The Chinese government and its subsidiary companies will “outsmart any premier” in Australia regardless of party, according to former Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger.
The Victorian government has recently engaged with Chinese state-owned train building company CRRC which has been blacklisted by the US and found to have ties with Uighur Muslim exploitation. Premier Daniel Andrews has denied knowing the human rights abuses linked with the corporation claiming it had assurances from CRRC that it does not benefit from slave labour from exploited Uighurs.
“I don’t do national security reviews,” Premier Andrews said. “No one’s raised any questions about this company with us, if that were to change, then we would take appropriate action,” he continued. Mr Kroger told Sky News the communist regime will “outsmart any premier; Liberal or Labor”. “Just as they’ve outsmarted all the Caribbean nations where they’ve invested and left a trail of wreckage behind them.
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