Call for West to become as ‘powerful as possible’ to deter China’s totalitarian regime

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says China is “not a democracy” and calls for Australia and the Western world to become as “powerful as possible” to deter the Chinese regime. “They are not a democracy, they are a totalitarian regime with a sort of unitary point of control,” he said. “There is not one country in their perimeter who has not got some territorial dispute. “Russia just has to wait around a little while and they will want to go back there. “The powerful will do as they will and the weak will suffer as they must, we have to become as powerful as possible as quickly as possible.”