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I don't understand that title "against tough"?

• ggm 4y ago
  Vote against "tough on chyna" party I want to add that it's a gross simplification to say Chinese Australians "like" what's going on in mainland politics. They're much more nuanced than a one button outcome. I think they like the liberal world view, (liberal in Australia doesn't mean what it does in the US) but not the aggrevated tensions with the Chinese state. Many have family ties back in the mainland, come and go, anything for a quiet life... To be Chinese ethnicity but vote in Australia they have to renounce Chinese citizenship and so they are already somewhat constrained in how they engage with things "back home" There are probably good parallels to the fracture in Cuban American culture facing sanctions, its bankable in Miami and possibly nowhere else. Or Iranian Americans (or should I say persian americans) who repudiate the politics but love their homeland intensely? Amping up sanctions on Tehran splits views here. Well.. one party tried to weaponise it in the Oz elections and it backfired.