While the Gatestone Institute article deals with CCP involvement within the US, the same issues arise for us here in Australia. There have been established organisations of Chinese influence right across society, including research institutions, as a recent US scandal has revealed. Chinese researchers in the US, returned home, taking with them strategically important research. The question that few are willing to discuss in our woke, diverse culture, is what really happens if there is a war with China, and Australia stands against them? If the call goes out from the CCP for all of the tribe to defend the motherland, and Taiwan is part of that motherland, then what? Would any city be “safe’?
