Originally Posted by
AerialPerspective
What an exaggerated load of codswallop... United States and UK investment in Australia makes Chinese investment look like a pimple.
The media and the Australian government are big on anti-China rhetoric, bemoaning the activities by China in the South China Sea while at the same time having our Australian intelligence people apparently break in to Timor L'Este's lawyers offices in an attempt to gain information to enable Australia to defeat TL in court and then take the natural resources from a poor little country, that it's people are relying on to build wealth. As if that's not enough, they refuse all demands to return the documents and THEN they decide to persecute the person that blew the whistle on this b-stardry.
We are just as bad as the Chinese in many respects. We also raid journalists homes, our government classifies everything it thinks might cause it embarrassment and then relentlessly pursues anyone under the fanciful guise of national security for exposing it. A case was even opened agains those alleged to have exposed the apparent Au Pair visa scandal. This government has also passed laws that hold people to account but exempt the Home Affairs Minister from prosecution.
Grow up, we don't need China to take over, we are already a police state.
While I agree with your Aerial Perspective, it's actually understating the problem, rather than an exaggerated load of codswallop. It's more a case that the Chinese invasion isn't so bad because everyone else, including countries we regard as allies, have invaded too, AND our own Government has bee infiltrated and many others have been subverted. It would be difficult to explain everything clearly using this medium, but at least the clues are here for anyone with a mind to deduce, induce, or research, the rest. The truth is out there, but most of us would pick ourselves up and hastily scurry away if we tripped over it, because we prefer blissful ignorance.