What’s ‘nationwide curiosity’ in relation to Labor’s China coverage?

There’s one clear message from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s latest go to to China: he needs to revive the legitimacy — even dignity — of financial prosperity as a trope. He’s telling Australians that businesspeople aiming to make a revenue from doing enterprise with China are appearing within the nationwide curiosity and are usually not, within the phrases of 1 journalist, “craven characters” who threat the nation’s sovereignty.

The enterprise group — significantly these within the beef, wine, barley, seafood and different export sectors — have suffered from the deteriorating relationship between Australia and China. But throughout the period of the Morrison authorities, the enterprise sector’s criticisms of the China-threat narratives that dominated media and authorities pronouncements had been principally muted. Few dared to talk up, not eager to be accused of placing financial pursuits above nationwide safety. Who needs to be solid as a “craven character”?