Originally Posted by
Colonel_Klink
We are talking about the Chinese starting flying schools.
Primarily the Chinese are starting flying school at airports to train their civil airline pilots. Not their military pilots, not use the airports to transport cheap goods or low paid workers into the country, not use them as bases for an armed invasion of the country. They are starting them solely to take advantage of Australia’s expertise in flying training and to make their civil aviation sector safer. There’s no nefarious intent.
Contrast that to the other foreign power with great influence in Australia. The one that imprisons it’s own citizens at a rate
5 times higher than China, that has interfered in the
elections of numerous counties, including
Which has bombed or attacked
dozens of countries compared to China’s very few, and is now considered a
flawed democracy.
We allow this country to base it’s armed combat troops, spy bases and nuclear powered aircraft carriers in our country and there’s barely a peep from any side of politics or the media, but when the Chinese want to start flying schools at some remote airports that no one else would be using to train their civil airline pilots to safer standards using our expertise and provide jobs and income for struggling rural communities suddenly it becomes a secret plot to take over our country.