Australia Told It Has Too Many Whites To Be Part Of Asia

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10-22-2003 | Alex Spillius

[blam]

Australia told it has too many whites to be part of Asia

By Alex Spillius in Bangkok
(Filed: 22/10/2003)

Leaders of 21 Pacific Rim nations put on matching jackets of the finest Thai silk yesterday at the end of their summit, but this display of sartorial unity could not hide simmering tensions based on wealth, culture or race.

Presidents, monarchs and prime ministers as diverse as George W Bush and the Sultan of Brunei, representing 2.5 billion people and half the world's trade, announced broad agreements on promoting free trade and counter-terrorism.

It was not the superpower which drew the most flak from vocal Asian members of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Bangkok, but Australia.

Goh Chok Tong, Singapore's prime minister, took the first shot when he told a high-powered business leaders' meeting that Australia would be regarded as Asian only when the population "tips over 50 per cent non-whites and the rest whites".

Seven per cent of the 19.9 million population is Asian and 92 per cent white.

John Howard, the Australian prime minister, bridled at the remarks. "We have a non-discriminatory immigration policy and the idea that we should have our immigration policy determined by the declarations of anybody is ridiculous. We don't seek some kind of rating from anybody as far as our position in the region is concerned."

Hassan Wirayuda, Indonesia's foreign minister, said Australia needed to improve its profile in Asia, despite Mr Howard recently saying he felt relations had never been better between Australia and Indonesia, whose police forces have co-operated closely in pursuing terrorists.

Mr Howard arrived in Thailand both burdened and buoyed by Mr Bush's description of him as Washington's regional sheriff. Mahathir Mohamad, the outspoken Malaysian prime minister, who retires at the end of the month, said: "Whether it is Asian or not, Australia can make more effort to identify with Asia.

"We can't have a partner who is also a policeman. Asian countries don't go around telling other people how to run their countries.

"Australians are always casting aspersions on our judicial system, but [unlike Australia] we have a good history with our aboriginals. We didn't shoot them all dead or commit genocide."

Mr Howard responded curtly: "It is better to let him [Mahathir] recede gently into retirement. I don't intend to give him any kind of political valediction. I don't intend to talk about him, full stop."

The summit's declaration called for the revival of World Trade Organisation talks and agreed measures to increase global security.

[wku man]

Uh...did someone tell the author that Australia is its own continent? Therefore, its not part of Asia in the first place?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Still Thinking]

You beat me to it. That was my first thought as well.

[joesnuffy]

" Asian countries don't go around telling other people how to run their countries."

Bwahahahahahahaha

[river rat]

Racist white (and Jew) hating bastards!

Semper Fi

[Agnes Heep]

What about India? A billion people and nearly all of them are Caucasians. True, they tan easily, but they're Caucasians nonetheless. And a definite part of Asia.

[LenS]

Tell Tibet that.

[Billthedrill]

Asian countries don't go around telling other people how to run their countries.

Why, of course not. Membership in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was voluntary, and the Japanese Army was there to see that it stayed that way. That was after the Manchuria and Korea tour. And North Korea never told the South how to run itself, they only had a few thousand fellers in tanks make a couple of suggestions. Ditto for the North Vietnamese and their little Blitzkrieg. China and Tibet are best pals. Cambodia was just a vacation spot for all those Vietnamese soldiers. Is it "Burma" or still "Myanmar?" I forget. Oh, and that feller Ghengis Khan was just one big warm, fuzzy puppy...

[xrp]

The war against whitey is in full swing. As the 21st century wanes on, whitey will go the way of the dinosaur.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"They" will not rest until the White race is wiped from the face of the earth.

One thing the leftie liberal slime commies are right about. There is a race war going on, and it's all about get Whitey, of which 90% of Whitey is asleep at the switch.

If a White person speaks up about race, they are instantly branded a racist, and boy does that shut them up damn quick everytime. I honestly feel it should be a hate crime for others to brand any White with the epitaph of racist, without provable proof of same.

To falsely accuse a White person of being a racist without proof is tantamount to, and no different than that of calling a Black person the "N" word, or a Jew a Nazi Christ killer. They are all despicable and hateful hate crimes, and deserving of the same punishment, I think it is time to give them back a gentle taste of legislative action and the court system.

[Pearls Before Swine]

... and the USA has been told it has too many whites to be part of Latin America, but due to our immigration policy (or lack thereof), that situation is changing...