NSW Labor MP Jason Yat Sen Li blames Australia for being sanctioned by Xi Jinping under the previous Liberal government: ''God forbid the Coalition win the next election ... it's hard for a leopard to change its spots ... As a Chinese Australian I think back to the dark days of the China Australia relationship (under the previous Coalition government) ... that was an awful, awful time for Chinese Australians ... not only were we vilified because the People's Republic of China was seen as extremely unfriendly to Australia and outwardly we look Chinese so we really copped it in COVID ... we certainly don't want to go back to those days. One of the best achievements of the Albanese government is to bring that relationship back on track.''

This version of history basically erases the CCP's aggression towards Australia under the previous government. The Chinese Embassy infamously issued a list of ''14 Demands'' which commanded Australia to shut down independent think tanks and ''negative media reporting'' on the CCP. They demanded the repeal of counter foreign-interference legislation and commanded Australia to drop calls for an independent inquiry into COVID-19 and human rights concerns on Uyghurs, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Jason Yat-Sen Li basically erases this history and pretends that the only reason Xi Jinping sanctioned Australia was that the Liberals were undiplomatic.