China's offensives
Re: "China's lessons from WWII endure", (Opinion, Sept 2).
In his commentary on Sept 2, Mr Jiang Tao claimed that since the founding of the People's Republic, China has not initiated a single conflict. Unfortunately, this is not correct. In 1967, China launched an attack on India's border in the context of their border conflict.
In 1979, China launched an offensive ostensibly in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. The Chinese-Vietnamese conflict lasted for about a month, with China withdrawing its troops in March 1979. Only if historical truth is acknowledged, can cycles of violence be stopped and lasting peace can be established.
Ali Al-Nasani
Talking about S112
Re: "Curb S112 abuse", (PostBag, Sept 5).
Burin Kantabutra makes a sterling effort to defend what many might see as indefensible. His claim is that "it's not S112 itself which is the problem, but rather its application and interpretation".
The very fact that he proposes as a solution "that all lese majeste complaints be vetted by a body of prosecutors, judges, academics and civil society representatives" already demonstrates that section 112 of the Criminal Code is a problem in need of such proposed solutions.
Felix Qui
Fist bumps of hatred
Re: "Anti-migrant rallies stir alarm", (World, Sept 2).
This past weekend's anti-immigration March for Australia served to unshackle repressed antagonism towards long-residing non-whites like me.
Australia has been my only home for 40 years since my parents immigrated to Brisbane to escape the pro-bumiputra policy that systemically disadvantaged their Malaysian-Chinese community.
Hopefully, it was only on the day itself that I was heckled by tattooed Australian flag bearers on the street.
A rough-hewn teenager stared violently at me in a lift, cutting across my line of sight with his arm extended in a clenched fist. When I pointed to a camera that would record any fisticuffs directed my way, he snarled for me to "get out of my country and go home to where you were born!"
The closed fist was a "fist pump of friendship", and the lout was offended that I declined to reciprocate.
My victim impact statement for the post-march acrimony: these gatherings not only release the race-based genie out of the bottle, they serve to dissolve trust and safety accorded all minorities, rendering immigrants acutely fearful and vigilant.
The marchers are like shapeshifters that transform mutually affirming fist pumps into clenched fists of brutality, and we the dark(er) skinned habitants of Australia are at risk of violence so publicly supported by these marches.
Joseph Ting
The big vaccination lie
Re: "RFK Jr 'endangering' all Americans, health agency ex-chiefs warn", (World, Sept 1).
I would urge those with an interest in their health to view the recent US Senate testimony of Robert F Kennedy Jr (YouTube). He exposed the lies and incompetence of health "authorities" from the CDC and their role in mandating mRNA vaccinations. They did not (as was relentlessly promised) prevent transmission nor cure Covid-19 and caused innumerable deaths around the world.
It is worth noting that Florida ("the free state") will now end all vaccine mandates and require extensive safety testing of all vaccines.
Most of these vital studies have never been done. An example is the widely mandated hepatitis B vaccine which limited testing revealed requires seven million doses be administered to prevent one death.
Why would children be forced to submit to this insanity just to get into school? It is an obvious violation of personal sovereignty, the foundation of democracy.
Those who fanatically endorse mRNA vaccine technology without knowing a thing about it other than what they have been told by the authorities are going to encounter the reality that they have been routinely lied to.
Those at the CDC who chose money over their public health responsibilities have been fired. More truth is coming out as it inevitably does.
Accountability is the next step in righting the ship of intentional lifelong disease, multiple never-ending prescriptions and forced jabs that characterise the state of public health in Western nations.
Michael Setter
