China Taking Advantage Of Biden Admin Mixed Signals To Stoke Chaos In Southern Asia, Pacific

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 09 February 2021 11:00 PM
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China Taking Advantage Of Biden Admin Mixed Signals To Stoke Chaos In Southern Asia, Pacific

An Australian specialist has said that China wished to be able to split New Zealand from its more traditional allies of Australia, America, Canada, and the United Kingdom—the countries that include the Five Eyes alliance.

Associate Prof. Salvatore Babones from The University of Sydney told The Epoch Times that China would like to see a more remote New Zealand.

“China would dearly love to split New Zealand from the Five Eyes alliance,” Babones said. “New Zealand has long been the weak link in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, and the Ardern government seems much more strongly committed to maintaining its trade relationship with communist China than to maintaining its security relationship with the free world.”

Babones’ remarks come as Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Five Eyes Alliance is “really important” in a world in which, he averted, other forces have other opinions “about how the world should run.”

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Chief among them is a world order governed by nations that don’t adhere to global laws held up by the liberal democracies that engage in it.

Morrison said that Australia and its Five Eyes allies are liberal, free-market democracies with business-led economies that share purposes and concerns on security issues and intelligence.

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These democratic countries, he told SkyNews, correlate to “support our region and see them be sovereign and independent, that we can keep open seas, that there aren’t parts of the world’s oceans or seas that are inside and outside clubs.”

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Morrison doesn’t take the view that every system of government is as good as the other. “If that was the case, you know, we’d flip a coin each day, and decide which way you run the country on you know, are we going to run under an authoritarian regime or liberal democracy.”

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He added he was a champion of liberal democracies: “Nope. Liberal democracy all the way. Forever.”

Bilateral connections across the Tasman Sea became contentious quickly when New Zealand Trade Minister Damien O’Connor said on Jan. 27 that Australia should his country’s head and work its diplomacy with Beijing more respectfully.

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O’Connor was later charged by Australian and New Zealand politicians with running Chinese Communist Party lines. Australia’s Trade Minister downplayed the conflict and reaffirmed the strong link between the near countries.

Prof. James Laurenceson from the University of Technology in Sydney said that the possibility of China successfully cutting New Zealand from its allies is next to zero.

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Laurenceson told The Epoch Times that New Zealand, Australia, and the United States have a close relationship because it helps their interests.

“It’s not surprising they won’t always engage with China in the same way,” Laurenceson said. “This was never the intent of the ANZUS alliance or the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing arrangement.”

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