Investors, Consumers ‘Waking Up’ to Threat: Former Australian Leader Takes Aim at Beijing

Published on February 27, 2024

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison raised alarm bells about the real and building threat of communist China in his valedictory speech on Feb. 27. In his final speech to Parliament, Mr. Morrison warned that Beijing’s “tactics change but their strategy remains the same.” He said the 2022 election may have provided an opportunity for Beijing to step back from their failed attempts at coercion, “but we must not be deluded.” In a stark warning, Mr. Morrison said, “we are not alone in waking up to this threat, investors are now rightly pricing the risk of their investments in an authoritative communist China” while “consumer advocates are waking up to human rights abuses and environmental degradation that infects these supply chains.”...

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