Former foreign minister Julie Bishop has been at the receiving end of an extraordinary attack from a former colleague after urging calm and considered diplomacy with China.
Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, who was a junior minister to Ms Bishop, was absolutely scathing.
“Another air-head comment from the ‘couch’. We had six years of ‘Instagram diplomacy’ that ignored CCP skulduggery and ‘debt trap diplomacy’,” she tweeted.
@Gallo_Ways Another air-head comment from the ‘couch’. We had 6 years of ‘instagram diplomacy’ that ignored #CCP skulduggery and ‘debt trap diplomacy’! #auspol
— Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (@Senator_CFW) May 12, 2020
Ms Bishop has advocated more work behind the scenes to persuade China to endorse an independent global inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus.
Ms Fierravanti-Wells has previously called on the Coalition government to lessen Australia’s economic dependence on China and seek compensation for the impact of the coronavirus.
As a permanent member of the [United Nations] Security Council, China “has a unique responsibility as a permanent member to maintain international peace and security, and without a doubt this pandemic is a threat to international security,” Ms Bishop told Nine newspapers.
However Fierravanti-Wells has previously claimed the UN system is “mired by inefficiencies, duplication and undue political influences by totalitarian states that use the multilateral system to further their political ends.”
–with AAP
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