(Canberra Bloomberg) Australian relations with China have continued to be tight in the past two years, and the Australian Prime Minister Morrison, who seeks re -election, decided to make Sino -Australian relations a major campaign subject to attract voters to return.
Australia must hold a general election before May 21.Faced with the lowest support rate of polls to the lowest since the outbreak, Morrison, 53, recently depicted the opposition Labor Party as the relatives, saying that the party's leader Anthony -Albanis has a weak position on national security issues and gave another place to another.The legislators label the "Manchuria State Candidate" -the retracement of this comment.
The Labor Party believes that Morrison's move is an attempt to ensure political survival.According to the polls, 10 percentage points of the Labor Party led by Morrison's Mid -Right Liberal Party League means that the current only weak government will lose up to 21 seats and defeat in the election.
Casham, director of the public opinion and foreign policy project of the Loci Research Institute in Sydney, said that foreign policy is generally not a topic of Australian elections, but polls show that the government needs to increase the support rate.It has always been the field of campaign that the Alliance Party is better than the Labor Party. "
In the past two years, Sino -Australian relations have continued to intensify due to Australian foreign interference and investment laws, Australian requirements to investigate crown disease, and Chinese restrictions on exports of Australia. As a result, the Australian people's perception of China has gradually deteriorated.According to Pew Research, in 2017, less than a third of Australians held negative views on China.But by 2020, this ratio has soared to 81%.
The topic of the United States and conservatives of the United States failed to win
However, it is unclear whether the voters will occupy them when voting.Important position in my heart.The survey shows that only 10%of the respondents believe that China's threat is the most important issue, after the crown disease epidemic, economic and climate change.
In the recent elections in the United States and Canada, similar anti -China election issues failed to bring votes to conservative candidates.Former US President Trump and the Canadian Conservative Party leader Irene -Ouur all accused the opponents of being too weak during the campaign and could not deal with Beijing, but the results were defeated.
More importantly, polls show that China's issue may not even help Morrison.A Australian data agency Essentialresearch poll found a survey released last week that more people believe in the Labor Party in terms of dealing with China, and the ratio is 11 percentage points than the government.Although 61%of respondents believe that Australian and China diplomacy is a "complex relationship that must be dealt with, and only 26%believe that China is a threat to Australia.
Foreign policy is generally not a topic of Australian elections, but polls show that the government is necessary to improve the support rate, and the national security topic has always been the field of campaign that the Alliance Party is better than the Labor Party.
-Casham, director of public opinion and foreign policy project of the Loci Institute of Sydney
