One thought is that he and his fiancé want to re-trace Gough Whitlam’s trip the Great Wall of China, probably holding hands.

While the PM is his tummy tickled, he is being told by Xi that China will sail its gunships where ever it wants, that they will fire their guns whenever they want, especially when sightseeing around the Australian coastline.

BUSY BUSY

The zillionaires, meanwhile, have been busy, busy, trying to persuade the Chinese to de-carbonise and save them and the world in the process,

They want the Chinese to de-carbonise their steel and iron industries using that magic potion hydrogen; that’s the stuff that Twiggy Forrest has been flogging around the world for the past five years or so.

You know how it goes; Blackout Bowen will tell you it’s easy, he will tell you that energy from the sun and the wind is free, there is plenty of water in the oceans, all you have to do is get all three together and you get a magic fuel to replace all the hydrocarbons in the world, it’s called hydrogen, green hydrogen; easy, piece of cake.

Twiggy reminds me of a snake oil salesman. He has been all over Australia and all over the world signing up people to joint ventures to produce green hydrogen; with him providing the technology and them, of course, providing the money. I think that’s how it goes.

From Morocco to Texas and Arizona, Twiggy had deals going which it appears have all fallen through.

The same deals he has had with Blackout and Albo here in Australia; many millions have been spent and many billions promised to develop a hydrogen industry in Australia and not a kilo of the stuff has been produced.

The money, metaphorically, went up against the wall; your money.

JULY 17, 2025

I was right about Albo and his fiancé travelling to the Great Wall.

Our PM was dressed like the tourist he is, complete with his Rabbitohs baseball cap (bit of a culture clash there, baseball cap in China?), casual shirt together with jeans and sandshoes.

His delight was embodied in his comment while on top of the Wall and giggling to his entourage, words like “Is there a celebrant here/or is one of you?”

Meaning our “Dear Leader” would have crowned his far-Left socialist life by getting married on the Great Wall.

Today I see he has been off to see what everybody wants to see in China, Pandas. Not just any old Pandas, but Pandas at a research facility trying to increase the population of the cuddly looking bear.

The Panda is a bit like Xi and China; looks gentle and cuddly but is in reality a most ferocious beast. All we need now is the announcement of a deal to lend a couple of the animals to the Caberra Zoo; the one on the hill that is.

A special Panda pavilion on the lawn in front of Parliament would be fitting I believe. It would serve as a reminder to all who enter Parliament House, just who controls this government.

It looks like nothing substantial has been achieved during the Prime Minister’s visit. China has said they will not stop their navy sailing around our shoes and firing at will.

They informed us there is no reason to tell us beforehand, because what they did was in international waters so it’s no business of ours; Albo said he agrees with them.

We can presume from all the high-level dialogue that took place that the Chinese will have no compunction to again blow the ear drums of our navy divers while they are repairing their ship.

No doubt, whenever they feel the urge, the Chinese have also reserved the right to drop “chaff” and flares in front of RAAF surveillance aircraft in international airspace and put the lives of all those on board in danger.

They said: “That’s the way it is when the big boys own the ball, the pitch, choose the teams and make the rules of the game; so, suck it up Albo.” And he did.

DAMAGE

Trade will continue between our two countries for as long as China wants it to. A great deal has been made by Labor on how they repaired the damage and loss of trade when Scott Morrison dared to ask the Chinese about the origin of COVID.

They had a massive diplomatic hissy fit at the temerity of Morrison for asking a perfectly reasonable question.

The Chinese government then threw the proverbial kitchen sink at Australian farmers and wine makers, and in the process caused a great deal of long-term economic pain in regional Australia.

New markets were found for Australian barley and the meat from a few meat works. Long term pain was suffered by winemakers and lobster fishers.

What has never been disclosed, nor mentioned by an Australian politician, is that while all this diplomatic argy-bargy and pain was being inflicted on Australian producers, Chinese exports of food to Australia – about 6 per cent of our total food imports of about $28b – were not affected; they kept on coming.

That’s how much backbone there is in Australian diplomacy when dealing with China. We have seen it epitomised this last week by Albanese as the tummy tickling continued.

Australian food and wine producers were allowed to suffer while, through the backdoor – well actually the front door – Chinese food products continued to arrive uninterrupted and Chinese producers and innumerable Chinese diplomats, smiled inscrutably of course.

Back to the aim of Twiggy et al, to get the Chinese to decarbonise.

China is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases accounting for about 35 per cent of world emissions and increasing every year. Coupled with India they comprise well over 50 per cent.

China is far and away the biggest miner and importer of coal; Last year China mined 4.76b tonnes of coal. It imported another 542m tonnes, 88.4m tonnes from Australia; a 50 per cent increase on the previous year.

Fifty nine pe rcent of China’s electricity is derived from coal.

China produces about 50 per cent of the world’s steel and as Albanese said the other day, 60 per cent of the ore they use comes from Australia.

The coal which Australia exports to China, because it is of such high quality, is used almost exclusively in the making of steel and other metals.

So, are Twiggy and his mates on a fool’s errand?

They want China to make green steel and iron, using green hydrogen as the heat source; something which nobody has yet done successfully in commercial quantities, anywhere in the world, including China.

UNPROVEN

They are asking the world’s biggest steel maker to stop using high-grade Australian coal and to keep on using Australian iron ore and convert it to steel using an unproven and untested method of manufacture; a method which will reduce emissions and from which the world will benefit.

In reality there is no tangible evidence that China is concerned about Co2 emissions, none.

Its emissions have continued to increase and are projected to do so for some time yet.

If China is going to de-carbonise, the chances of it doing so with green steel and iron are minimal to non-existent; based on recent evidence, there is a better chance that pigs might fly.

For instance, China is opening at least one new coal-fired power station a week; and has 1161 coal fired power stations in operation; in Australia we have nineteen, nineteen!

Coal-fired power stations have an economic life of forty years or so. Then they need a lot of maintenance.

China is aware of this because it is currently building 27 nuclear reactors, and plans to build six to eight annually and 150 between 2020 and 2035.

In Australia, the very word nuclear puts everyone in the Labor ranks into a kind of manic fit.

They draw pictures of three eyed fish and do their best to frighten the children and the easily impressed; they deal in fear.

Even though the International Energy Authority say nuclear is the best way for a nation to decarbonise, Australian Labor and its foolish Minister Bowen say they are wrong.