Commentary Hidden behind the usual political headline news about climate policy and vaccine rollouts, the next Australian federal election will decide whether the nation submits to a future of Chinese dominance or chooses to stand on principle and continue to fight for freedom. In the week where we saw former Australian Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating address the National Press Club imploring Australian submission to inevitable Chinese hegemony, trade figures show that the value of Australian exports to China actually grew by 24 percent since last year, according to a research firm Oxford Economics. Further, the Australian products that were completely locked out of China after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an independent inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 have found markets elsewhere. China’s trade war on Australia was supposed to bring us to our knees and be an example to other nations not to challenge China. But that …