Sky News host SkyNewsRicho says Australia must deal with China appropriately which means never forgetting “you’re dealing with a communist dictatorship” and not a utopia.
Sky News host Graham Richardson says Australia must deal with China appropriately which means never forgetting “you’re dealing with a communist dictatorship” and not a utopia. Mr Richardson commented on the gradual purchasing of Australian assets and land by foreign owned – and in many cases Chinese state-owned – corporations.
“Half of Tasmania belongs to them now,” he told Sky News host Alan Jones. “Whatever the Foreign Investment Review Board procedures are, they’re too bloody weak. “We’ve just relied on China and not bothered to look at anywhere else. This is a very ugly regime, a brutal communist regime." "We’ve got to deal with China appropriately and that means never forgetting that you’re dealing with a communist dictatorship not some utopia.
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