Um, aren't those re-actions to the various developments in Australian official/semi-official positions on China-related matters? And those developments, as far as I know, had not been prompted by parallels in China.

Am all for fighting in the mudpit when necessary. but it s important to have matching rhetoric and action. Constant gulf between the two invites derision and defeat.

Put simply, why sell anything at all, let alone strategic materials, to a genocidal power-mad disease-manufacturing evil regime hellbent on your destruction and enslavement? Where is common sense?