Further details have come out about Andrews's trip to China - the most important being that there are no details. Typical Andrews-China style, it's all hush-hush. Classic no evidence is evidence (of nefarious deeds)

Weirdly, he is going alone - supposedly to discuss trade & the return of Chinese students to Melbourne - but both the trade & education ministers have been excluded from the trip. As have all journalists.

Andrews flew out this morning having only announced that he was going to China on Sunday (two days ago). This will be his seventh trip to China.

As to which CCP officials he is meeting in China - that's all a secret.

The most disturbing part is that hardly anyone cares. The Premier of an Australian state, who signed a BRI contract with China just before Covid, is off on a secret trip to meet officials of a fascist regime. The plan is to beg China to resume their money-pipeline for Victoria's non-essential products - in return for what? Something. CCP doesn't give away money for nothing.

Given the BRI signing & the fact that the major infrastructure project in Melbourne (the Yarra river tunnel) was handed to a China-state-company, you'd imagine that it's more of the same.

The thing about the CCP, it's never just about the money - it's about the influence. The more they worm their way into a foreign economy, the more they control it. When it comes time to invade Taiwan, then they know that that influence is there, ready to be called in.

At a time when Australia is already absurdly dependent on a totalitarian regime - when we must start disentangling - we have guys like Dan Andrews selling us even further into vassal-state territory.