S8 Ep234: REVIEW AUSTRALIA CRITICIZED FOR KOWTOWING TO CHINA DESPITE DISDAIN Colleague Grant Newsham. Grant Newsham criticizes the Australian government for "kowtowing" to China due to a dependence on raw material exports. Despite China treating Australia with disd
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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| 0:30.4 | This is John Batchel, colleague Grant Neucham, |
| 0:33.4 | Colonel United States Marine Corps retired author of When China Attacks, |
| 0:37.3 | comments on how Australia gets along with China. |
| 0:41.4 | Gets along, the Chinese term, I think, |
| 0:44.5 | or the term that was invented in Asia once was cowtowing. |
| 0:49.0 | It's a grim picture. |
| 0:51.4 | And Australia is continuing business dealings or hope for business dealings with China |
| 0:57.9 | suggest that Australians know that they're being bullied and badly regarded, but continue to do |
| 1:08.1 | business anyway, rather than, as Grant says, with your friends. |
| 1:12.8 | Here's Grant Newsom, who's lived a long while in Australia as well as other parts of the Pacific, |
| 1:19.7 | commenting on the modern Australian governmental figure versus once upon a time, |
| 1:27.5 | the stand-up team that went to fight in Europe and fight in Southeast Asia |
| 1:32.8 | and built the continent. |
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