to let it be known that the Austraiian Government voted with 34 other nations against the expulsion of the Republic of China. [More…]
I emphasise that Australia made its position clear: It supported the entry of the People’s Republic of China - that is, Mainland China - to the General Assembly and the Security Council. [More…]
The point that I wish to bring out is that this dual representation draft resolution affirmed the right of representation of the People’s Republic of China, recommended that the PRC be seated as one of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council and affirmed the continuing right of representation of the Republic of China - Taiwan. [More…]
On 21st October 1971, in addressing the United Nations General Assembly, the Australian representative, Sir Laurence Mclntyre, noted that the great majority of representatives supported the representation of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Following what 1 am bound to admit has been an abridged summary of the events in the United Nations, we can reflect upon the second part of the matter of public importance proposed by Senator Byrne and say that we hope that when it takes its seat in the General Assembly and in the Security Council, Mainland China will adopt constructive and moderate policies and positions. [More…]
The entry of Mainland China into the United Nations will remove it from its isolated position and will bring it into much closer contact with the community of nations, particularly those which arc members of the United Nations. [More…]
But from what I saw of the statement, it indeed reflected the views that the Prime Minister and the Government have expressed, not as late as yesterday but over the whole period of the last 6 to 8 months during which this question of the proposed entry of Mainland China into the United Nations has arisen and has been under constant examination. [More…]
It is true that, in the Security Council, the People’s Republic of China will have the power of veto. [More…]
So, Mainland China’s seat on the Security Council is not something which gives it great power in isolation. [More…]
The General Assembly, in which the People’s Republic of China will have a place also, has the power of recommendation only. [More…]
The entry of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations will not in any way affect the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]
I want to make a point about what I believe is a judgment implicit in the subject of this urgency discussion; that is that the entry of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations is going to prejudice our defence. [More…]
As Australians we are sad and sorry that we failed to retain the place of the Republic of China, Taiwan, in the United Nations while at the same time we supported the admittance of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Australia’s view always was that there should be a place in the United Nations for the Republic of China. [More…]
The Government welcomed President Nixon’s announcement that he would visit the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It has been our stated hope that the People’s Republic of China will come to play a more constructive role in this region. [More…]
We hope that the People’s Republic of China will come into the group of nations as distinct from being isolated from them as it has been in the past; that it will play a more constructive role in the region than it has in the past; and that its admission to the United Nations will advance prospects for a peaceful settlement of the problems of the Asian and Pacific region. [More…]
I am prepared to accept in respect of the second part of the topic of discussion that the entry of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations will bring home to the Chinese all the responsibilities of membership of that body. [More…]
The Minister said that the Government now desires, and always has desired, peaceful and friendly relations with the People’s Republic of China; that it welcomes China’s admission to the United Nations, where it will learn of th? [More…]
high responsibilities which we and other countries apparently have learnt there; and that it is quite delighted that the People’s Republic has been admitted to the United Nations although it is a pity that the Government’s old friends in Taiwan, the so-called Republic of China, are no longer members. [More…]
This statement in itself would be quite acceptable were it not a complete reversal of everything that the Government has been saying for the past 20 years, a reversal of the points it has made consistently in support of its election programmes for the past 20 years, lt seems to me only the other day - it cannot be very much longer - that we were being shown maps with red arrows leading from China to Australia. [More…]
We were told that th: first duty of all Australians was to resist this menace from the north and that the ultimate proof of the treasonable intent of members of the Australian Labor Party was that they argued that there should b: recognition of the Government of Pekina, and admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, lt was not more than a few months ago that we were told about the domino theory. [More…]
We were told that the dominoes, the countries between China and Australia, were falling over or being pushed over by China, our enemy, and that it was threatening this country. [More…]
Indeed, young Australians are still being killed and maimed in Vietnam and young Australians are still killing and maiming people in Vietnam in pursuit of the Government’s policies which have been based, so we have been told, on the threat of China to this country. [More…]
It realises now that China is here, that it is not going to go away, however hard the Govern men may wish that it would go away, and that it is firmly and securely within the United Nations. [More…]
Whatever that means remains a mystery to me despite Senator Byrne’s efforts of explanation - and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]
On the one hand there is the conspiracy of Great Britain and the European Economic Community to join together, and on the other hand there is the conspiracy of the United Nations to admit the People’s Republic of China and to expel the Government of the Republic of China which is based in Taipeh. [More…]
I shall now go on to the other aspect of the conspiratorial situation in which according to the Democratic Labor Party we find ourselves and that is the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly and on the Security Council and to expel the so-called Republic of Taiwan. [More…]
Lest it be said that this is only the view of some dissident groups I think it should be noted who were among the 76 countries which voted for the admission of China and the expulsion of Taiwan from the United Nations. [More…]
I certainly do not intend to name all the countries but it is rather interesting to find the following Western countries - most of which are regarded as being strongly anti-Communist - among the 76 countries which voted for China’s admission and Taiwan’s expulsion. [More…]
Senator Byrne quoted various unnamed luminaries in Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere who spoke about the very real threat they felt from the downward thrust of Communist China, the perturbation that they felt about the presence of battleships from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other aspects of the international Communist conspiracy. [More…]
They were Afghanistan; Bhutan which has a common border with the People’s Republic of China; Burma, which also borders China and which has had considerable negotiations with China, about the settlement of border problems; Ceylon, India and Laos. [More…]
It voted for the expulsion of Taiwan and the admission of China, as did Malaysia where Senator Byrne was told about the dreadful threat of Communism from the north. [More…]
Other countries which voted for the resolution were Nepal which is another country which borders China; Pakistan and Singapore, another country which we have been told has been threatened. [More…]
All these countries voted for the admission of China and the expulsion of the Taipeh Government. [More…]
When one looks at the 35 nations which voted against the expulsion of the Taipeh Government and the admission of China, one finds Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti - a great democracy - Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. [More…]
Those countries are almost completely dependent for their arms and the maintenance of their government upon American aid through the mis-named Alliance for Progress, lt is rather interesting to find that the threat of Communist China is felt so clearly in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Paraguay and Bolivia - where a new crowd of colonels has just taken over - but not felt in Singapore, Malaysia and Nepal. [More…]
The decision of the United Nations General Assembly was that the Government in Peking was the government of China and the Government in Taipeh was not the government of China. [More…]
The Government in Taipeh claimed to be the government for the whole of China. [More…]
It claimed precisely the same territorial boundaries as those claimed by the Government in Peking - the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The United Nations was called upon to decide which government was the government of China. [More…]
It said that the Government in Peking was the Government of China, not the Government in Taipeh. [More…]
Reluctantly and belatedly after SOO Australian deaths in Vietnam the Australian Government came to the conclusion that it had to recognise that the Government in Peking was at least the government on the mainland of China. [More…]
But still it refused to recognise the simple point that there could not be 2 governments of China. [More…]
In the sight of China, the awakened giant, taking up its role in the world. [More…]
When Senator Wheeldon tries to equate the votes of Singapore and Malaysia in the United Nations to the fact that they really do not fear subversion inspired from the People’s Republic of China, I wish to say to him only that perhaps he should go and speak to the leaders of the countries of South East Asia - and go with his ears open, his eyes open and his mind open - because he will find that each of those countries expressed grave concern at the continued subversion, the continued terrorism being practised in their territory by Communist terrorists. [More…]
The significance of the United Kingdom decision is that we now see being created in Europe a huge world ‘force, a new super power - indeed, it might be said, a power capable of exercising enormous economic, political and, if need be, military power in the world, lt will be a power equal to, if not greater than, that of the United States, of the Soviet Union, of the People’s Republic China, if it seeks to be a super power, and of Japan. [More…]
The matter of urgency refers to the implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]
Since 1955 the Australian Labor Party has advocated the recognition by all countries of the People’s Republic of China, lt has taken all these years before that recognition has come about. [More…]
Explicit in the definition of the principal part of the matter of urgency is the British decision to enter the European Economic Community, the decision of the United Nations to allow the People’s Republic of China to take its place in the General Assembly and in the Security Council and the expulsion of the Republic of China from the United Nations. [More…]
Equally, it should be noted that the United States has security treaties with Japan, the Philippines and the Republic of China, in addition to the ANZUS Treaty. [More…]
After the United Nations vote on the admission of the People’s Republic of China to that body, Secretary of State Rogers said: [More…]
The Republic of China continues to be a respected and valued member of the international community and the ties between us remain unaffected by the action of the United Nations. [More…]
I suppose that it is easy for us to stand aside and criticise small countries on the fringe of China, a great and powerful country. [More…]
Perhaps the world will settle down because of China’s participation in the family of nations. [More…]
This should be everybody’s hope, but it will happen only if China is a member of the family, behaves like a member of the family and stops subverting the democratic people who live on its southern borders. [More…]
Quite conceivably the world should in this area fear not an invasion of Australia but a major clash between Communist Russia and Communist China. [More…]
He seems to have no objection or word of criticism because Communist China and Communist Russia have nuclear weapons. [More…]
My leader, Senator Gair, went on a television programme the other night and pointed out the necessity for it, with 2 major powers armed to the teeth as Russia and China are in the Pacific area. [More…]
I agree with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) who expressed the hopes of us all about what the admission of mainland China to the United Nations may do for China. [More…]
Yes, it is true that the flag of free China was on a table in the Parliamentary Dining Room tonight. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party senators invited the Ambassador of free China and his wife to dinner. [More…]
If honourable senators do not believe me they should believe Professor Arndt, a former member of the Australian Labor Party, who said that Communist China might want to buy but does not have the international funds to pay. [More…]
We regret that Israel was one of those countries which, perhaps was prompted by the same hopes as were expressed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate tonight that mainland China would desert the policies that she has practised towards her neighbours up to date, would accept the responsibility of being a member of the family of nations and would not use its position against the democratic world but would come more closely towards a democratic way of life. [More…]
What was the other inference that my statesman friend, Senator Byrne, drew from the admission of mainland China to the United Nations? [More…]
As Senator Little pointed out, there are people in this Senate who cry aloud about the peaceful intentions of the Soviet Union and Red China. [More…]
On the other hand, with regard to Red China, the Tibetans, the Indians and some others also would not believe them. [More…]
The other factor in the discussion in this matter of public importance is the seating of Red China in the United Nations. [More…]
I took note that Senator Wheeldon said that the choice was simply as to which Chinese government - the Red Chinese Government on the mainland or the Republic of China Government on Formosa - would be preferred. [More…]
which throws a dark shadow over the general pleasure that has been aroused by China’s taking its rightful place in the world. [More…]
The Taiwanese invited trouble in the UN by insisting that they were the only true and lawful representatives of China. [More…]
This made it difficult to seat two Chinas in the Assembly. [More…]
I suggest it is a very loose proposal because it refers to the implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and also raises the subject of the entry of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations. [More…]
I refer to the agreement to admit the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations and related matters. [More…]
We have said for many, many years that the Government has been lax in not supporting the claims by Communist China to enter the United Nations. [More…]
Rather vaguely every Government speaker tonight has said that he realises that Communist China had to be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
Yet persistently, throughout the years that Prince Souvanna Phouma, a Social Democrat, has been in power in Laos, he has maintained that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
As Senator Wheeldon pointed out earlier, Laos is one of the countries to which we are giving aid although it has spasmodically had a very turbulent military experience, lt voted in favour of China’s admission to the United Nations. [More…]
I found that most people wanted to reach some accommodation with Communist China. [More…]
Nobody can say that either China or the Soviet Union has given up the Leninist idea of world revolution but experience has clearly shown that both countries are pragmatic enough to accept agreements that they reach with major countries. [More…]
We hope that China’s experience will mean that it will not take any overt action and that its presence in the United Nations will bring a new peaceful era to the world. [More…]
It is my opinion, however much honourable senators lament the fact, that Taiwan is only a province of China. [More…]
At no time has it had any substantial claim to be the main government of China. [More…]
I accept that Taiwan will reach an accommodation with China in the not distant future. [More…]
It is my opinion that in a short time - 5 to 10 years - Taipeh will make the same sort of accommodation with China as the United States has made. [More…]
If we are realists we should try to reach the same sort of arrangements with China and use these arrangements to further peace and not war. [More…]
It seeks to examine the implications to the defence and security of Australia of 2 epoch making events - the potential entry of Britain into the European Economic Community and the entry of Mainland China into the United Nations. [More…]
Against that background we have a situation of another great emergence - the emergence of China into the public sector of the nations. [More…]
Let nobody think that the emergence of China on the public scene is being accepted with unadulterated glee by the great super powers of this world. [More…]
The fact is that the emergence of China has created in Japan the greatest turbulence in postwar Japanese history. [More…]
The same situation applies to Russia in relation to these matters, because Australia is geographically situated under an arc of 4 great powers - America, Russia, Japan and China. [More…]
Japan is an offshore island system of Russia and is close to China. [More…]
I hope that China will come forward with bona fides in this world. [More…]
It has been said by the Opposition speakers - the earlier speakers in particular - that the Government has changed its views and suddenly discovered that China ought to be welcome into the United Nations and that China has been wanting to do this but has been blocked. [More…]
History shows that China did not strive, over the great majority of those years, to enter the United Nations. [More…]
In welcoming China to the United Nations I still urge this Parliament and our people to put on inquiry all motives of all nations that are now yeasting in their approach to this problem. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed in 1949. [More…]
In 19S1 the United Nations was passing resolutions in the General Assembly condemning China for aggression in Korea. [More…]
Some 2 months ago Mr Whitlam said to Chou En-lai: ‘Is it possible that if an Australian Labor Party Prime Minister had visited China 20 years ago all the destruction and slaughter in Vietnam could have been avoided?’ [More…]
If he had visited China at that time he would have visited a country which was at war with the United Nations, and let no-one forget it. [More…]
In 1951 China had fully occupied Tibet. [More…]
In 1956 mainland China occupied large sections of Burma. [More…]
They are the people of countries south of Japan and south of China - the Filipinos, the Thais, the Malays, and people right through Indonesia and south to Australia. [More…]
I hope that we will not do what we did in the 1930s - have sudden waves of optimism and sudden waves of pessimism - but will maintain a cautious hope that China may move into the adulthood of nations and into a peaceful role in this world. [More…]
For that reason I was pleased to listen to the contribution by Senator Carrick who welcomed these 2 great events - the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community and the entry of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations - because he indicated that here was represented the greatest hope for peace. [More…]
The entry of China into the family of nations, as it was referred to, in my view represents another great step forward. [More…]
What attempts has Australia made to sell wool in China? [More…]
Much of China is in a pretty cold zone. [More…]
I do not have the detailed information with me, but for a long time Australia has enjoyed a quite substantial trade with China in many commodities. [More…]
I had figures up to about 6 months ago which showed, on a basis of 5-year intervals, the pattern of trade between Australia and China. [More…]
one of the realities is that the Republic of China is and has since the beginning of the organisation been a loyal and responsible member. [More…]
Other countries, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, are spending mammoth amounts of money to provide defence forces, lt would be an act of utter stupidity if Australia, which is in an unstable part of. [More…]
This committee has not yet sat in regard to the People’s Republic of China and whether or not any dues have been paid is unknown. [More…]
I just wish to say that when the Republic of China - Taiwan - was the subject of a levy, an intermediate basis was fixed for that government, having regard to its claims to represent the whole of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. [More…]
Has the Minister seen reports that a delegation from the Australian Wheat Board recently returned to Australia from China after attending the Canton Trade Fair? [More…]
Is it a fact that such a delegation was invited by the China National Cereals and Oilseeds and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation? [More…]
I have seen a report relating to the return from the People’s Republic of China of a delegation from the Australian Wheat Board.I read that the delegation attended the Canton Fair at the invitation of the Cereals Corporation. [More…]
I point out to the honourable senator that the Government and particularly the Minister for Primary Industry have contended all along that the delay in sales of wheat to China is probably due to commercial factors. [More…]
There is evidence of a large grain crop in China and of a satisfactory position in stocks of cereals in that country. [More…]
I am dealing with China at the moment. [More…]
wheat growers would like to see sales made to China very shortly. [More…]
Which nations that voted for or against the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Organisation, and the expulsion of Taiwan, were financial members of the United Nations at the time of the vote. [More…]
The recent decision of the United Nations General Assembly dealt with the representation of China. [More…]
If so, would it not be justice to apply this principle to the membership of Taiwan and Red China instead of the unworthy, despicable decision to expel a country which has done nothing to deserve such a fate? [More…]
The terms of General Assembly Resolution 2758 (XXVI) emphatically rejected such a solution in the case of China, and I think it is fair to say that an arrangement along the Soviet lines is at present not acceptable either to the People’s Republic of China or to the Republic of China (Taiwan). [More…]
In view of consistent reports of potential markets for Australian produce in China, what endeavours have been made or are contemplated by the Department of Trade and Industry to assess such market potential, particularly for dairy produce and dried fruits, which are affected by the loss of British markets7 [More…]
This list is set out in the Departmental Publication, ‘Guide to the MarketPeople’s Republic of China (PRC)’, recently prepared for the information of Australian businessmen. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Prime Minister able to confirm that Mainland China has recently conducted nuclear tests? [More…]
As the People’s Republic of China is now to become a member of the United Nations Organisation, will the Government ensure that Australia is not used for the purpose of spying on another friendly country. [More…]
In his view the People’s Republic of China, or Red China as he calls it, stands for everything that is abhorrent. [More…]
1 do noi share his views about China; but let us stick to the point. [More…]
until 939 A.D., what is now North Vietnam was in fact a province of southern China. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in another place toured China not long ago. [More…]
It is interesting to note, as I point out for the benefit of the Opposition, that the average worker in China earns approximately 12c for each hour of the day he works. [More…]
I would hate to see the bull in a china shop attitude towards financial direction which would prevail if honourable senators opposite were on the treasury bench. [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 impor lance to us, such as: The British entry into 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…]
I emphasised the need to take full account of Japan in the emerging balance between the United States, China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]
As the Australian Wheal Board delegation recently returned empty handed front China, does the Government yet recognise that improved diplomatic relations with Peking could go a long way towards restoring China as a major market and obviate the need for injections of public money into the wheat industry? [More…]
Will it be on the basis that a person of European descent seeking to come to Australia and a person from Malaysia, China or the Philippines seeking to come to Australia shall be treated as equals or will there be a preference for people of European descent, as the Government has stated and for which the Government must take responsibility - and we are taking responsibility for it - or is it on some other basis? [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, when he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs some 11 months ago, describe the decision of the Italian Government to recognise the People’s Republic of China as unfortunate. [More…]
Does the Government’s decision to cosponsor the resolution seeking the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Organisation mean that the Government has changed its attitude towards China, or has pressure been applied on the Australian Government by the United States of America to support their current policy towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Government’s views on this have been stated on a number of occasions andI have made it clear that it is our long term objective to normalise our bilaceral relations with the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
This and other Government decisions on China policy, which have been made clear in public statements by myself and other members of the Government, have reflected changes in the international situation. [More…]
Does the Government expect the People’s Republic of China to be admitted into the United Nations Organisation and to be seated in the Security Council. [More…]
Will the Government consider the possibility of arranging a Parliamentary delegation to China in order to establish friendly ties and to facilitate Australian trade with the most heavily populated country in the world. [More…]
The honourable senator will be aware that, since he placed his question on the notice paper, the United Nations General Assembly decided on 25th October that the People’s Republic of China should be seated in the General Assembly and in the Security Council. [More…]
Have talks been held in certain European capitals between representatives of Australia and the People’s Republic of China on the matter of Australian recognition of China. [More…]
Did Australia retrain from voting on the issue of admittance of the People’s Republic of China and the exclusion of the Republic of China at the meeting last week of the International Civil Aviation Organization. [More…]
lt is true that talks have been held in certain European capitals on the matter of normalisation of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Council, taking into account the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25lh October 1971, “Restoration of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations”, whereby the representatives of the People’s Republic of China were recognised as the only lawful representatives of China in the United Nations, recalling Resolution 396 (v) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 5th Regular session on 14th December 1950, recommending that …’.- altitude adopted by the General Assembly” on the question of the representation of a member state “should be taken into account in other organs of the United Nations and in the specialised agencies” [More…]
decides, for the matters within its competence to recognise the representatives of the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the only legitimate representatives of China to the International Civil Aviation Organization, and [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs the following question: In view of the historic decision taken at the 26th session of the United Nations General Assembly to admit the People’s Republic of China and now the momentous visit by [More…]
President Nixon to the People’s Republic of China for the purpose of normalising relations between the 2 countries- [More…]
It will be within the honourable senator’s knowledge, and it has been made public, that the Government has been in conversation with representatives of the People’s Republic of China in several European capitals, advancing the cause of normalising relations between our 2 countries. [More…]
I refer to my previous question asked of the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs, Is it not true that last year the Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, stated publicly that the dialogue between representatives of the People’s Republic of China and Australia had been broken off? [More…]
4 Overseas Market Division which will handle trade with all countries with centrally planned economies including the People’s Republic of China (PRC). [More…]
The Department recently prepared a comprehensive publication Guide to the Market - People’s Republic of China’ which is freely available to the public. [More…]
The answer to the second part of the honourable senator’s question is that the Australian Ambassador to the Republic of China was in Australia in December and January for leave and consultations, and returned to his post on 13th February. [More…]
I think also it is even more incorrect to look on the problems which have to be resolved if we are to have peaceful relations with our neighbours in the Indian Ocean as being solely the result of the intervention of major powers, whether they be Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
Mr President, I take the debate on (he tabling of this report as the opportunity for submitting that if we are lo survive with any respect from our neighbours and if we are to retain any reasonable relations with our neighbours we must show that we are just as concerned as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China appear to be about the interests of the great ‘ masses of people in this area who have suffered tremendous oppression througho.it the centuries and who continue to suffer oppression. [More…]
resolved by talking about building new naval bases, by complaining about a few Russian trawlers wandering around Mauritius or by wondering what China is going to do next. [More…]
lt is interesting to note - I will conclude by making some observations about this matter - that Australia has again been placed in a ludicrous position as a result of the present visit to China by President Nixon because, although I have already said that 1 believe the problems of the Indian Ocean area will be in the main resolved by the people who live in that area, there cannot be any doubt but that the relationships between the major powers are going to play a very important role. [More…]
While on the one hand the Pope is offering prayers for the success of President Nixon’s visit to Peking and, at the other extreme, both India and the Soviet Union are expressing concern about the possibility of a new alliance between China and the United States of America, we can get no intelligible statement whatsoever from this Government apart from the usual old anti-Communist claptrap it has been serving up for about 25 years that everything which is going on is the part of some Red plot. [More…]
1 hope that in Russia and China we will see not permanent enemies but permanent friends. [More…]
Several months ugo the Deputy Premier of China, Lin Piao, the heir apparent to the leadership of some 800 million people, disappeared. [More…]
The test of that totality of dictatorship is that the leader of China did not think it necessary to offer any explanation to the world or to the people of China on the disappearance of Lin Piao. [More…]
I think it is important, with all the goodwill in the world, that we recognise the nature of the powers involved in this part of the world, particularly as China is building its own military presence. [More…]
Lest members of the Opposition feel that I am seeking aggression, that I am seeking to put aggressive tags on either Russia or China, may I refer to the thoughts of the Labor Party as set out in its little blue book entitled ‘Australian Labor Party - Platform, Constitution and Rules’. [More…]
North Vietnam are under the influence of China. [More…]
That would mean that we would be subject to the veto of Russia and China as to how we should dispose our forces. [More…]
It is of importance to the Russians and, prospectively, to China. [More…]
Her presence is an attempt to spread her political, economic and military influence In the region at the expense of the United Slates, Britain and Communist China. [More…]
The report goes on to note the possibility that, after United States and British withdrawals, countries and areas in the regions may turn more towards Russia and/or Communist China than towards Australia which today they consider to be only good friends but economically and militarily stronger than themselves. [More…]
The Committee has examined in some detail great power involvement and interests in the Indian Ocean region - specifically, the role and interests of Britain, the United States, Japan, China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
A little time ago, of course, when India was being attacked by China it ran screaming to the United States for assislance. [More…]
Our future enemy will not be China and it will not be Russia: it will probably be Japan. [More…]
Senate, in debating the situation in the Indian Ocean region, were merely to look at.it from the point of view of the interests of various major powers and were to consider only what will happen as a result of Britain’s withdrawal, what will happen as a result of the Soviet allegedly coming and what the United States or China might do in this part of the world. [More…]
Clearly the closest ally to India in the conflict with Pakistan was the Soviet Union, and clearly the closest ally of Pakistan in the conflict with India was the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is interesting also that the first visit overseas by the President of Pakistan, Dr Bhutto, since the conflict was to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We now find that India is even much more closely aligned with the Soviet Union than it was before the conflict took place, and the Government of Pakistan, although now exercising authority only over what was formerly West Pakistan, is much more closely allied with China than it was before this conflict took place. [More…]
Whatever assistance was given by the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China to the differing parties iri the India-Pakistan conflict, I do not think that anybody, not even the most hysterical anti-Communist, could say that either the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China was responsible for what happened. [More…]
I commend to the Senate the table from ‘Jane’s Fighting Ships’ and I commend, incidentally, a study of other countries, including the growing navy of mainland China. [More…]
The proposition that Senator Carrick is putting forward is that we have to perpetuate this fanaticism which is getting the world into so much trouble, namely, that whatever the philosophy of these countries - the Soviet Union, China, North Vietnam, [More…]
If we examine the situation closely, we see that the frictions and wars which are taking place and which have taken place over the last 20 or 30 years have been justified by the American strategy or policy that if the Americans were able to create sufficient strength and power they could cause an undermining of the governments of the Soviet Union, China and various other countries scattered throughout the world. [More…]
There was just as much manipulation to involve the United Nations in Korea as there was to try to obtain a vote against the admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations. [More…]
The same applies to China. [More…]
There are some who thought, until President Nixon showed the way, that it was unthinkable that one should have the kind of relations that now exist between the United States of America and China. [More…]
The curtailment, as far as possible, of the influence of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Russia, as one of 2 or 3 super powers, is in competition with some other super powers, notably with the United States, Japan and China. [More…]
China. [More…]
After all the Russians are in the Indian Ocean only for the purpose of encircling China. [More…]
They are there solely for the purpose of posing a continuous threat to China. [More…]
It is their presence which made China agree to the present visit to China of President Nixon. [More…]
As I said the other night, the potential enemy to Australia is not Russia, which is not interested in this region, nor China, which has never had an interest in this region. [More…]
The only people who have benefited from saying that China has an interest in Australia are the supporters of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
It has been their espousing of the claim that China has an interest in Australia which has kept that Government in office. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that Ministers would get up one after the other and say that those who disagreed with them did not know what they were saying about China and the domino theory, but today one does not hear any Ministers mentioning these matters. [More…]
Japan will expand because it realises that its main competitor for power in the east is China and that if China becomes a nuclear nation Japan will also have to become a nuclear nation. [More…]
The Government is looking at China as if it is the country which is going to attack Australia when everybody else knows it should be looking at Japan. [More…]
I wish to conclude my remarks by saying that I still maintain that it does not matter two hoots how many Russians are present in the Indian Ocean because they are there only as a threat to China and that the Government should be looking at the real threat further to the east, that is, Japan. [More…]
One would not draw that conclusion if one were to examine the speeches of Senator Carrick and Senator Drake-Brockman; one would imagine that the USSR and the People’s Republic of China have gone into that area in defiance of the views of the nations in the region. [More…]
If these countries can normalise relations with the Soviet Union I think it would be an act of statesmanship if our Prime Minister took the same sort of initiative regarding the Soviet Union as President Nixon is taking in his current discussions with the leaders of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
If it is competent to express the view that China and the United States of America can find the means to live in peace, I think that surely in Australia we can adopt a much more mature attitude instead of our normal behavioural pattern. [More…]
In view of the apparent participation of William Burchett in lead up work for the visit to China of President Nixon, docs the Minister have any knowledge of United States suggestions to the Australian Government that it should review Burchett’s lapsed Australian passport? [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs make inquiries to confirm or deny the allegation that the Leader of the Opposition in another place (Mr Whitlam) has clearly an J wilfully misled the people of Australia by claiming that during his discussion with the Premier of Mainland China, Chou En-lai, last year an indication was given that China would join another Geneva conference? [More…]
I believe that we should extend our activities to areas such as China and Japan, set up plants similar to those established in South East Asia and sell our products in those countries. [More…]
We have our responsibilities to it and we are just as concerned to build up trade and to build up peaceful relations with a country like South Africa as with countries such as China and Russia, or anyone else. [More…]
No doubt both Russia and China will be trying to maintain great influence in the area. [More…]
Ecuador knows that whether the other country is the United States, the Soviet Union or Mainland China those countries believe that, irrespective of their big battalions, t’hey need a good image. [More…]
American initiatives last year on China and economic policy caught Australia by surprise and created problems for Canberra. [More…]
The honourable senator should know that there was the closest consultation between the 2 governments about statements relating to President Nixon’s visit to China. [More…]
He spent about 7 years of that time in China and about 5 years in New Guinea. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs noted that following official visits by them to Communist China the following Heads of State were removed from office by their countries: U Nu of Burma, Voroshilov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Nkrumah of Ghana, Sukarno of Indonesia, Amin of Uganda, Sihanouk of [More…]
Unfortunately sales to the People’s Republic of China on which we have been dependent for some years did not eventuate. [More…]
China bought its wheat from Canada and we were left in the unfortunate position of having a large part of what we looked on as foreseeable sales taken from us. [More…]
Fortunately a market for Australian wheat became available in the Arab states which, although they were not prepared to take as much wheat as we would have exported to China, bought sufficient to bring our total exports to 254 million bushels, leaving us with 125 million bushels which so far we have not been able to sell - although that does not mean that we will not be able to get rid of it before the end of the season. [More…]
Senator Wilkinson mentioned that we had lost all wheat sales to the People’s Republic of China, but I remind the Senate that China bought some of our 1970-71 crop. [More…]
Figures which are available to me reveal that the United Kingdom was the biggest purchaser of Australian wheat, having bought wheat to the value of about $8lm; that the People’s Republic of China bought wheat to the value of $57m; that the United Arab Republic, which has taken some of the wheat which formerly we would have expected to sell to the People’s Republic of China, bought wheat to the value of $56m; that Japan bought Australian wheat to the value of $40m, in round figures; and that Iraq purchased our wheat to the value of $22m. [More…]
The other matter with which I want to deal briefly is the reference to the potential markets which are supposed to exist in Mainland China. [More…]
It would be foolish to believe that because certain changes are taking place in the international field there will naturally be a reversion to the former situation and we will sell more wheat to Mainland China, or even a reversion to the time when we made sales to Mainland China out of a few Australian crops. [More…]
Actually, when we sold wheat to Mainland China we sold it under completely different world marketing circumstances. [More…]
At that time the United States of America which had huge wheat surpluses- refused to sell to Mainland China. [More…]
Because America was not in the market to sell to Mainland China one of the most virile competitors, as far as Australian wheat sales were concerned, was removed. [More…]
This enhanced our prospects of meeting the emergency situation which forced Mainland China to buy wheat from us, and we cashed in. [More…]
One of the greatest mistakes Australian producers could possibly make at this time is to think that because of a realignment of international feeling towards Mainland China there will naturally be a burst of buying of Australian primary products, whether it be wheat or anything else. [More…]
I suggest that anybody who doubts what I say should study the figures of the imbalance of international trade which we have had in recent years with Mainland China compared to the very favourable trade balance which we have enjoyed with Taiwan. [More…]
Certainly Taiwan is a much smaller country in terms of population but in terms of international trade Taiwan trades much more, freely with the rest of the world than does Mainland China, which does not intend’ to trade with any country if it can possibly avoid doing so. [More…]
Obviously it is the intention of Mainland China to be self-supporting as far as possible and not to buy internationally any more than it is forced to. [More…]
I sound that warning because I feel that it is much better for Australia to seek the broader markets of the world and to sell smaller quantities to a greater number of countries, than to become committed to supplying huge quantities to a particularly shaky market which could possibly exist in any primary production trading with Mainland China. [More…]
We sounded it when, for several years, the purchase of wheat by Mainland China was inordinately high and when the wheat acreage of this country was expanded out of all proportion to meet that market. [More…]
The reason 1 mention those figures is because wheat sales to China have been mentioned today. [More…]
For a long time China did play an important part in the disposal of the Australian wheat crop. [More…]
There has been a lot of comment about why we lost those China sales. [More…]
I think that we have to be logical in our approach to the reason why China has reduced her purchases. [More…]
Today China is aiming for self-sufficiency but she is not yet self-sufficient. [More…]
The important factor which I want to mention is that whereas before we were exporting one-third of our exports to China, this year without any China sales we have had the greatest sales of wheat on record, sales which have amounted to some 394 million bushels. [More…]
I believe that this is significant when we relate it to the situation when the panic buttons were being pressed by some people with regard to the loss of the China sales. [More…]
My remarks will be very brief; but, as the matter of our relationships with China has been related to the subject of wheat, I feel that I should say a few words on this very important matter. [More…]
It has been freely said in our community, particularly in farming circles, that we will be able to sell large quantities of wheat to Communist China provided we take action which some people call ‘recognition’ and for which others use the nicer phrase of ‘normalising relations’. [More…]
In those days we were able to sell huge quantities of wheat to Communist China because one of our biggest potential competitors was not in the field. [More…]
In those days the United States had huge surpluses, was restricting production and on ideological grounds was refusing to sell wheat to Communist China. [More…]
1 can remember statements appearing in the Press in the middle of 1960s to the effect that in the United States there were certain pressures to get rid of its wheat surplus by throwing wheat on the market and making it available to Communist China, if necessary. [More…]
We have to face the situation that if we recognise Communist China the United States is about to do the same and in those circumstances is a potential competitor. [More…]
In those circumstances I hope that the Australian farmer, whatever he thinks about Communist China, will not fall for the joke that we only have to perform the 3 ceremonial kow-tows in Peking and China will write out a cheque for millions of dollars for our wheat. [More…]
The United States has made it quite clear, following the Nixon visit to the People’s Republic of China, that it has no intention of abandoning its military arrangements in South East Asia and the Pacific. [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…]
As the Department of Defence review points out, its strength in the Pacific Ocean is vast but American resources are not unlimited and the United States Administration has set conditions for its assumption of further responsibilities 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 with 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 3 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 Soviet - nor on the unannounced expansion of the land, maritime and nuclear forces of China. [More…]
(1) Has the Government any information as to whether Lin Pao, the former Deputy Premier of the People’s Republic of China, is alive or dead? [More…]
Republic of China or other countries which have been arrested in the same waters? [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…]
For example, there are the notes of the meeting of 2nd and 3rd October 1971 which deal with such matters as President Nixon’s announcement of his projected visit to China, the world power situation, the basis of new policy orientations in China and the United States and various other strategic matters of foreign policy, including policy submissions, defence policy, foreign policy and the industrial situation, which covers such things as the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress. [More…]
Other topics included the age and paucity of Cabinet material, arbitration, amalgamations, the South African tour, China policy and various other matters dealing with the ALP and the DLP. [More…]
and (2) In speaking to the press in Tokyo on 12th October I recalled that during the past 10 years a pattern had developed whereby China, to supplement its domestic wheat production, purchased hard wheat from Canada and soft wheat from Australia. [More…]
I noted that in 1971 China had very good harvests and did not need any soft wheat but I expressed the expectation that when they needed our wheat again they would buy it because, in practice, we had found that they did not mix politics with trade. [More…]
In the same interview I pointed out that the 2 countries who sold the most to China - Japan and West Germany - did not have diplomatic relations with it. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs make inquiries to confirm or otherwise the allegation that the Leader of the Opposition in another place (Mr Whitlam) has clearly and wilfully misled the people of Australia by claiming that during his discussion with the Premier of Mainland China, Chou En-lai, last year an indication was given that China would join another Geneva Conference. [More…]
Malta also had discussions with China. [More…]
Malta obtained a better deal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation powers and, on top of that, gained a bonus from continental China. [More…]
Whatever plans the Government tries to evolve for the wheat growers, honourable senators know as well as I do that Canada got the inside running as far as trade with China in wheat is concerned. [More…]
Now that President Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China has concluded, will a full statement regarding the visit be made to the Parliament; if so, when can this statement be expected. [More…]
I expect it to include some reference to President Nixon’s visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Does the Government intend to establish a full diplomatic post in Hong Kong as a prelude to normalising relations with the People’s Republic of China; if so, is the Minister aware that the Department of Foreign Affairs has in its employ only one fully-trained Chinese specialist and has decided to dispense with Chinese speaking staff in its China section. [More…]
The Department has not decided to dispense with Chinese speaking staff in the section dealing with China; the present China Desk officer has a fluent knowledge of the Chinese language. [More…]
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I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is it a fact that, since the Government reviewed the list of exports on the strategic list last June, steel scrap, tin plate, pig iron and aluminium alloys to the value of $20m have been exported to China from Australia? [More…]
If this is a fact, does it mean that the Australian Government no longer considers China a threat to Australia’s security? [More…]
Red China is not at all slow in finding markets in these places for all kinds of consumer goods. [More…]
Red China, Japan and Russia will be contenders in this sphere of influence. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, on 8th May, called on the Soviet Union to join Britain in re-convening the Geneva conference which, in 1954, ended the Indo-China war and of which Britain and the Soviet Union were co-chairmen? [More…]
Is it further a fact that Britain, on 12th May, made a direct approach to the People’s Republic of China in Peking to help in reconvening that conference? [More…]
If these are facts, has there been any response by the Soviet Union or the People’s Republic of China to this earnest attempt by Britain to bring about a just peace in Vietnam? [More…]
At the moment I have no information upon which I could make a statement about the reference to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
That the Senate discuss the loss of wheat sales to China as a result of the attitude of the Government. [More…]
They related to the loss of wheat sales to the People’s Republic of China - referred to by the Government as Communist China in the political context but as Continental China in the context of trade. [More…]
At the last count I think the population of the People’s Republic of China was over 800 million. [More…]
One of the countries was Ireland, another was the People’s Republic of China, and there were 14 others. [More…]
The country that attracted most attention at that time was, of course, the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The government of the day never lost an opportunity to say to us: ‘You are wanting to recognise the People’s Republic of China’. [More…]
We had to live from 1955 until the last session of the United Nations to see the People’s Republic of China take its place in that body. [More…]
I suppose that it is an irony of the universe that next to India is the greatest country in the world, in terms of population - China - which adheres to a communist system of government. [More…]
As I say, in 1955 when we in the Australian Labor Party said that all nations should be admitted to the United Nations and mentioned the People’s Republic of China we handed to our opponents a stick with which to beat us over the head. [More…]
Before that we divided up Ireland and Korea; China divided up itself; and we divided up Vietnam. [More…]
I say that as a background to the more specific point I put in my motion - I again emphasise that it was framed 12 months ago - involving the whole question of wheat sales to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Australia would have been in trouble with regard to wheat a long time ago if it had not been for its wheat sales to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Mr Maisey, who is now a member of Parliament - the honourable member for Moore - was one of the first members of the Wheat Board to suggest selling wheat to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
At that time I remember all kinds of debates raging about whether the sale was moral, whether we should sell the wheat, whether we should not sell the wheat, whether the People’s Republic of China was importing wheat and reselling it, or whether it was holding the imported wheat and selling its rice to other countries to flood the rice bowl in Burma, Vietnam and Thailand and so again use the trade-politico situation which, as I mentioned, the Democratic Labor Party has underlined from time to time. [More…]
Questions asked mainly by members of the Liberal Party, have been trying to point out that the situation was not as I have stated it and that the fact that Canada had recognised the People’s Republic of China had nothing to do with the fact that China was buying wheat from Canada and not from Australia. [More…]
It is undoubtedly true that during the last 18 months to 2 years China has been in a strong position because it has had good seasons. [More…]
That does not alter the fact that at the same time it has had to import wheat and has moved to the Canadian prairies rather than to Australia because Canada had recognised China. [More…]
Canada came to an agreement with China, getting over the difficulties of Taiwan, which made both sides reasonably happy to sign a document on this level. [More…]
That leaves unanswered the question whether, if we had recognised the People’s Republic of China at the same time as the Canadians did, the extra imports that China needed in spite of its good seasons would have been divided equally, mathematically or by some other formula between our sister dominion Canada and ourselves. [More…]
Things have moved a long way since the days when the Labor Party was beaten over the head by the Liberal Government because we advocated the recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
As I understand the position, under certain circumstances the Liberals will talk turkey or chow mein, whatever the appropriate word is, with the Chinese on whether Australia should recognise China, at the same time keeping open all kinds of options. [More…]
World opinion has finally pushed the Liberals into a situation in which they are willing to have discussions with Mao Tse-tung and his people to decide whether they will recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In my view, if we recognise the People’s Republic of China, there is no doubt that there will be a resurgence of trade with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
When we start doing a deal, if I can use those capitalistic words, with the People’s Republic of China, we will be doing a deal with a country which has the largest population in the world. [More…]
The recognition of the People’s Republic of China has not developed, although we had a lot of utterances about it. [More…]
Is the McMahon Government still maintaining an international stance that there is only one lawful government of all China, including mainland China? [More…]
Does it still recognise the Chiang Kai-shek regime as the only government of all China? [More…]
Does it still refuse to recognise in any way the People’s Republic of China as being the lawful government of any part of China? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and concerns recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Australian Government in its recent ministerial statement on foreign affairs indicated its willingness to approach the matter of recognition of the People’s Republic of China on the same criteria as have been invariably applied to recognition by and between nations? [More…]
It will be recalled that in the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which I read to the Senate on the 9th of this month, it was said that Australia’s position was that we were willing to recognise the People’s Republic of China and exchange diplomatic representatives in accordance with normal international practice. [More…]
The statement then went on to say that certain conditions were stipulated by the People’s Republic of China, one of which was that we should acknowledge it as the sole legal government of China and as having sovereignty over Taiwan. [More…]
Is it a fact that the staff of the Department of Foreign Affairs, China section, has dropped from five to two over the last 2 months? [More…]
In view of the importance of improving our relations with China, if we are to regain the loss of exports, particularly of wheat, does the Minister regard the situation as being critical? [More…]
What action does the Minister intend taking to ensure that the staff of the Department’s China Section is restored to at least its previous strength? [More…]
The China/Korea Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs is normally staffed by six officers. [More…]
My Department is fully conscious of the need to ensure that the China/Korea Section is fully staffed. [More…]
As both Russia, a traditional, if ill-informed, critic, and China were members of the 6-man committee, is this report a remarkable commendation of the Federal Government’s handling of its Trust responsibilities? [More…]
So we have as a classic example the case not only of Russia but also that of China. [More…]
1 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it a fact that the People’s Republic of China has conducted at least 14 atmospheric nuclear tests? [More…]
So far as we know China has carried out 14 nuclear tests. [More…]
Since the Government reviewed the list of exports on the strategic list last June have sales of steel scrap, tinplate, pig iron, and aluminium alloys, to the value of $20m been exported to the People’s Republic of China from Australia; if so, does the Government no longer consider that China is a threat to Australian security. [More…]
The Bureau of Census and Statistics has provided the following preliminary figures of exports of the goods in question to the People’s Republic of China during the period 1st July 1971 to 31st March 1972: [More…]
Has the Postmaster-General seen a report that the New Zealand Government is making arrangements for a telephone link to be made between New Zealand and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
What telephone link exists between Australia and the People’s Republic of China; if none, what arrangements are being made for such a link. [More…]
At the time that this question was placed on the Notice Paper negotiations between the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and the telecommunications authorities in the People’s Republic of China to establish a telephone service between Australia and the People’s Republic of China were just being concluded. [More…]
A service by 2 alternative routes was established on 1st June 1972, the same date on which a single route service was established between New Zealand and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs recall his statement yesterday welcoming advice as to any statement made by the Australian Labor Party calling on China to refrain from nuclear testing? [More…]
-I said yesterday that 1 had no information whatever on any Labor spokesman or parliamentarian cri ticising China for its conduct of nuclear tests. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article by Mr Whitlam in the Sydney Morning Herald’ of today’s date on the subject of China and Japan in which Mr Whitlam urges that Australia give gratuitous advice to Japan to abandon the 15 million people of Taiwan? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the countries of South East Asia, conscious of the desire of small nations to survive and remain free, have rejected the course of agreeing to recognise China by paying the price of sacrificing the sovereignty of Taiwan? [More…]
Will honourable senators forgive me this remark and not think that I am partisan on this matter, but I wish that something could be done to stop the drug traffic from countries such as China and Burma and similar areas of the world, whence the great flood of narcotics comes at this moment. [More…]
This morning at question time I answered questions by Senator Wriedt and Senator Murphy concerning the expression by any representative of the Australian Labor Party of its point of view in opposition to nuclear tests by Mainland China. [More…]
Senator Murphy has since drawn my attention to 3 or 4 such instances in the records of this Parliament and I wish to direct them to the attention of honourable senators in fairness to the Opposition and to withdraw any inference that could be drawn from my remarks that the Opposition had not expressed its disapproval of nuclear tests specifically in relation to Mainland China. [More…]
When, and in what manner, have protests been made by the Commonwealth against nuclear tests or proposed nuclear tests by (a) France, and (b) China? [More…]
I refer to the explosion a few days ago of a Chinese nuclear device causing a spread of radioactivity outside the territory of China. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said in relation to his visit to Mainland China that he had discussed 3 matters on which there were basic disagreements between the Chinese Government and the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
What is the Government’s reaction to the assurance given by the People’s Republic of China to the Canadian Government that Canada can count on China as a long term customer for wheat? [More…]
If so, how does this huge trade figure compare with the amount that the Australian Government’s refusal to recognise China has cost the wheat farmers of Australia? [More…]
An assurance similar to that mentioned by the honourable senator was given in July last year by China to Canada. [More…]
They do not represent a significant departure from established practice on the part of China. [More…]
For the past few years China has negotiated first with Canada and later with other suppliers to which it turned for additional requirements. [More…]
A delegation visited China late last year. [More…]
It was the view which the Government took when invitations were extended to basketball teams from Taiwan and table tennis teams from China. [More…]
The ‘Canberra Times’ of 22nd August published a scathing indictment of certain government policies, criticised ‘Australian Foreign Policy’, a Liberal publication, 1972 edition, and then made reference to Australia’s nonrecognition of China and its effect on our wheat exports. [More…]
Also is the Minister aware that 3 companies making vitreous china - R. Fowler Limited, Doulton Potteries Pty Limited and Armitage Ware Limited - each made similar price rises on the same day on 3 occasions since early last year resulting in price increases in these articles of approximately 36 per cent in that time? [More…]
Is it a fact that Government officials believe that Australia’s chances of re-entering the Chinese wheat market could be destroyed by a domestic shortage and the Government’s failure to recognise the People’s Republic of China, and that China is now prepared to buy Australia’s wheat despite past political differences? [More…]
Also, is it a fact that Australia has no wheat to sell and that officials are worried that by the time stocks become available China will have bought elsewhere? [More…]
I believe that rural production in China in recent times has not been as good as in past years. [More…]
Therefore it is quite likely that China will be forced on the world market to purchase more wheat and then Australia stands a good chance of selling wheat to that country. [More…]
But I say that the sale of wheat to China is not a consideration at all as far as politics are concerned. [More…]
In fact,I am reminded as I hear the interjection, that the Australian Labor Party is seeking to make a great feature out of the fact that it would go so far as to sacrifice friends in the Pacific - Taiwan and others - to obtain recognition from the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Was the application by Bangladesh, a newly independent country, to join the United Nations organisation vetoed by the People’s Republic of China, a nation which the Australian Labor Party is anxious to recognise unconditionally? [More…]
Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of any representations or protests from the Australian Labor Party against the action of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
For reasons which I should think would be fairly clear to most students of this situation, the People’s Republic of China did enter its first veto on the question whether Bangladesh should be admitted to membership of the United Nations. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) blamed the Australian Labor Party because Canada recognised China diplomatically. [More…]
I do not follow his reasoning but he said it was the responsibility of the Labor movement that China did not place its wheat order with Australia. [More…]
Yet we of the Labor movement since 1951 have been advocating recognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Why has this Government not sent one of its senior Ministers to China to conduct negotiations for diplomatic recognition? [More…]
Had the present Commonwealth Government not been using the communist bogey as an election issue year after year and created bad relations with Communist China, as it termed that country in those days- [More…]
With wheat sales to China in mind, can the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate whether Australia’s foreign policy has in any way inhibited the success of our international trading? [More…]
What happens in the Soviet Union or in China ought not to be held up as an example. [More…]
Has the Government any information as to whether Lin Piao, former Deputy Premier of the People’s Republic of China, is alive or dead. [More…]
and (2)In the absence of any authoritative statement from the Government of the People’s Republic of China, it is not possible to say with certainty whether Lin Piao is dead or how he might have died. [More…]
I point out to him that the other day in relation to a similar question on the sale of wheat to China I said that the Chinese were very shrewd businessmen and that they would buy in the world market when they were ready to buy and when prices, freight rates and all other things were right. [More…]
I also indicated to the Senate at that time that I had been informed that China was having a bad season in relation to its rice crop, that I believed China would be coming on the world markets for wheat and that I hoped Australia would receive an order for wheat. [More…]
But when governments of the Left such as Communist Russia and China do far worse, there is a great silence and protection the whole time. [More…]
I remember that on one occasion when Senator Gorton, as he then was, was the representative in this chamber of the Minister for Foreign Affairs he drew a very good distinction between the territorial expansions of the super communist powers, China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and those of Romania and Yugoslavia, which he put in a different category. [More…]
Japan and the People’s Republic of China provides further evidence of the failure of this Government’s policy towards the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
In view of this new development, does the Government intend to do anything to lessen its isolation from its neighbours which results from its refusal to recognise the existence of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
The Japanese Government has kept the Australian Government fully informed of the development of its policy towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
we will continue our present policy of seeking the progressive normalisation of bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China, moving at all times with prudent caution and being guided by a careful assessment of Australia’s national interests, including the need to bear in mind the interests and concerns of our friends and neighbours. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether it is a fact that last week the Government of Mainland China placed an order in the United States for $28m worth of wheat. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government of the United States has repeatedly refused to grant diplomatic recognition to the Government of Mainland China? [More…]
Does this order placed by China in the United States rebut the furphy spread by the Australian Labor Party that Red China is refusing lo buy our wheat only because the Australian Government has so far declined to grant China diplomatic recognition? [More…]
As to whether the conclusion he draws should be supported responsibly in the Senate, I prefer that it be the subject of very careful examination because the reasons motivating the trade policies of the People’s Republic of China are apt to be very complex. [More…]
I hear members of his Party time and again in this place asking why we are not trading more with China and why we have not people stationed there making representations on our behalf. [More…]
At this very moment Mr Tanaka is in China. [More…]
The pipes might be made from China’s iron ore. Those people who have been roaming this chamber for a long time screaming that Australia should conduct more trade with China might find that one of the very favourable markets that we have developed in the Pacific is related to the buying of pipes from Japan and that we do not have so much trade for China. [More…]
We lost trade with China because the Prime Minister and other senior Cabinet Ministers decided that we did not need the trade. [More…]
Tonight we heard reference to what .vas said to be the scandal of trade with China. [More…]
All sales to China over the period since the late 1950s have been negotiated by the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
In fact, our colleague in another place, the honourable member for Moore, was one of the members of the Wheat Board who were sent to China by the Board to negotiate the initial sales. [More…]
I just want to say that in this sessional period a number of questions on the matter of wheat sales to China have been directed to me as Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
I pointed out at that time that the prospects of agriculture in China had not been good in recent years. [More…]
China has been buying a high quality wheat from Canada. [More…]
wheat makes the best noodles of any wheat in the world.It is for that reason that I believe China has come to Australia. [More…]
On numerous occasions since then Wheat Board representatives have been to China trying to negotiate sales. [More…]
Some months ago they returned to China and negotiated a sale, but an announcement of it was not made until the Chinese had fixed up everything in the way of shipping freights and dates of delivery. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to an item in this morning’s Press announcing the sale by the Australian Wheat Board of wheat worth $60m to Communist China? [More…]
Does this sale follow the recent sale of wheat worth $28m by the United States of America to Communist China? [More…]
Is it a fact that both Australian and the United States refused diplomatic recognition of Red China? [More…]
Do these 2 sales confirm the statement made by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, that wheat trade with China is independent of diplomatic recognition and rebut the statements of certain political tourists to the contrary? [More…]
It is true also, as I stated in answer to a question from Senator Drury on the same topic, that these sales to Communist China are not dependent on recognition of that country. [More…]
At the time when I answered that question I pointed out that Australia had continued over a long period to make sales of alumina and sugar to China despite the fact that wheat sales to that country were not being made at that time. [More…]
Sales are not dependent on political recognition of China, as has been borne out. [More…]
After the successful sale of wheat to China, what amount of wheat will the Australian Wheat Board have left to sell to other markets? [More…]
Since the Australian Wheat Board clinched the deal with China have any other potential sales of wheat been declined? [More…]
The wheat sold to China, to which the honourable senator referred, will come from the 1972-73 pool or harvest. [More…]
It will be recalled that 2 or 3 days ago Senator Hannan addressed a question to me which referred to sales of wheat by the United States to Communist China. [More…]
He asked for a comment on whether Mainland China governed its commercial international transactions by foreign policy. [More…]
But now we come into the Australian scene where we have maintained consistently the policy that we will seek progressive normalisation of bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China, moving at all times with prudent and careful assessment of Australia’s national interests, including the need to bear in mind the interests and concerns of our friends and neighbours, particularly with regard to South East Asian countries, and of course our relations with Taiwan. [More…]
I think it becomes abundantly clear and a most important fact to remember in the maintenance of Australia’s foreign policy in this respect that we seek a normalisation of foreign relations with Mainland China but not at the expense of our own real interests or those of neighbouring countries. [More…]
It is apparent that commercial considerations will govern trade, rather than the foreign policy of mainland China. [More…]
It is important for me, standing here as Minister representing the Government, to say this because an attempt was made by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party last year to woo the head of mainland China and to seek an adoption by him of Australian Labor Party policy as a means of influencing the Australian electorate. [More…]
My question which refers to the recent sales of wheat to Mainland China is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the concern which has been expressed by Japan and at least one other country which has been a customer for Australian wheat that regular supplies of wheat to them as customers might be interrupted if Australia resumes the large scale sales of wheat to Communist China which occurred some years ago? [More…]
I think the honourable senator would be one of the first to admit that over the years the Australian Wheat Board has done a tremendous job, particularly in the last few years, after cessation of continued sales to Communist China. [More…]
I am not in a position to say categorically the extent of the testing that has been conducted by Mainland China. [More…]
As to the suggestion of Senator Prowse that if protests are to be made in relation to what the French Government is doing, protests should be made in relation to what the Government of Mainland China or other nations are doing. [More…]
Then there are the recent trade agreements negotiated between Japan and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It has been advocated in this chamber that our country should rapidly expand, wherever possible, its trade with other countries with which we have not been trading for a considerable time, such as Mainland China. [More…]
But, as Mainland China was traditionally a source of supply of ore to the Japanese steel industry in the past and as new trade pacts and agreements have now been consummated between those countries in an entirely new approach that we can only expect will expand and broaden there is no guarantee that by the time of the consummation of the contract awarded by the Australian Gas Light Co,, to Japan the iron ore in the pipes will be Australian ore. Japan could not give that guarantee to Australia any more than it could give it to some other supplier. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry refers to reports of considerable concern being expressed in Japan at the resumption of large scale wheat sales by Australia to China and of fears that these sales may mean that supplies may not be available to the Japanese market which has been opened up in the last few years. [More…]
Bearing in mind that the wheat crisis of several years ago was caused by over-emphasis on vast sales to China which were cut off without warning, and also bearing in mind that the wheat crisis was alleviated by diversifying our sales to other countries such as Japan, can we be assured that our wheat authorities will act to keep our new customers, at least as a safety provision. [More…]
I would accept that the Australian Wheat Board would have been considering carefully its old customers, as well as its new customers, at the time of making the sale to China. [More…]
I have not finished because 1 suppose that the greatest implication of the link between the Communist Party and the Labor Party, if one wanted to establish it in this same guilt by association method which Senator James McClelland used, is to point to the Labor Party’s support for communist aggression in Vietnam - the support for the North Vietnamese Government which is backed by Communist China and by the Soviet Union - and to the attitude which would favour victory in South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese against the South Vietnamese, the Loatians, the Cambodians, the Americans and all our allies to our north who have engaged with us in supporting the right of self determination of the South Vietnamese. [More…]
As air travel continues to expand, somebody may attempt to use a violent form of action such as hijacking to travel from mainland China. [More…]
On the one hand, the aircraft could have been hijacked from Chile or from mainland China. [More…]
We have a selling market if we are prepared to face up to the problem that exists, that is if we are prepared to send marketing people to China, Russia and other countries that need wool and to sell our product to them just as we sell our wheat and dried fruits on a basis of a fair return for the efforts made. [More…]
Contingent upon the re-appointment of the legislative and general purpose standing committees, I shall move: That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matters - All matters relating to the recognition of China and the status of Taiwan. [More…]
Is this failure to protest against China just another example of the snivellingly obsequious nature of the Whitlam Government’s so-called independent foreign policy- [More…]
He conceded - perhaps these are my words and not his - that he was quite wrong and that the most definite and heavy protests had been made by members of the Austraiian Labor Party against the nuclear tests in China. [More…]
As the Government claims that the agreement with the People’s Republic of China is similar to the Canadian formula, will the Government provide to the Parliament full details of the formulas for recognition of the People’s Republic of China adopted by Canada, Japan, West Germany, Zaire, Malagasy, Jamaica and Chad? [More…]
It refers to the statements made by Mr Francis James alleging that he was arrested and imprisoned without trial, tortured, denied access to representation and his health gravely affected in Communist China. [More…]
In default of such action will the Government warn intending travellers to Communist China that the Commonwealth Government accepts no responsibility for the freedom and safety of Australian travellers there? [More…]
In particular, we have seen how it races off to China. [More…]
An individual has just come out of China; I refer to one Francis James. [More…]
There was not one word of protest to the People’s Republic of China about the condition in which he came out of that country. [More…]
I read in the Australian Press that the Australian basketballers had approached the Government with a view to visiting Taiwan and were told that they must not go to Taiwan but were directed - ‘directed’ is the word that was used in the newspapers, and I find it hard to believe that that word was used - to go to communist China instead. [More…]
I did so because our trade with Taiwan has been if anything a bit better than has our trade with Communist China, despite the big discrepancy in the populations of those 2 countries. [More…]
If there is no ban on trade with the Taiwanese but if instead, we are chasing their trade ali we can because it has been, and is, worth more than the trade of the whole of mainland China, why are we holding up our hands and saying that we cannot permit an Australian team to go to Taiwan to play basketball? [More…]
reached the stage where a team of basketballers is told by thu Government that it must not accept an invitation to go to Taiwan but should go to Red China instead. [More…]
The situation is that we have made the choice to recognise China. [More…]
It is a province of China. [More…]
We have recognised the People’s Republic of China and wc have had a formula in regard to Taiwan. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s answer that Taiwan was a province of China, can he inform the Senate whether that view was held by bis Party before the 10th October celebrations at the Embassy of the Republic of China where, at the invitation of His Excellency Ambassador Chen, many Labor members attended and expressed by their presence and enjoyment of the hospitality generously provided, their support for Taiwan? [More…]
Did the Australian Labor Party members there present join in the toast to the Republic of China, which recognised that Taiwan was a separate entity to the Communist Government of China, or did’ -they refuse to drink? [More…]
Is it not a fact that Bangladesh is a break-away area from Pakistan, just as the people of Taiwan recognise that they are a break-away area from China? [More…]
I will explain once again that the situation regarding China and [More…]
The Government of Taiwan has claimed to be the Government of the whole of China. [More…]
On the other hand, the Government of the People’s Republic of China has made a similar claim. [More…]
We have recognised the Government of the People’s Republic of China and have taken note of its view that Taiwan is one of its provinces. [More…]
ls it not a fact that the People’s Republic of China has had no control or authority over Taiwan since 1949? [More…]
Has the Ministers attention been drawn to an eco nomic and political treatise by Professor Hans Arndt, who resigned from the Labor Party over Mr Whitlam’* performance in China, dealing with what the professor called the myth of China trade? [More…]
Is the Government holding any hopes of substantial trade relations with China? [More…]
Is the Government aware that the overseas trade figures for Taiwan are slightly better than those for the whole of Red China and mat such trade is conducted by free men? [More…]
On the aspect of trade, the only thing I have seen recently was a report that the Victorian Liberal Minister, Mr Byrne, seemed to think that trade would flourish between Communist China and Australia. [More…]
Republic of China is similar to’ the Canadian formula, win the Government provide to the Parliament full details of the formulas for recognition of the Peopled Republic of China adopted by Canada, Japan, West Germany; Zaire, Malagasy, Jamaica and Chad? [More…]
I now ask the Minister: Will he lay on the table of the Senate the formulas for recognition of the People’s Republic of China adopted by Canada, Japan, West Germany, Zaire, Malagasy,- Jamaica and Chad? [More…]
Will the Minister, in the interests of ‘open Government’, cause to be tabled in the Senate the communications which passed between the Australian Ambassador in Paris and the Government during negotiations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The actual terms and conditions agreed to by Australia and China regarding mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations were fully set out in my statement of 22nd December 1972, and in the joint communique released at the same time. [More…]
It would appear from the honourable senator’s question that he believes there to be some secret agreements between Australia and China not mentioned in the joint, communique. [More…]
The negotiations with China were confined narrowly to the question of recognition and diplomatic relations and to related questions associated with the status of Taiwan. [More…]
Is the Government aware that Taiwan’s rapidly growing free enterprise economy, whose foreign trade is far greater than that of the People’s Republic of China, offers growing trade opportunities for Australia? [More…]
Is the Government aware of the arrangements made by Japan, Canada and other nations which have recognised the People’s Republic of China to retain trade, cultural and other ties with Taiwan? [More…]
We have made up our minds, as have most countries in the world, to recognise the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Then how and why did the Minister approve of the sale of merino rams to the People’s Republic of China at the time that he did? [More…]
Would he have approved a sale to a non-Communist country or were there political bias and motivation in the sale to China? [More…]
The decision was taken on my recommendation with the concurrence of the Prime Minister to export the rams to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The fact that they were bound for the People’s Republic of China was quite irrelevant. [More…]
I refer to an editorial in the ‘People’s Daily’ the official journal of the Chinese Communist Party, as reported in English by the New China Newsagency dated, Peking, 24th December 1972. [More…]
If not, has the Government protested to the People’s Republic of China against the deliberate misrepresentation of Australian Government policy? [More…]
I think that the honourable senator knows the situation in regard to the recognition of Communist China. [More…]
1 have seen some comments made by Senator Sim in the newspaper that tried to draw the analogy that, because we had recognised the People’s Republic of China and because we had taken certain other actions, including action in regard to Rhodesia, in some way this was associated with the talks between the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Government of Australia. [More…]
The entire negotiations with the People’s Republic of China dealt with the setting up of diplomatic relations, what would be the position in regard to properties in Australia and such matters. [More…]
I understand that the General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Australian Ambassador to China, Dr Fitzgerald, have had discussions on this matter. [More…]
I am given to understand also by the Australian Broadcasting Commission that our Ambassador to China has undertaken to discuss with the Chinese Government the possibility of having Radio Australia officially recognised by China as an overseas broadcasting service. [More…]
I understand that such a status has been accorded in China to the British Broadcasting Commission’s Chinese language service. [More…]
If we know our geography, we know that the islands of Japan lie within a relatively short distance - less than 100 miles - of Korea and within a few hundred miles of Mainland China. [More…]
Japan, the emerged industrial power, Russia, the emerged industrial and military power, and China, the emerging power, lie within a relatively short distance of each other. [More…]
If there is a detente between America and China, how valid or credible is the American defence and nuclear umbrella for the future? [More…]
How far will America go in its detente with China? [More…]
The recognition of the People’s Republic of China is not something which was initiated when the Labor Government came to power; the previous Government was already taking steps in this direction. [More…]
No matter how much honourable senators opposite talked and no matter how much they endeavoured to label the Labor Party as a group of Benedict Arnolds, when the United States Republican President Richard Nixon had a dialogue with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China he destroyed the credibility of the present Opposition’s foreign policy. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) have recognised China. [More…]
I received a statement from the Prime Minister that no undertaking was given to China except that which has been expressed in writing and that is the simple recognition of each other. [More…]
I believe that one of the demands of China was that we would rid ourselves of our relations with Taiwan. [More…]
How will China view Australia as a fair and responsible friend when, after having had a small neighbour and good friend for some 14 or 15 years, Australia immediately, on recognising a larger and - I acknowledge - a more important nation in the world, cuts our ties with that good friend. [More…]
Undoubtedly China will judge this Australian Government for what it is. [More…]
Australia will be called on at some other stage to do that in relation to China. [More…]
I disagree with the way in which this Government has gone about the recognition of mainland China. [More…]
It has positions in relation to the Soviet Union, China, Japan and western Europe which cannot be adopted or shared by Australia. [More…]
They explained in considerable detail that Pine Gap is uniquely placed to control and monitor space vehicles crossing the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
So insensitive was Mr Whitlam, our Prime Minister and our part-time Foreign Minister to an understanding of Indonesian history that whilst making a proper gesture of putting flower petals on the graves of the dead generals, he talked about bringing mainland China into a rapprochement with Indonesia. [More…]
He then went to Indonesia, where he committed a classic diplomatic gaffe regarding China and the generals. [More…]
On one occasion Senator Carrick asked Senator Wright, whether the Australian Labor Party ever protested about mainland China entering the nuclear field. [More…]
We had condemned mainland China For testing nuclear weapons. [More…]
whether at a time when the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were giving actual military aid to the forces of North Korea then engaged in hostilities against the Australian troops in the field, Wilfred Burchett then had any professional relationship, remunerated or not, with either of those Governments; [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government of Communist China has consented to the exchange of official representatives with the United States of America without exacting the slightest concession in regard to the recognition by the United States of the Nationalist Chinese regime in Taiwan? [More…]
If so, does the Minister, now agree that the Government was most unwise in severing Australia’s diplomatic relations with the non-communist Government of Nationalist China? [More…]
Has the Special Minister of State noted that the Government of Spain has agreed to exchange diplomatic representatives with the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the basis that the Government of Spain will no longer recognise the Government in Taiwan, and that at the same time the Government of Spain has agreed to enter into diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic? [More…]
The Association envisages, when it can be arranged and if they are willing to come into it, the 4 Indo-China States and very possibly Burma joining the Association. [More…]
But at the same time the honourable senator must realise, as everybody does, that now that the People’s Republic of China is being recognised in the area, and now that Hanoi is being recognised in the area, the situation will arise where other voices in the whole area will have to be heard. [More…]
Does the Joint Communique establishing diplomatic relations between the Australian Government and Communist China contain the following reference to Taiwan: ‘The Australian Government recognises the Government of the People’s Republic 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…]
What were the references to Taiwan contained in the similar Joint Communiques establishing diplomatic relations between Communist China and Canada and Communist China and those non-Communist countries with which it established diplomatic relations in 1972. [More…]
The passage quoted from the Joint Communique is correct except that the words ‘of China’ should be inserted after the words ‘People’s Republic’ where they first occur. [More…]
The Chinese Government reaffirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Chinese Government reaffirms that Taiwan province is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
(None of these countries, excepting Zaire, had diplomatic missions in Taipei at the time of signing of their joint communiques with China.) [More…]
The Government of the People’s Republic of China reaffirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Government of Japan fully understands and respects this stand of the Government of China and adheres to its stand of complying with Article 8 of the Potsdam Proclamation.’ [More…]
The Government of the Republic of Maldives recognises that the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal Government of China and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China.’ [More…]
The Chinese Government reaffirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Territory of the People’s Republic of China and that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Also during 1972 the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which were already in diplomatic relations with China, negotiated joint communiques on the exchange of Ambassadors with China. [More…]
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 Chinese Government reaffirms that Taiwan is a province of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands respects this stand of the Chinese Government and reaffirms that it recognises the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China.’ [More…]
What was the date of signing of the Joint Communique establishing diplomatic relations between Australia and (a) East Germany; and (b) Communist China. [More…]
The joint communique establishing diplomatic relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China was signed in Paris at 7 a.m. on 22nd December 1972, Canberra time (9 a.m. on 21st December, Paris time.) [More…]
Has the Australian Government communicated in any way with the Government of the People’s Republic of China regarding past or future nuclear-testing, whether atmospheric or underground, by that country; if so, what was the precise nature of the Australian Government’s communication and what was the response of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Yesterday Senator Willesee, in answer to my question in regard to a judo team from Taiwan which sought entry to Australia, said that the team had been advised that its members would be permitted to travel into Australia in an individual capacity but they could not identify themselves with the Government on Taiwan or purport to represent Taiwan, the Republic of China or China. [More…]
In view of the Government’s recognition of Peking China 1 can understand its attitude that a team from Taiwan could not call itself a team from the Republic of China or China, however much 1 disagree, but is it not colossal stupidity for an Australian Government lo concern itself with a matter relating to a sporting team and to say that a team from Taiwan can come to Australia on condition that it dissociates itself from its own Government and that it cannot use the word Taiwan’ in the team’s name? [More…]
I know of no country in the world that recognises both the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. [More…]
Together with most countries in the world, we recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Having done that, surely it follows that Australia does not recognise the Taiwanese claim to rule the whole of China. [More…]
Having recognised the People’s Republic of China it is very clear that we will not recognise teams of people posing as coming from a country that governs the whole of China if they do not come from the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate advise why a nuclear test carried out in the atmosphere by France is considered to be different from a nuclear test carried out by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
He has asked a question which requires some scientific assessment; that is, whether a test performed by the Chinese in China would produce different results from a test performed by the French in, say, the Pacific region. [More…]
Has Chiang Kai-shek ever claimed that Taiwan was a country in its own right and not a part of China? [More…]
Is it a fact that Chiang has always claimed that Taiwan, or Formosa as it was previously called, was only a province of China? [More…]
The consistent claim of Taiwan has been that it has the legal and proper government of the whole of China. [More…]
The position is that neither Taiwan nor the People’s Republic of China would allow Australia or any other country even to try to recognise both, if it wanted to do so. [More…]
This is a confused question ranging from Hanoi to China. [More…]
I do not see any point in waiting especially as the job of rehabilitating both North and South Vietnam and the rest of Indo-China will be a tremendous job. [More…]
Our attitude to aid is that it will be given to the whole of Indo-China when that is possible. [More…]
Will the Government be prepared to adopt the same standards of morality towards China as towards France? [More…]
I ask: Upon the information received from his expert advisers will the AttorneyGeneral confirm the statement made by the Prime Minister yesterday that Australia is not, in the Prime Minister’s words, ‘discernibly affected by nuclear tests by China’? [More…]
I refer to the proposed trade mission to the People’s Republic of China in May this year, which is to be headed by Dr Cairns and Sir Ian McLennan, and which is to establish friendly and valuable relations. [More…]
Japan already is trading with China. [More…]
The suggestion was that the trip be enlarged and that the mission go not only to the People’s Republic of China but also to the other 2 places. [More…]
Has there been any protest from Opposition members to the inclusion of Mr Kibel, referred to by Senator Sim as a Manchester Jew, as a member of the trade delegation of prominent leaders of commerce and industry which will accompany Dr Cairns when he visits China in May of this year? [More…]
Is the Government aware that the voice of the Malayan revolution radio, located in southern China, is broadcasting to Malaysia? [More…]
Does the Government believe that the support of insurgency in Thailand and Malaysia by the People’s Republic of China and North Vietnam serves the interests of peace and stability in the region? [More…]
As the Prime Minister has given gratuitous advice to Thailand, will he now give advice to China and North Vietnam that in the interests of peace and stability and in support of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, they should mind their own business? [More…]
Does he agree that the Government in Peking has established for many years its right to control the area of mainland China? [More…]
I repeat that both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China will not accept recognition from countries, and if the honourable senator is interested I have here a list showing that not one country recognises both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Taiwanese Government claims to be the legal government of the whole of China and does not accept that its people are on the island of Taiwan indefinitely. [More…]
When it comes to recognition, every country is forced to make up its mind according to the dictates of the governments of both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the impending visit of a representative group of Australian capitalists to the People’s Republic of China seeking trade relations with that country? [More…]
Is he aware that a similar group of top captains of English industry is already on its way to China? [More…]
The question asked by Senator Gietzelt highlights a very sensible approach by the British Government and its interest to improve its trade relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In reply to the second part of the honourable senator’s question, I will not be included in the trade mission which will be going to the People’s Republic of China in May. [More…]
107 that the Australian Government, since coming to office, has not communicated in any way with the People’s Republic of China regarding past or future nuclear testing by that country, why has it not done so? [More…]
I cannot give any guarantee that we will or will not do so, or what subjects will be discussed with other countries, including the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
What they hope to do is get out the old Mccarthyite tactics which they found so successful during the 1950s when they tried to terrify people with their red arrows coming down from China, descending on Perth. [More…]
They know very well that any sensible statesman in the world is prepared to talk to China, North Vietnam and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Even General Franco, the idol and hero of the DLP, has entered into diplomatic relations with China on precisely the same terms as those on which Australia has entered into diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
First, they can try to adapt themselves to a changing world and a higher level of education in this country, knowing that there are now people who do not believe the sort of twaddle they were talking in 1949 about socialism leading to communism, China being an agent of Russia, [More…]
Indonesia being an agent of China, the Australian Labor Party being an agent of Indonesia and the sort of stuff that was served up for years. [More…]
If so, why does not the Government apply the same principle to China as to France and be prepared to take the same legal action against China as has been threatened against France? [More…]
Prime Minister that the reason the Government cannot take legal action against China is that we are not discernibly affected? [More…]
Does he agree that many of Australia’s friends are affected by China’s testing of nuclear weapons and deserve support, or is it a case, as suggested in a newspaper editorial, of let them fry with Chou En-Iai? [More…]
Yesterday I received a reply from the Prime Minister which said that in the case of visits from Taiwan members of sporting bodies could come only as individuals and not as a team; secondly, that they must dissociate themselves from their own Government; thirdly, they could not call themselves a Taiwanese team; fourthly, they could not call themselves a team from China; and fifthly, they could not call themselves a Republic of China team. [More…]
But we recognise the People’s Republic of China and therefore we do not accept people coming from Taiwan and claiming to represent the Government of China or putting themselves in an official position. [More…]
I refer also to the current heavyweight trade tour about to visit Red China from Australia. [More…]
In view of the fact that Taiwan’s overseas trade is many millions of dollars greater than that of Red China, will the Minister extend the tickets and the time of this delegation so that it may inlude Taiwan in its endeavours? [More…]
I was asked yesterday about the trade mission to the People’s Republic of China and I said I would pass the question on for consideration. [More…]
I doubt whether it was necessary for us to throw Taiwan out of Australia in our hurry to embrace the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Undoubtedly the time was coming when China would be recognised, whatever that word may mean - whether it is United Nations recognition or Australian recognition. [More…]
The fact is that China has shown very little interest in Australia. [More…]
Although China had not taken this interest, Australia took action to recognise that country. [More…]
I could refer to the reply received from Indonesia, a country which for so many years had experienced infiltration by communists, to the suggestion by the Government of this small nation of Australia that there should be some pact within this area which should embrace Communist China. [More…]
We have this multi-polar situation involving countries like the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Russia, the USA and England. [More…]
We hear criticisms in the Senate day after day by way of questions because the Government has recognised the People’s Republic of China and the Government of North Vietnam. [More…]
The phrase we used to hear for years about the containment of China is the very sort of thing that causes war. [More…]
What military might have we compared to countries such as Russia, China, the United States of America and Great Britain? [More…]
At long last the People’s Republic of China is being recognised by the world. [More…]
Basically this is how we have to move on our own in the Indio-China area. [More…]
The situation in the Indo-China area, as far as Australia is concerned, will be just that. [More…]
Dr Stephen A. Fitzgerald has been appointed Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China on a salary of $17,581. [More…]
Can we take seriously the proposal to export processed vegetable products from this country to mainland China which has one of the lowest standards of living on earth? [More…]
Insofar as the Chinese market is concerned, I understand that the growers have hopes of obtaining a market in China. [More…]
At the time I pointed out to them that they should not rely unduly on the prospects in respect of China, for many reasons. [More…]
We believe that there will be great, expansion in Australia’s trade with less well known trading areas such as Russia and- China, it is hoped - I do not hold much optimism myself, I might say in passing, for a great acceleration in trade with China but, nonetheless, there will be some expansion - and Eastern European countries. [More…]
The 30 rams referred to were intended for export to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs on 20th December 1972 warned that, when Australia recognised the Government of the People’s Republic of China, persons then purchasing property in Australia from ‘the Government (or Embassy or Consulates) of the Republic of China’ risked having their title challenged on the ground that the property belonged to the Government of the People’s Republic of China which had not authorised sale. [More…]
But the Government knows of no instance or country in the last 20 years in which China has acted in this way. [More…]
I refer to the continual barrage of highly critical statements emanating from the Australian Ambassador designate to the People’s Republic of China, Dr Fitzgerald. [More…]
will a visit to Taiwan be included in the itinerary of the forthcoming Trade Mission to China. [More…]
Trade Mission to China - The forthcoming Government trade mission to China will not visit Taiwan but, as has been previously indicated in the Senate, there are no hindrances to individual Australian businessmen or groups of businessmen visiting Taiwan in connection with trade with Taiwan. [More…]
Did representatives of the Taiwan Port Authorities hold negotiations with the Brisbane shipbuilding yard, Index Slipway and Engineering Pty Ltd, with a view to placing orders worth approximately $A1,250,000 prior to Australia recognising Communist China. [More…]
Did the negotiations cease immediately Australia signed the joint communique with Communist China. [More…]
I refer to the proposed trade mission to the People’s Republic of China in May this year, which is to be headed by Dr Cairns and Sir Ian McLellan, and which is to establish friendly and valuable relations. [More…]
However, this year a delegation is going to China and another is going to Russia. [More…]
It could well be that a member of, for instance, the Country Party in the Senate is on a trip to China and that another member of the Country Party is on a trip to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Be that as it may, it could well be that a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party is on a trip to China or to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Arrangements were made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for an Australian Broadcasting Commission journalist, John Pennlington, and a camerman from Hong Kong to accompany to Peking Dr Fitzgerald, the recently appointed Australian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I might say that I have just been advised that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has received advice from China that Mr Pennlington and the cameraman have now had their visas extended to the end of May to enable the ABC to cover the visit of a Government trade mission, which will be led by the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr J. F. Cairns. [More…]
The Chinese Government has also allowed Mr Pennlington and the cameraman to tour outside Peking and at the moment they are touring central China for the purposes of sending to Australia news reports, cable reports and film about China. [More…]
In reply to the interjection of the honourable senator, I think it is important that the people of other countries - France, China or anywhere else - should be aware of the feelings of other people in relation to the tests and also the view which has been taken about the danger of those tests. [More…]
As he has indicated that the French Government was good enough to give him television time to explain the attitude of Australia to French nuclear testing, will the Attorney-General direct Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, the Australian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, immediately to request that Government to give him radio time in China to express Australia’s deep opposition to the continued testing by China of atomic devices? [More…]
As to the matter of communicating to the People’s Republic of China the views of the Australian Government on nuclear testing, my understanding is that this has been done. [More…]
He was gracious enough to admit later that in fact I had protested and that the Prime Minister had raised this matter with the Chinese when he was on the first visit to China while Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
My understanding is that in the last few weeks the Australian Government has sent to the Chinese Government its protest against China’s nuclear testing. [More…]
In addressing a question to the Minister for the Media, I wish to return to the subject of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Earlier today, the Minister told us of the great privileges bestowed by the bountiful goodness of Peking China to permit an Australian Broadcasting Commission cameraman and a newsman to stay in that country for a given period. [More…]
As I understand it, the People’s Republic of China has recommended to the Australian Depart ment of . [More…]
The best that can be hoped for is that the proletarian leaders are more concerned with the welfare of their own countries than with being a vassal state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or China in an expansive mood. [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…]
At that time we were still involved in a war in South Vietnam; we still had Australian troops committed to the area; we had troops in other areas of IndoChina, whether or not the Government of the day admitted it; and we had a great hostility towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
We know of the criticism of the previous Prime Minister when a decision was taken by the then Leader of the Opposition to visit China. [More…]
We know that subsequently on the eve of the delivery of this speech the former Prime Minister discovered that the American President also was going on the China trail. [More…]
Those things have all changed today and relations with China have been normalised. [More…]
We have no troops committed in Indo-China and we are in the happy situation where, generally speaking, Australia’s relations are improving continually in the Asian sphere. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Is it not a fact that radioactive fallout from a nuclear explosion in China is just as potent to the world’s atmosphere as one in the Pacific? [More…]
Has it ever been contemplated that representations be made to the People’s Republic of China - as they call it - along the grounds 1 have- indicated? [More…]
In every conceivable way this Government has shown its support for the communist side in Indo-China. [More…]
The list includes the crawl to Red China, the Professor Teng case, the Taiwan basketball team case, the Taiwan ping pong team case, the rush to East Germany, the rush to Hanoi, the promise to recognise the Vietcong, and so on ad infinitum. [More…]
When I received the credentials of the delegate from the Government of the People’s Republic of China, I was acting on behalf of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Government of the United States went to aid that country against the onslaught of the communists who were assisted by Red China and Russia. [More…]
Why do they not get it from Red China and Russia, which are their allies? [More…]
If we make a comparison between John Foster Dulles and the statesmanlike attitude of Prime Minister Attlee of Great Britain, Prime Minister Chifley of Australia, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Evatt, and Peter Fraser of New Zealand and if we consider the relatively bloodless development of India, Pakistan and even Ceylon and the internal conflict in Indonesia, we recognise that none of those struggles was prolonged in any way, as was the struggle in Indo-China. [More…]
A courageous Australian government in the 1950s might have suggested to the then French government that if some degree of flexibility in its foreign policy had been allowed there would have been a normal ushering-in of nationhood in IndoChina, as we know it now. [More…]
I say that particularly to the Country Party members who, because of their problems in relation to the sale of wheat, tried to take a one-eyed attitude about relations with China. [More…]
Now we find that our friends are Communist China, North Vietnam, Communist Yugoslavia and a host of other countries. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are prepared to cast their minds back and be honest about this, they will concede that in the 1939-45 World War, when it was a question of defending Indo-China, the then colonialists in IndoChina, particularly in Vietnam - it was then one nation - were collaborators with the people against whom we lost more than 27,000 men from this country alone. [More…]
The French and the Dutch endeavoured to impose their colonial rule, in the first instance in Indo-China and in the second instance in Indonesia. [More…]
Then the French decided that they had a rightful claim to the part of Indo-China about which we are talking this evening. [More…]
Other parts of Indo-China had been cut up between the great colonial powers, including the old United Kingdom, the great empire of yesteryear. [More…]
The French were so bankrupt that they could not sustain their attempts to reassert their colonial influence in Indo-China. [More…]
Unbeknown to the then President of the United States of America and by some devious means, the American nation started to support the re-establishment of colonial rule in Indo-China. [More…]
If we had really wanted a bulwark against the threat of the so-called downward thrust of Communist China- [More…]
With the aid of the 2 great communist empires of the world - China and Russia - the North Vietnamese Government exerted bloodshed, atrocity indescribable and massacre on the South Vietnamese. [More…]
It is that same purblind outlook that has induced the Government, presided over by Mr Whitlam but not controlled by him, firstly to accept recognition by Communist China on condition that we jettison Taiwan. [More…]
What figures are available from both Russia and the People’s Republic of China on current stock piles of feed and fibre and projections of current cropping results? [More…]
Does the Minister think, in view of the military situation in Russia and China, that either Russia or China is likely to disclose any reliable figures on current agricultural stockpiles or production? [More…]
I am not so sure of the position in the case of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Has he any figures available from any source on the feed and fibre stocks in the Communist bloc countries as a whole, not only of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
In view of the reference in the National Radiation Advisory Committee report which stresses that nuclear tests in either the northern or southern hemisphere could harm Australia, I ask: Has the Government been provided with any information from official sources in China with respect to the degree and measurement of fallout resulting from Chinese nuclear explosions? [More…]
I refer to my earlier question to him about his attendance at a reception to the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese last night and his response that my allegation that North Vietnam was waging aggressive war in Indo China was purely a personal view - implying to me that he held a contrary view. [More…]
Can the Special Minister of State inform the Senate of the Opposition senators who will visit China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as representatives of the Australian Parliament at a later date this year? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister Assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to a radio news item attributed to the Australian Ambassador to China in which he was reported to have said that he did not think a continuance of nuclear tests by that country would interfere with the improved relations with China? [More…]
China. [More…]
1 do not understand Senator Jessop’s comparison between France and China. [More…]
That is the attitude we will take with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
If in our protest to China and, indeed, to any other country that is exploding nuclear devices in the atmosphere, we can get our point over and have some influence without harming relationships, that is precisely what we will be doing. [More…]
By way of preface I indicate that I heard on radio today that Dr Fitzgerald had commented that an approach had been made by the Labor Government to the Peoples Republic of China in relation to its testing of nuclear devices. [More…]
I now ask: Will the Government advise the Government of the Peoples Republic of China that this Government will support the unions in this country in their threat to halt all communications and trade relations with China unless she immediately stops nuclear testing in the atmosphere? [More…]
Will the Government advise China, as a Minister of this Government advised France, that it will consider breaking diplomatic relations with China unless it halts nuclear testing? [More…]
As to the other matter concerning diplomatic relations, whether such relations be with China or with any other country, this is a matter for consideration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
I set out to show Japan’s unique situation, born of history, isolation, a geography that makes the Japanese islands off-shore islands in conjunction with Russia and China, and a post-war growth which puts Japan today third in the industrial world. [More…]
The importance to Japan not only of a country that has immense natural resources - because both Russia and China may well have similar resources - but also of a country that is politically stable and capable of honouring contracts and delivering resources of a specific grade and volume at a particular time transcends other things. [More…]
Those who look to Japan turning to China, Russia, other parts of Asia or other parts of the world should keep in mind that Australia’s ability to provide high quality resources to Japan is of vital importance to Japan just as Japan’s business is to Australia. [More…]
Japan was unique and that it was uniquely situated in geography alongside Russia, close to China, with America across the Pacific and with Western Europe growing up to the west. [More…]
1 say this without suggesting any power groupings of the world, just so long as Western Europe and America work together in keeping peace in the world and Japan looks towards a parallel philosophy developed by those two countries whilst recognising that she has as neighbours Russia and China. [More…]
It is true that very often in the past this country has had to enter into agreements with countries which were not in a position to pay on the more favourable terms that we know apply to China where payments are effected in 12 months. [More…]
Because China is such a meagre unit in terms of world trade, ranking a little higher than Taiwan - which is, of course, a very much smaller country - on this ground alone can the cost of Dr Cairns’s visit to that country be justified at all; or, so far as accruing more trade for Australia is concerned, can the cost of extra officials covering the inauguration of the new Australian Ambassador to China be justified? [More…]
In vie-w of the Minister’s advice to me yesterday that Senator Greenwood, Liberal, Victoria has been nominated for the delegation to China and Senator Maunsell., Country Party, Queensland, for the delegation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as Opposition representatives of the Australian Parliament [More…]
But on this whole question, when the trips were first mooted I had talks with the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and also with the Charge d’ Affairs of China. [More…]
The Government then anticipated that there would be complaints from the representatives of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Does not his reply to my earlier question indicate subservience to the arrogant demands of the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
This was a part of the agreement with the People’s Republic of China that was made clear in the Senate in answer to several questions. [More…]
As Mr Li was coming in an unofficial capacity, is it not a reasonable deduction that the Australian Government was prepared to allow Mr Li to attend the meeting until it received a complaint from the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
What other countries have made a similar agreement with the People’s Republic of China - an agreement, apparently, which enables the People’s Republic virtually to veto the entry of Taiwanese into Australia? [More…]
Because of that we anticipated, as I said yesterday, that there would be a complaint because of the arrangements we had made with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
As far as I know, these sorts of arrangements have been made with the People’s Republic of China by most of the countries of the world. [More…]
If he does not intend to do so, is it because the Chinese explosion is different from the French explosion and will not affect the atmosphere or because the Australian Government is fearful of offending China? [More…]
Yes, we did make a protest shortly after we set up an embassy in China. [More…]
Has the People’s Republic of China accepted the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice? [More…]
If so, should the statement referred to by Senator Carrick that China intends proceeding with a nuclear testing program prove to be correct, will the Australian Government take this matter to the International Court of Justice with the object of preventing these tests? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister able to confirm that Australia is not ‘discernibly affected by nuclear tests by China’, which claim was made by him in a statement of 13th March 1973. [More…]
Does the statement mean that the Australian atmosphere is not, and has not been, measurably affected by fall-out from nuclear tests conducted by the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The explosion of high fission yield devices by China injects this radioactive matter into the northern half of the stratosphere. [More…]
I refer to the present trade mission to China being headed by the Minister for Overseas Trade and Secondary Industry. [More…]
In view of the, total trade and communications bans imposed on France by the Australian Council of Trade Unions because of the proposed nuclear tests in the Pacific, does the Minister expect that the trade unions will impose similar bans when a further nuclear test date is announced by China, which is reported to be currently negotiating new trade agreements with Australia? [More…]
The area of concern is more important than is the question of what China might do in the foreseeable future. [More…]
As it has been suggested that the marketing of exports of primary products would be handled in future by the Department of Overseas Trade rather than by individual producer organisations, and bearing in mind that there is at present a world shortage of many of these products, will the Minister give an assurance that traditional lucrative markets built up over the years will not be undermined by Dr Cairns in his enthusiasm to negotiate sales of our products to China? [More…]
The development of trade between Australia and overseas markets is primarily the responsibility of Dr Cairns, and although I am basing this .only on Press reports of Dr Cairns’ efforts in China, I would say they have. [More…]
My question, which relates to the intention of the People’s Republic of China and of France to continue atmospheric nuclear testing, is directed to the Minister assisting the Prime Minister. [More…]
I ask: How does the Government reconcile the blatant double standards under which the Minister for Trade, Dr J. F. Cairns, is currently actively seeking maximum expansion of trade between Australia and China while at the same time, the same Dr J. F. Cairns and other Government Ministers and members, together with the Australian Council nf Trade Unions, are working to impose a ban on Australian trade with France? [More…]
What is the Government’s policy with regard to trade and sanctions as to France and China? [More…]
The long and involved question asked by the honourable senator concerns trade and arises out of the nuclear tests being conducted at the moment, mainly by France but possibly in the future by China. [More…]
That the country happens to be China I know does upset some honourable senators opposite. [More…]
We now recognise China. [More…]
We have exchanged diplomatic representatives with China, and the sending of a trade mission to China is a normal flow-on from that. [More…]
Our policy further states that when countries such as the Soviet Union and China refuse to take action to end nuclear armaments in the world Australia then has no alternative but to endeavour to obtain a nuclear deterrent for herself. [More…]
Was the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, indicating Labor Government policy in his reported statement to the effect that China as a world power had justification for having a nuclear deterrent weapons system but that France was only pursuing Gaullist ambitions in seeking to do so? [More…]
That gentleman climbed to the top of the Great Wall of China the other day, beating Dr J. F. Cairns by a few lengths. [More…]
A story is going around the city of Melbourne at present that there are Australian Security Intelligence Organisation men in Dr Jim Cairns’s entourage in China, reporting every little thing that goes on. [More…]
All Chinese testa to date have been conducted at the Lop Nor test site in the Sin-kiang province in north-west China. [More…]
Minister for Primary Industry aware of concern in sections of the wool industry over an announcement by the Australian Wool Corporation that it has sold wool directly to the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
It is true that the Australian Wool Corporation has sold approximately 1,000 bales of wool to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Primary Industry, refers to a previous question asked regarding the reported sale of wool to China. [More…]
-The Australian Wool Corporation made the sale to the wool mission from the China National Textile Import and Export Corporation without any interference from this Government and in accordance with the customary commercial arrangements of traders in wool. [More…]
Is the Minister assisting the Prime Minister aware that both France and China opposed a motion which was moved at the World Health Organisation by Australia and which condemned atomic tests in the atmosphere? [More…]
As both France and China opposed this motion, will the Government send a formal letter of protest to China and France for not supporting such a resolution? [More…]
The article stated that the managing director of Marrickville Margarine was involved in helping with the financing of the expenses of at least one of the people who accompanied Mr Whitlam on his tour of China last year. [More…]
In view of the nature of the questions being asked by Opposition senators relating to the recent sale of 1,000 bales of wool to China by the Australian Wool Corporation, has the Minister received any objections to this sale from wool growers or their organisations? [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge - as everybody with the welfare of the world at heart must - 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 and’ the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and in 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 its 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…]
On 22 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 pur Mission and on 17 May, China’s Ambassador to Australia, Mr Wang Kuo Ch’uan presented his credentials to the GovernorGeneral. [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…]
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 highlevel 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…]
Mauritius, India, Mexico, North America, Japan and China are part of my responsibilities as Prime Minister, even more than as Foreign Minister. [More…]
I refer to the reported intention of mainland China to continue with a program of atmospheric nuclear tests in spite of objections raised by the Minister for Overseas Trade during his recent visit to that country. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether this situation is likely to interfere with future trade relations with China? [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the Australian Council of Trade Unions is likely to impose sanctions against China similar to those imposed against France? [More…]
As China does not recognise the International Court of Justice, what does the Government propose doing to prevent future tests being carried out by China? [More…]
It has made its position clear by a special protest to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
No such treaty exists as between the People’s Republic of China and Australia. [More…]
Perhaps Senator Wheeldon might recall that Professor Arndt resigned from the Australian Labor Party over Mr Whitlam’s genuflection to Chairman Mao when he visited Communist China. [More…]
It is not known generally, but this is the company which provided the fare for Dr Fitzgerald on his first visit to China with the members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Has he seen statements by the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, that the question of Australian trade with Taiwan was raised by the Chinese and that Australian companies will continue to do business with both Taiwan and China? [More…]
Was the primary purpose of Dr Cairns’s visit to China the promotion of trade? [More…]
Is it true that during most of the visit Dr Cairns was completely out of touch with the Australian Embassy in China and the Australian Ambassador to China, Dr Stephen Fitzgerald? [More…]
The answer to the honourable senator’s first question is that the primary purpose of Dr Cairns’s visit to China was trade. [More…]
Was the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, indicating Labor Government policy in his reported statement to the effect that China as a world power had justification for having a nuclear deterrent weapons system but that France was only pursuing Gaullist ambitions in seeking to do so. [More…]
It is of course a fact that both China and France have nuclear weapons systems. [More…]
The Australian Government has made clear its policy of consistent opposition to nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, by both France and China. [More…]
If so, will it arrange for the money to be remitted to Taiwan or does it intend to seek the views of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China as to what action it should take in regard to this money? [More…]
In view of the statement reported this morning by Dr Cairns that the People’s Republic of China has made overtures to Australia to have Qantas Airways Ltd establish an air route to China, will this involve a reciprocal arrangement for China’s international airline to establish an air service to Australia? [More…]
It nas been suggested that Qantas Airways Ltd should operate an air service to and from China. [More…]
If the honourable senator were to read the documents which have been circulated he would find that the approach to the Court in respect of the Republic of France was based on a treaty called the General Act which is not applicable as between Australia and China. [More…]
That means there is a clear legal distinction between the position of Australia and France and that of Australia and China. [More…]
As to the possibility of atmospheric testing by China I inform the Senate that Australia has made quite clear to China its objections to atmospheric testing by it or any other nation. [More…]
The honourable senator asks whether atmospheric testing or any further atmospheric testing by China will affect the people of the world, including those in Australia. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, refers to the report by Dr Cairns on his return from Communist China that he had raised the matter of tests with Mr Chou En-lai. [More…]
Mr Chou En-lai exhibited considerable resentment and said that China would continue to conduct atomic tests in the same way as previously. [More…]
As the Australian Government took the lead in mobilising international opinion against the French test’s, why does not the Australian Government take a similar lead in mobilising international opinion, particularly in South East Asia and the Pacific, against the Chinese tests and drop proposals at present in train for cultural exchanges, visits of parliamentarians and trade advantages for Communist China? [More…]
In answer to a previous question touching on this matter I indicated that the position of Australia in relation to France is slightly different - in fact it is considerably different - from that which it has in relation to China. [More…]
I indicated that there is such a clear difference that the General Act is not available in relation to China. [More…]
Ultimately it is clear that the continuence of atmospheric nuclear testing by nations of the world, including France and China, will affect the people of the world. [More…]
Some will go to China next week, I believe. [More…]
I will not be detained here next week if I can help it while others are travelling to China and Russia at the expense of the public. [More…]
Everybody knows that he is going to China next week. [More…]
We have been regaled with stories in the Press that the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, has been wandering around China making a large number of foreign affairs statements. [More…]
It occurs to me that, instead of chasing the myth of the China market, as has been explained so splendidly by Professor Heinz Arndt, the former economic adviser to the Labor Party, the Minister for Overseas Trade would be far better occupied if he directed his attention to what is probably a far more lucrative market. [More…]
I address my question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and remind him that the Prime Minister and Senator Willesee have repeatedly asserted that the formula used in assuming diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China was similar to the formula adopted by other countries. [More…]
As I mentioned last night, Dr J. F. Cairns has been tripping around China making various statements on foreign affairs and periodically referring to trade. [More…]
He has returned to Australia with the story that an enormous market is to open to us, gradually at all events, in China. [More…]
The value of such relief to the Australian wool producer would be infinitely greater than all the wool in China. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Tanzania is a oneparty fascist type state, despite its close subservience to Red China? [More…]
Is it a fact that Tanzania’s air force, such as it is, is being trained by Red China near Peking? [More…]
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…]
When was the protest of the Australian Government made to the Government of the People’s Republic of China concerning that country’s nuclear tests. [More…]
Has there been any response by the People’s Republic of China, or any attempt by the Australian Government to secure a response. [More…]
Since it is possible that the People’s Republic of China might explode a nuclear device at any time, is the matter not equally as urgent as the French tests. [More…]
The Prime Minister is on record (Hansard 12 April) as having said that the Government believes that France and China should both accede to the Limited Test Ban Treaty; and that we have protested to the Chinese Government against its failure to accede to this treaty. [More…]
Unlike France, China has not made a declaration of acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction pursuant to Article 36 (2) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. [More…]
Unlike France, China is not a party to the General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, 1928. [More…]
Therefore, while Australia can unilaterally require France to appear before the Court, it cannot so require China. [More…]
What were the terms of the Australian protest to China? [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the statement made in Ottawa by the Prime Minister in which he seemed to excuse China for conducting nuclear tests but said that the French action was monstrous? [More…]
Is it not a fact that whatever verbal protest the Government may have made to China it is entirely different from the positive hostile action taken ‘against France? [More…]
That is an inconsistent attitude if, as Senator Willesee would have the people of Australia believe, the Government’s attitude to nuclear testing is the same irrespective of whether it is carried out by France or China. [More…]
They now toddle across to China and say all is very well, and they apparently recognise the error of their ways and their failed foreign policy. [More…]
In regard to China, the Australian Labor Party and Mr Whitlam have over the years made the strongest statements against the conduct of such tests by any nation, including the Chinese. [More…]
We do not impose any bans, we do not seek censure from the world, because we have decided that China shall have special recognition from us. [More…]
Have the Prime Minister and the Special Minister of State repeatedly asserted that the formula establishing diplomatic relations between this country and the People’s Republic of China is similar to the formula adopted by other countries. [More…]
Have sports, cultural and other exchanges, as well as air services, between Japan and Taiwan continued much as before, and the level of trade increased significantly between these countries, since Japan recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Does the Australian formula recognising the People’s Republic of China permit the same type of relationship with Taiwan as those of Japan, Canada and other countries. [More…]
Australia’s position on residual private contacts with Taiwan is similar to that of Canada and other countries in diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
Have any Qantas officials visited the People’s Republic of China since 2 December 1972, if so, when and what was the purpose of the visit. [More…]
John Leong, Qantas’ District Sales Manager, Hong Kong, visited the People’s Republic of China between 12 and 26 July 1973 as one of a group of 27 Chinese airline officials invited by the Chinese authorities for a familiarisation tour. [More…]
Is it a fact that Dr Cairns on behalf of the Government recently signed a trade agreement accompanied by expressions of eternal friendship with China - a country which recently exploded a nuclear bomb which affected 7 times more people than the French nuclear tests did? [More…]
Does the Government regard the different attitudes it adopts to trade with France and China as indicating a double standard? [More…]
China for its part has effected some rapprochment 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…]
Chou En-lai declared that China sympathised with and supported the actions of France in exploding atomic bombs. [More…]
He declared that China would continue to explode them, even though she was exploding them close to areas of very heavy population, whereas the French were exploding their bombs in an area where there is a very small population. [More…]
Dr J. F. Cairns was feting in Australia the representatives of communist China and concluding with them a trade treaty which described them as being, in the eyes of the Whitlam Government, the most favoured nation. [More…]
Representatives of our Government went to Peking and there announced that it would recognise the Peking Government and declared that it would not recognise the Taiwan Government on the ground that it was a part of China. [More…]
It was said by our Government that in China it is claimed that China is one country and that therefore we could not recognise both. [More…]
When the time came to do so we did not say, as we had said in China, that one cannot recognise both. [More…]
When one recognises China one does not say in the instrument of recognition that it includes Taiwan. [More…]
One simply says that one recognises China. [More…]
Indonesia has to reflect upon the fact that if it recognises Peking China it could find that that country will bring to Indonesia a couple of hundred alleged diplomats who would really be organisers of a communist revolution in Indonesia. [More…]
These countries have a lot of problems, and they have not been helped by the manner in which we rushed in headlong to recognise China when they at least had the right to expect us to consult them and talk it over. [More…]
We have been told that, after all, our Government had to do it because Nixon had gone to Peking and that once Nixon went there we had to recognise China. [More…]
It said: Nixon has gone there, so we have to recognise China’. [More…]
Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate offer any explanation as to the contention of the Prime Minister in a recent statement to the effect that French nuclear explosions in the Pacific were a monstrous proposition; also that China was in danger of attack, and France was not? [More…]
Were these contentions used merely to cover up the strangely ambiguous attitude by which a threat was made to sever diplomatic relations with France but China, which persists in exploding nuclear bombs in proximity to the world’s greatest centre of population, is treated by the Government with honour, its emissaries are received in this country and trade agreements are entered into with them? [More…]
We made it clear to the Chinese when Mr Whitlam visited China before we became the Government. [More…]
Dr Cairns conveyed that view to the Chinese when he was in China. [More…]
If these are facts is this not in line with the types of diplomatic pressures China has endeavoured to exert on other countries? [More…]
Is this not another example of the Government’s policies being influenced by pressures from China and the left wing of the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
What other countries which previously recognised Taiwan and now have diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China have placed a ban on public servants visiting Taiwan? [More…]
We realise that against the background of the Vietnam conflict there is also a new relationship, which arises from Dr Kissinger’s activities, between the United States and China. [More…]
That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
The Government has protested to China. [More…]
We have sought answers to certain questions and we believe that the answers supplied indicate different policies towards China and France. [More…]
We accept the fact that the Government - maybe reluctantly; maybe more in sorrow than in anger - has protested to China. [More…]
It has never condemned China in the same form. [More…]
The Government has taken no action against China. [More…]
It is interesting to note that no member of the Government either in this House or in the other place has ever asked a question which is critical of China in regard to atmospheric nuclear testing. [More…]
All the questions in regard to China have come from the Opposition. [More…]
So the Prime Minister was excusing himself for not taking action against China. [More…]
Then the Prime Minister was asked about the form of protest made to China. [More…]
The protest to China was oral, so there would be no written response. [More…]
Will the Government advise the Government of the Peoples Republic of China that this Government will support the unions in this country in their threat to halt all communications and trade relations with China unless she immediately stops nuclear testing in the atmosphere? [More…]
Will the Government advise China, as a Minister of this Government advised France, that it will consider breaking diplomatic relations with China unless it halts nuclear testing? [More…]
It is in the interests of humanity - of all the people of the world, whether they live in the south west Pacific region or whether they live in Japan, Korea or indeed in the Peoples Republic of China itself. [More…]
Some little time ago Dr Cairns led a trade delegation to China and he said that he protested to Chou En-lai concerning the Chinese tests, but Chou [More…]
En-lai become somewhat angry and replied very angrily to Dr Cairns and made it quite clear that China was going to continue nuclear testing whether we liked it or not. [More…]
But Dr Cairns, when he was in China, invited the Chinese Minister of Trade to come to Australia to conclude a trade agreement. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that despite the ban on French trade there was no protest from Mr Hawke and the trade unions about the visit of the Chinese Trade Minister and the conclusion of a trade agreement with China. [More…]
Shortly afterwards he sold his soul to China for trade. [More…]
It is noteworthy also that at one stage Dr Cairns, apparently in a more frank moment, said that he would support a ban on trade with China if it exploded a nuclear weapon. [More…]
Well, China exploded one and Dr Cairns has been silent ever since. [More…]
However, when we asked about China we were told that because China does not recognise the International Court of Justice there is no legal basis for taking China before that Court. [More…]
But does that excuse the Government from taking action against China? [More…]
Does that excuse the Government for not imposing a trade ban against China? [More…]
There are plenty of other actions open to the Government to show and move its condemnation of Chinese atmospheric tests, instead of hiding in a cowardly manner behind some legal quibble that China does not recognise the International Court of Justice and that therefore we should sit down, wring our hands and say we can do nothing more about it. [More…]
The report started off by saying that Mr Whitlam had said that France’s nuclear test program was more monstrous than China’s. [More…]
I do not know whether we have degrees of monstrosity, but he said it was more monstrous than China’s. [More…]
I tried to get an answer from the Government on whether the Chinese regarded the fallout danger as being insignificant or whether China showed a callous disregard for the welfare and health of its people. [More…]
Has there been any suggestion by the Government that it would recall our Ambassador from China? [More…]
Mr Whitlam went on to say that he agreed that his criticisms of the French program were in sterner language - that is tougher talk - than his response to China’s atmospheric tests. [More…]
He said he considered China was under threat. [More…]
Maybe China is under threat and perhaps the Chinese consider themselves to be under threat. [More…]
So it is not only the People’s Republic of China that is affected. [More…]
At the same time our Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China sat comfortably in Peking. [More…]
What logic or rationality can there be for one Ambassador to remain in Australia in protest and the other to remain in China? [More…]
We can assume only that the Government has no intention of going beyond making some mild protest to China. [More…]
We find that the Government is placing its complete reliance upon its supposed detente, its supposed better relations, with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is almost an absurd proposition that because we recognise the People’s Republic of China relations with China and China’s attitude to Australia will become friendly when previously it was hostile. [More…]
In November 1938, after the Munich Pact and as Germany stood poised to launch herself against the world and the Japanese were in the process of subduing China, the leader of the Labor Party, the late Mr Curtin, told this Parliament that so far as Australia was concerned, any increase in defence expediture was ‘an utterly unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda’. [More…]
What other countries previously recognising Taiwan but now having diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China have placed restrictions on travel to Taiwan? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister explain why the Government permits a full-scale trade boycott of France for exploding a clean bomb and at the same time enters into a most favoured nation trade agreement with China, presumably for exploding a dirty one. [More…]
As far as the Government is concerned, official trade relations with France and China continue. [More…]
19 relates to the motion moved last Thursday night by Senator Sim concerning atmospheric nuclear tests by China and France. [More…]
I refer to such things as relieving conscripts of their obligation to go to Vietnam, the withdrawal from Vietnam and the recognition of China. [More…]
That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
Whether China is testing nuclear weapons or France is testing nuclear weapons is only a superficial argument. [More…]
To my mind the double standards of the Government in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France are indicative of its standards in everything it does. [More…]
Senator O ‘Byrne did not mention one word about China. [More…]
People who listened to Senator O ‘Byrne’s speech would know that he does not even realise that China has exploded atmospheric nuclear weapons. [More…]
This Government and the trade unions were organising trade bans against the French while the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, was racing over to China and negotiating special, favoured treatment in trade relations with that country. [More…]
He was doing this despite the fact that both China and France were carrying out atmospheric nuclear testing at the same time. [More…]
To come back to the terms of the motion before the Senate, it states that the Senate deplores the fact that the Government has not been prepared to protest to China in the manner it has protested to France. [More…]
Where is evidence of the same type of action being taken against China? [More…]
He did not say who was threatening to attack China. [More…]
He did not say who was threatening China but we know he was referring to Russia. [More…]
One can imagine that if China is under threat of attack and that threat is posed by Russia, the whole of the world will be involved in any conflict which might ensue. [More…]
Does it matter whether a test is carried out on a Pacific island or in China, in the southern hemisphere or in the northern hemisphere, whether it is close to Australia or whether it is not? [More…]
There is no doubt that this Government is prepared to do everything possible to frustrate France while at the same time it does absolutely nothing to oppose nuclear testing by China. [More…]
Atmospheric Nuclear Tests by China and France: Adjourned debate … on the motion by Senator Sim- that the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
At that time China was exploding such devices but the Government did not make a murmur about that. [More…]
It did not enter any protest against China because it was not playing speaks with China. [More…]
The only time the previous Government played speaks with China was when it was able to sell tallow, wheat and iron ore through various back door countries. [More…]
At the moment India, on her border, has 2 powerful neighbours with nuclear arms- the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
But I also agree with the suggestion implicit in the motion, that is, that they could have and should have shown much greater indignation over the explosions which have been carried out by China in the past and which are going to be carried out by China in the future. [More…]
I now turn to the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
This motion is based on a statement that there is selective indignation and that the indignation against France is infinitely greater than any form of indignation suggested by this Government in regard to China. [More…]
We have been told by Dr J. F. Cairns and others who have been to China that Mr Chou En-lai, the Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, informed them that the Chinese personally supported the attitude of the French in carrying out these tests. [More…]
Premier Chou En-lai said that he believed that France, like China, had to have nuclear armaments because of the threat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
He also said that China would continue to conduct these nuclear tests. [More…]
I would have expected that when Australia was so strong in its protest to France it would have been similarly strong in its protest to China. [More…]
When we went to the International Court to determine the legal arguments in regard to France, I think that we ought to have tried to determine the legal arguments in regard to China. [More…]
I merely ask any fair-minded senator: Do you consider that it is an argument against Australia’s taking action against China that the winds will blow the nuclear fallout over Asian people and not over Australian people? [More…]
Let me read again the answer he gave in regard to why he would not take action against China: [More…]
Doesn’t the same argument apply to China, that other countries are being affected by fallout? [More…]
What has happened in regard to China? [More…]
If the Government says that it does not think that it can get to the World Court in relation to China at least it could show its disapproval. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) went to China at a time when China was exploding atomic bombs which threatened the welfare of people all around it. [More…]
Dr Cairns went to Peking and signed a treaty which declared that in the eyes of the Australian Government China was the most favoured nation. [More…]
All the indignation that is lavished on France is not lavished on China. [More…]
I think the proper attitude for the Labor Government to adopt would be to say that it will break off its present relations, particularly from a trade point of view, with China until China promises to cease atomic testing. [More…]
I have no doubt that the reason why Mr Whitlam asked the ACTU to cease its action against the French was that a number of unions had placed on the agenda of the ACTU congress motions seeking similar condemnatory action to be taken in regard to China, because of its tests, as had been taken against France. [More…]
I repeat that the reason why it was lifted was that certain unions had put an item on the agenda for the ACTU conference asking that China be similarly condemned. [More…]
Our Government, which at present is making trade treaties with China, which calls China the most favoured nation and which will set up a high priority visit by our Prime Minister and other Ministers to China, felt it was very embarrassing that certain trade unions said that they ought to be honest enough to do to China what they were doing to France. [More…]
I do not think that Communist China ought to be a most favoured nation. [More…]
I would like to see Australia being just as tough in regard to China as it is in regard to France or Rhodesia or South Africa, and just as tough in regard to what is happening in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
It has removed the ban simply because it looks a bit awkward when the Australian unions are wanting China to be attacked. [More…]
In this present equation the United Kingdom and the United States are superimposed on the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I think it is inevitable, even disregarding ideological reasons, that there be a conflict of interest between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I will deal in a moment with criticism that honourable senators opposite advance against China. [More…]
As for China, I do not know what honourable senators on the Opposition side wanted. [More…]
We have been critical of France and we have been critical of China. [More…]
They are prepared to be a bit tolerant and say that he achieved some understanding with the Soviet Union and China and that there has been a reduction of tension in South Vietnam, although there are a few other odd things still happening in that country. [More…]
That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
The test is simply this: Is the Government handing out even handed treatment and justice to France and to China? [More…]
Both China and France in recent weeks and months have exploded nuclear devices in the atmosphere. [More…]
Did the Attorney-General go to China at all for any reason? [More…]
Did any Government Minister- the Foreign Minister or the Prime Minister- go to China directly for the reason of protesting against the Chinese tests? [More…]
Did he seek to go to China? [More…]
The protest was directed against France but not against China. [More…]
What did the Government do in relation to China in terms of trade and communications? [More…]
Is it not adopting a double standard that the Government permits a ban against France and encourages an expansion of trade with China? [More…]
France and ignore China in protesting about nuclear testing? [More…]
It was prepared to go along with a protest against France and China but not just against France. [More…]
So off the Prime Minister went to Ottawa to try to drum up support for a protest against France but not against China. [More…]
When we the Opposition asked: ‘Why do you not protest against China’? [More…]
The Prime Minister came out with this famous statement: ‘Well, of course China does not concern us because it is situated thousands of miles away. [More…]
By what percentages has the present radiation level been contributed to by past nuclear testing by (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the United States of America, (c) the Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (d) The People ‘s Republic of China, and (e) France? [More…]
I asked the Attorney-General- and the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) who is sitting at the table will remember this- long before the tests in France or China occurred this question: ‘Where will the Chinese tests occur?’ [More…]
Ultimately I was told: ‘We do not quite know, but we think it might be Lop Nor in the Sinkiang Province in the north west of China.’ [More…]
I hope that the Minister in his reply will tell us whether he thinks that China has a greater right to build a bomb; whether, in the Prime Minister’s words, China is under a greater threat. [More…]
He said that here is a Prime Minister who says that there is justification and who understands that the justification in China’s mind for building a nuclear deterrent because China is under a real threat. [More…]
With one standard he said yes, he could understand China - [More…]
-Does Senator Keeffe agree that it is right for China to build a bomb but wrong for France? [More…]
In reply to my question whether the Government had asked China when it was likely to explode bombs he answered: ‘No, we have not done anything of the sort ‘. [More…]
The second standard is that we drum up world opinion unsuccessfully stage by stage to try to attack France but not China. [More…]
We sent our Minister abroad to attack France, but we sent no one on a mission to china. [More…]
The Labor Government supported the banning of trade and communications with France but welcomed with open arms trade with China. [More…]
If it is this Government’s policy why is it that we did not recall our ambassador from China and have him sit in Australia putting on a petulant sulk for some weeks as well so that we could have the same standard for China as we have had for France. [More…]
It was when he reached Washington that he began to show rather more promise: He needed to, of course, because he was starting with the handicap of strained relations caused by his senior ministers ‘ criticisms of American activities in Indo-China at the beginning of the year and his own somewhat truculent attitude towards the United States. [More…]
He said, in the mien of a man who is uncovering some awful sacrilege, that the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, had poured sand into the diplomatic relations that exist between this country and China. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs some time ago made a speech in which he referred to Taiwan as a province of China. [More…]
When one looks at that record it is difficult to believe that anyone could think that Taiwan is naturally a province of China. [More…]
Throughout the world continuing comprehensive reports were required by all sections of the media on the brisk moves of the new Labor Government; for instance, the abolition of national service, revaluation of the dollar, recognition of the People’s Republic of China, the establishment of diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic and North Vietnam, Australia’s stand on the French nuclear testing in the Pacific, the subsequent finding by the International Court of Justice and the effects of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]
-The situation is that we do not consider the Taiwan Government as the Government of China; that is quite clear. [More…]
We regard Peking as the capital of China, not Taipei. [More…]
There was, of course, the very urgent matter that had been going on for years of the recognition of Red China and East Germany. [More…]
That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
I pointed out that the nature of the message transmitted to each of the countries, China and France, was different. [More…]
The fact is that China and France both exploded nuclear devices. [More…]
No Minister was sent to China to do the same thing. [More…]
Thirdly, we had the question of a trade pact with China, on the one hand giving her most favoured nation treatment and, on the other hand, urging, on the part of Dr Cairns and others and certainly supported by the Government, a ban on trade and communications with the French. [More…]
Mr Whitlam agreed that his criticisms of the French program were in sterner language than his response to China’s atmospheric tests. [More…]
He said he considered China was under threat. [More…]
He said he considered China was under threat. [More…]
But in the halls of nations our Prime Minister has gone on record as saying that China is under threat, and by that there can be only one meaning: He is saying that China is under threat from Soviet Russia. [More…]
He sees no great harm in the Chinese exploding a device over the land at Lop Nor in the Sinkiang Province in north-western China. [More…]
It is I think of some significance that perhaps the greatest of our nuclear scientists in Australia, Professor Sir Ernest Titterton, is on record as saying that if we are to rap anybody we should rap China because in his words the effect of the Chinese bomb is exposed immediately to 7 times more people in terms of world population than that of the French. [More…]
But an article which appeared in the Melbourne ‘Herald’ under the heading: ‘We Get the China Bomb Fallout Says Scientist’ states: [More…]
Short-lived radiation from the tests at Lop Nor in western China did not reach Australia’, he said. [More…]
He said Australia’s and New Zealand’s approach to tests by China in contrast to those by France illustrated this. [More…]
I cannot receive representatives of China or any other country so long as they continue to test nuclear weapons anywhere in the world’ . [More…]
My difficulty is that if I am not prepared to receive representatives of the French Government, what must my position be when it comes to my friends in China? [More…]
That the Senate deplores the Government’s double standards in respect of atmospheric nuclear testing by China and France. [More…]
I think that the most noteworthy fact is that from the Government side not one of the 3 speakers condemned the People’s Republic of China specifically. [More…]
Not one of you mentioned one word of condemnation of China. [More…]
The honourable senator referred to it in general terms, but there was not one word that was specifically in condemnation of China. [More…]
There was not one word of condemnation specifically of China. [More…]
I challenge him to point out where he specifically condemned China in a manner equal to his condemnation of France. [More…]
China was mentioned. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite by their failure to condemn China have condemned themselves. [More…]
The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, said today that France’s nuclear testing program was more monstrous than China’s. [More…]
But if we were to look at degrees of what is more monstrous, then I suppose one could argue that the tests of China are more monstrous than those of France. [More…]
China is exploding a dirtier bomb that affects more people. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of Dr J. F. Cairns visit to China when he said he took up with Chou En-lai the question of Chinese nuclear tests. [More…]
If China is under threat, it is under threat from one country. [More…]
If China is under threat no stable world situation will develop. [More…]
The fact is that this Government reversed the policy of the previous Government in regard to China. [More…]
Such criteria will be applied in the case of regular scheduled services to China after full consultation in the normal way with Qantas, whose views have been, and will continue to be, given full weight. [More…]
1 understand that a number of countries which recognise the People’s Republic of China have placed comparable restrictions on official travel to Taiwan and on the use of official or diplomatic passports for travel to Taiwan. [More…]
It is going among the old china while he visits the new China. [More…]
Prior to that war, between Australia and Asia and the rest of the world we had the British in India and in Malaya, the Dutch in Indonesia, the French in IndoChina and the Americans in the Philippines. [More…]
A year or two after that war an event happened as a result of which nothing could ever again be the same for the security of our country- communism took over China. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China face one another across their common border where the Russians have 45 divisions and the Chinese have almost as many. [More…]
A diplomat from one of those countries told me that other day that his country has not yet recognised communist China. [More…]
He said that his country sent one of its top diplomats to see Chou En-lai and told him that the position between their 2 countries would be much easier if China did not interfere in the internal affairs of this small South East Asian country. [More…]
I would say that with the serious position to the north of Australia the increasing power of China and the Soviet Union and the big increases in the size of their navies, anybody who simply says that we can forget the rest of the world for 10 to 15 years will have a very serious awakening. [More…]
It is true also that there has been some measure of understanding reached between the United States of America and China. [More…]
The balance between the United States, China, the Soviet Union and Japan- the quadrilateral in our region- is far from clear. [More…]
If these things happen how will they affect relations between Japan and China? [More…]
On the other hand, if Japan cannot reach agreement with the Soviet Union will Japan reach agreement with China? [More…]
Overshadowing all these things is the relationship between Russia and China. [More…]
There are reports- I think this was mentioned by Senator McManus- that there are between 44 and 49 Russian divisions along the border between China and the Soviet Union and that they are faced by an equivalent number of Chinese divisions. [More…]
It is reported also that a significant proportion of the Russian nuclear deterrent as well as a significant part of its air power is facing China. [More…]
I accept the view- I only hope it is true- that it is unlikely that there will be a major conflict between Russia and China. [More…]
I believe that today there is greater fear, in China of Russia than there is of China in Russia; I believe that the Chinese fear the Russians more than the Russians fear the Chinese in the short term. [More…]
However, it may well be that the Russians believe that China may well threaten them in future. [More…]
Mention was made of the confrontation between China and Russia. [More…]
If the Chinese feel that there is a threat from the Soviet Union then obviously they will try to match those particular bases and a situation could develop where the confrontation will be not on the border between Russia and China but in some remote part of the Pacific. [More…]
He used to flood the electorate with maps of Australia showing red arrows descending from China by rather circuitous routes, some going through Malaya, some going through Honolulu, some going up and some coming down, but all of thiem ultimately finishing up at the Royal Perth Golf Club. [More…]
I refer not only to the cold war between the United States, its allies and appendages, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but to a time when the divisions between the USSR and the People’s Republic of China had not become as apparent as they are now. [More…]
We have recognised the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I do not believe there can be any doubt that, just as our participation in that war was used by aggressive elements in the United States to justify their position, so our withdrawal from that war had an influence on the United States Government in ending its participation in the war in Indo-China. [More…]
We are in a position where we can talk to the people in China. [More…]
The dispute between the Soviet Union and China is a black feature at the present time. [More…]
If it did nothing else, the role that it played in ending the Vietnam war and the role that it played in seeing that sensible relations exist between this country and China, Vietnam and East Germany would be abiding memorials to this Government and of permanent benefit to the peace of the world and the security of the Australian people. [More…]
It has forced both Russia and China to change their international policies so that they have sought to make friends with other countries because they fear a major conflict between themselves. [More…]
The key to victory for either Russia or China in a conflict between those 2 countries would be the economic power of Japan to produce the weapons of war. [More…]
The ‘West Australian’ newspaper comments that if these men came from mainland China perhaps the situation would be different. [More…]
in another attack on the West, accuses New Zealand and Australia of cowardice for protesting against the French nuclear tests but not against the nuclear tests carried out by the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
As the Senate knows I was fortunate to be a member of the representation from this Senate which visited China as part of a parliamentary delegation this year. [More…]
Also, after the visit of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to Japan, where he is to represent the Government as Minister for Foreign Affairs as well as Prime Minister, and his 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…]
We also reopened opportunities in China, a market which had been cut off to Australian primary producers through sheer political expediency on the part of the previous Government. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Overseas Trade refers to an extraordinary statement attributed to the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, to the effect that the duration of wheat sales contracts to Communist China will depend upon whether there is a change of government in this country. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Are we to take it that the present Australian Government accepts the position that trade negotiations with Communist China will depend on whether the government in power here is one of which Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai approve? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Primary Industry, refers to an answer given recently in the Parliament by the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, on the terms of the wheat sale to China. [More…]
I do not see that that is any cause for concern; in fact, I think it is an indication of the excellent work done by Dr Cairns in China. [More…]
I invite members of the Opposition, and Senator Carrick in particular if he wishes to answer, to state categorically that they oppose the wheat agreement that has been entered into with China. [More…]
I refer to the extraordinary statement by the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr J. F. Cairns, which appears at page 2056 of the House of Representatives Hansard of yesterday’s date, and which has just been quoted by Senator Carrick, that Mr Pai, the Minister for Foreign Trade of the People ‘s Republic of China, stated that the People ‘s Republic of China would sign a wheat agreement for 3 years only in case there was a change of government in Australia. [More…]
Is it a fact that the formula for the recognition of the People’s Republic of China contained an undertaking of non-interference in each other’s affairs? [More…]
In the event that he has not seen it, I draw his attention to a report appearing in the newspaper, the ‘Australian’, today regarding the Prime Minister’s forthcoming visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, is using his visit to China to push Advance Australia Fair as our now national anthem. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the bull will be transported to China by a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules aircraft at an estimated cost of $20,000? [More…]
When Marco Polo went to China he took presents with him. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister on his forthcoming visit to the People’s Republic of China raise with the Government of that country the repeated reports that China is a significant purchaser of Rhodesian chrome? [More…]
Trade Agreement between Australia and the People’s Republic of China, signed at Canberra on 24 July 1973. [More…]
Admittedly it is comparable to the feldshers or the barefoot doctors in China but it is not comparable to our system. [More…]
Is it true that the commercial television networks Channel 9 and Channel 7 have refused to send news teams to cover the Prime Minister’s trip to Japan and China? [More…]
But to say the least I think it disappointing that apparently the Channel 9 network will have no exclusive coverage of an event of such historic importance as the visit of an Australian Prime Minister to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
As I understand the situation, the Channel 7 network will have its own coverage of the Prime Minister’s visit to Japan and China. [More…]
I think it would be far better for Australian television viewers to see Australian reporters on the spot with the Australian Prime Minister in China. [More…]
I refer to the recently announced 3-year agreement for the sale of wheat to China. [More…]
The arrangement that has been entered into between Australia and China is the responsibility of the Minister for Overseas Trade; it is not my responsibility. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Does he know that Dr Cairns in another place has claimed that his wheat agreement with Red China could only be for 3 years because the Chinese would deal only with a Labor government? [More…]
If this claim is true, how does the Minister explain the enormous sales to China by a Liberal-Country Party Government between 1966 and 1970? [More…]
If true, does the Government’s obsequious acceptance of such a condition condone a serious interference by China in Australia’s internal affairs? [More…]
Does this condition by China amount to an external support for the present ailing Government, enable China to dictate items of policy and account for some of the extraordinary votes of this Government at the United Nations? [More…]
In any event the Government of China is entitled to take whatever course it wishes. [More…]
-As I mentioned to the honourable senator yesterday, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Channel 0-Ten network will be sending television teams with the Prime Minister’s party on its visit to Japan and China. [More…]
I recall a recent ‘Four Corners’ program, 1 think it was, which showed terrorists from Lebanon and elsewhere who had been trained in China and who were armed with Chinese weapons to carry out these outrageous acts of terrorism against innocent people throughout the world. [More…]
There is an obligation on other countries, including China, not to cause trouble and not to fish in troubled waters by training and supplying these people, if there is to be peace and trust in this area. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister for Overseas Trade signed an agreement with China for Australian wheat sales? [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Australian Wheat Board went to China and signed a formal agreement with that country on wheat sales, and that the agreement included a 3-year contract and a specific price for the first 20-odd million bushels of this year’s sale? [More…]
If so, why did the Prime Minister sign another agreement with China on wheat sales? [More…]
With no nation is our new aspiration symbolised more than it is with China. [More…]
Are reports from Peking correct that the Prime Minister has undertaken the task of persuading South East Asian countries which have not recognised communist China to recognise that country? [More…]
The answer to the second part of the honourable senator’s question as to whether Mr Whitlam was going to explain Chinese policy to the rest of South East Asia is that Mr Whitlam was very clear that he was not going to be an advocate or an apologist for the People’s Republic of China but that if anybody was to discuss it with him he would make very clear what Australia’s attitude was towards recognition and how we are getting on with the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Northern Development, refers to the reported sale of sugar to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Was the Prime Minister’s statement in China that With no nation is our aspiration symbolised more than it is with China’ the considered opinion of the Labor Government? [More…]
As China is a communist country, did Mr Whitlam mean that Australia is in accord with the communist philosophy? [More…]
If he believes in this silly statement, how does he reconcile the fact that China does not have any opposition party and does not have unions or allow strikes? [More…]
I thank the honourable senator for having drawn the attention of the Senate to the extremely successful visit made by the Prime Minister to China as well as to other parts. [More…]
Has the Minister noticed passing Press reference to the fact that the Prime Minister recently visited mainland China in a chartered Qantas Boeing 707 aircraft? [More…]
-No doubt the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration has seen reports that following the Prime Minister’s visit to China a significant number of Chinese migrants may be coming to Australia. [More…]
I did see a statement in which the Prime Minister said that he would encourage the Chinese Government to give permission for people in China to come to Australia to visit and to meet their relatives. [More…]
Would not recent agreements made with China, Japan, East Germany and other countries indicate that Australian primary producers are assured of long term sales at beneficial rates? [More…]
Is it a fact that Australia’s much publicised $250m sugar agreement with the People ‘s Republic of China is considerably enhanced by the fact that it is a long term agreement enabling the Australian industry to plan well in advance? [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Minister for Overseas Trade said recently that a new wheat agreement with China could be reviewed in the event of a change of government in the next 3 years? [More…]
I wish to make a statement relating to the visit to Japan and China by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [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 2 great neighbours, Japan and China. [More…]
On the visit to Chinafrom 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 my 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, we have 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 senators will know, important and valuable arrangements were made for the sale to China of up to 300,000 tons of sugar per 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 senators 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 this country. [More…]
It is entirely proper that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) should table in the Parliament as soon as he can after his return a statement on the outcome of his visit to Japan and China and the talks which he held there. [More…]
We welcomed when in Government those initiatives which President Nixon had taken, and we acknowledged also the welcome response of China and the ties which subsequently were created. [More…]
We recognise particularly with China that there are benefits in creating trade associations and that there is mutuality in the benefits which can be derived. [More…]
These and other things, I believe, can be positive benefits from the visit to China. [More…]
This was, in a way which cannot be said of the visit to China, a necessary visit. [More…]
There is little more in this statement on his visit to Japan and China. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said he believes his 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’. [More…]
If in fact what the Prime Minister did achieve was a relationship with the leaders of Japan and China which enables him to contact them more readily and more easily, and to talk on a basis on which his views will be listened to and the views of others will be equally listened to by him so that they know where each other stands, then that is of value, and I do not question that it is of value. [More…]
I believe that the Parliament is entitled to something better, a great deal more in the way of information from the Prime Minister as to what actually happened on the visits to Japan and China, and what the prospects arising from those visits may be. [More…]
I refer specifically to the visit to China. [More…]
The Senate will recall that I was a member of a parliamentary delegation which visited China for a period of some 14 days this year. [More…]
Concern was expressed at what China was doing. [More…]
It was a view that China believed it had a right to have a nuclear capability, that China was to continue with its nuclear testing until it had that nuclear capability and that while America, Britain and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had a nuclear capability it was China’s right and entitlement to have the same capability. [More…]
I do not know and I think that the Prime Minister at least ought to say whether that was the attitude which China has since adopted, because if China has adopted that attitude it is to me surprising that the Prime Minister has adopted a different type of style and approach to that which he has adopted to France. [More…]
If China has adopted the same attitude as France, and certainly in my experience it is the attitude of the Chinese Government, then one raises the question: Why is it that the Prime Minister is not prepared to speak in the same language to China as he is prepared to speak to France? [More…]
It is equally clear that it is not mentioned in the Prime Minister’s statement that the Prime Minister is prepared to meet with other countries in the Association of South East Asian Nations area and explain to them China’s policies. [More…]
The article proceeds to indicate the extent of China’s support for these insurgency movements. [More…]
‘I think we have to start realising that China can never turn its back on these insurgencies,’ a Malaysian Foreign Office official glumly conceded last week. [More…]
We can ‘t really hope that simply by establishing friendly relations with China our problems will go away. ‘ [More…]
I again refer to my experience in China with the parliamentary delegation this year. [More…]
We were constantly told, as the Prime Minister was told, that China seeks to maintain friendly relations with all countries on the basis of the 5 principles of peaceful coexistence. [More…]
Then, as we developed further the arguments about the finance for these movements and about the arms which are found and which are made in China, the claims I made were conceded point by point. [More…]
Ultimately, we received acknowledgment from the Chinese officials with whom we were travelling that we ought to understand that China’s support for insurgency movements or liberation movements was a complete exception to the principles of peaceful co-existence. [More…]
To us it just seems incredible that this position can be maintained as the official stance of the Government; that in a public view through the Foreign Office, China can maintain friendly relations with other countries but through the international secretariat which is the foreign branch of the Chinese Communist Party it is seeking to undermine governments in these countries. [More…]
On 2 October of this year at the Twenty-eighth United Nations General Assembly the Chairman of the Chinese delegation, Chiao Kuan-hua, gave a speech in which he indicated quite clearly the policies to which China is committed. [More…]
These are matters which ought to be recognised as some of the factors of which we must take account in our relationships with China. [More…]
The Prime Minister in his speeches in China and in the statement which he has made to this Parliament has not adverted in any way to those matters. [More…]
with unabashed concern … ‘A collapse in Indo-China will bring advanced threat of guerrilla insurgency to our doorsteps by way of Thailand and West Malaysia.’ [More…]
It is a fact of life that we cannot blind our eyes to the situation simply by believing that because we have friendly relations with the People’s Republic of China these things can be discarded and forgotten. [More…]
In the same speech to the United Nations in October the People ‘s Republic of China made it abundantly clear that it supported the Arab nations in what is called ‘their just struggle against Israeli Zionism’. [More…]
But where does Australia stand in relation to these attitudes to China? [More…]
But if he has the same sort of friendship with China, why did he adopt a different stance- if he does adopt a different stance with China. [More…]
The first matter I want to refer to concerns the statements which have been made in the Press and on the radio, and not denied, that Mr Whitlam had made a commitment to work for the cause of Peking or Communist China in South-East Asia with a view to inducing countries in that area to recognise Peking. [More…]
South Eastern Asian countries asked him what he thought about things in China, he would make favourable comment on any proposal that they should recognise Peking or Communist China. [More…]
The whole position is this: In what we have done we have aligned Australia with China- make no error about that. [More…]
The other day we aligned ourselves with China when, although China had exploded and indicated that it would continue to explode atomic bombs, we announced that we had made a treaty with China under which China, in our eyes, would be the most favoured nation. [More…]
Then the Prime Minister announced in his speech that Communist China was the one country- he emphasised the point, the one countrywith which Australia would be in tune from now on. [More…]
Communist China is not the one country with which our future aspirations are in tune. [More…]
What will be the opinion of the United States of America when it hears that Communist China is the one country above all with which we aspire to march along in the world of the future? [More…]
We have indicated that we are prepared to put pressure on South East Asian nations to recognise Communist China. [More…]
He said that South East Asia inevitably must be the bloc dominated by China. [More…]
There are dangerous subversive movements financed and assisted from China. [More…]
I was told not so long ago by a prominent South East Asian diplomat that one of the principal persons in the Government of his country visited China and saw Chairman Mao. [More…]
The subject of recognition was raised and this man said to Chairman Mao that it would help for better relations if China did not interfere in his country. [More…]
Australia is going to tell the South East Asian countries that they should recognise Communist China. [More…]
The answer to the second part of the honourable senator’s question as to whether Mr Whitlam was going to explain Chinese policy to the rest of South East Asia is that Mr Whitlam was very clear that he was not going to be an advocate or an apologist for the People’s Republic of China but that if anybody was to discuss it with him he would make very clear what Australia’s attitude was towards recognition and how we are getting on with the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
If the members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence only stopped to think they would realise that there is only one country in this area of the world to which we will be looking for support, and that is China. [More…]
If they believe that they should recognise China I do not see why the Opposition is making all this fuss about our recognising China. [More…]
Let me give the reason why I say that we need China as a friend. [More…]
If the Opposition wishes to fight another election in which it uses the ‘little red arrows’ technique, those arrows should come down not from China but from Japan, as that country will come down here again. [More…]
I think that our country people will agree that the best things that have ever happened were the trips by the Prime Minister and his party to China. [More…]
I am all for a treaty of friendship with China because I believe that as it is not for humanity for nations to be friendly with people in their area, we need the help of the Chinese. [More…]
We talk about the Vietnamese and Red China and how the Chinese have helped North Vietnam. [More…]
But his is scared of China. [More…]
He dares not recognise China because 75 per cent or 80 per cent of the population of Singapore is Chinese. [More…]
Let me assure the Senate that if China was recognised by Singapore it would not be long before Singapore was Chinese again. [More…]
Opposition senators who have been to China know about the position taken by that country. [More…]
He has been to China. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon, I know that you are replying to statements which were made by Senator McManus, but I remind you that the Senate is debating a ministerial statement on the visit of the Prime Minister to Japan and China. [More…]
We are being told, without any correction, that the same Party which follows the Communist Party of the Soviet Union also follows the Communist Party of China- a remarkable feat which even Houdini would have been incapable of performing. [More…]
I did not find that they hated the Chinese Communist Party, China or the Chinese people. [More…]
It would be interesting to learn from some of the Opposition speakers who have accused us of being agents of North Vietnamese communists and of being agents of Ho Chi Minh how it is that we are simultaneously his agents and the agents of his Party and the agents of China when the Vietnam Workers’ Party still belongs to the Communist and Workers International which the Chinese Communist Party has condemned as a revisionist organisation. [More…]
Despite what the previous Government said, China is not a little island off the coast. [More…]
China is a huge country which has approximately one-third of the world’s population. [More…]
I should like to see members of the Opposition go to the farmers and the manufacturers of this country and tell them that they are opposed to the trade agreement with China. [More…]
Are members of the Opposition opposed to the trade agreement with China? [More…]
Do they believe that we should not have this agreement with China? [More…]
We have a government which acknowledges reality and which says: ‘China is there. [More…]
So obsessed has he been to travel in his great expensive luxury and to drop his pearls of wisdom en route that once again, when he comes home, he treats this Parliament and his country with abject contempt by delivering a 4-page statement on Japan and China- a statement which says nothing. [More…]
I wish to make it clear that the subjects of Japan and China are of pre-eminent importance to the people of Australia. [More…]
I for one welcome everything that will bring Mainland China into the comity of nations, everything that will bring China around the board to discuss with the people of the world the common problems of the world in honesty and in frankness. [More…]
Did we find in this paper any mention of the talks with China that one would have expected from a nation living in Asia and facing the great problems of Asia? [More…]
Where indeed is mention of the discussions about whether China will continue to play a role in feeding arms and equipment to the people of North Vietnam? [More…]
Where indeed are the discussions on the role that China may play in the future in terms of the national liberation fronts? [More…]
If he is an honest broker, not for China, as he is reported to have said, but for Australia he should have gone to China and said: ‘It is pre-eminently in the interests of the people of this region and the world that South East Asia should be stable; that countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma should have the right to separate sovereignty and separate existence and not have the fear that by subversion, by the inducing of liberation fronts, that they can be destroyed; that we as their good neighbours respect their right to co-exist. ‘ [More…]
Singapore must have taken the statement of our Prime Minister that he would be a broker for China in Asia as being one of the most remarkable white-anting statements that anybody could utter in Asia today. [More…]
Was there a discussion anywhere on any of the great problems of the world, was there a discussion on the Middle East in which China has, behind the scene, taken a very important part and in which China has lent towards one partisan cause and in which an honest broker from Australia would have tried to talk and tried to get some balance of peace? [More…]
A government which ridiculed a previous government when its then Prime Minister said ‘AH the way with LBJ’ finds nothing ridiculous in the superlatives with which today it expresses its aspirations at best symbolised with China. [More…]
The highest aspirations which the Prime Minister expressed were not with the principles of democracy, not with the principles of a country espousing the British law, the rule of law, not finding it there at all, but its highest aspirations were symbolised with China. [More…]
I do not denigrate China at all. [More…]
It is a country under the tightest military regime and rule in the world; a country which uses bloody murder and terror to control its people; a country in which its Deputy Premier Lin Piao, the favoured son of Mao Tse-tung and chosen to succeed him, could disappear and the leaders, the Politbureau of China, did not find it necessary to explain to the people of China or to the world what had happened to the second most important man in China. [More…]
This is virtually all that has come out of China. [More…]
We can expand trade with Japan and China. [More…]
The previous Government made tremendous expansions of trade with both those countries and had very significant trade with China. [More…]
We have decided that we are going to direct ourselves towards Mainland China. [More…]
I repeat that our highest aspirations are symbolised with China. [More…]
If our aspirations most lie with China, what do we expect the 200 million people of America, who have done more than any other people in the past 30 years to keep the peace in the world, to do and think about Australia and our treaties if we are looking elsewhere? [More…]
Nothing in this paper at all suggests that Australia’s approach to China was even directed on a foreign affairs level. [More…]
The fact that Russia and China are in conflict and that this could flare up into world conflict can be of no consolation to us. [More…]
The greatest defect of thinking of this Government of ours is that not only are men an island but Australia is an island unto itself and that Australia somehow can be isolated against the world- a world in which an oil crisis in the Middle East is being engendered and which could create world war; a world in which some 2 years ago at the time of the Bangladesh outbreak it was feared with some justification that Russia might seek to knock out the nuclear establishments of China. [More…]
The other country was China which, rising out of the depressions and pressures and militarisms of the past, has come into a new world. [More…]
The Senate is discussing the visit of the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to Japan and China, which I believe was probably one of the most significant visits ever conducted by an Australian Prime Minister and parliamentary colleagues. [More…]
It is still on that slow boat to China which should have reached the shores of that country many years ago. [More…]
The Australian Government has recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Firstly, it has been established that the Australian Government will pursue an independent foreign policy in relation to China, Japan and the whole of the Asian region. [More…]
In 1949 the people’s liberation army succeeded in affecting a change in government in the land mass of China. [More…]
Anybody who has had the opportunity to visit that country in the intervening 24 years cannot but be impressed with its growth, with the endeavours of the new Government to bring China into the 20th century and to eradicate the remains of feudalism which was characteristic of that country, to establish a uniform government and to try to establish a relationship based on co-existence with other countries. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Prime Minister that in 1971 when he was Leader of the Opposition he took the important initiative of visiting China and of establishing some connections with this important country. [More…]
d ) the People ‘s Republic of China; and [More…]
Is it true that Mr Tom Burns, a Labor member of the Queensland Parliament, travelled with the Prime Minister’s party to mainland China? [More…]
I refer to the Prime Minister’s brief and uninformative statement presented yesterday on his visit to Japan and China. [More…]
Is it the Prime Minister’s intention to make a detailed statement to Parliament on his discussions in Tokyo and Peking and on his meeting with Prince Sihanouk so that Parliament and the people can be fully informed as to the meaning, for example, of such expressions as Australia’s new aspiration is symbolised more in our relations with China than with any other country’? [More…]
-Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs tell me the exact cost to the Australian people of the Murray Grey bull that was presented to the Red Chinese Government and also the exact cost to transport the beast to China? [More…]
1 ) Is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Council for the Arts proposing to visit the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
The Executive Officer of the Australian Council for the Arts is shortly to visit China for a period of 12 days. [More…]
The purpose of the visit is to make a survey of the types of cultural visits by Australians which would be suitable for China; in particular, what might be arranged to coincide with the Australian Trade Exhibition to be held in Peking in October 1974. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the following question: In view of the genocide practised in Tibet by the Chinese, which was exposed in its report on the matter by the International Commission of Jurists which is based in Geneva, does the Government really believe that Taiwan should be a province of” China, it having been referred to as such some time ago by the Prime Minister, because of the risk of a similar fate befalling the people of that country? [More…]
Is he willing to send a bull to China by Hercules aircraft but not vital food and medical supplies to Ethiopia? [More…]
The expenditure on this painting is very much worse than sending a bull to China and paying for the plane to take it there. [More…]
I refer firstly to the recent visit of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to China. [More…]
The Prime Minister has an oleaginously servile approach to Red China. [More…]
The Prime Minister is so purblind on China- this description of him was given to me by a senior Labor man- that it would not have surprised me if the Prime Minister had brought back from China the No. [More…]
When Nixon went to China he at least said that he was going without prejudice to old friends. [More…]
On the one hand, the Government rejoices in having a sugar trade agreement with China. [More…]
When the Prime Minister returned from China he said that China symbolises Australia’s highest aspirations. [More…]
Does not the Prime Minister realise that China has a one party system? [More…]
There are no free trade unions in China. [More…]
Last Monday evening I was speaking to a friend of mine who had with him a friend from China. [More…]
My mother was walking down the street of a Chinese town shortly after the great Red successes in China. [More…]
Is the rumour which is circulating correct, namely, that 200 gallons of champagne were drunk on the trip to China and was it French champagne? [More…]
As to what occurred on the trip to China, I am unable to answer the honourable senator. [More…]
Prime Minister’s Visit to China (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Will the Prime Minister inform the Senate of the number of people, other than crew members, of the Qantas Airway’s Ltd Boeing 707 aircraft, who accompanied him on his most recent visit to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Other than employees of Qantas Airways Limited and of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the names of those 60 persons who accompanied my wife and me on the charter flight between Tokyo and Peking were: [More…]
Party delegation to China which I led in July 1971. [More…]
Reporters who have seen China for themselves do not confirm the honourable senator’s prejudices. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs explain in some detail the exact meaning of the expression used by the Prime Minister that ‘Australia’s new aspiration is symbolised more in our relations with China than with any other country’? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Prime Minister invited the Government of the People’s Republic of China to play a more active role in South East Asia? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister or the Government considered the serious possibility that the People’s Republic of China, and not Japan, may abandon its new course? [More…]
In that regard one is looking as far as one can see into the future not only in relation to the People’s Republic of China and Japan but also in relation to every other country that is of interest to Australia. [More…]
Is it a correct interpretation of the Prime Minister’s statement that Australia’s aspirations are being symbolised more with China than any other nation and that the Australian Government desires to have the closest identification between Australia’s policies and China’s policies? [More…]
I understand that Mr Pai has been dropped from the Politbureau in China. [More…]
On 8 November I asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs for an explanation of an expression used by the Prime Minister concerning our new relations with China. [More…]
Australia ‘s new aspiration is symbolised more in our relations with China than with any - [More…]
I ask: Did the Prime Minister use this expression because he liked the sound of the words or does he regard the expression as being significant in explaining our new relations with China? [More…]
I have my own views on our relationship with China and with all other nations. [More…]
Chairman Mao and his offsider helped to overthrow the successor to Dr Sun Yat-sen on the mainland of China a little over 20 years ago but that is not an illegal regime. [More…]
I think that the big sales Australia has made to the People’s Republic of China possibly are assisting in raising standards in that country. [More…]
As I understand it, the criticism that arises is that there seems to be an insinuation that the Prime Minister’s remark implies uncritical support and gives undue weight to our relations with the People ‘s Republic of China. [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…]
The establishment of diplomatic relations with China was one of the first foreign policy initiatives of the new Government and it is thus a convenient symbol of this new international outlook. [More…]
The previous Government refused to recognise the existence of Communist China and refused to treat with reason and tolerance various countries, the doors to which have now been opened. [More…]
-On 6 November I asked the Minister for Primary Industry whether it was correct that Dr Cairns had signed an agreement with the People ‘s Republic of China regarding proposed wheat sales and whether it was also correct that the Australian Wheat Board had signed a contract with the Chinese on the wheat sales themselves. [More…]
More than forty governments have recognised or maintained relations with the new Chilean regime, including all Latin American states (except Cuba), the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, West Germany, Sweden, and China. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the much publicised wheat agreement with China covers only the next 3 years? [More…]
Have the Minister for Primary Industry and the Minister for Overseas Trade given consideration to securing from China a concrete agreement for the sale of wheat beyond the 3-year term as a condition of supplying China during the period of world shortage? [More…]
Of course, the length of our agreement with China is a matter of negotiation between the Australian and Chinese Governments. [More…]
I am not aware of what discussions may have taken place in relation to supplying China with wheat beyond that period. [More…]
My question refers to the reported sale of sugar to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) has informed me that the Australian sugar marketing authorities were aware of his intention to discuss in Peking the question of permanent access for Australiansugar to China. [More…]
Such discussions were a natural sequel to talks Dr Patterson had in Peking when he first visited China with Mr Whitlam in 1 97 1 , to the signing of the Trade Agreement between Australia and the People’s Republic of China in July 1973, and to the efforts to sell sugar to China pursuedatthe commercial level by the industry itself. [More…]
In dealing with the question of aid, as honourable senators know- I have said it many times- the Government’s policy is to contribute to the post-war reconstruction of all countries in Indo China. [More…]
Having, however, learned of the honourable senator’s interest in the drinking habits of his colleagues (Senate Hansard 21 November 1973, page 1954), I have ascertained that 35 bottles of champagne were consumed in flight during my trip to Japan and China; 17 bottles were of Australian origin and 1 8 bottles of French. [More…]
Moreover, some 360 litres of Australian champagne (80 gallons) were sent to China in response to the Australian Ambassador’s proposal that Australian wines be served at the Australian Government’s two official functions in Peking, a reception at the Australian Embassy for 200 guests and a return banquet at the Great Hall of the people for 550 guests. [More…]
On 7 November 1973, after the Prime Minister’s return from his recent visit to Japan and China, he spoke in the House of Representatives about those visits and tabled certain documents relating to them. [More…]
whether at a time when the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were giving actual military aid to the Forces of North Korea then engaged in hostilities against Australian troops in the field, Wilfred Burchett then had any professional relationship, remunerated or not, with either of those Governments: [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is the report correct that the Chinese Government has protested about the reporting by Australian journalists based in China concerning the interesting events now developing in China? [More…]
For that reason, despite many years of opposition by the conservative parties in Australia, one of the first actions which we took upon election was to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
But it is a course with which we persevered and which we have now brought to fruition by the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
All other countries cither have taken or are in the process of taking precisely the same step which we took in recognising the People ‘s Republic of China in saying that the government of China was the government in Peking and not the government on an offshore island, and that if there was to be peace in our area and in the whole world, however much some may agree or disagree with the policies of the Chinese Government, we needed to have friendly relations with that country. [More…]
No longer can Australia be accused of engaging in any form of aggression in Indo-China. [More…]
Despite the possibilities of a settlement in Indo-China, particularly in Vietnam, the problems are by no means finished. [More…]
What we intend to do, and what we have done, is to work within the United Nations, to work with our friends and with those countries with which we have diplomatic relations, to see that there is a secure peace in Vietnam and in Cambodia and in the whole of Indo-China. [More…]
Another major conflict, one in regard to which it seems probable that very little can be done by Australia, is the conflict which has developed between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
However I think we have to recognise that in the case of China and in the case of the Soviet Union they are countries which, with whatever favourable aspects they may present, and indeed have presented, are dictatorships and that there are disputes as to which of them should have hegemony, if not throughout the whole world, at least in part of the world between the leaders of those 2 countries. [More…]
Certainly I think it has to be said that a contributing factor- I would not suggest that it is a major factor because I think there are other more important factors involved over which we never did have any influence- involved in the present intransigence of the Soviet Union and China is the many years of isolation in which both countries were placed after their revolutions. [More…]
I do not think it should be any wonder that both the Soviet Union and China should be extraordinarily suspicious countries, that both of them should be countries with which it is very hard for the other nations of the world to have sensible and sane dealings in view of the treatment which was meted out to both of them. [More…]
But at the same time, that action has been very mild compared with the campaigns of economic boycotts and sanctions which were carried out for almost 2 decades against the Soviet Union and against the People’s Republic of China, largely at the behest of the United States of America. [More…]
I believe they are both wrong, but I think that while we are looking at the situation of China and the Soviet Union we have to give some recognition to the historical reasons which have given rise to the difficulties which we now find in dealing with them and to see, insofar as we can, that these policies are not continued in the future because these are things to which the Australian Labor Party is opposed. [More…]
To a large extent the major difficulties between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and perhaps to a lesser extent between the United States of America and China, have been resolved as a result of some of the initiatives taken by the major powers. [More…]
Now it seems to be generally accepted that the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union, and on the other hand the U.S.A. and China, are taking all sorts of measures to prevent a conflict breaking out between those nations or any nations closely associated with them. [More…]
We have to have an agreement, a working understanding with the other super powers, whether it be China or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.’ [More…]
In China ‘s approach to relations with other countries, we find a welcome emphasis on the principles of the equality of states and respect for the rights and views of small and middle powers. [More…]
In this context, China’s support for the principles of respect for the national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states can make a significant contribution to strengthening peace. [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…]
When we came into office about 15 months ago we had no relations at all with China, one of the neighbours in our area, a country of 800 million people. [More…]
What the Government has done is to insult and to deceive the British, the Americans, the French, the Singaporeans, the Malaysians, the Cambodians and the South Vietnamese whilst picking up some more than dubious friends in China, East Germany, North Korea and any other communist state that shows its head. [More…]
As would be expected, the Speech makes a special reference to China. [More…]
Before we go off on the trail of the KGB let us look at the circumstances in which we went to China. [More…]
Mr Whitlam went to China before he became Prime Minister. [More…]
He made an announcement in advance that a Labor government would, as soon as it was elected, recognise China. [More…]
There was no talk about terms and conditions, although before he left he did say that Australia should recognise China on the Canadian formula, which meant that we would take note of the position of Taiwan. [More…]
When Mr Nixon went to China shortly afterwards, for some reason which I have never been able to understand all our Press pundits announced that there was now no difference in the approach towards China between the Liberal and Country Parties and the Labor Party. [More…]
Of course there was a fundamental difference because when Nixon went to China he went proclaiming that he went without prejudice to old friends. [More…]
There was talk of appropriating the funds held in the Bank of China in Sydney. [More…]
There were statements from the Department of Foreign Affairs that a doubtful title would be given to the property owned by the then Ambassador from free China. [More…]
We had 2 further examples of the subservience of the present administration to China when at the last minute the SEATO naval exercises were cancelled. [More…]
It might interest honourable senators opposite to know that the maps currently selling in the equivalent of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Peking- it is not called that; I forget its correct title- show Chinese territory extending not only to include all Korea but right down to include the whole of Indo China, Singapore, Malaya and part of Indonesia and, of course, the whole of Burma. [More…]
The Paracel Islands were aggressively grabbed by China a few weeks ago. [More…]
We heard no scream from this Government about this act of aggression because so far as this Government is concerned China can do no wrong. [More…]
Today in China many people are finding what they regard as new signs of internal disorder or internal convulsion. [More…]
The lessons in China are that each purge since 1949 has brought increasing power to the hard liners. [More…]
It would be a brave man who would forecast where China’s policy is likely to lead in the next 5 years. [More…]
The ageing leadership of China, and inevitability of change and the lack of knowledge as to who the future leaders are likely to be, their policies or the internal policies of China - [More…]
It was only when the Red Guard got out of control that the army came back to smash the Red Guard because of the fear of where the policies of the Red Guard were leading China. [More…]
All I am speaking of are the uncertainties in the world, the uncertainties in relations between the United States and Japan, between China and Russia and between Japan, China and Russia. [More…]
All indications point to the area between the northwest of Australia through to the China Sea becoming, in the foreseeable future, one of the great energy producing areas of the world, and that inevitably will bring big power competition and big power conflict to our shores. [More…]
This is the most obvious area of competition between Russia and China. [More…]
On the day that the peace treaty was signed between the Israelis and the Egyptians, China did a grab or takeover of the Paracels, which was followed very quickly by a move on the South Vietnamese on the Spratlys. [More…]
I refer to the dinner given in Peking on Sunday night by the Government of China, hosted by Premier Chou En-lai and Madam Mao, to leaders of the Australian Communist Party, Mr Ted Hill and Mr Norm Gallagher, and the statement reported in the Press as having been made at that dinner. [More…]
I refer to the report that Japan has requested Australia to act as as honest broker between Japan and China. [More…]
No such request has been made and it is very unlikely that it would have been made because there is quite a good relationship between China and Japan. [More…]
We have arranged trade agreements with countries such as East Germany, North Korea and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
In years gone by when Canada moved in on the Chinese wheat export trade, Australia was involved in a sort of double standard as to whether it was contrary to the concepts of our rigid foreign policy to trade with China. [More…]
The countries are as follows: Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorussian SSR, Canada, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukrainian SSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Zambia. [More…]
Was there some breakdown in communication between the Australian and Chinese Governments when an invitation was extended for a ping-pong team to visit China and instead preparations were made to send an Australian Rules Team? [More…]
Subsequently, that led to international recognition between the People ‘s Republic of China and the Australian Government. [More…]
If so, will the Minister explain why Australia opposed the inclusion of China in a protest against atmospheric nuclear testing which was issued by the South Pacific Forum? [More…]
In the latter part of his question the honourable senator asked why we opposed a specific mention of China in the communique. [More…]
1 ask: Can we expect the Prime Minister to issue an invitation to China to establish a scientific facility here merely to snub the United States? [More…]
Before each election the menace of communism, of China and the Soviet Union was trotted out. [More…]
Russia fears China’s nuclear capacity in the 1980s and China has a continued fear of a preemptive nuclear strike by Russia. [More…]
It is based mainly on China’s fear of Russia and there are, unfortunately, growing signs of increasing tension. [More…]
China’s future policies to which I referred briefly, and her future leadership are unknown. [More…]
The cultural revolution in China continues unabated. [More…]
One fears the judgment of the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, on China. [More…]
It seems to be affected by his amorous affair with the present Chinese leaders and with China as a whole. [More…]
No one knows what will be the future direction of China’s policies. [More…]
In South-East Asia the Indo-China war continues unabated, and no one knows what the result there will be. [More…]
All the indications are, of course, of growing competition or influence between Russia and China in South-East Asia. [More…]
Let me point out that right throughout South-East Asia there are guerrilla forces supplied and countenanced by Communist China. [More…]
Communist China admits it. [More…]
A Thai diplomat told me that when one of his own country’s principal ministers went to Peking to discuss with the Chinese the insurgency and subversion movement on their borders which is supported and financed by China, he asked Chou En-lai whether China would agree to stop interfering in his country’s affairs. [More…]
It relates to the action taken recently by the Minister at the South Pacific Forum to oppose and to achieve opposition to the inclusion of the People’s Republic of China with France in a resolution condemning nuclear tests. [More…]
Mr Whitlam, as Leader of the Opposition, protested to China when he visited that country. [More…]
He has protested to the Chinese since he has become Prime Minister and we have specifically sent our Ambassador to China to protest to the Chinese again. [More…]
As the honourable senator well knows, the reason we took France to the International Court of Justice and did not take China to the Court was that China never accepted the jurisdiction of the Court. [More…]
The honourable senator is quite right when he says that this Government has negotiated long term agreements with countries such as China. [More…]
Referring specifically to agreements with China- this matter really falls within the portfolio of the Minister for Overseas Trade and not mine- the only agreements that have been reached with the Chinese authorities of which I am aware are in the areas of wheat and sugar. [More…]
I am not aware of any decisions that have been made in relation to the dairy industry but I do believe that informal discussions have taken place to see what prospects there are for dairy products in China. [More…]
Bangladesh incident when it looked as though there would be a massive conflict between the Russians and Chinese and when it was rumoured throughout the world that the Russians might make a pre-emptive strike against the nuclear installations in China. [More…]
No mention is made of the events taking place in China today. [More…]
During the period when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was having an amorous love affair with the Chinese leaders he referred to China as that peaceful nation. [More…]
The events in China today do not give us any reason to feel confident about the future of China’s policies, and Dr Millar recognises this. [More…]
In his report he refers to the Paracels, the Spratlys and other areas of possible conflict in the China Sea. [More…]
Fighting is continuing in Indo-China where 13 or 14 regular divisions of the North Vietnamese army are stationed on South Vietnamese soil. [More…]
Often we see on television programs what is happening in places like the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
China does not seem to indicate that it is looking for war with anyone. [More…]
I notice that in China, from the age of about 10 years, children are taught something about war. [More…]
China. [More…]
As the Australian Government is unable to take action against China in the World Court as it can against France, will the Leader of the Government request the Prime Minister to consider instructing the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr J. F. Cairns, to cancel his planned visit to China to open the Peking fair as a form of protest? [More…]
Would the Leader of the Government regard such a step as an effective form of protest at China’s continuing and callous disregard of the welfare of its people and of the people of the world? [More…]
-The Australian Government, through the Prime Minister, has already made an emphatic protest against the conduct of the nuclear tests by the Government of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
While dealing with foreign affairs I point out that recently I returned from a visit to the People’s Republic of China which is a socialist state and a totally organised economy. [More…]
If the report is correct will the Prime Minister protest in a similar way against the Chinese atmospheric nuclear tests by refusing any invitation to attend receptions given by the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China until such time as China discontinues atmospheric nuclear tests, thereby demonstrating the Government’s much vaunted evenhandedness? [More…]
The Government has made clear on many occasions its opposition to the conduct of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests by France and China and by any other country. [More…]
If honourable senators want to take this argument to extremes- I am sure that some of them have been to Russia, and I have been to China- they should take a look at the socialised medical services of those 2 countries? [More…]
Russia has had 50 years to make socialised health work and China 25 years. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Agriculture and refers to recent Press reports that China has bought another large amount of wheat from Australia. [More…]
The Australian Government has negotiated a 3-year wheat contract with China. [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…]
This policy has been criticised by the Opposition from the beginning -over China, over North Vietnam and over North Korea- although the Opposition conveniently forgets this Government has also recognised the new regime in Chile, a decision which was most emphatically not made without grave thought. [More…]
It was an important provision, required as much by the North Vietnamese, the PRG, the U.S.S.R. and China (in relation to their non-recognition of the Saigon government) as by the Americans, the GVN French, British, Canadians etc, who do not recognise the PRG. [More…]
This is done in the context of the Government’s even-handed approach to Indo-China. [More…]
Both these groups are well placed to disburse assistance to the whole of IndoChina, including North Vietnam, and areas under the control of the PRC, the Pathat Lao in Laos, and the antigovernment forces in Cambodia. [More…]
While fully sympathising with the sentiment that political prisoners, wherever held, should be released, we must not forget that there has been war in Indo China more or less continuously for at least two decades. [More…]
My final observation is that the infringements of political and individual rights to which you refer are not confined to Vietnam or to Indo China, or indeed to the several other countries listed in the last paragraph of your letter. [More…]
The other matters that were referred to the Committee deal with Thailand, the recognition of China and the status of Taiwan, and the role of ANZUK. [More…]
But we have seen in the period in which the Labor Party has been in power a new subservience, and it is a subservience to the Soviet Union, to Communist China and to the nations of the Third World. [More…]
-My friend jibes at me about the recognition of China, but Mr Peacock says that he would not alter the situation and agrees with what this Government has done. [More…]
But I come to the matter of Taiwan which this Government recognises as a province of China. [More…]
It is worth noting in this respect that the latest reports from the People’s Republic of China indicate that that country’s foreign policy is again being dictated by its desire to lead the Third World. [More…]
When we look at the world we find Europe in disarray, China in internal disarray, instability - [More…]
We established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Does the Liberal Party say that if it were elected to government it would cancel recognition of the Government in Peking and say that the real Government of China is in Taipei? [More…]
Both the Government in Taipei and the Government in Peking claim to be the government of the whole of China. [More…]
Is the Opposition saying that we should go back to recognising Taipei and that we ought to try to exclude China from the councils of the world, from the trade which it is engaged in with this country and other countries? [More…]
Did we hear any condemnation from the other side of politics in this country when Britain hastened to recognise Communist China in 1 949, long before any other country did? [More…]
I will freely withdraw that comment if Senator Sir Magnus Cormack can show me evidence of his condemnation of a premature recognition of Communist China by Britain. [More…]
We have got our political relations right with the United States, with Japan, with China, with Indonesia- with the United States, the most powerful nation in earth, with Japan, our greatest trading partner, with China, the most populous nation on earth, with Indonesia, the great next door neighbour of ours . [More…]
If anybody stopped me from leaving the Soviet Union or China I know that I would expect my country to defend me. [More…]
Maybe it is to sell a bit of wool to China. [More…]
Nobody has been prepared to tell us but we know that wool was sold to Communist China. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that the Government of the island of Taiwan is not the Government of China. [More…]
It is quite impossible to recognise both Chinas. [More…]
Even if any country wanted to do that, neither Taiwan nor the People’s Republic of China would accept it. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that the Government of Taiwan is not the Government of China. [More…]
But we will not allow officials claiming to represent the Government of Taiwan as the Government of China to take part in these negotiations. [More…]
Therefore, we cannot permit the entry into Australia of persons from Taiwan representing the so-called state or Government of the Republic of China, or Taiwan. [More…]
When we made the decision to recognise China and to open up that market, what did the members of the Liberal and Country Parties do? [More…]
They came along and said: ‘Yes, if we are returned to government we will continue to recognise China’. [More…]
In this Parliament we have heard much criticism of this Government and of its policy of trading with China and Russia. [More…]
If it had been made by China or the Shah of Iran, the Government might have accepted it, but the Government could not accept it from the States. [More…]
I know that when Dr Cairns was in Peking he did not hesitate to question the attitude of mainland China to atomic explosions. [More…]
It should be remembered that this relaxation of tensions which has been brought about by our understanding with countries with different ideological attitudes- I am referring now to China on the one hand and Indonesia on the other- has meant that we have not had to be committed to excessive defence expenditure. [More…]
As a matter of fact, Senator Greenwood, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, crossed the border into China. [More…]
There was a time when our predecessors had hang-ups about relations with China. [More…]
In the meantime Canada, one of the Commonwealth countries, was cornering the wheat market with China. [More…]
In addition to that we opened up potential markets involving, I think, 800 million people in the trade pacts we have signed with China. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to a reported speech by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr J. F. Cairns, in China in which he is reported to have said: ‘While Australia can claim to be no more than an honorary member of the Third World, the independent foreign policy we look for is really a Third World policy’? [More…]
If the Prime Minister’s statement represented Australia’s official policy, will this be conveyed to the Government of the People ‘s Republic of China so as to prevent any misunderstanding as to our official policy? [More…]
It was really set up for the containment of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments-Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments - Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [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…]
Is it a fact that no quota exists with respect to the import of goods from communist China and that such imports are flowing freely into Australia? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether it is a fact that the Government is inviting the People’s Republic of China to take over the plant of the Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia Ltd in Sydney? [More…]
You shall make a film on how excellent was the Deputy Prime Minister’s performance when he went to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The illustration given by Senator Greenwood was that a Minister of the Crown could perhaps go to China and be photographed there. [More…]
The reverse situation could happen- a member of the Opposition could go to China and be photographed. [More…]
I would not be ashamed of the fact that I have been to China. [More…]
I know Senator Greenwood would not be ashamed of the fact that he went to China to see for himself just what went on. [More…]
If honourable senators look at it in that way and say that there is a team from the Film Commission going to China today and they will show the film tomorrow, they have a pretty poor conception of what artists would do in the making of a good film. [More…]
In view of Press reports in many newspapers this morning that the Minister for Overseas Trade, Dr Cairns, had offered the Leyland plant in Sydney to the People’s Republic of China, will the Government now make a full statement as to why it has sought this particular type of foreign investment? [More…]
What Senator Greenwood and the Opposition are saying is that all of the people employed by Film Australia and all of the productions of Film Australia are to be put in the same category as films from South Africa, United States, Canada, China or wherever it might be. [More…]
For example, I believe that the huge nations- Russia and China- made no formal or specific commitments. [More…]
We are very proud to go to China and prove to the Third World that we have an interest in it, but if we really have an interest in the Third World it ought not to be measured by whether we get votes for the Presidency of the United Nations. [More…]
Why is it that we had the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in China stating that in Communist China he sees all that he would have as Australia’s aspirations? [More…]
We saw this sudden shift with the recognition of China. [More…]
Recognition of China had to come and wisely it was done. [More…]
Yet what is the situation in respect of China? [More…]
1 ) The travel restrictions which apply to Australian diplomats in the People’s Republic of China are the same for all foreigners resident in Peking. [More…]
Travel restrictions applying to diplomats of the People’s Republic of China in Australia are in response to restrictions imposed upon members of the Australian Embassy in Peking. [More…]
Journalists in and from China: Travel Restrictions (Question No. [More…]
Whereas the countries and peoples now being administered by communist governments- Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Albania and Cuba- are entrapped by political and economic ideals repugnant to Australian concepts of liberty and fair play; and whereas the freedom of religion, assembly, speech, movement, fair trial, and enterprise are denied to these people by their governments; and whereas Opposition political parties are suppressed, the right to strike refused, and conscripted labour cruelly exploited by these same governments. [More…]
Did Mr Anthony assert in February 1971 that he would not sell his soul for trade at a time when the wheat industry was restricted by quotas and had lost its major wheat market in China? [More…]
Referring specifically to an incident during the recent visit to China of the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns), the Deputy Leader of the Country Party called on the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to comment on whether a member of the Deputy Prime Minister’s staff had punched an exhibitor at the Aus.tralian Trade Fair in Peking, had assaulted the Australian Ambassador Dr. Stephen Fitzgerald and had also assaulted an American diplomat attached to the United States mission in Peking. [More…]
From what I can gather about the trip which can be called the Cairns trip to China it apparently was a number of days of pretty straight boozing by a large section of the party which accompanied Dr Cairns. [More…]
I said: From what I can gather about the Cairns trip to China it was just 16 days of straight boozing by a large section of the party that accompanied Dr Cairns. [More…]
I have detailed three of the incidents that occurred in China, all of them disgraceful and all of them smacking of debauchery. [More…]
I have detailed three of the incidents that occurred in China, all of them disgraceful. [More…]
I cannot think of any one Australian who would hold his head in pride when hearing of these incidents in China. [More…]
However, fresh fission product fall-out is still reaching Australia from the recent series of nuclear tests by France in Polynesia and fallout over Australia of long-lived radioisotopes will continue for some years from the high yield explosions that both France and China have carried out in the atmosphere. [More…]
In the earlier part of this year I was privileged to pay a fortnight ‘s visit to the People’s Republic of China and during that time there was the Christian festival of Easter. [More…]
Even though it is a movable feast it was not celebrated in China as there are no churches in that country. [More…]
There is a policy in China that the woman is equal to a man. [More…]
China has this policy, it appeared to me that all that it meant was that the burdens of being a woman were added to by the burdens of being a man and part of the workforce. [More…]
I would point out that 62 per cent of the work force in China is women because most of the men are in the armies which police the country because being a socialist country it has to be a police state. [More…]
In China there is a totally planned economy with directions coming down as edicts from above. [More…]
In China families grow apart, particularly as under socialism there is a direction of labour. [More…]
This may be very well for the people of China. [More…]
In China marriage is easy, as the honourable senator who interjected wants; divorce is easy; abortion is easy. [More…]
There are no parties in China. [More…]
There no holidays in China. [More…]
I might add as an interpolation that there are trade unions in China but they exist to ensure that production teams meet their production goals. [More…]
When a marriage is dissolved in China there is no problem about property settlement simply because there is no private property there- no private cars, no private houses, no private land, no private businesses. [More…]
So China is without problems in the marriage field. [More…]
I have seen going through this place over the past almost 2 years a whole pattern of legislation that is geared to socialism and the control of the people by the state as exists in China where the interests of the people are in all respects subservient to the state. [More…]
We do not want to happen in this country things such as Senator Sheil has described in relation to China where, if the whole system of marriage has broken down completely, the children are taken away and kept in an institution so that the mother can go back to work because she has to do a good deal more than half the work to let the menfolk fight in the services and suchlike. [More…]
-The Minister for Transport has shown some interest in reciprocal arrangements with China in respect of Chinese vessels and the Australian National Line operating in the China-Australia trade. [More…]
These arrangements would develop as trade agreements developed between China and Australia and it is hoped that both countries can participate in this arrangement by having their own flagships operating. [More…]
Representatives of the Australian National Line have just visited China, primarily in support of the Australian trade display at Peking, and while there took the opportunity to discuss such questions with their counterparts in China. [More…]
However, with respect to China there is a belief that with the development of mutual understanding and increased trade we can get to a position where we can have reciprocal arrangements between the Chinese shipping company and the Australian National Line on chartering rights. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is he aware of widespread reports alleging that the People’s Republic of China is a major producer of and trafficker in drugs? [More…]
Is he also aware of a report that in 1952 the UN issued a warning to the People’s Republic of China following reports of her involvement in drug trafficking and that since that date evidence from many countries continues to implicate the People ‘s Republic of China in this trade? [More…]
As the Prime Minister has referred to Australia’s relations with China as most closely representing Australia’s new aspirations and in view of the Government’s de jure recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States in the Soviet Union, does the Minister agree with the statement of China ‘s opposition to the Soviet incorporation of the Baltic States? [More…]
At one time the fact that anything was said by Russia or China was automatically sufficient indication of the error of the statement. [More…]
Now Senator Sim seems to be starting to use China as an authority. [More…]
All matters relating to the recognition of China and the status of Taiwan’; and [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs will recall that a few weeks ago I asked a question based on reports alleging that China was involved in the drug traffic. [More…]
But Senator Webster and his colleagues in the Country Party will be delighted and will rub their hands with glee over our wheat sales to China. [More…]
Why are the Liberal and Country Parties not honest and say: Do not sell any wheat to China or North Korea, or allow any other exports to East Germany. [More…]
I remember the cowardly days when the Liberal and Country Parties were selling some wheat to China and Senator McManus castigated them. [More…]
The policy of the Repatriation Commission on the use of acupuncture for repatriation beneficiaries was based on the report which was issued in 1974 by the National Health and Medical Research Council and which followed, as Senator Baume has reminded us, a visit by an investigating team which studied the subject in Korea, China, Hong Kong and the United States. [More…]
The history of government interference in Wheat Board affairs goes back at least to 1967 when a member of the Wheat Board, Mr H. F. Smith, reported to a Farmers Union meeting in Perth that the Government had instructed a Board delegation to deliver a note to representatives of the People’s Republic of China in Hong Kong. [More…]
The note stated that the Government would intervene and terminate Australia-China wheat trade unless China complied with certain political demands. [More…]
Has it at any time used its supposed or claimed influential position with the Government of Russia and the Government of China to urge those governments to desist sending supplies and equipment to North Vietnam which enable it to mount the massive onslaught on South Vietnam in breach of the Paris Accords? [More…]
Thirty years ago France attempted to reestablish her fallen empire in Indo-China. [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 Services, 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 IndoChina. [More…]
The Australian Government last year contributed $1.15 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. [More…]
There could be only one other motive -to shame the United States back into Indo-China. [More…]
If that is not its 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. [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 development of co-operation between ASEAN members, 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 with associating China in a wider detente. [More…]
If he does, how can he explain the flagrant violations by the North Vietnamese in constructing new military roads and airfields in areas under their control, and also the continual movement of troops and sophisticated equipment provided by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China from the day the Agreements were signed? [More…]
The Opposition moves this motion because of the blatantly obvious double standards and outright hypocrisy which this Government has shown in its latest handling of the Indo-China situation. [More…]
The Government has always been more critical of the United States of America and South Vietnam than it has been of Soviet Russia, China or North Vietnam. [More…]
North Vietnam, the USSR and China have to bear international responsibility for the total destruction of the Paris Peace Accords- no one else. [More…]
Yesterday the Foreign Minister, Senator Willesee, was asked in this chamber whether the Government had made formal protests to Russia and China over their active military support for the north. [More…]
The war in Vietnam must be seen as a part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific oceans. [More…]
The fact is that, Sir Robert Menzies said that the thrust, and the threat facing the Australian people was the thrust and the threat from China. [More…]
In the early period of Asian history China, the Mongols and many different races had in one way or another invaded and attempted to occupy the region known as Vietnam. [More…]
I do not wish to become involved with the past too much because the present and likely future situations in Indo-China are the matters to which we should be applying our minds. [More…]
They then purge all the non-communists, as we have seen in China, North Vietnam, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and we know of it happening recently in Portugal. [More…]
A wheat grower senator, who is also missing at the moment, was delighted to be able to sell his wheat to mainland China at the time knowing that a lot of it would go to troops in North Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian people should be aware of this Government’s future policy if other nations in South-East Asia find themselves in the same situation as that in Indo-China today. [More…]
And they are being given outside help not only by neighbouring communist countries but also by the 2 major communist countries, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, which are supplying them with arms. [More…]
It has happened not only in Indo-China. [More…]
Has it done anything to tell the U.S.S.R. and China to stop supplying arms to the North Vietnamese? [More…]
-He did not attack the Soviet Union; he did not mention China. [More…]
It is quite obvious to us and to the thinking public in this community that those sympathetic to the cause of the USSR and China are the ones who dictate the foreign policy of this Government. [More…]
They are the people of whom General MacArthur said in Tokio, when commenting on British and French use of Japanese troops to try to defeat the Vietnamese independence movement: ‘If there is anything that makes my blood boil it is to see our allies in Indo-China and Java deploying Japanese troops to reconquer the link people we promised to liberate ‘. [More…]
Aid from Russia and China to the whole of Indo-China from 1 966 to 1 973 was $3. [More…]
Aid from America to the whole of Indo-China in the same period was $107 billion. [More…]
He did not mention the role of China. [More…]
I point out that today we are seeing increasing instability in this region, not only in Indo-China. [More…]
That is probably the only bright light on the present horizon but it, too, has to be looked at against a background of constantly rising costs and against a background of good harvests in the major producing countries of the world, namely, America, Canada, China and Russia. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister point out that from Russia and China heavy amounts of armaments and munitions- much more than replacement amounts- had come to help in the fall of the South, all in breach of the Paris agreements? [More…]
Nor did he make any attack on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the People’s Republic of China for supplying the North Vietnamese with arms, until today the North Vietnamese are regarded as the third biggest military power in the world. [More…]
One could be excused for believing that this Government was sympathetic to the communist cause in Indo-China. [More…]
The Government’s even-handedness in relation to Indo-China has indeed been a matter of one horse, one rabbit. [More…]
But what about the frustration of the South Vietnamese who had full knowledge that North Vietnam in complete breach of the agreements was being armed in a massive way by the Soviet Union and the People ‘s Republic of China? [More…]
There was no reference to the massive support from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
However the plain fact is that the Government lacked the courage to take the Parliament and the people into its confidence as to its true policies in relation to Indo-China. [More…]
We are proud of the fact that we have diplomatic relations with China and that we are taking some steps to see that there is no longer warfare in that area but that there will be peace by way of negotiation. [More…]
We are proud of our record with regard to China. [More…]
One of the first papers that was issued by the United States Administration concerning its intervention in Vietnam referred to the weapons that had been captured from the forces fighting for the so-called Vietcong, the National Liberation Front, and only 2V4 per cent of those weapons were manufactured in a country with a communist government, such as the Soviet Union, China or Czechoslovakia. [More…]
I have been to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
If you go to the People’s Republic of China you see only yellow people. [More…]
It is reported that the Singaporean Government provided food and repairs and an escort to beyond the pirates’ lairs in the South China Seas and then left the flotilla to its own devices. [More…]
Ex-Senator Turnbull, who was born in Shanghai, would have had to be sent back to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
He has made the point that if there is to be a nuclear brawl between the 2 super powers of China and the Soviet Union we could be caught up in the action. [More…]
So the guns which have not got a vote in Australia at present- they have a vote in China- are in the electorate of Bendigo, and the people who want to vote are in the electorate of Indi. [More…]
Does the Minister accept that the 20 000 refugee White Russians who came to Australia from Harbin, China, about 20 years ago have in all respects been exemplary residents and citizens of this country? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he has seen reports that China has publicly affirmed support for armed communist movements working to overthrow the non-communist governments in Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
Has he seen reports that the Indonesian Foreign Minister has publicly objected to China’s action? [More…]
If it does, what is the Government’s attitude to this action by China, which is interference in the domestic affairs of other countries? [More…]
What action has the Government taken, or does it propose to take, with respect to China’s action? [More…]
Senator Greenwood was the deputy leader of a delegation which went to China. [More…]
I refer to the question I asked the Minister for Foreign Affairsyesterday about the reports of support by China for national communist parties aiming to overthrow the governments of Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
Can he advise the Senate of the Government’s attitude to China’s action? [More…]
The statements were made by the Communist Party of China and not by the Chinese Government, and I do not think we ought to be over-reacting to them. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Tourism and Recreation and relates to the Tasmanian Rosny Children’s Choir, which is currently on a visit to China. [More…]
1 know nothing about any demands being made that uniforms worn by the Rosny Choir in China should be red. [More…]
However, I did see a report that the person in charge of the choir said she thought its distinctive uniforms would be well received in China. [More…]
In view of the fact that we export to China considerably more in value that we import, will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government will insist that China obeys the voluntary restraints for which Australia asks or else Australia will establish a protective barrier against cheap imports from China or any other country that has been flooding Australia with cheap clothing to the detriment of the textile industry? [More…]
He has asked whether we will insist that China accepts voluntary restraint. [More…]
Is he suggesting that we should send a gunboat to throw a few broadsides off the Chinese coast to compel the sovereign state of China with its 800 million people to do exactly what the Australian Government wants it to do? [More…]
If Senator Townley is interested in facts, the facts of what has happened recently in China concerning the attempt to obtain voluntary restraints on textile exports, which is the subject of an article that appears in today’s ‘Australian Financial Review’, are these: There was a team of Australian officials in Peking talking with the Chinese about voluntary restraints. [More…]
Vitreous China Sanitaryware [More…]
In the article to which I have referred in the Northern Territory News Mr Calder is reported as having said that the Labor Party should come to its senses and not hand Australia on a plate to Russia or China. [More…]
Russia and China have never been opponents of the Allies in any war that has been fought. [More…]
State conferences within the last month passes motions again demanding the reintroduction of conscription- surely only a Party that is capable of producing that sort of fundamental contradiction and a Leader who sent conscripts into the war in Indo China and waffles about personal freedom- only a Party and a Leader such as that could describe a growth rate of more than 20 per cent in the money supply as highly irresponsible when they presided over a growth rate of 34 per cent - [More…]
Mr Harradine is not given the alternative of 1 8 months in gaol or going to fight in a war in Indo China which was based on a tissue of lies concocted and promoted, Senator Marriott, by the Government of which you were a member. [More…]
The other is a result of the war in Indo-China. [More…]
The hunger of China for rubber will lead to an increase in its price and that price increase will be injected into our economy. [More…]
Dramatic changes were also needed in our foreign policy, which is not relevant to the Budget but which I think is indicative of the attitudes which had been pursued by our predecessors, which had led us into the disaster in Vietnam and which had caused this country to pursue the most asinine policies with regard to the recognition of China and other countries which play a major role in world affairs and without whose cooperation and without talking to whom it is impossible for Australia to play any constructive role in world peace. [More…]
-As Senator Wriedt reminds me, China is now a major market for our wheat, something which is of direct bearing to the economic situation of this country. [More…]
If it had not been for the actions of this Government in establishing relations with China, it is certainly beyond question that we would not have the highly satisfactory and profitable trade relations with China which have been built up through the good relations which this Government has been able to establish with China. [More…]
By this yardstick, the U.S.A. (both internally and abroad), China and the U.S.S.R. (internally and in Eastern Europe) are today’s greatest offenders. [More…]
We had the ridiculous situation that the government of the day would not trade properly with China. [More…]
It sold wheat to China on occasions that suited it and at the same time it blackguarded that country from the platforms of this country and also in Parliament to the extent that China finally said: ‘We can get the wheat we require from Canada’. [More…]
Today we find that beef is almost unsaleable and in this situation no doubt members of the Country Party would frown on any suggestion that we should get very big contracts from those terrible socialist countries such as Russia and China. [More…]
I presume that the honourable senator is referring to a recent judgment against the China Navigation Company Ltd. [More…]
The China Navigation Company Ltd was charged under that section after customs officers discovered approximately 60 wristlet watches concealed in a space behind panelling in a dining room of the ship The Rhexenor. [More…]
It looks like those pamphlets that used to come out about 10 years ago which showed red arrows coming down from China and pointing at the Royal Perth Golf Club. [More…]
With the increasing importations of foodstuffs from overseas, particularly Taiwan and China, what procedures are laid down by the Department of Health for inspection of food factories in those countries? [More…]
I think I should quote the views of another important organisation, the Australia-China Business [More…]
One may have thought that a body that is expert in trading with a centrally planned economy such as China would be one whose views should be sought. [More…]
Firstly, I have already quoted the opinion of the Australia-China Business Co-operation Committee, which is an expert body in trading with a centrally planned economy. [More…]
The Japanese have bilateral arrangements with China and with Russia to exchange trade for coal from Siberia. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Board and the Australian Wool Corporation, for instance, are 2 examples of statutory corporations operating successfully in trade with countries such as China, Russia and many countries of the eastern European bloc. [More…]
In fact, I can recall from early in 1 970 to very late in 1 972, a period when wheat quotas had imposed significant hardships upon the Australian wheat industry and Australian wheat growers- they were imposed by a Liberal-National Country Party Government- and the nation was rather desperate in a search for wheat markets we failed to make sales to our major wheat market, China. [More…]
Of course, the reason for this was that China had been so consistently insulted by the Leader of the National Country Party, Mr Anthony, that it had decided in an extreme buyers’ market to purchase no grain from Australia. [More…]
Mr Anthony showed his concern for the rural community and for Australian exports in a statement issued in February 1 972 when he said that he would not sell his soul for trade and that he did not care if we never sold a bushel of wheat to China. [More…]
I feel it would be remiss of the Senate to overlook a motion of condolence that has been moved in another place this day on the death of the Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Chou En-lai. [More…]
With Chou En-lai ‘s 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 actor in the turbulence of China’s revolutionary period and beyond, playing the roles of party organiser, military leader and intellectual. [More…]
He was second only to Mao Tse-tung in his influence on contemporary China. [More…]
These explanations of China’s role made a significant contribution to world understanding. [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 the Senate 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 tender sympathy in their bereavement. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition, I would like to pay a tribute to Mr Chou En-lai, Premier of the People ‘s Republic of China, and generally to support the views of Senator Withers. [More…]
He not only played a conciliatory role in internal Chinese politics but was mainly responsible for removing the bamboo curtain and leading China into open and meaningful relations with the outside world. [More…]
It was Chou En-lai who laid the way to the visit to China of Dr Kissinger and United States President Nixon. [More…]
He understood the West better than anyone else in China and knew that co-existence with nations of various political persuasions was essential in the interest of peace and human welfare. [More…]
As one of the great statesmen of the twentieth century, Mr Chou’s death was a loss not only to China but also to the world. [More…]
-I desire to be associated with the very generous remarks which have been made in the other place and here by the Government and the Opposition in respect of the passing of Chou En-lai, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is a matter for great regret that it took so long for the Western world to recognise the capacity of the modern China and the capacity of Chou En-lai. [More…]
Without exception, every person who has had an opportunity to visit the People’s Republic of China must pay tribute to his leadership and to him as an administrator and as a leader in all aspects of human activity including the great improvements in the living standards of the people of China. [More…]
It is to the credit of those who rule the People’s Republic of China and to Chou En-lai particularly that, on his election, the new Australian Prime Minister in one of the first public statements that he made dealt with the area of foreign affairs and stated that he intended to visit the People’s Republic of China to see for himself the progress that has been made and to establish the normal and proper relationship that should exist among all countries. [More…]
Even up to 1972, many people had failed to understand the evolutionary movement that was taking place in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
So I think it is proper that we should at this time join forces with all people throughout the world in offering our condolences to the ordinary people of China at the loss of a person who played such a significant part in the development of modern China. [More…]
It is also a major area of struggle between the Soviet Union and China, and today it is becoming an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
I think the Senate should be reminded that in 1971, referring to President Nixon’s statement that the period was one of negotiation, Chou En-lai the then Prime Minister of China, commented that the era was still one of armed struggle. [More…]
The present events in Angola, on which I will speak later, and the reaction of China to those events highlight the comment that Chou En-lai made. [More…]
They further highlight my statement that this is one of the major areas of struggle between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China and that it is an area of increasing struggle between those 2 communist powers. [More…]
Last night I referred to the Indian Ocean as being a major area of conflict between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Already China is reacting to recent events. [More…]
There is no doubt that at some stage the rivalry between China and Russia may be used effectively by the United States on some issues, and- what is much more important- it could be used on the new nation of Vietnam, Thailand or any of those countries which will go left. [More…]
With their own national aspirations they will go to the brink, some with China and others with the Soviet Union, and then they will stop. [More…]
Senator Primmer will find that on 25 October this year there will be a prime minister of the independent State of the Transkei which will have the capacity to maintain diplomatic posts from China and Russia. [More…]
The biggest countries in the world, such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China and the United States of America, have completely different economic problems from those of the smaller countries, such as Ireland and Chile, which have less government in terms of the way in which the lives of the people are determined by government actions. [More…]
But we never hear a word about the KGB; we never hear a word about the secret police in China. [More…]
His purpose was to plant in the public mind the suggestion that this was some murky organisation which was in some way connected with the dreadful CIA but not with the KGB and not with the organisation- whatever it is called- in China which puts people in dungeons. [More…]
As Senator Sim said, if there happen to be organisations which painstakingly, as the record discloses, send their agents into the countries of the free world to promote the interests of the Soviet Union, its satellites and Communist China, you just ignore what they might be doing because they are not matters for debate. [More…]
Conservative inflexibility in developing foreign policy has previously led Australia into the political fiasco and moral shame of our intervention in Vietnam, to an unrewarding and unnecessary era of hostility towards the People’s Republic of China, and caused undue friction in our relations with our other Asian neighbours. [More…]
I refer to reported deletions from the program of the Lhamo Tibetan Folk Theatre, which recently performed in Western Australia, and ask: Will the Minister ascertain whether references to the invasion of Tibet by the People’s Republic of China were deleted? [More…]
The best customers that we have for primary produce are Russia and China. [More…]
Our best customers for wool and wheat at present are China and Russia. [More…]
Of course, he was referring to a very famous Murray Grey bull, Sober Bogong, which went to China. [More…]
These United Nations programs have failed to meet the crisis in these nations much as similar programs in both Russia and China have failed. [More…]
China had a population of 800 million. [More…]
India, with a population of 550 million, was in a much more acute position because it is only one-third the size of China. [More…]
1 stated that China, for ideological more than economic reasons, sought to lead the Third World. [More…]
I pointed out that all these programs had failed, as had similar programs in both Russia and China- indicating the futility of legislation in trying to fix these problems and showing the dangers of government interference with the economy. [More…]
China, with its 800 million people, had tried to limit its population. [More…]
But India was having far more problems because although its population was only 550 million- if one can use the word only’ in relation to a figure like that- its area is one-third the area of China. [More…]
He is projecting a trip to Red China, as honourable senators on the Government side call it, in the near future. [More…]
She has been influenced in the past by her close neighbours, China and Korea. [More…]
In this morning’s Press, Mr Nakao, a member of the Liberal Party in Japan and a director of the Japanese Government’s Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is reported as saying that he agrees entirely with Mr Anthony’s comments that if Australia’s resources are not made available to countries like Japan- Mr Nakao went on to mention Korea and China as well- they will be taken from us in the years to come. [More…]
We equally share, though for different reasons, concern at the developments in China and the Soviet Union, their impact on each of us and their impact on the region in which Australia and Japan are. [More…]
We share an interest and concern in developments in Indo-China and the Subcontinent, areas which both of us see as ones of potential instability. [More…]
As I understand it the minds of the people of the dark ages were unlocked because our medieval forefathers, wishing to trade with the Spice Islands, sought a route to China. [More…]
As a result of seeking trade they unlocked all the treasures of the East- of China, Japan and the Spice Islands. [More…]
I find it particularly surprising that that sort of comment should come from a member of a Party which went into an election campaign 10 years ago with an emotive slogan about the downward thrust of China. [More…]
Some of the people who still sit in the benches across the aisle and their friends asserted that they had to stop the downward thrust of China and they would not recognise China. [More…]
Therefore, for 3 years we sold not a ton of wheat to China. [More…]
We must expect world wheat production again to exceed demand sometime during the next few years, particularly as China, traditionally a large if inconsistent importer of our wheat, is becoming selfsufficient. [More…]
Grain production in China is based mainly on irrigation so it is not affected by droughts. [More…]
In fact, from first hand knowledge I gained in China in 1973, 1 suggest that with her increasing mechanisation, her work on breeding better varieties, her disease and insect control and, just as important, her success with population control, China may very well become an exporter of wheat quite soon, in competition with Australia. [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…]
It means that Australia will involve itself and take sides in the dispute that exists between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I admit that in view of the hysteria that exists in this country from time to time there may be some political advantage for this Government in that, just as there was political advantage in 1965 in the alleged threats of China coming down, with those big broad arrows from the north, to gobble us up. [More…]
Suddenly China has become respectable. [More…]
In the eyes of the Liberal and National Country Parties, China is now respectable. [More…]
It must be seen as part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. [More…]
The people of Australia were stampeded into believing that the downward thrust of China was here to stay and we were to be gobbled up by the Chinese, not the Russians. [More…]
We are told that we must show our friendliness, our common interest with China even. [More…]
It is unfortunate that there has been little time in which to document all the statements which are contained in this speech, but one thing remains paramount above everything else: There has been this dramatic change towards China. [More…]
It was a winning issue in the 1960s to put fear into people’s minds that we were to be gobbled up by China. [More…]
Cannot the same question be asked of China and the United States? [More…]
Is the same question contained in the speech asked of China? [More…]
There is an entirely different tone to the attitude of the Soviet Union than there is to that of China and that is quite clearly the intention. [More…]
Senator Walters just interjected that China is not in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
China may or may not be present there. [More…]
It has one railway, the trans-Siberian railway, which for hundreds of kilometres runs very close to the Manchurian, or Chinese, border and this becomes a very vulnerable link with Russia’s eastern provinces in the event of hostilities with China. [More…]
The report shows that our exports to mainland China have actually fallen off quite substantially and that we export 5 times as much wool to Taiwan as we do to the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There is no significant difference in the percentages before and after we recognised the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Earlier than most, he foresaw the importance of bringing China into the international community. [More…]
It might be argued, as Senator Sibraa interjected, that we should cease trade either with China or Russia as super powers because of political oppression. [More…]
He completely disagreed with his Prime Minister who gave this as one of his reasons for the build-up of defence in the Indian Ocean, in view of the changed relationship with Communist China. [More…]
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 9 September 1976 of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. [More…]
That the Senate records its sincere regret at the death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, expresses to the people of China profound regret and tenders its deep sympathy to his family in their bereavement. [More…]
He was the principal architect of China since 1949 and one of the very few men who have 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 should 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 selfreliance. [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 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…]
Chairman Mao grew up in the old China of war lords, feudalism and foreign domination of trade in its major cities. [More…]
He made a new China of independence, self respect, and international status. [More…]
When Mao was fourteen years of age he was married off, I understand against his will, in the feudal style of that era in China’s history. [More…]
Sixtyfour years later it was the same Mao who invited the anti-communist President Nixon to Peking, which was a significant step in easing tension between China and the United States and in bringing China into the realm of international relations. [More…]
China has lost its helmsman with the death of Chairman Mao, but his legacy of a unified nation firmly advancing the welfare of the world ‘s most populous nation and its emergence to its rightful place in international affairs remains with us. [More…]
The Opposition regrets his death and expresses its sympathy to the people of China. [More…]
I had the privilege of conveying this decision to the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China this morning. [More…]
This meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party places on record a motion of condolence to the Government and the people of China on the death of Chairman Mao, and requests Senator Bill Brown … as former Chairman of the Party, to sign the book of condolences on behalf of the membership of this Branch, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Ambassador of the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
He became part of the nationalist movement of China. [More…]
In his early youth, because of the very strong feeling that existed in mainland China about the intervention in the internal affairs of that country by many of the Western powers he became an official of the Kuomintang, which was the revolutionary movement. [More…]
In the period from 1934 to 1936 Mao Tse-tung led a small group of men and women from one end of China to the other, and 15 years later- on 1 October 1949- he proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Whilst nobody necessarily is expected to agree with his philosophy or to understand it, it must be said that he succeeded in unifying China, which had not for many centuries been unified. [More…]
China is the most heavily populated country on the earth and it was a feudal country. [More…]
Of course, we in Western civilisation cannot understand much of what has happened but I think it has to be said that in his efforts to improve the living standards of the people of China he largely succeeded. [More…]
I was one of those who made an early pilgrimage to China. [More…]
One could not fail to be impressed with the progress that was being made even 3 short years after the People’s Liberation Army had succeeded in taking over Peking and the whole of China. [More…]
Certainly if India were compared with China or the Soviet Union or, for that matter, with its neighbour Pakistan or with the Philippines or Spain or most of the countries in Latin America, India indeed is a very democratic country and it probably still ranks amongst the most democratic countries in the world. [More…]
I believe that this claim can be refuted by the fact that in the past in India when there were wars on two occasions with Pakistan and on another occasion with China, the Indian Government never found it necessary to impose any emergency. [More…]
I refer to a recent report of a nuclear test conducted by the People’s Republic of China and a further report of heavy radioactivity fall-out in the United States following the reported test. [More…]
-According to the briefing note I have, China has announced that it conducted a further nuclear test in the atmosphere on 26 September and our Ambassador in Peking has been asked to express again our concern to the Chinese authorities about nuclear testing and in particular about the latest Chinese test. [More…]
In China the Prime Minister responded to his hosts, ingratiating himself with the Chinese. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Has any protest been made to the Government of the People’s Republic of China regarding the nuclear bomb which was exploded by that country during the past week? [More…]
I think the information I gave then- I will check to see whether it is accurate- was that our Ambassador in China had been instructed to call upon the Chinese Government to make a protest on behalf of the people of Australia. [More…]
Has any protest been made to the Government of the People’s Republic of China regarding the nuclear bomb which was exploded by that country during the past week? [More…]
China has announced that it conducted an underground nuclear test on 17 October 1976. [More…]
Has the Government issued a directive to Government departments that the terminology for statistical information relating to China and Taiwan be changed to ‘China, excluding Taiwan’ and Taiwan, Province of? [More…]
What countries other than communist countries and Australia recognise Taiwan as a province of China? [More…]
Does Australia trade directly with any other province of China? [More…]
What happened in China? [More…]
They went to China and slobbered over the Chinese. [More…]
They were not supporters of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
They all confirmed that the Chinese people in Dili were in no way identified with the People’s Republic of China but were in fact supporters of Taiwan and all their children were sent to Taiwan for their secondary school education. [More…]
Members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party had booked themselves out to places like Chile, Russia and China and they were trying to get away from Canberra. [More…]
Entry for each individual is conditional upon his holding an ordinary passport and submitting in advance a written declaration that he will not purport to represent Taiwan, China or the Republic of China. [More…]
For example, they should not seek to use a flag, insignia or any other form of identification suggesting that they are national or government representatives of Taiwan, China or the Republic of China. [More…]
There was a specific instance of the Secretary-General of the Australian Medical Association writing to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 16 July of this year seeking advice on whether visas would be issued to people from Taiwan wishing to take part as representatives of the China Medical Association in a congress of the Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania to be held in Sydney in 1 977. [More…]
In replying to Dr Repin the Minister, Mr Peacock, briefly outlined the conditions governing the entry to Australia of people from Taiwan and suggested that, as Dr Repin had indicated it would only be possible for participants from Taiwan to attend as representatives of the China Medical Association, it seemed clear that they could not meet the conditions of entry for residents of Taiwan and therefore would not be able to obtain visas to attend the congress. [More…]
In the event it appears that the AMA was unable to make arrangements for the congress which would enable people from Taiwan to take part except as representatives of the China Medical Association and accordingly felt obliged to cancel plans for holding the congress in Australia. [More…]
Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto), China (Peking, Tai Yuan, Urumchi, Canton) and Hong Kong: 14-29 June 1976 [More…]
This may be compared with the 53 persons (other than press representatives) who accompanied the former Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, on all or part of his visit to Japan and China in October/ November 1973. [More…]
Japan and China: Charter- Osaka/Peking; Commercial aircraft- Sydney /Tokyo and Hong Kong/Brisbane. [More…]
While accepting that delegations from Taiwan cannot claim to represent China, what reasons exist which prevent them from entering Australia claiming to represent Taiwan? [More…]
The answer I have received from my colleague is as follows: A clear implication of the commitment that Australia entered into in establishing diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China is that care needs to be taken with any proposal that may have the effect of conferring the status of a separate and independent country upon Taiwan. [More…]
More than 100 governments have now established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Fewer than 30 governments continue to recognise the so-called Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan. [More…]
The authorities on Taiwan, like the Government of the People’s Republic of China, themselves regard Taiwan not as a country but as a province of China and firmly reject any claim that Taiwan has any other status. [More…]
In the present case, in accordance with prior arrangements, all shoes worn by the Prime Minister and his accompanying party on agricultural farms in China, Hong Kong or Manila were collected before arrival in Australia and placed in plastic bags for examination and disinfection where examination indicated this was necessary. [More…]
If those changes occur and if China continues to see itself as having to maintain some strong military force because of its problems with its principal neighbour, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the balance of power in the western Pacific region again may be altered. [More…]
It always showed red arrows coming down from China directed at the Nedlands golf club. [More…]
Philippines and Indo-China and were trying to get down into Penh. [More…]
It is rather strange that he has not said that China was responsible for what happened in Vietnam because, as I understood the map that Sir Paul Hasluck used to send to me and what we were told in the Parliament, the Chinese were coming- not the Russians. [More…]
In particular there has been a major re-assessment of China. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party have always said that we ought to have diplomatic relations with China, that it ought to be admitted to the United Nations, that we ought to seek peace with China and that we ought to seek trade with China. [More…]
I can well remember that for many years members of the Australian Labor Party were accused of being unpatriotic, subversive and traitors to this country because we advocated the policies towards China which have now been accepted by this Government without one word of explanation- just a limp little sentence which reads: [More…]
In particular there has been a major re-assessment of China. [More…]
After all that brouhaha and after sending 400 young Australians to be killed, all the Government can tell us is that someone- unspecifiedhas made a major re-assessment of China. [More…]
China’s earlier isolation has been modified . [More…]
China’s earlier isolation was modified by the Australian Labor Government when we entered into diplomatic relations with China and when, although we were not members at that stage, we supported the admission of China to the United Nations. [More…]
We were the people who modified China’s earlier isolation. [More…]
Had it been left to honourable senators opposite and had there been people in the United States of America, Great Britain and France who were as silly as they are, China would still be isolated. [More…]
God knows where we would be today if China was still as isolated as honourable senators opposite tonight would have liked to have kept ner. [More…]
China’s earlier isolation has been modified and it has entered into widespread relations with other governments. [More…]
We welcome the opportunity to develop our relations with China; but we recognise the important differences in our political attitude. [More…]
The Boxer rebels were going to get us in the 1890s, so Australian troops had to be sent off to China. [More…]
For a variety of reasons much will depend on how China, the closest of the external powers, decides to pursue its interests. [More…]
I do not know whether we are being asked to accept the idea that perhaps there has been a change in the face of policy on the part of China. [More…]
I do not know whether it is suggested that China’s policy has changed and it no longer seeks to guide and support fraternal parties on a large scale. [More…]
While China’s foreign policy may have altered in emphasis over recent years, I suggest there has never been any evidence that China has ever changed its view that history has shown it that the world can be liberated from the imperialists and the capitalists provided the correct course is followed; that is, of course, the correct Marxist-Leninist doctrines. [More…]
The Chinese Government would question the wisdom of providing large-scale support for insurgency in Malaysia for fear of alienating the established government and driving it maybe further towards the Soviet Union to the disadvantage of China. [More…]
We do not know whether China support on a former scale is now required. [More…]
We do not know whether at the moment China is concentrating on its domestic problems or whether the Chinese have decided that because of a dispute within the communist parties of South-East Asia they can rely upon them to follow the correct MarxistLeninist line and not turn more and more to the Soviet Union. [More…]
There is a competition between the Soviet Union and China which is a matter of concern for the countries of the ASEAN region. [More…]
The fear is that, if the United States regards South East Asia as an area of low priority, the only two major powers left to compete are the Soviet Union and China, without the balancing effect of the United States. [More…]
I believe that another one of the imponderables and uncertainties is the relationship between the ASEAN states and Indo-China. [More…]
A former senator, Senator Kennelly- he is not in this Chamber tonight but I believe he was a distinguished Labor Party senator in former years- drew attention to that threat by asking what was the threat from China. [More…]
Throughout the 1950s Australian political life was plagued by threats, introduced by the Liberal Party, about invasion from some mythical country- probably China or Russia. [More…]
That is what he was doing in terms of his announced policies in relation to the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
As I have pointed out to the Senate on several occasion, the members of the Chinese community in Timor had direct affiliations with and the support of the families of the Taiwanese sections of China. [More…]
We ought to cast our minds back to the issues relating to Suez, China, Vietnam and now the Indian Ocean to see how Australian foreign policy can be changed overnight by the policies of a foreign government. [More…]
The Senate will recall that it was on that occasion, just prior to his trip to China, that the Prime Minister made it quite clear that this Government was taking the very strange and dubious step of involving itself in the Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]
Therefore there is a strong desire not only to maintain United States presencean investment presence as well as a political presence- in the region as a balancing factor but also to ensure that there is a growing Japanese interest in the region, again to balance the presence of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which in itself creates uncertainty and some degree of instability. [More…]
Preeminent amongst them, without any doubt, has been the growth of the People’s Republic of China in strength and in influence, and the dispute between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, the division between China and the Soviet Union would probably be the most serious division which exists in international affairs at the present time. [More…]
Apart from the growth of China, which has been one of the major changes leading to the dissolution of this polarisation of the world, there has also been the growth of the European Economic Community. [More…]
I note that in the course of his statement the Ministers said that China’s foreign policy is concerned to maintain global and regional stability. [More…]
That statement was made by a Liberal Party Minister for Foreign Affairs: China’s foreign policy is concerned to maintain global and regional stability. [More…]
It seems like only yesterday that we were told that China’s objective was to take over Vietnam, take over Thailand, take over Malaysia, take over Indonesia, and ultimately achieve its heart’s desire and be down here in sampans on Lake Burley Griffin. [More…]
In fact, everybody now appears to be so eulogistic of China that every politician in Australia seems to have entered into a gigantic dim sim eating competition. [More…]
It has recognised that China is there, in the same way as the Soviet Union is there, and that we have to deal with both of those countries as governments which have their own interests and set out to pursue their own interests. [More…]
Why have the people of Angola and Mozambique turned to the Soviet Union and China? [More…]
I know that it is now fashionable to be very friendly towards the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
There is no open and free discussion within China on what is taking place within the country. [More…]
It has been happening over the last 10 years in China. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the best way of watching Australia’s interests is by seeking to achieve human rights in Timor, Chile, the Soviet Union, China and in every place in the world where they have been denied. [More…]
In the Indian Ocean which is relatively unimportant among the world’s great oceans and is not bordered by any of the super powers- I include China as a super power in this respect- we have an opportunity to achieve a demilitarised zone. [More…]
In respect to China we have reached a point where we clearly have a considerable trading relationship. [More…]
I believe we have also reached a point of maturity where Australia’s view of China’s attitudes to nuclear testing and explosions is clearly understood. [More…]
We can, of course, contribute greatly to China with our technological capacity, particularly in the field of agriculture and in arid and semi-arid agriculture. [More…]
He related it to China and believed that our agricultural techniques could be of some assistance to that country. [More…]
In relation to Senator Scott’s remarks about China, whilst I said that we may have some techniques which would be of assistance to China and a number of other countries, it is noticeable that in China and in Vietnam, which is a more current example, instead of putting people off the land the governments have put them on the land. [More…]
There are tensions between Russia and China, 2 major powers. [More…]
No doubt many honourable senators in this chamber have heard the comment that perhaps the world is lucky that Russia and China today do not see eye to eye; that it could be the saving grace ofthe world. [More…]
What would be the situation if Russia and China were united as a joint force? [More…]
I turn to China, another important country, and one to which, for years, we as a nation gave no recognition. [More…]
I commend the Whitlam Government as the government which initiated the moves to recognise China. [More…]
I go further and say that I was very pleased to see that both the Prime Minister and Mr Peacock, early in government, made a point of going to China and having discussions with its leaders. [More…]
The Minister, with regard to the various aspects of China’s situation and Australia’s attitude towards some of the ideologies of China, has made the matter perfectly clear. [More…]
In relation to the developments with China he stated: [More…]
points it is necessary to make about our relations with China. [More…]
So while we show respect to China and while we continue to do so, the Minister has made it clear that we do not agree with all that China does. [More…]
No doubt China does not agree with all that Australia does but the main thing is that we continue to talk, to respect each other and to trade together. [More…]
I hope, as Senator Scott said this afternoon, that we will continue to give more aid with the development of agriculture in China. [More…]
Just as previous LiberalNational Country Party governments were continually wrong-footed on issues such as Suez, the recognition of China, Vietnam and the aftermath of Vietnam, this Government is showing that it is equally unable to discern friends in the international arena. [More…]
I turn to deal with relations with the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister’s visit to China in June 1976 resulted in Australia being made somewhat of a laughing stock in the eyes of the international diplomatic community. [More…]
The Prime Minister when in China put forward the notion “of a 4-power anti-Soviet military alliance between the U.S.A., Japan, China and Australia. [More…]
There is a new administration in China. [More…]
Vietnam has established itself as a major force in Indo-China. [More…]
Thailand has political problems, lt has insurgency in the south and in the north and more than 75 000 refugees from the Indo-China conflict. [More…]
I have noted your comments on the relative claims for refuge in Australia of people from South America and those from other areas such as Indo-China. [More…]
He was able to gain the confidence of countries which were a little wary of the super powers, whether it was the United States, the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
My colleagues in this place, particularly Senator Wheeldon, used to taunt the previous Liberal-Country Party Government about the flexibility of the Canadian Governmentit was not a socialist government- which cornered wheat deals with China. [More…]
It was only when the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, went to China that the barriers were removed and the National Country Party shared in the bountiful wheat markets which were opened up. [More…]
It also concerns me that from debate in this House and from discussions outside that foreign affairs debates in this country and in this Parliament seem likely to revert to the sort of blind, prejudicial type of debate we had in the 30 years leading up to 1972- the sort of debate and attitudes that led to our involvement in Vietnam and the unnecessary death and destruction that came out of that and the ridiculous situation which applied up until 1972 when this country did not even recognise the existence of China and the government of that country. [More…]
There was the remnant of its ancient empire in Macao in China. [More…]
It would not be proper for me to say that some members of the Government might have had a selective attitude in respect of other events in South East Asia but we are not now trying to apportion blame or to establish who was right on the question of Vietnam or in regard to our relationships with China or whether Angola, Mozambique or Chile acted in this and that sort of a way. [More…]
We have only to look at our standing with countries such as Hong Kong, Korea, the Philippines, China and Taiwan to see where these factors place us. [More…]
When he was a prominent wheat farmer, in the days of quotas, he was able to dispose of his wheat crop to North Vietnam via China, while we were in conflict with North Vietnam. [More…]
Sims was a member of the Whitlam entourage which went to Japan and China. [More…]
Within 8 months he has been to Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Manila, Canada, US and Indonesia. [More…]
New circumstances involving refugees from Indo China and South East Asia have evolved. [More…]
States supporting the resolution include Australia, Brazil, China, Greece, Mexico, Mozambique, Pakistan, Portugal, Sweden, the USSR, and Tanzania. [More…]
Nations voting for the resolution include Brazil, China, Colombia, Greece, Iceland, Mozambique, Norway,Portugal, Sweden, and the USSR. [More…]
ASEAN enjoys 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. [More…]
Countries such as China, France, Chile and South Africa have not signed a non proliferation treaty, A non proliferation treaty does not prevent the material or the knowledge being passed on from countries which are signatories to countries which are not signatories. [More…]
The fact is that the opposition of the Labor Party is on ideological grounds and it is just a pity that the lefties in the Labor Party who got this through their conference have not done something about convincing their friends in China to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as other countries have. [More…]
The inclusion of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the membership of the Fund suggests to me that a decision of the Fund can be made by two-thirds of the majority of members to use the fund for some atomic application for better grinding of rice in China or elsewhere in Asia, for example. [More…]
The United Nations charter clearly states that decisions should be taken with the affirmative votes of the five permanent members of the Council- the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and China. [More…]
But, of course, in the immediate post- War world, the situation existed in which non-aligned countries or the emerging countries- whatever we call them- had the choice of following what was known as the Westera powers- the democracies- or those countries largely led by the Soviet Union or, to a lesser extent, China. [More…]
If that were the case, we would push many very statesmanlike coloured leaders into the camp not of the Third World countries but probably into the camp dominated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or even China. [More…]
We went to the Soviet Union and to China to seek new markets for wheat. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite use countries such as the Soviet Union and China for local political purposes. [More…]
In 1974-75 China bought 1,401,460 tonnes of wheat and last year it purchased 946,309 tonnes of wheat. [More…]
In that instance, Japan was the biggest customer for Australian wheat after China. [More…]
I refer to the Soviet Union and the massive country of China. [More…]
-I say to Senator Sir Magnus Cormack that we had the bizarre situation in 1972 when the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, attacked the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr E. G. Whitlam, for going to China. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack ‘s Prime Minister attacked Mr Whitlam for going to China in complete ignorance of the fact that President Nixon was going there too- something which Senator Sir Magnus Cormack might recall as a matter of embarrassment to the government of the day. [More…]
The policies of previous governments which arose- I would hope- after consideration of our intelligence information and the assessment of our intelligence information, led to our refusal over many years to acknowledge the existence of the realities of the People’s Republic of China, and, in fact, led to our involvement in the Indo-China war. [More…]
It certainly caused much distress to many families in this country and to families in IndoChina and were certainly at wide variance with most other countries in the Western World with which we were normally associated. [More…]
In has speech in the other place, Mr Lionel Bowen made reference to the fact that he believed that we could not have been receiving proper intelligence or assessment of intelligence, because we were so obsessed with this threat that we saw, as demonstrated by our refusal to recognise China. [More…]
This, of course, led- as Senator Button said- to Mr McMahon’s embarrassed hurried flight from Devonport in Tasmania where he had just made a speech criticising the Leader of the Opposition of the day, Mr Whitlam, for visiting China and he found that Mr Nixon was going there and that he had not been informed. [More…]
One remembers what happened in the late 1960s when we did not recognise the People’s Republic of China and we had no relationships with the Australian businessmen who were regularly going to Canton to trade with the Chinese. [More…]
We recognised the People’s Republic of China and opened up great trading outlets for the Australian community, particularly for the primary production section. [More…]
We must consider the position of our country in relation to the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and many other nations. [More…]
Is the Minister prepared to direct the same criticism against his own Government for changing its policy on the recognition of China, changing its policy on a national health scheme, changing its policy on overseas investment in Australian companies, changing its policy on simultaneous elections, and its policy on the payment of a dairy bounty? [More…]
That is what we are talking about, not whether we changed our minds over mainland China or something else. [More…]
Over the years there has been no one more critical than this Government of the policies and living standards of the USSR and China. [More…]
I was a member of a group of members of the Government parties who were in Japan and China for some weeks and who have just returned to Australia. [More…]
There is no doubt that the essence of Japan’s economy is her ability to trade abroad- for example, her ability to trade with us and with China. [More…]
We read only a few days ago of a $20,000m trade agreement being negotiated between’ China and Japan. [More…]
I believe also that there is obviously a very intense desire to increase trade between Australia and China, the other country that we visited. [More…]
The ViceChairman of the People’s Republic, Mr Ulanfu, who led the delegation of the Chinese people here last year, specifically said to us in the Great Hall that China wanted not only particular goods from Australia but also our expertise and knowhow. [More…]
China wants to learn from us about the way in which we have managed to produce primary products in great quantities. [More…]
It regards Australia as a friendly country and one with which China can have a lot of dealings. [More…]
We must know where we are going in the future and how we are going to increase our trading opportunities with our neighbours in the Asian countries and with China and Japan. [More…]
China or Russia would be eager to step in to help. [More…]
They could use uranium and land control to demand an independent State- and China or Russia would be eager to step in to help’, he said. [More…]
It would look at not only those countries with which in the past it was unfriendly- countries such as the Soviet Union or China- but also countries with which the United States had had friendly relations, countries such as Argentina and Uraguay. [More…]
Other meetings are taking place at which the United States and Britain appear to be taking the leading role as the foreign powers- this is not an occasion when the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other forces are involved- that are pressing for the so-called external settlement with the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia. [More…]
I refer to Australia’s becoming more and more involved with the Pacific nations, such as China, Japan and the Phillipines. [More…]
I know that he will not have read yesterday’s Canberra Times so I shall preface the question by referring to part of it which states that the Australian Film Commission had announced that three members of the Commission had left for China the day before to discuss exchanges of film between Australia and China. [More…]
Who is responsible for the fares and expenses of the three members of the Australian Film Commission travelling to China? [More…]
Does the Government think that it is necessary for three members of the Film Commission to travel to China in order to discuss film exchanges? [More…]
He is the senator who is very quiet about the generals of China and equally quiet about the atrocities in Vietnam. [More…]
I would like in return to ask Senator Sim what complaints Mr Fraser and Mr Peacock made about the Chinese generals when they were in China? [More…]
In fact, they talked about the very special relationships- warm, close, friendly relationshipsthat they had with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Therefore nations such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China are showing an increasing interest in the Pacific just as Japan has long had a substantial interest in it. [More…]
What has been the total quantity and value of textile, clothing, footwear, electrical and furniture imports from ASEAN countries, China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan for each month from 1 January 1976. [More…]
It concerns the sale of 3 million tonnes of wheat to China that was announced by the Australian Wheat Board on 4 July 1977. [More…]
It has happened in Indonesia, in China and in Queensland and it happened in New South Wales recently when massive raids were carried out by the Commonwealth Police against an ethnic community and exposed that community to ridicule, contempt and grave embarrassment which it will not forget for a long time. [More…]
Equally people have no idea in China, or most other countries, of what the real situation is. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) in his statement to the Parliament during March last year sought to analyse our relationships with the developed democracies, including Japan, the United States of America and Western Europe; our changing relationships with China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and our developing relationships in our own region. [More…]
The Government’s wheat and sugar deals with China give no protection because there are no price commitments by the Chinese. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in particular, Yugoslavia and the People’s Republic of China also are moving into the widespread use of nuclear energy. [More…]
I ask: Did the Australian Wheat Board sign a contract with Mainland China for the sale of three million tonnes of wheat in July 1 977? [More…]
-Senator McLaren asked me a question without notice on 24 May regarding wheat exports to China. [More…]
Did the Australian Wheat Board sign a contract with Mainland China for the sale of three million tonnes of wheat in July 1977? [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 of power there; 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…]
His initial business breakthrough appears to have been linked with the supply of railway sleepers to the Japanese Army in its aggression war in China in the thirties. [More…]
Some of the timber suppliers are reputed to have been extracted in China itself by Chinese slave labour. [More…]
My advice as to the present relationship is that when the Australian Government recognised the People’s Republic of China in December 1972, the agreed communique stated that Australia acknowledges the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is part of China. [More…]
China frowned upon the importation of our cattle. [More…]
Foreign policy concerns of the Holy See under Pope Paul included: The problems of the proliferation of nuclear weapons; the improvement of social welfare; assisting the development of the poorer countries; a rapprochement with China; the evolution of relations with Marxist regimes; and a desire to expand official communications with the Communist, Islamic and Asian world in order to ensure the maintenance and continuity of the freedom of Christian observance. [More…]
I refer to a recent report that the members of a congressional delegation from the United States of America which visited the People’s Republic of China in July were informed that China now recognised the existing realities in regard to Taiwan. [More…]
Peoples Republic of China- property currently allocated on a reciprocal basis. [More…]
Peoples Republic of China- Canberra; PolandCanberra, Sydney; Socialist Republic of VietnamCanberra; USSR- Canberra, Sydney. [More…]
Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Fiji, the German Democratic Republic, New Zealand, People’s Republic of China, Romania, United Kingdom/Northern Ireland, Western Samoa. [More…]
I refer to a recent report that the members of a Congressional Delegation from the United States of America which visited the People ‘s Republic of China in July were informed that China now recognised the existing realities in regard to Taiwan. [More…]
A delegation from the United States Congress, led by Representative Lester Wolff, visited China 3 July to 13 July. [More…]
On the delegation ‘s return to Hong Kong Mr Wolff gave a press conference at which he is reported to have said that Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping had told the delegation that China ‘recognised the realities’ of United States involvement in Taiwan. [More…]
Other members of the delegation are reported to have emphasised, however, that China had not altered the main conditions for the normalisation of the United States relations with China. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry: Is Australia unable to deliver to China approximately 250,000 tonnes of wheat which is the balance of an order calling for delivery in the period January to August 1978? [More…]
Has China purchased approximately one million tonnes of United States wheat to make up for a shortfall in deliveries of wheat from Australia and Canada? [More…]
Is Australia able to supply further wheat to China during the remainder of 1 978? [More…]
I was advised by the Minister for Primary Industry whom I represent that, by mutual agreement with China, the shipment of 250,000 tonnes which originally was to be shipped during the period January to August 1978 and to which the honourable senator made reference had been deferred. [More…]
Further to the honourable senator’s question, I am advised that China recently has purchased wheat from the United States. [More…]
The latest report suggests that about 2V4 million tonnes has been purchased by China and that China also has purchased about 3 million tonnes from Canada for shipment from September 1 978 to August 1 979. [More…]
I understand from the Australian Wheat Board that the question of further sales by Australia to China has yet to be discussed. [More…]
China, is alongside it, there has been no easing of the situation. [More…]
New Zealand, People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Who would argue that buyers from India, China, South Africa or Russia are not coming to this country to get a strain of sheep which they cannot get elsewhere? [More…]
When travelling in Japan, China, Hong Kong and in similar places I discovered that the Australian wines that we know to be of good quality and which are supported in this country were rarely to be seen in those places. [More…]
I do not emphasise just the potential markets in the United States and Canada because it seems to me that, with our vastly growing tourist trade with countries on the other side of the Pacific, such as Japan, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and so forth, there are great opportunities for Australia if our wine industry can get out and sell and if it can get more encouragement from the Government to do so. [More…]
As I mentioned, Radio Australia transmits a weak signal whereas other countries such as China and Russia transmit much stronger beams. [More…]
I inform the Senate that the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) leaves Australia today 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…]
Australia does not, of course, recognise the so-called ‘ Republic of China Government’ on Taiwan and could not therefore enter into a government-to-government agreement on nuclear safeguards with Taiwan. [More…]
It is that the United States, unlike Australia, recognises the ‘Republic of China Government’ and is therefore able to have a nuclear co-operation safeguards agreement with it and to export nuclear material to Taiwan. [More…]
The fact that some other countries recognise the ‘ Republic of China’ in no way calls into question the effectiveness of Australia’s safeguards policy. [More…]
Project Pyramider was described during the Boyce trial in Los Angeles in 1 977 as consisting of a number of satellites, controlled through Pine Gap, which would enable CIA agents in the field, including those in the Soviet Union and China, to communicate directly with CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. [More…]
It is prompted by the recent statement by the Deputy Prime Minister to the effect that Australia can look forward to a glowing future if it enters into co-operation with the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Does the Minister recollect that only a few years ago members of the present Government parties accused the Australian Labor Party of subversive intent when it advocated the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China and that indeed those parties when in government - [More…]
Is it not also a fact that the present Government parties, when previously in government, conscripted Australians to fight in Vietnam, one of the reasons claimed for so doing being that the People’s Republic of China presented a threat to Australia and that Australians needed to fight in Vietnam to halt the downward thrust of menacing Chinese communism? [More…]
Can the Minister explain to the Senate when the nature of China so changed as to bring about this remarkable reversal in form by the members of the present Government parties? [More…]
What was it that happened in China? [More…]
If the Minister is unable to do this, will he admit that the Government was wrong when it conscripted young Australians a few years ago and when it attacked the Australian Labor Party merely for wishing to have diplomatic relations with China? [More…]
Anyone who has any understanding of what has happened with regard to the emergence of China as a nation knows that for decades post-war China pursued an inward-looking policy- in fact, one that did not seek to reach outwards to establish links with the outside world. [More…]
It was not Australia alone which did not have diplomatic relations with China in those years. [More…]
My Government welcomes the fact that it has been able to establish good and overt working relations with a significant nation such as China. [More…]
I do not think that Senator Wheeldon really is serious in raising the question of IndoChina because it would do no good for his advocacy if he were to look today at the pitiful state of what is happening to the people in the IndoChina area and the absolute bloodbath of very recent years- for example, the literal bloodbath in places such as Cambodia and Laos. [More…]
-If Senator Wheeldon looks at tomorrow’s Hansard he will find that I have indeed answered that, but I simply repeat that for several decades post-war China itself pursued inward looking policies and not international policies at all. [More…]
As a result of its inward looking policies a significant number of countries did not have diplomatic relations with China. [More…]
Along with the change of China’s policies and a widening of her international links Australia in common with other countries was happy to make the diplomatic links with China. [More…]
When the development of nuclear weapons rendered this strategy no longer credible our strategy shifted to the possibility of a limited non-nuclear war with China as part of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation alliance. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and refer to continuing reports from China of a growing wall poster campaign allegedly aimed against Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and supporting Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping. [More…]
They ignored the split that had occurred between Russia and the United States, the split which occurred at that time between Russia and China and the split between Russia and Vietnam. [More…]
Now there are splits between Russia and the United States, Russia and China and Russia and Viet Nam and these do not appear to be any immediate threat to our peace. [More…]
I promised to get some information to respond to a question asked by Senator Sim about internal political developments in China. [More…]
It would be premature to suggest, however, that the wall poster campaign represents a major power struggle between China’s most senior leaders. [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…]
Prior to 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 the discussions between the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and President Carter in January and Prime Minister Desai later that month, they 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 be no underestimation of the serious danger posed to our region and 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 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. [More…]
Since the end of last year events in Indo-China have escalated rapidly and there is no sign of any immediate relief. [More…]
On Monday last I called for a proper statement to the Parliament on the position in Indo-China. [More…]
The present situation in Indo-China is a striking example. [More…]
In the current situation between the Soviet Union and China, both countries have spoken about punishing another nation. [More…]
A month ago China said it would punish Vietnam. [More…]
Press reports today indicate that Russia intends to punish China. [More…]
On this occasion he is apparently on the side of China and is opposed to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He fails to appreciate how foolish it was to vilify another nation the way he did to China at that time. [More…]
On 6 May 1965 he said that China has not learned that the West is prepared to use force to protect its vital interests and if she wins in South Vietnam she will never accept the possibility of some kind of co-existence between her Communist regime and the West. [More…]
Inflammatory and abusive remarks of this nature were typical of the insults that were directed against China at that time not only by the present Australian Prime Minister but also by many of his colleagues. [More…]
It goes right back to the first intergration of China by Shih Huang Ti, the first emperor, who was a very efficient person with a very efficient bureaucracy. [More…]
To our knowledge China was the first place in the world which identified standards of widths of roads, wheel tracks, measurements and things of that sort. [More…]
That emperor was so feared and the effect of his death was so feared that when he died away from the enormous capital he had built his body was concealed for weeks by his troops in a load of rotting fish because they were afraid of the consequences to China when his death was discovered. [More…]
It is pretty plain that we are not going to do very well just pursuing the old paths, especially in competition with the very energetic Asian industrial revolution that is going on in such places as South Korea, Taiwan and, of course, China. [More…]
In China I think there will be a vast industry much faster than people realise. [More…]
After three and a half years of comparative quiet, South East Asia is again the scene of armed conflict- first with the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, then with 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 VietnamChina 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 pro-China 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 level- the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the United States and China, the expansion of Japan’s relations with China- are 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…]
I believe that all who have followed the events there to some extent have kept their fingers crossed that the disputes, especially that between China and Vietnam, would not involve other nations and particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
He does say in more places than one in the course of the speech that the Government has wished to play a constructive role in this area of dispute and yet the conflict which has really brought the immediate concern on us, namely, the Chinese attack on Vietnam, following the Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea, involves us with a couple of nations with which this Government has had much involvement over the past 10 years, and indeed in the case of China going back a lot further. [More…]
As I indicated in a speech last week, we are dealing with a government which years ago made a speciality of heaping abuse and vilification upon China. [More…]
Last week I quoted some of the things which the present Prime Minister said in the middle 1960s- provocative, inflammatory remarks about China which obviously could only enable that country to believe that its enemies were not only to the north and west of it but also could be very far to the south. [More…]
China has now taken the view, for reasons best understood by itself, that it wishes to take a much different and more conciliatory approach towards the United States. [More…]
Those who took the trouble to read the interview with the Chinese Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping, in Time magazine only two or three weeks ago would not be left with any illusions as to the reason for China’s new approach to the United States of America. [More…]
The Opposition has not isolated China in the world community and our record, for at least two decades, is one of ensuring that China was not the odd man out. [More…]
In 1972, before we came to Government, we took the initiative, as a party, to send a deputation to China in order to try and establish a relationship between the Australian Labor Party and the Chinese authorities, one not based on hostility. [More…]
So we do not need to apologise for or explain the fact that we have never attempted to pursue the line, or to support those who advocated the line, that China should in some way be isolated from the world community. [More…]
It is quite apparent now that the present Government also does not want to see China isolated. [More…]
If the Government feels that is the position, I would suggest that it not repeat the mistakes that it made in the 1950s and 1960s by forcing, or helping to force, China into a state of isolation. [More…]
He was reported in the media a fortnight ago, after a Press conference in Singapore, as saying that he was concerned with a pro-China tilt developing in the Australian Government’s attitude. [More…]
He went on to say how important it is that the Government maintain a balance in its relationship between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I reject the contention by the Minister that our criticism of a pro-China attitude is an invalid one. [More…]
The whole world seems to be a tinder-box of conflicts at the moment, with the acute troubles in Indo-China, the sudden events in the Middle East and the events in Africa. [More…]
For example, having been to the People’s Republic of China, I know that the Chinese are concerned about the encirclement of their country by the Russians. [More…]
Because of the conflict in Vietnam and the antagonisms between the two different communist forces in Indo-China, the Russians moved in to support one side; so the Chinese moved in to support the other side in order to prevent encirclement of their country. [More…]
This has created a dangerous situation, with a confrontation now between Russia and China. [More…]
Concerning Russia’s intervention in Africa, Russia has not caused any of the problems in Africa, neither has China, nor Britain, although all these nations have exploited the problems which already exist when it has suited their purpose. [More…]
The problems of the people of Indo-China, Africa and even the Middle East are being aided and abetted by the foreign ambitions of the bigger powers. [More…]
First of all there is South-East Asia where we are seeing a conflict between allegedly Marxist states- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; the People’s Republic of China; Socialist Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchea. [More…]
The Soviet Union, which is certainly one of the two most powerful countries in the world, and China, which is at the very least one of the half dozen most powerful countries of the world, are on the very edge of armed conflict with states with which they were allied. [More…]
In the case of China it is the so-called Democratic Kampuchea and in the case of the Soviet Union it is Vietnam. [More…]
First of all let us look at the situation in South East Asia and specifically Indo-China. [More…]
After the eviction of the Japanese from Indo-China in 1945, when the British troops moved in, the French were brought back but clearly they were not wanted by the local inhabitants and were evicted after the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. [More…]
Thousands upon thousands of people from our own country and the United States as well as from Indo-China died trying to preserve regimes which obviously could not last, whatever the morality of it may have been, and were bound to be destroyed. [More…]
Warring factions such as the supporters of Pol Pot, the supporters of Pham Van Dong and the supporters of the twice resuscitated First Deputy Premier of China are brawling, fighting, murdering and bombing in Indo-China. [More…]
There is scant, if any, respect for human rights in the Soviet Union, or in China, or in Vietnam or in the previous and, I should imagine, present regimes in Cambodia. [More…]
We often hear romantic stories about how wonderful it is in China. [More…]
I was fortunate last year to visit Japan, China and the Phillippines. [More…]
Those visits were very interesting, particularly the visit to China. [More…]
I now turn to the problems which exist in China, Russia and Kampuchea. [More…]
When I visited China I spoke to many Chinese officials. [More…]
China’s border with Russia extends for thousands of kilometres. [More…]
I am not protecting China. [More…]
I wonder whether China’s invasion of Vietnam would have taken place if the Soviets had not made a treaty with the people of Vietnam. [More…]
The danger is that the fighting could escalate into a war in which China poured such manpower and resources into Vietnam that the Vietnamese would at last bring forward- I do not believe that they have done so yet- their crack troops to fight the Chinese. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was discussing the fact that China and Vietnam are locked in battle. [More…]
I said that the time could come when China would find it most difficult to extricate itself from the position in which it has now placed itself. [More…]
China has endeavoured to woo Hungary away from the Soviet bloc. [More…]
The main effect, of course, is that it is a world contest between Russia and China as to which country will be the supreme being within the communist world. [More…]
Although the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) on important events throughout the world concentrated essentially on the recent developments in Indo-China, he did not review closely enough some of the mistakes that this Government has made with regard to this conflict, nor did he look sufficiently at the ramifications for the South East Asian region overall. [More…]
The Sino- Vietnam conflict has made the whole of the Indo-China and South East Asia region far less stable. [More…]
Unless there is a rapid conclusion, escalation of the conflict could well eventuate in a Soviet military strike against China. [More…]
Some commentators still have not ruled out the possibility of a fullscale conventional war between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that it has acted quite moderately up to the moment but I have no doubt that there are some people in the Soviet armed forces who would like to encourage a pre-emptive strike against China. [More…]
I think it is also fortunate from this point of view that it is not in the interests of Vietnam to encourage a Soviet military strike against China since the Chinese would then be forced to take rapid strike action against Vietnam in order to neutralise their southern flank. [More…]
I remember reading Harrison Salisbury’s book in 1969 on the inevitability of a war between China and Russia. [More…]
My essential criticism of the Australian Government’s current approach to Indo-China is that we have allowed ourselves to be seen as taking a pro-Chinese stance. [More…]
The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was muted in his criticism yesterday of China’s attack on Vietnam, claiming that it was a direct result of Vietnam’s earlier invasion of Kampuchea. [More…]
Of course the same Malcolm Fraser was such a staunch critic of Gough Whitlam ‘s China policy. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Whitlam, has ignored China’s support for revolutionary warfare, he has ignored the fact China is building strategic military roads in Asia. [More…]
Then the other day we had the Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Country Party, Mr Anthony, describing as ‘louts’ the unionists who were blocking wheat shipments to China in opposition to its invasion of Vietnam. [More…]
I would say that if that action had been taken a few years ago he probably would have been recommending that medals be struck and given to the people that were stopping ships that were going to China. [More…]
If there is to be this continual disruption and discrimination against China, because somebody doesn ‘t 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…]
Mr Lin Ping made it clear in an interview on television by the Australian Broadcasting Commission that he interpreted Mr Fraser ‘s statement as being sympathetic to China. [More…]
Whilst it is fairly obvious that the Chinese are a greater potential source of trade for Australia and that it may be of benefit to Australia to share China’s attitute in regard to the demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean and a reduction of super power activity in Asia it does not justify, either on moral grounds or strategic grounds, Australia’s unqualified support for China. [More…]
Our thinly-veiled support for one of the combatants in the Indo-China conflict at the moment is certainly not in Australia’s long term interests. [More…]
Frankly, that is the very real problem the world faces in the difficulty in Indo-China. [More…]
However, Australia’s application of its principles in the last few weeks has been to make clear in the various councils of the world its position as to the withdrawal of forces in the Indo-China war from Vietnam as well as from Kampuchea. [More…]
However, some Opposition senators take the simplistic view that because there is a capacity for Australia to say that we require peace and stability in South East Asia, and because that view happens to coincide with the views of China but apparently does not coincide with the views of Vietnam, we are somehow showing bias towards China. [More…]
I do not believe that one can regard oneself as an instant expert on foreign affairs because one has travelled recently to both China and Japan. [More…]
Quite clearly, the impression I gained of China’s position in the world today was one not only of a fear of Russia but also of the very real concern that its national position is at risk visavis the Russian situation on its immediate northern borders. [More…]
Quite clearly, China faces very grave difficulties in its industrial area in the immediate north-eastern region north of the Yalu River. [More…]
A very well-timed and organised force could cut that region off from the rest of China and so make a quite considerable impact on China’s capacity to fight a war. [More…]
That could be attained through a very quick and relatively easy strike, but might of course risk the return of nuclear weapons on the part of China if such an attempt were made. [More…]
In addition, the heartland of China, the rice area, is exposed on the south to Vietnam, which has been making incursions across the Chinese border in recent times. [More…]
That situation is quite apart from the ring of 44 divisions of Soviet troops all the way round the China border. [More…]
Turning to the Kampuchean situation there is no doubt in my mind that China’s strike in regard to Vietnam stems directly from a challenge to its interests, as it perceives them, by Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia. [More…]
The practical situation in Indo-China is a very dangerous one for the world. [More…]
I find that the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs as clearly as possible calls.upon both Vietnam and China in their present conflict to withdraw their forces from the countries which they are presently occupying and to return to the establishment of peace and stability. [More…]
I am not prepared to stand here and defend China’s invasion of 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 . [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…]
I do not think that there is any person in the world who does not want to live in peaceful and stable surroundings, regardless of whether he lives in China, the Soviet Union, America, Australia or somewhere in the Middle East. [More…]
The Minister’s speech was made against the background of certain very serious and important events in the Middle East and South East Asia, in Indo-China in particular. [More…]
Its geographical situation is such that it is flanked on the eastern side by the Pacific Ocean and developing, independent island state nations and on the western side by the Indian Ocean with all the international implications that exist there, and to its north has the troubled area of South East Asia and Indo-China. [More…]
We have become aware of the implications of the Vietnam invasion of Cambodia or Kampuchea and now, of course, as we very well know, the conflict between China and Vietnam. [More…]
To reflect on what I mentioned earlier, I point out that these conflicts were created by the power rivalry that exists between four major states adjacent to the areas, namely, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
The conflict in Indo-China is, of course, the greatest cause of concern. [More…]
It is a matter of concern; it is a matter of disappointment to those governments in the area and in other parts of the world which over recent years have lent their support, interest and attention to matters relating to the Indo-China area and which hoped that the steps which had been taken might have contributed to the stability and a settling down of the situation in the South East Asian area. [More…]
As a result of conversations with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees the two Ministers announced that Australia would contribute about $3m to assist in the overall refugee situation, but particularly in Indo-China. [More…]
Despite what is happening in Vietnam and despite the argument between the Soviet Union and China, we still have an acceptance by the United States and the Soviet Union that detente ought to be achieved and that the SALT discussions ought to be concluded. [More…]
When the Minister talked about the way to solve the China- Vietnam situation he made it almost a pre-condition. [More…]
The issue between China and Vietnam therefore is not likely to be resolved with any element of permanence by a settlement on the Vietnam-China border which leaves the situation in Kampuchea unchanged. [More…]
Again, that is a fairly positive and firm statement that in the opinion of this Government the situation in Kampuchea, which was first destroyed by military operations, must be permanently connected with the China border incident. [More…]
The statement goes further than the situation we are talking about- the issue of China versus Vietnam, with Soviet Union on the fringes- and talks about the situation in Iran. [More…]
Prior to Mr Whitlam we had always been challenged at election time by the red threat from China. [More…]
How many times did they say the real threat was China? [More…]
How many times did they influence the Australian electorate that this was the cause of the whole trouble and to recognise China as we were the first to do, was a wrong decision? [More…]
It is rather unusual to find that a government which resisted in the first instance the recognition of Red China now accuses the Opposition of not being critical and sensible about the situation. [More…]
Again, the Foreign Minister today referred to statements in 1975 in which he foresaw the possibility that Indo-China might become the scene for a Sino-Soviet conflict to be played out. [More…]
That statement, which was made in October 1975, reflected considerable foresight about what might happen, and indeed has happened, in Indo-China. [More…]
The Minister has made a very important reference in his statement to the restraint that has been exercised by the Soviet Union in the current crisis in Indo-China. [More…]
For example, it is not hard to see that the Soviet Union might feel that Europe, Japan, the United States of America, and China are in fact in many ways aligned against it. [More…]
I believe that we have to be careful about that sort of development if we expect the Soviet Union to continue to exercise the sort of restraint it has exercised so far in the conflict in Indo-China. [More…]
I only add that in the context of the tendency towards alignment between Europe, Japan, the United States of America and China, Australia obviously falls into that group along with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations and the countries of the South Pacific. [More…]
I take it that Senator Wriedt is raising the question of China’s punitive action against Vietnam because of China’s claim that certain action has taken place on its southern border; and as well, Vietnam’s invasion of Kampuchea. [More…]
The Government has made it clear that in fact China should withdraw its forces from the northern provinces of Vietnam and that Vietnam should withdraw its troops from Kampuchea. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, concerns the China- Vietnam war and the Australian Government’s intelligence assessments as reported in yesterday’s newspapers. [More…]
Will the Government present such intelligence assessments and media briefs to this Parliament and in particular give clarification of the contents of Chinese communications with Australia and other countries as to China’s intentions and goals? [More…]
Another criticism that I wish to make of the statement and, indeed, of many of the speeches of Government members is that I have detected a pro-China bias and an anti-Soviet bias. [More…]
The honourable senator might dispute that there has been a pro- China bias or an anti-Russia bias, but he cannot dispute that I have detected it. [More…]
I wonder whether that is the reason that this pro-China bias is apparent in the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and in the speeches made by Government senators. [More…]
I suppose one could argue that if we see China as a potential massive trading partner of the future, which it is- if the supporters of one’s party see China in that light- there might be a philosophy of let us not be nasty to China because it might affect our trade negotiations. [More…]
Finally, I mention China. [More…]
I thought that Senator Kilgariff made an excellent speech on China. [More…]
The honourable senator has been to China and he confirmed the views that I have had expressed to me by travellers to that country. [More…]
Mr John Siddons, a most distinguished Australian and the National President of my party, recently visited China with a group of people. [More…]
He was fortunate in having as his travelling companion Mr Ross Tyrell, another most distinguished Australian who I think is regarded internationally as in the third top group of China experts in the world. [More…]
He did not say, nor do any experts say, that there is any evidence that Russia will invade China. [More…]
The point is that every Chinese person sincerely believes that Russia will attack China and will attack from that country’s soft underbelly. [More…]
History has shown that the invasion of China from the north, the north-west and the west is difficult because of the problems presented by Mongolia and the Himalayas and with respect to logistical support. [More…]
But invasion is a possibility with the help of friendly allies through China’s underbelly- that is, up through Indo-China. [More…]
Let us not forget another philosophy that has been in China for many years. [More…]
One reads in Chinese literature and hears from Chinese diplomats- and this is in line with the Maoist theory- that even in the event of a nuclear war China would kill 200 million of the 230 million Russians and Russia would kill 200 million Chinese but China would still have 800 million people left. [More…]
I suggest that we should not play to Russia’s paranoid fears- and that nation has the same fears of paranoia as does China. [More…]
If we want to have good relations with China, by all means let us go out to have them. [More…]
But let us not chase good relations with China at the expense of unnecessarily offending the other great paranoid power in the world, namely, the Soviets. [More…]
I remind the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs that if in an attempt to ingratiate themselves with China they offend or play to the paranoia or the fear that is in the Russian mind they will do a great disservice to this country. [More…]
For the next 25 years at least the West set about the isolation of the People’s Republic of China in exactly the same way as the West had treated the emergence of the state known as the USSR. [More…]
So the conditions of fear were created, and China was driven into a thinking which I think is part of the underlying cause of the problem we are dealing with today. [More…]
We all remember, of course, the statements made by the members of this Government, and the Prime Minister in particular, about China and about the war in Vietnam. [More…]
We were told that it was to be the hordes of China who would come down through the IndoChina peninsula and invade this country. [More…]
I have yet to hear a member of the conservative parties in this country acknowledge the grievous mistake that they made, that in fact they are the ones who can be termed to be the guilty ones in respect of the conflict that is taking place in the Indo-China peninsula today. [More…]
I do not want to touch on what Senator Chipp said because I agree with him, as you do, Mr Deputy President, about the tragic events in Timor; but I want to deal with the problems in the Indo-China peninsula as we see them at this point. [More…]
That ignores the issues that I have canvassed and the historical developments in the Indo-China peninsula which go back into history. [More…]
We call on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea and on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam. [More…]
The wars which have engulfed the Indo-China States over the past thirty years have brought untold human suffering and misery. [More…]
They mean precisely nothing and, of course, the document makes no reference to our areas of responsibility, whether we in fact contributed or the Western powers contributed to the dilemma, the problems and the disaster that now face the people in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Whilst there are certain differences in emphasis between the major communist powers, China and the Soviet Union, they are not the underlying causes of the present conflict. [More…]
As I have said, we refused to recognise China. [More…]
We refused to understand China, but all of a sudden, in pursuance of this anti-Sovietism, to which Senator Chipp referred, we seem to be adopting a pro-China, anti-Soviet position as if that were the only issue that ought to be considered in respect of the problem concerned. [More…]
In recent months the Iraqi Government has been spending a lot of its time beheading its pro-Soviet leaders but despite that, despite China, despite Rumania, despite Yugoslavia, we now suppose that Iran, Ethiopia, Angola and Afghanistan are permanent creatures of Soviet policy. [More…]
We contributed, as part of the West, to the isolation of China and we contributed to the problems in Vietnam. [More…]
There was an opportunity to create an Asian Yugoslavia, an independent country, following its own social path of development, but making its decisions of selfdetermination and not being pan of the China bloc, which the Liberal-National Country Parties said was the cause of the war in Vietnam. [More…]
China agreed to contribute $300m, but unfortunately, as the events show, that was cancelled at the end of last year. [More…]
A few months later, by the spring of 1977, it had become evident that Hanoi was bent on improving relations with China. [More…]
We propose that the independence and sovereignty of Kampuchea be guaranteed by international agreement and that the Kampuchean people be left to resolve their internal problems free of interference from Vietnam, China or any other outside forces. [More…]
We support the Vietnamese Government’s proposals for the resolution of all Indo-China border disputes by internationally supervised negotiations. [More…]
According to the figures supplied to me by the Research Service of the Parliamentary Library, during the so-called liberation war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam China helped the North Vietnamese by giving them $20,000m. [More…]
I believe that an Australian communist said once: Between the Elbe River and the China Sea no man points a gun at another’. [More…]
Now we have the USSR against China; China against Vietnam; Yugoslavian troops on the Bulgarian border; African countries with Soviet-type dictatorships fighting each other; and Ethopia fighting Somalia. [More…]
As somebody said- I think he put it quite nicely- from Algeria to Tanzania, from China to Canada, the national inspiration and the need to embody the culture in a national estate and a national society are still with us. [More…]
It has been often observed that relations between China and Vietnam have traditionally been characterised by enmity . [More…]
Traditional Vietnamese-Cambodian enmity seems even more intense, at least on the Cambodian side, than that between China and Vietnam. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing between four states: The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
We get all worked up about this issue, but the fact is that after China exercised its rights over a boundary dispute with India it retreated. [More…]
Of course, China and the Soviet Union came into this. [More…]
But to me the lesson was this: As far as the Western powers- we could call them that or a loose alliance of the ANZUS powers- are concerned, if we look at it strictly on percentage lines, we are no better off than we would have been if we had not worried about the futile war in Vietnam because by now the ideological rivalries between China and the Soviet Union concerning the land mass of Asia, in particular South Vietnam, would have been apparent. [More…]
The major issue- the present conflict between Vietnam and China- has had a pretty fair hammering. [More…]
To me the question is not whether the United States, the Soviet Union or China are involved. [More…]
As a National Times article March 6-11,1978, stated: Australia is to play a much more significant role in the strategic weapons plan of the United States, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
This will place Australia in the front line of any nuclear exchange between the US and either the Soviet Union or China . [More…]
It seemed to me to be the height of hypocrisy for Government members to show now so much respect for a delegation from China when some six years ago they were the greatest spokesmen against China and made statements about the downward thrust of communism, with the force behind that downward thrust being China. [More…]
If, in the past, we criticised the United States for its position in Indo-China, then surely we should be criticising today the position that China takes against Vietnam. [More…]
Those criticisms which I levelled against the United States in adjournment debates early in the morning, I level now against China. [More…]
Australia will be one of those expendable targets because it has upon its soil at the present time a number of United States bases which are aimed at monitoring the strength of the USSR and of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
They are paranoic in their fear of an encirclement of their nation, of their people, by the United States of America, by the People’s Republic of China and all the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces. [More…]
This was an invasion, and Vietnam deserved a lesson which China proceeded to teach it. [More…]
I was in Hanoi seven months ago and when I returned I said that the situation in Vietnam was serious; that there were 15 Chinese divisions massed on the northern border in order to reduce the pressure on Cambodia; that Vietnamese divisions were going north; and that China had engaged in a psychological campaign against the Vietnamese. [More…]
The People’s Republic of China suddenly withdrew aid from 500 projects in Vietnam. [More…]
It did to the Vietnamese people what it accused the Soviet Union of doing to itself, which is at the basis of the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer to the sudden withdrawal of aid by the Soviet Union from China at a crucial time in China’s development. [More…]
China did to Vietnam exactly what it accused the Soviet Union of doing to itself. [More…]
Many of this merchant class in the South were Chinese who had fled from the revolution in China. [More…]
Some went to Taiwan while others went to Indo-China. [More…]
The claim by China that Chinese nationals were being persecuted arose from this incident and it seems to me peculiar that China should accuse Vietnam of something which it did itself after the revolution. [More…]
It is surprising to me that China should come to the defence of Chinese merchants in Ho Chi Minh City who were refugees from the regime in China and who subsequently, when they left Vietnam, went not back to China but to France and, as most of them did, to Taiwan. [More…]
When the ships that came from China to pick up refugees anchored outside Haiphong, the only condition that the Vietnamese people put on the refugees leaving was that it should be done in the normal way; that lists should be given to the Vietnamese authorities of people wishing to go; that the Chinese ships could take only three days for the whole of the operation; and that they should enter only two pons, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh City. [More…]
My belief is that China manufactured a case against Vietnam in order to invade Vietnam and to teach it a lesson because it felt that Vietnam was very much a pan of the Soviet system and part of the Soviet sphere of influence. [More…]
Because it was not allowed by China to do this, China subsequently was able to use this to justify its invasion. [More…]
The Australian Government has evidenced by its reception of the Chinese delegation here tonight and the subservience it is now showing to China that it is taking part in a dangerous exercise. [More…]
I believe that the United States also is engaged in the same dangerous exercise of encouraging China and is taking sides against the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe it was quite wrong of the Australian Government to have received the delegation from China at a time when China was engaged in an act of aggression, irrespective of how the Australian Government may have viewed the Vietnamese incursion into Cambodia. [More…]
China is a major nation, one of the four world powers. [More…]
For some reason we now seem to think it is to our advantage that China is strongly opposed to the Soviet Union, as a result of which we believe we may be able to engage in some further trade negotiations with China. [More…]
Because we have this belief we take a very short-sighted position and support China. [More…]
This shock leads to a disturbed state of mind when contemplating a conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. [More…]
Many of us remember that upon his return from Vietnam he expressed a very real concern at the dangers of a conflict between China and Vietnam. [More…]
Last November I was in Vancouver at the Congress of the Socialist International where the possibility of conflict between China and Vietnam and between the USSR and China was commonly brought up in speeches, around dining tables and in conversation outside the congress. [More…]
I am very concerned indeed about our Government’s credibility abroad when we consider the double standards that have been applied to the situation in East Timor and to the situation in Indo-China. [More…]
It would appear that the Government is making excuses for China and has decided that it is far easier to withdraw aid than to abandon trade. [More…]
It therefore seems to be taking sides with China. [More…]
That will leave about 45,000 tonnes to be spread around fairly thin markets in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and South-east Asia, with perhaps some sales to the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
He took off for the bush, fell into the local garbage tip behind the china apple trees and broke his arm. [More…]
The story went on to recount how for 20 weeks a 1 7- year-old Vietnamese girl refugee marooned on an old wreck in the South China Sea lived on seagulls, oysters and a little rainwater and that when help finally came the girl had buried the last of her 49 companions. [More…]
When one talks about the Bay of Pigssince the honourable senator prompts me to digress- it is important to remember that of all the criticisms that were made of the Central Intelligence Agency about that incident and its assessment in relation to China’s involvement in Vietnam, were throughout correct- much more correct than were the assessments made by this Government or its predecessors. [More…]
China has 140 such boats and has perhaps 50.. more on order. [More…]
It places Australia in exactly the same category in which China placed itself when it withdrew substantial aid from Vietnam at a time when Vietnam was endeavouring to reconstruct its economy and achieve a position of independence. [More…]
By withdrawing this aid after the withdrawal by China of its aid to Vietnam, we have succeeded in thrusting Vietnam into an economic area very much under the influence of the Soviet or Eastern European bloc. [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 becomes something special, reserved- like Mum’s best china- for important occasions. [More…]
The CPA has operated independently of the Soviet and China since the early sixties. [More…]
Finally, the third body that attracts Mr Justice Hope’s explicit attention, at page 48 of the report in question, is the CPA(M/L), the China-line communist party which recently, of course, found itself split into two rather bitterly-opposed factions, with its barely 1,000 members divided between those who pledge undying loyalty to the Gang of Four and the Cultural Revolution and those- the larger group- who support the current more pragmatically-inclined Chinese leadership. [More…]
The whole of the Western World, the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, many countries of the Islamic world and the People’s Republic of China all made pleas for clemency. [More…]
China may be tainted because it executes its political opponents. [More…]
We know from the Amnesty International report on China the extent to which political executions of former political opponents still take place there. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for National Development aware of a report in a recent producers’ journal which says, inter alia, that because of the availability of oil from China and Mexico, Australia need not be unduly concerned about potential shortfalls in oil supplies from Iran? [More…]
Even with additional supplies from China, Mexico, Alaska and the United Kingdom, supply and demand will remain extremely closely matched in the foreseeable future. [More…]
Both Mexico and China have recently emerged as potentially significant suppliers of oil within the next few years. [More…]
China is also developing an export potential. [More…]
Mr President, 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 the arts. [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…]
The President and the Prime Minister reviewed developments at UNCTAD including the debate on the Common Fund, and the renewed instability in Indo-China and its implications for the region. [More…]
The problem of refugees from Indo-China is a human problem of vast proportions which affects all of us. [More…]
Indonesia’s co-operation in the Indo-China refugee problem is of importance in maintaining an orderly intake of refugees into Australia. [More…]
There has been a clear need for a long time, and this was an initiative of the previous Labor Government, to nurture our relations with ASEAN, China and Japan as well as the nations in the Indo-China and Indian sub-continents. [More…]
25th Oct.-5th Nov., 1978: China (leading GovernmentIndustry trade mission). [More…]
By the mid-1950s the spread of nuclear weapons had rendered this strategy no longer credible and the concept changed to a limited non-nuclear war with China in which we would be a contributor to a predominantly United States force. [More…]
Following China’s military incursion into Vietnam in February and March of this year, the Vietnamese authorities have taken an increasingly hard line with the ethnic Chinese minority which it has publicly described as a fifth column. [More…]
I ask because next month I will be a member of an Opposition delegation to China led by a very illustrious member of the House of Representatives, Mr John Armitage, M.P. [More…]
When I am in China I want to be sure of my facts before I deal with the Chinese authorities I ask for a more specific response to my question. [More…]
The economic situation in Vietnam is so desperate, because of a variety of climatic conditions, and because of the withdraw by the People’s Republic of China of many millions of dollars in economic aid. [More…]
Not only did China bring aid to an end, but also the United States of America did not keep the promise given by President Nixon of substantial reconstruction aid for Vietnam. [More…]
One major power is the People’s Republic of China, which has withdrawn aid, possibly because of Vietnam ‘s dependence on the Soviet Union. [More…]
I too was in Vietnam in the middle of last year and I saw at first hand the desperate problems which Vietnam faced in seeking to carry out reconstruction programs while still under pressure from Kampuchea and China on its borders, pressures which were being applied in order to wrench Vietnam away from the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Hoa people were told distinctly that there would be trouble between China and Vietnam over Kampuchea and that they were to realise that if they stayed in Vietnam they were likely to be disadvantaged because of the struggle, because China would be on the side of Kampuchea. [More…]
Under this pressure from China, because of the conflict between China and Vietnam, which is really a conflict between China and the Soviet Union, many hundreds and thousands of people of Chinese origin began to leave Vietnam. [More…]
Some of them started to go back into China, only to find that that retreat, that refuge, was closed. [More…]
In my view we can correct it if the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China and all the South East Asian countries are prepared to assist in the reconstruction of Vietnam. [More…]
I am able to advise him that migration to Australia from Peking is governed by a family reunion agreement between the governments of Australia and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Only persons coming within the family reunion categories are therefore eligible to emigrate from Peking or other parts of China to Australia. [More…]
I am not concerning myself tonight, Senator Walters, with any murders that you say have been committed in Russia or China. [More…]
I suggest to Senator Walters that if she wants to discuss a situation that may be occurring in China or some place else she should raise it. [More…]
I inform the Senate that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) left Australia on Sunday for a visit to China, Europe and the United States of America. [More…]
Imposed on this political pattern in South East Asia we have the superpower ambitions of the Soviets and their objective of encircling and containing China by setting up bases and client regimes in the Indian Ocean and in South East Asia. [More…]
At the present time there are no actual threats, but evidence of the fact that these circumstances can change overnight is the invasion of Kampuchea by Vietnam and the later invasion of Vietnam by China. [More…]
1 ) What discussions took place with the Chinese Government or its representatives regarding the formation of the Australia-China Council. [More…]
Was any consideration given to the establishment of a similar council in China, with similar objectives and functions financed by the Chinese Government; if not, why not. [More…]
The Australian Government remains deeply concerned about the situation in Indo-China, including the plight of the Kampuchean people, particularly in the light of reports of a dramatically worsening food situation. [More…]
In this respect the Government has taken careful note of Prince Sihanouk’s proposals towards the restoration of peace in Kampuchea and Indo-China generally. [More…]
Neither the Soviet Union, Vietnam, nor China- the principals in the dispute- are thought to support the idea. [More…]
It is very interesting indeed to notice that one of the other front runners in the stakes of national liberation, the People’s Republic of China, has so far been studiously silent on this issue; studiously silent. [More…]
Not one word has come from the foreign ministry of China about the appalling goings on of Bishop Muzorewa or about the valiant front line states and the heroic patriotic front. [More…]
I would make a suggestion to you as to why the People’s Republic of China has remained silent about this, and that is because it is more clearly able to foresee the international implications of what is happening there than the Iron Lady of Downing Street, Mr Fraser and Mr Eggleton. [More…]
I hope that we can do quite a bit, in co-operation with China Airlines of Taiwan and with Philippine Airlines. [More…]
The Minister will recall that in 1960 the absence of diplomatic relations with China was not allowed to hinder the development of trade relations. [More…]
I refer to the film, a five part series, entitled ‘The Human Face of China’, which has been called the most comprehensive human interest film ever attempted inside China. [More…]
-Yesterday Senator O ‘Byrne asked me a question about an Australian made television series on China which he said was ignored by television companies in Australia. [More…]
I am advised by Mr Staley that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has auditioned the series ‘The Human Face of China’ and is currently negotiating with Film Australia, the program maker, for its purchase. [More…]
Thanks to the kind offices of our High Commissioner in Kuala Lumur, I spent a day on the island of Bidong off the east coast of Malaysia- 2 V4 hours travel from Kuala Trenganno across the South China Sea in a rather rickety junk-type boat. [More…]
Because of the excellent response by citizens of mainland China to an invitation issued by Radio Australia, will special help be given to Radio Australia staff in Peking to process requests for free program guides? [More…]
1 must say that it is consistent with the knowledge I have of Radio Australia that it should be so well received in China. [More…]
A few weeks ago I was sitting down with one former Ambassador to China Stephen Fitzgerald and we were talking about a nation in which the leadership had actually created a declining real wage for its people. [More…]
The trouble is that the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is seriously defective, particularly because three nuclear powers- France, China and India- are not members. [More…]
-On Tuesday, Senator Rocher asked a question without notice concerning response to Radio Australia’s broadcasts in China. [More…]
Does the Minister not remember that it is only a few years ago that his Government took a very keen interest in Indo China to the extent of sending Australian conscripts to fight there? [More…]
Ultra nationalistic and so far to the left of anything known as Communism in China or the USSR that it is difficult to find any political appellation to describe the system succinctly, lt comprises total self-sufficiency and self-reliance, total severance from the bourgeois habits of the past, no private ownership, and barter economy rather than any dependence on foreign aid. [More…]
I do not want to argue about Red China at the moment, Senator Chipp. [More…]
For example, this is a very delicate and sensitive issue amongst the Association of South East Asian Nations which are the countries most directly affected by events in Indo-China. [More…]
He gave us an interesting historical dissertation of the history of events in Indo-China but this had little directly to do with this motion. [More…]
I reminded him of the fact that the lack of diplomatic representation in China in no way prevented trade with China. [More…]
If this discussion does nothing more today than awaken the conscience of Australian people listening, who will lobby their members of Parliament and their senators to take more urgent and realistic action about the suffering people of Indo China, it will have succeeded. [More…]
But are we going to change the minds of the Vietnamese by abusing them in this place or by saying: ‘No, we must not do anything to alienate China and, therefore, we must continue to recognise the Pol Pot regime’? [More…]
Politics will stand in the way if we as a nation continue to follow blindly what the United States says we must do, if we follow blindly what China says we must do, or if we adopt the attitude that we must not offend China because we want to sell our wheat to China, and so on. [More…]
Will the agreement signed by United States Vice-President Mondale and the Chinese Government on that country’s expanded hydro-electric program mean that the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, despite visits to China by senior Ministers of the [More…]
I refer to a report on the Indo-China refugee situation which claimed that in the Vietnamese refugee position there have been major splits in refugee family groupings. [More…]
Speaking as one who has seen the work of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on the refugee island of Bidong in the South China Sea, can the Minister indicate whether departmental officers have any specific instructions relating to the family distribution situation? [More…]
It is the understanding of the Government that the recently signed agreement between the United States and China for the hydroelectric work does not preclude the possibility of services of other companies, such as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, being also used in China. [More…]
China has an enormous potential for development in the hyrdo-electric field and a number of countries, in addition to the United States, are interested in offering assistance to China. [More…]
For some time now the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, realising the potential for work in China specifically in the hyrdo-electric field, has been preparing a submission detailing the Corporation’s experience and capabilities in this field. [More…]
Present indications are that the submission from the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation will be closely studied by the Chinese and it is hoped that an invitation will be issued for the Director of the Corporation to visit China to progress the matter of actual commissions for work in the hydro-electric field. [More…]
Veritably it has been a piece of legislation which can be described as having travelled on a slow boat to China. [More…]
I suggest that the Commonwealth should print a brochure, to be given out when anybody purchases an airline ticket, telling people about the dangers of visiting certain places in the Middle East and of the situation between China and Taiwan. [More…]
The loophole occurs with a passport which has been in force for four or five years and which has been used for visits to Taiwan, China, Israel, Libya or one of the other countries concerned. [More…]
Another breeding area in the western Pacific exists in the south China Sea. [More…]
In the 1970s, now that we have established good relations with the People’s Republic of China, it is the trade unionists. [More…]
I believe that although the tragedy which is now being played out in the South China Sea is disturbing the complacency of many Australian people, there is no need for us to be unduly frightened of it; rather I think we are being challenged to face a reality that has always been there. [More…]
I visited the island of Bidong in the South China Sea. [More…]
All of them formed part of that great company of people who survived the journey across the South China Sea and were placed on the island of Bidong, where they were being looked after in an administrative capacity by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and agencies in Malyasia and Kuala Lumpur, such as the Red Crescent organisation, which was carrying out the distribution of food and medical supplies and, indeed, was carrying out an enormous amount’ of detailed work in relation to correspondence and the distribution of the refugees to enable families to stay together if at all possible. [More…]
For example, it is likely that because the SALT II negotiations were in an advanced and critical stage early this year, both the super-powers acted with restraint when confronted with the conflict between China and Vietnam. [More…]
Let us look at our own region, and as an example, look at the situation in Indo-China today and the massive increase in weapons into Vietnam, where it is estimated that the Soviet Union has supported Vietnam militarily by approximately 100,000 tonnes of military aid this year. [More…]
This of course creates feelings of insecurity in neighbouring countries, for example China and Thailand. [More…]
As other countries around the region bordering Indo-China feel threatened, they too seek more arms for their own protection. [More…]
The bulk of the annual arms expenditure is accounted for by six countries- the United States, the USSR, China, France, Britain, and West Germany. [More…]
People’s Republic of China, which is spending 10 per cent of its GDP. [More…]
The trouble is that the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is seriously defective, particularly because three nuclear powers- France, China and India- are not signatories to it. [More…]
-I ask the Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he has seen reports that now even China and some other major trading countries are doing extensive research into the extraction of uranium from the sea because, as has been stated, an independent and secured uranium supply, even from exotic and expensive sources, is to be preferred to reasonably priced but uncertain supplies of uranium. [More…]
I would not be surprised to hear that China is engaging in such research. [More…]
1 ) The community groups involved are the Indo China Refugee Association and the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocesan Committee for Refugee Settlement. [More…]
For the period to 12 October 1979 the Indo China Refugee Association has assisted family groups totalling approximately 170 people, and the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocesan Committee has assisted family groups totalling approximately ISO people. [More…]
I had heard of hegemony, but ‘hegemonism’ is a term which, as I understand it, has gained particular meaning as a pejorative term in the context of the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The Soviet initiative in placing on the agenda of the current session of the United Nations General Assembly an item entitled the ‘inadmissibility of the policy of hegemonism in international relations’ cannot be seen by Australia as anything but a propaganda activity related to the rivalry with China. [More…]
I understand that it has led China to consider whether it should respond to the Soviet draft resolution with one which would, amongst other things, specifically condemn policies such as the policy of limited sovereignty. [More…]
Could aircraft be sold to Taiwan, communist China or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to instance three different political regimes? [More…]
The terms of Australia’s recognition of China preclude any official contacts between the Australian Government and the authorities in the province of Taiwan. [More…]
Apart from the intra-Australia problems we have heard about, in this regard we only have to look to our north, to Timor, to New Guinea, to Indo-China, to China itself and to Russia. [More…]
China and Russia both had revolutions which, similarly, were designed to throw off autocratic and aristocratic governments. [More…]
Chapter 7 powers may only be exercised by the Security Council in which the great powers- the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China and France- have a veto. [More…]
Has the Minister noted a growing volume of reports of a new repression of political dissent in the People’s Republic of China such that, for example, the free expression of criticism of party leadership via the so-called Democracy Wall is fraught with danger? [More…]
Further, as much of the political structure and activity within the People’s Republic of China is obscure, can the Minister arrange a comprehensive seminar for honourable senators to enable us to obtain an understanding of that nation which is so important to our political and trading future? [More…]
The other new reference is: the changing power structure in Indo-China since 1975 and its effects on Australia and the region. [More…]
The Indo-China region is a major area of concern at the moment in that the situation may lead to further conflict between China and Vietnam and in turn may further involve the Soviet Union in this area. [More…]
The changing power structure in IndoChina, and more recently serious conflict in Kampuchea, has been accompanied by an appalling refugee situation. [More…]
It is to be found in societies that are both nominally socialist and nominally Marxist, but it is confined to Europe and America and their white cultural dependencies, and to China and its cultural dependencies- Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. [More…]
On 13 August I had an inquiry from a Mr Roy Baynes, the Secretary of the AustraliaChina Society in Adelaide. [More…]
He contacted me about a Chinese seaman from the People’s Republic of China who came to Australia on a ship called the Fujin Hai. [More…]
I might point out that $50 represented some three months work to a seaman from China. [More…]
I and a number of people have been trying to build up trade with China and many other countries yet in this case we have virtually stolen a watch from a seaman who will have to work for three months to recover the cost. [More…]
What is the Australian Government’s assessment of the likelihood of China’s again attacking Vietnam, possibly through Laos and Kampuchea? [More…]
In the early weeks of this year the Australian Government accurately predicted the invasion by China of Vietnam- the so-called first lesson. [More…]
China has been threatening a second lesson with regard to the Vietnamese attack on the Pol Pot forces in Kampuchea. [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…]
Has this happened in respect of large and small businesses, importing such items as: (a) pure wool pullovers from China; (b) long sleeve cardigans from Philippines; (c) ladies’ knitted tops from Philippines; (d) ladies’ pullovers from Hong Kong; and (e) ladies’ cotton blouses from India. [More…]
In relation to people holding passports not recognised by Australia the principal areas are China (Taiwan Province) and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. [More…]
On 14 November 1979 Senator Tate asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, a question without notice concerning political dissidents in China. [More…]
He asked whether the Government would make representations to the Chinese Government regarding their treatment and whether a seminar on China could be arranged for interested senators. [More…]
Senator Tate’s suggestion of a comprehensive seminar on China is commendable. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of reports of another big contract to sell Australian iron and steel worth some $10m to China which was won in the face of stiff competition? [More…]
If they are correct, does not this dispel the comments of the Australian Labor Party that Australian trade with China has been influenced by politics? [More…]