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Australia’s natural and energy resources would play a key
role and provide steady supplies in guaranteeing China’s
economic development for the next twenty years. China has
already realised this fundamental goal.
PHOTO: SUPPLIED Agreement (FTA). initiated. They dragged on for for fear of bankruptcy. back home, their graduation
The China-Australia FTA ten years, and in the end, they Secretary-General of the certificates must be authenticated
The Chinese put politics above economic and stamped by the Chinese
students are very is beneficial to Australia in gains and finalised the deal after Australian Defence Department, Consulate; otherwise their
easy to control trade, however Australia has Australia promised to make Dennis Richardson, warned certificates will not be recognised
because they were made several great concessions concessions in its jurisdiction. before he retired that China was by Chinese employers.
all brainwashed on national security and ‘very active’ in espionage, that
in their formative sovereignty: One is to allow The issue of the bilateral its monitoring and coercion The third method of cultural
years. They believe a Chinese company to lease extradition treaty is another activities in Australia were infiltration is in the classroom.
that loving the Darwin Harbour for 99 years; the aspect of China’s interference equally disturbing, and that China has established a number
Chinese Communist second is to allow China’s equity with Australian policies. When it did control certain Chinese of Confucius Institutes in
Party is equal to capital to invest significant sums China’s Premier Li Keqiang media in Australia. Australia and in recent years
loving China, and in Australia’s strategic industry, visited Australia, the Australian it has also set up numerous
a lot of them are fragile agriculture and animal side promised to push the The Chinese Communist Confucius Classrooms in
very happy to serve husbandry industries; and the Parliament to ratify the bilateral Party also control Australia’s schools. It only needs to spend
the interests of the third is to push Parliament to extradition treaty, but many Chinese international students. $10,000 to get one going because
Chinese Communist approve a bilateral extradition MPs, legal experts and academics In 2004 the Chinese consulate most resources are provided
Party. treaty. However, China and believed that Australia should began to systematically register by the schools themselves,
Australia have vastly different not sign this extradition Chinese students and now own including classrooms, teachers
judicial systems and Australia agreement with China, because all students’ contact details. In and relevant materials. It is
would have to make significant fairness and equality cannot essence, all Chinese overseas extremely cheap for China to
concessions in jurisdiction possibly be guaranteed by students are placed under the set up Confucius Classrooms
in relation to the rights and combining the two judicial ‘protection’ of the Chinese in Australia. If we allow this to
interests of Chinese citizens in systems, and because it could Consulate. Yet in fact, they need continue to happen, every school
Australia. be used by China to achieve its very little protection from the will have a Confucius Classroom,
own ends. Australia is happy consulate because Australia has a and this will be a very sad day for
The FTA brings with it many with the current arrangements very sound legal system in place. the Australian people, especially
drawbacks: It allows China’s elite in the bilateral judicial field Chinese people in Australia.
power groups to gain profits so there is no need to sign any When I worked at the Chinese We do not need the Chinese
from investments in Australia bilateral extradition treaty. Consulate, the Chinese Ministry Communist Party’s agenda to
while Chinese farmers and Due to this strong opposition, of Public Security sent a notice to be fed to our children. I came to
herdsmen suffer a devastating Australian Prime Minister ask us to monitor local Chinese Australia with a very important
blow. As China’s agriculture and Turnbull eventually withdrew students so that they would not consideration in mind: I do
animal husbandry industries had the proposal from Parliament. take to the streets. We felt very not want my children to be
already crossed their bottom line surprised, thinking: Australia brainwashed like I was. I do not
when China joined the World Cultural Infiltration: is a country that allows free want them to have to go through
Trade Organisation, any further Stripping freedom of speech parades and assemblies, and yet the long struggle to break
concessions made in the China- The Chinese Communist Party the Ministry of Public Security away from the control of the
Australia FTA were seen as an controls freedom of speech in in China told us to prevent such Chinese Communist Party like
opportunity for other countries Australia through its Chinese activities. My colleagues and I did. Not many people have the
to make the same requests of language media, international I all felt it was a joke when we opportunity I have had: to leave.
them and denied. Thus, elite students, and specially-created talked about the notice, and yet
power groups can make profits public education programs for this way of thinking is typical in My hope is that Australia will
at the expense of the people, Australian kids. the autocratic atmosphere and hold on to the things that make
intensifying inequality and environment in China. it great, and will truly value its
instability in China’s rural areas. The Chinese media in sovereignty, democracy, fair-go
Australia is equivalent to Hong In fact, every Chinese student ethic and the right to freedom of
At the same time, China’s Kong’s largest Chinese language association was set up by the speech.
external military expansion and newspaper, Sing Tao Daily, which Chinese Consulate, and they
its intention to control Chinese fully cooperates with the People’s also hold their meetings in Yonglin Chen is a former Chinese
citizens overseas is evident. Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Consulate. The diplomat who defected in 2005 from
Fu Ying, former Chinese the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese students are very easy his posting as the consul for political
ambassador to Australia, wrote a to control because they were all affairs in the Chinese Consulate in
report to the Chinese Communist Funded by ads from companies brainwashed in their formative Sydney. Factors contributing to the
Party Central Committee and (usually extremely wealthy and years. They believe that loving defection, according to Mr. Chen, are
made a number of proposals Chinese), most Chinese media in the Chinese Communist Party is the torture and death of his father
about the FTA negotiations in Australia have become parasitic equal to loving China, and a lot during the Cultural Revolution, his
early 2005. She estimated China’s to the autocratic system of the of them are very happy to serve witness of the Tiananmen Square
economic loss yet emphasised Chinese Communist Party, even the interests of the Party. Massacre and the persecution of
that political and strategic refusing to publish controversial Falun Gong by Chinese Authorities.
returns were so great for China topics for the Chinese Communist The Chinese Communist
as to make it worthwhile. With Party such as the June 4th Party also controls students
this understanding, the China- massacre at Tiananmen Square through Chinese Government
Australia FTA negotiations were or pro-democracy arguments, bureaucracy. For example, after
students have graduated in
Australia and want to go
The Giant Awakens: Chinese Government Influence in Australia 13
role and provide steady supplies in guaranteeing China’s
economic development for the next twenty years. China has
already realised this fundamental goal.
PHOTO: SUPPLIED Agreement (FTA). initiated. They dragged on for for fear of bankruptcy. back home, their graduation
The China-Australia FTA ten years, and in the end, they Secretary-General of the certificates must be authenticated
The Chinese put politics above economic and stamped by the Chinese
students are very is beneficial to Australia in gains and finalised the deal after Australian Defence Department, Consulate; otherwise their
easy to control trade, however Australia has Australia promised to make Dennis Richardson, warned certificates will not be recognised
because they were made several great concessions concessions in its jurisdiction. before he retired that China was by Chinese employers.
all brainwashed on national security and ‘very active’ in espionage, that
in their formative sovereignty: One is to allow The issue of the bilateral its monitoring and coercion The third method of cultural
years. They believe a Chinese company to lease extradition treaty is another activities in Australia were infiltration is in the classroom.
that loving the Darwin Harbour for 99 years; the aspect of China’s interference equally disturbing, and that China has established a number
Chinese Communist second is to allow China’s equity with Australian policies. When it did control certain Chinese of Confucius Institutes in
Party is equal to capital to invest significant sums China’s Premier Li Keqiang media in Australia. Australia and in recent years
loving China, and in Australia’s strategic industry, visited Australia, the Australian it has also set up numerous
a lot of them are fragile agriculture and animal side promised to push the The Chinese Communist Confucius Classrooms in
very happy to serve husbandry industries; and the Parliament to ratify the bilateral Party also control Australia’s schools. It only needs to spend
the interests of the third is to push Parliament to extradition treaty, but many Chinese international students. $10,000 to get one going because
Chinese Communist approve a bilateral extradition MPs, legal experts and academics In 2004 the Chinese consulate most resources are provided
Party. treaty. However, China and believed that Australia should began to systematically register by the schools themselves,
Australia have vastly different not sign this extradition Chinese students and now own including classrooms, teachers
judicial systems and Australia agreement with China, because all students’ contact details. In and relevant materials. It is
would have to make significant fairness and equality cannot essence, all Chinese overseas extremely cheap for China to
concessions in jurisdiction possibly be guaranteed by students are placed under the set up Confucius Classrooms
in relation to the rights and combining the two judicial ‘protection’ of the Chinese in Australia. If we allow this to
interests of Chinese citizens in systems, and because it could Consulate. Yet in fact, they need continue to happen, every school
Australia. be used by China to achieve its very little protection from the will have a Confucius Classroom,
own ends. Australia is happy consulate because Australia has a and this will be a very sad day for
The FTA brings with it many with the current arrangements very sound legal system in place. the Australian people, especially
drawbacks: It allows China’s elite in the bilateral judicial field Chinese people in Australia.
power groups to gain profits so there is no need to sign any When I worked at the Chinese We do not need the Chinese
from investments in Australia bilateral extradition treaty. Consulate, the Chinese Ministry Communist Party’s agenda to
while Chinese farmers and Due to this strong opposition, of Public Security sent a notice to be fed to our children. I came to
herdsmen suffer a devastating Australian Prime Minister ask us to monitor local Chinese Australia with a very important
blow. As China’s agriculture and Turnbull eventually withdrew students so that they would not consideration in mind: I do
animal husbandry industries had the proposal from Parliament. take to the streets. We felt very not want my children to be
already crossed their bottom line surprised, thinking: Australia brainwashed like I was. I do not
when China joined the World Cultural Infiltration: is a country that allows free want them to have to go through
Trade Organisation, any further Stripping freedom of speech parades and assemblies, and yet the long struggle to break
concessions made in the China- The Chinese Communist Party the Ministry of Public Security away from the control of the
Australia FTA were seen as an controls freedom of speech in in China told us to prevent such Chinese Communist Party like
opportunity for other countries Australia through its Chinese activities. My colleagues and I did. Not many people have the
to make the same requests of language media, international I all felt it was a joke when we opportunity I have had: to leave.
them and denied. Thus, elite students, and specially-created talked about the notice, and yet
power groups can make profits public education programs for this way of thinking is typical in My hope is that Australia will
at the expense of the people, Australian kids. the autocratic atmosphere and hold on to the things that make
intensifying inequality and environment in China. it great, and will truly value its
instability in China’s rural areas. The Chinese media in sovereignty, democracy, fair-go
Australia is equivalent to Hong In fact, every Chinese student ethic and the right to freedom of
At the same time, China’s Kong’s largest Chinese language association was set up by the speech.
external military expansion and newspaper, Sing Tao Daily, which Chinese Consulate, and they
its intention to control Chinese fully cooperates with the People’s also hold their meetings in Yonglin Chen is a former Chinese
citizens overseas is evident. Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Consulate. The diplomat who defected in 2005 from
Fu Ying, former Chinese the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese students are very easy his posting as the consul for political
ambassador to Australia, wrote a to control because they were all affairs in the Chinese Consulate in
report to the Chinese Communist Funded by ads from companies brainwashed in their formative Sydney. Factors contributing to the
Party Central Committee and (usually extremely wealthy and years. They believe that loving defection, according to Mr. Chen, are
made a number of proposals Chinese), most Chinese media in the Chinese Communist Party is the torture and death of his father
about the FTA negotiations in Australia have become parasitic equal to loving China, and a lot during the Cultural Revolution, his
early 2005. She estimated China’s to the autocratic system of the of them are very happy to serve witness of the Tiananmen Square
economic loss yet emphasised Chinese Communist Party, even the interests of the Party. Massacre and the persecution of
that political and strategic refusing to publish controversial Falun Gong by Chinese Authorities.
returns were so great for China topics for the Chinese Communist The Chinese Communist
as to make it worthwhile. With Party such as the June 4th Party also controls students
this understanding, the China- massacre at Tiananmen Square through Chinese Government
Australia FTA negotiations were or pro-democracy arguments, bureaucracy. For example, after
students have graduated in
Australia and want to go
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