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South China Morning Post criticizes Australia’s “double standards” approach to the pandemic in China and the UK

Last Thursday, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post published an article by Daryl Guppy, an Australian business and industry commissioner. With regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, he highlighted Australia’s “double standards”, which were characterized by colonial traces and racism.

The article notes that on September 20, a new mutant coronavirus was first discovered in Kent, UK. But it wasn’t until December 14 that British Health Secretary Matt Hancock publicly confirmed the highly infectious new strain.

“If that happens in China, the Western media will be quick to raise charges of cover-up. But this time the UK did not inform the world for almost three months, while western countries, including Australia, ‘barely noticed’. “

Despite the high infectivity of the mutated virus, Australia has not banned any British tourists. After more and more people in Australia became infected with the mutated virus, the country finally asked tourists from the UK last week to board the plane with a negative certificate of the virus test. Australia’s reaction to the Covid-19 variant is mild, which is in stark contrast to the rapid restrictions on Chinese flights in early February.

The article concludes that the decision not to ban British citizens from entering the country clearly shows that the Australian government is treating different groups according to different rules, which harms not only the relationship between Australia and China, but also the relationship between Australia and other countries.

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