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Problems at the Beijing Olympics · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jason. And this is the slippery slope.
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  So just want to discuss the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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  Apparently a few athletes, have you countries are slightly
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  unhappy, couple of complaints coming through.
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  I'll just want to read these articles from the guardian.
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  The headline is I have no more tears beijing's, Winter Olympic,
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  hit by athlete. Complaints.
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  So goes on to say on the eve of the Winter Olympics, China's
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  leader, Xi Jinping, promise, the world, a streamlined, safe, and
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  most Splendid games, but just two days into the event,
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  organizers are facing a Litany of complaints from athletes and
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  countries on multiple fronts. Okay.
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  It says this weeds have suggested that the conditions in
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  the mountains, are perilously cold.
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  This is the swedes saying this. A Polish Kaiser says she was
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  living in fear in a Beijing isolation.
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  Ward and there's cried until I have no more tears.
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  The fins have claimed an ice hockey player, is being kept in
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  covid, quarantine for no reason. And the Germans, they are
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  frustrated that there is no hot food at the downhill skiing
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  well, Who would have thought that how old is problems in the
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  Chinese Beijing? Olympics.
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  A so there's quite a bit of puff in this report, but I'll just go
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  down to some mother other areas which I wanted to highlight goes
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  on to say, the Polish speed skater Natalia Mela zuzka who
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  was forced to miss the 500 meter short track event on Saturday
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  revealed that she had faced fear and uncertainty in a Beijing
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  isolation. Ward After testing positive for
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  covid since a week, I have been living in fear and these changes
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  in mood. She says goes on to say, I cry
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  until I have no more tears and make not only the people around
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  me worried but myself to she said those in an isolation Ward
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  are allowed out. If they are free of symptoms and
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  have to - covid test 24 hours apart and mellow zuzka was
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  eventually released back into the Olympic Village.
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  Village before being told, there had been a mistake.
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  She goes on to say, people got me out of my room at 3:00 a.m.
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  this night was a horror, I slept in my clothes and my bed because
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  I was afraid that at any moment. Someone would take me back to
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  isolation, then a message. That unfortunately, there was a
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  mistake that I am a threat. So she's been told that she's
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  the threat and should not have been released from isolation.
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  She doesn't say, I have to get back to the Olympic Village as
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  soon as possible, I can't understand this anymore.
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  I no longer believe in any tests.
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  Any Olympics to me? This is a big joke.
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  I hope whoever is managing, this has a lot of fun, my heart and
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  my mind can't take this anymore, really sounds like she is
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  starting to go a little crazy, with the change of rules and
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  being under the kept under these conditions, the article goes on
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  more than 150 Games, participants, including dozens
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  of athletes, have tested positive upon arrival in the
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  Chinese Capital since January 23rd.
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  Many are still in isolation fearing.
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  Their games are over. One of those is The Finnish ice
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  hockey player, Marco and Tiller whose team believe he has been
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  kept in covid-19 isolation for no reason.
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  From a medical perspective, we know that a person like this.
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  No longer infectious, no danger to the other team, the Finish
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  doctor Mao, Roots, melatonin said, that's what the finished
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  doctor saying. These isolation decisions are
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  not based on medicine or science.
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  It's more culture and political decisions as anyone consider the
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  possibility that the Chinese government are using a covid.
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  And these isolation rules that they have using these These
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  restrictions to their advantage, is anyone even considered that
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  the, maybe they are misusing, a, who would have thought that a
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  communist country a Communist Regime would miss you, who's
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  would misuse a situation such as covid so that they could give an
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  advantage to their own, their own Olympic participants.
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  Just some food for thought. The article goes on to say the
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  Finland head coach dukkha. Joe Gannon said that the
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  situation was affecting and tillers mental health.
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  We know that he is fully healthy and that's why we think the
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  China for some reason, won't respect his human rights and
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  that's not a great situation. Well, a joke, they're not
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  respecting his human rights because it's going to give the
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  Chinese an advantage. Anyway goes on to say the
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  Russian biathlon compared to a Valaria there's Nets over.
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  Also reached recently expressed her experiences of being in a
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  quarantine Hotel posting on Instagram, my stomach hurts.
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  I'm very pale and I have yuge black circles around my eyes.
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  I want all this to end. I cry every day.
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  I'm very tired. There's net Vaz Nets over,
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  posted a picture. Picture of what she said.
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  Was breakfast lunch and dinner for five days already.
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  She said. And it is a tray with food
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  including plain pasta and orange sauce.
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  A piece of meat on a bone, a few potatoes and no greens are gee.
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  I wonder what the Chinese Olympic competitors are eating.
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  It would be very safe to assume that the Chinese are getting fed
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  way better than that. Anyway, going on.
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  Meanwhile, after the men's downhill was postponed until
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  Monday due to high winds Germany's coach Christian
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  Swagger lamented. That there was no hot food
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  available for athletes. He's quoted as saying the
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  catering is extremely questionable because really is
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  not catering at all. He said, I would have expected
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  that the Olympic Committee is capable of providing hot meals.
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  There are crisps some know Nuts and chocolate and nothing else.
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  That's amazing. A winter Olympics where the
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  temperature is. Well, well below zero and they
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  don't cater any hot food, G ug, there's anyone else?
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  Smell a rat here. Like I said, do you think that
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  the Chinese Olympic participants' aren't able to go
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  and get some hot food when they want it?
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  I will guarantee. That's exactly what's happening.
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  The These government is using this for the benefit of their
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  athletes so that they can get more metals and to give a
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  disadvantage to the competitors. Goes on to say the ioc said it
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  was aware of the complaint and was working with Beijing 2022 to
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  address. The issues asked about the
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  situation in the covid hotels. The ioc added, we feel for every
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  athlete who cannot compete because of the covid-19
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  infection, the protocols have been Put in place to ensure safe
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  Olympic games for everyone. Now, there's a couple of things
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  that got to say, for one, this, this has always been the problem
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  with covid and that is that you can make up any rules, any kind
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  of exceptions give any excuse and you say, it's for your
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  health. It's because of covid.
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  You put the whole blame on this mysterious little virus, which
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  got to remind you came out of China in the first place.
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  And you can say whatever you want, you can make any excuse
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  that you want. I've done this in China, the do
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  this all across the world. We definitely do it in Australia
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  and you just get away with whatever you want.
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  As long as you can blame it, put the blame back on covid.
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  It doesn't matter. And lastly what did these
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  people? I don't, I do feel.
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  I feel sorry for the athletes to a point.
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  However, It just remind everyone.
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  This is the country that for one release, the Wuhan covid
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  coronavirus Aires, whatever you want to call it on the world.
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  Okay. I don't for a second believe
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  even though they keep they keep telling us this lie that it was
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  that it came from the wet markets and not and not the
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  laboratory next door to the wet markets, that make the virus.
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  Very same virus that we have no, no, no, no, they don't want you
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  to believe that. So I don't Leave that.
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  That is the truth. I believe you came out of the
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  laboratory. I believe it was either.
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  It was either purposely done or it was done because all it was
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  just an accident because a scientist because their
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  Protocols are so pathetic and secondly, this is the same
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  country. That's holds the uyghur people
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  in the northern section of China.
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  Basically in a large concentration camp, they're
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  constantly under surveillance that are used what I would
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  describe as as forced as slavery in reality.
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  Okay? They miss you, they abuse their
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  own people. They have shut down any.
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  Any form of democratic Pratik media Democratic believing media
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  in Hong Kong. Any any ideology which would
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  support democracy? Any free, any form of free
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  speech coming from Hong Kong Kong, they have completely shut
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  it down. The Chinese Communist party has
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  completely shut it down every day.
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  They are flying the air force into taiwan's, air space,
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  completely ignoring completely ignoring the Taiwan Government
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  completely ignoring any calls from any other governments
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  around the world to stop doing it.
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  They just do whatever they want. And yet, all of these things,
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  that that the Chinese government that the Chinese people, that
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  the Chinese government has done and yet we still went and gave
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  them the Winter Olympics. Here's a reward will give you
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  the Winter Olympics. The whole thing is a joke, okay?
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  And the Very fact that any of these Western countries
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  supported the win, Sir, Olympics, and supported the idea
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  of from the international Olympic Committee, that China
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  should have held the Olympics in the first place is just
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  pathetic. I haven't watched any of the
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  Winter Olympics at all, I don't think that should be supported
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  at all. I think it should be made clear
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  to the Chinese government that Western society, that other
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  countries do not support their regime.
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  And we've got to stop allowing them to just do whatever they
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  Aunt, all because of the amount of money that they are worth It
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  all just comes back to money and everyone's too scared to say,
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  what needs to be said, because of the money we don't want to
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  lose money and Australia is the same to be quite Frank.
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  That's my opinion. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope.