Sunday, May 3, 2020

Twiggy Forrest's press conference backfires

Victoria and Tasmania Consul-General of China Long Zhou is seen departing a press conference where he spoke of the relationship between China and Australia

You can tell this is a war when the public turns on billionaire mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest  for doing business with the “enemy”.

……But Forrest decided to invite his mate — Chinese consul-general for Victoria Long Zhou — to the event, and then to the podium for a good bit of propaganda on China’s handling of the coronavirus.

“An ambush” was how furious government insiders described his actions, given he did not bother to warn Hunt or the government, despite the fact that morning the papers were full of a bitter diplomatic row between Canberra and Beijing…..


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