Wong is a carpet muncher who has likely been prevented from steering us in China’s direction as foreign minister
[Wong is a carpet muncher who has likely been prevented from steering us in China’s direction as foreign minister]
There is that little matter of the Malayan Emergency, where China funded a Communist insurgency in the country for decades. To the extent there’s any residual affection for the old country, you’d think that country would be Malaysia, not China. And that sentiment would be in opposition to the adversary of the moment, and probably for the foreseeable future, China.
Then again, she’s probably a bog standard lefty, with no loyalty to anyone or anything except the nutty ideology of the moment, and that typically leans peacenik. Given that the Chinese government is in no way left-wing* except in the pablum it emits to justify the reign of the current occupant of the dragon throne**, I don’t see Wong or the ALP being particularly enamored of the CCP. Limp-wristedly dovish? Sure, because that’s the way democratic socialist parties roll - every dollar of spending on defense is a dollar diverted from the welfare state.
* https://www.voanews.com/a/china-arrests-marxist-student-leader-for-celebrating-mao-s-birthday/4716649.html
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Throne