Sky News host James Macpherson mocks the Labor government for responding to clear Chinese aggression in the region with a passive reminder about the rules of The Hague Convention.
“I just find it amusing, in a dark kind of way, that our politicians talk as if they’re genuinely taken aback that the Chinese Communist Party isn’t abiding by the world’s best practices,” Mr Macpherson said.
“If The Hague Convention best practice and standard procedures were actual defences, we’d be a world superpower the way our politicians expertly wield them in the face of aggression.
“Sadly, they’re just pieces of paper.
“When you are a major power, you are not too bothered by the world’s best practice or by standard operating procedure.
“Sure, you pay lip service to those things when it’s convenient, but when those niceties get in the way of military expansion, you leave them to people like Pat Conroy and podcasters like Anthony Albanese.
“If you asked Xi Jinping whether he’d rather shag, marry, or date The Hague Convention, he’d say none of the above.”
