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| Bob Carr with China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, May 2012 (Image: Wiki Commons) |
SYDNEY, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said in an opinion editorial on Saturday that the Australian Cold War Warriors should stop seeing China through the Washington lens.
"Has Australia the wit to nurture a policy based on our interests as well as values, or can we see China only ideologically and through the Washington lens?," Carr asked in the opinion published by daily newspaper The Australian that should have come from an elected senior Australian politician following a near fortnight of divisive anti-China media reporting.
Carr said the "Australian Cold (War) Warriors" rage is partly a fury the Australian government has not signed up to the ideological agenda of clicking to the heels of the United States in the Asia Pacific.
A few of the recent articles in Australian media included a "McCarthyist indictment": anyone who had ever said a positive thing about the China-Australia relationship is "a rat, a fly, a mosquito or a sparrow".
"The fact is it is a huge wrench for some Australians to see China except through U.S. eyes," Carr said.
"Some Cold Warriors find it very hard."
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PacificSentinel: What Bob Carr and the other Panda Hugger's fail to recognize is the FACT that most anti-china sentiment has no relation to the "cold war" or a "Washington lens" and everything to do with their actions in the world, from the theft and reverse engineering of advanced technology to the South China Sea border disputes, from the arrest of human rights lawyers to fixing elections in Hong Kong, China goes out of it's way to make its self look bad and completely untrustworthy.