Indeed indications from Africa suggest that China is aggressively denouncing Western-style pluralism as putting unnecessary stumbling blocks on the fast-track to prosperity. These developments will be music to the ears of the political leadership in Hanoi.
While many in the West are either mired in complacency or actively seeking to downplay and accommodate the expansion of totalitarianism for the sake of profit, it is left to organisations like Viet Tan to remind us of the words of one of the founders of liberal democracy, Thomas Jefferson.
“I have ever deemed it more honourable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.”
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The Vietnamese Embassy in Canberra was asked to put its Government’s case for the branding of Viet Tan as a terrorist group. It did not reply.
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Graham Cooke has been a journalist for more than four decades, having lived in England, Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, for a lengthy period covering the diplomatic round for The Canberra Times.
He has travelled to and reported on events in more than 20 countries, including an extended stay in the Middle East. Based in Canberra, where he obtains casual employment as a speech writer in the Australian Public Service, he continues to find occasional assignments overseas, supporting the coverage of international news organisations.
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