WITH China-Australia relations nearing meltdown, one of Australia’s top legal experts has outlined a strategy to force reparations from the communist regime.
China this week threatened Australia with economic retaliation after Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded a full and open inquiry into the origins of the Coronavirus.
This followed calls from the Chair of Australia’s powerful Parliamentary Trade & Investment Committee George Christensen to seek virus-related reparations from China.
DAMAGES
“The Chinese should be made to pay reparations – I don’t think they will, but maybe we can take back some of the foreign-owned [land] their corporations hold, as damages,” Mr Christensen said last month.
Legal academic Professor David Flint this week outlined a statutory approach to achieve Christensen’s reparations demand.
In a column for The Spectator Australia magazine (April 25, 2020), Prof Flint said Australia’s National Cabinet should not waste time on any “useless” UN, World Court or other global process.
ALLIES
“A better and more effective method would be a Nuremberg-style tribunal or commission created by executive agreement or treaty between the US and close allies such as Australia,” he wrote.
“The strategy would be that when Beijing predictably defaults on the commission’s required early interim judgement, we could then constitutionally take back, by legislation, all those premium and strategic assets so foolishly handed over in the past.”
The UK’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that Chinese interests currently hold as much as 2.5 per cent of the Australian land mass including strategic ports and water assets.PC
Now we’re getting somewhere. It should have been obvious that Totalitarian Communist Regimes and Democracy are incompatible and never destined to co-habit (yet we sold them our best assets anyway).
I think this would be a great idea
China’s ownership of so many Hollywood studios, is a powerful propaganda tool. Therefore first step should be to remove Hollywood from the Chinese Communist party.
What is said and written about China’s alleged negligence (slack reporting) or alleged criminality (releasing a genetically engineered virus in to the population) is mere conjecture without evidence that can be tested by independent and reputable scientific testing laboratories, and by an independent court or judicial commission. But this must not be done by the United Nations or its proxy, WHO, as both are not to be trusted, ever.
Yes, an independent investigation into the cause and transmission of COVID-19 out of China must be held. This is the only way the World will know what happened and be able to put in place effective and efficient response plans for future like pandemics.
But playing the ‘blame game’ and initiating so-called legal antics with China, which will achieve precisely nothing, as China will not acquiesce to external scrutiny. Seeking financial reparations from China, is likewise doomed.
Instead, the focus needs to on ensuring that all economies, including China’s, returns to normal as soon as possible. COVID-19 won’t destroy the world, but the real fear and damage will be caused by a world-wide economic and social meltdown.
Lets move on from COVID-19 to recovery: its happened and nothing will change that fact. So let’s not waste time and scarce resources by chasing political illusions.