I have raised this question at this site many times, and at long last someone in the mainstream is seriously considering the principle of dual loyalties, or rather where does the loyalty lie:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/warning-chinas-dictator-wants-our-12-million-chinese-to-help/news-story/d093800800f1a2a1865d954606d60671
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/why-we-cant-afford-to-dismiss-china-threat-as-racism/news-story/e8f14700a655492973b0fb477796a5a6
“China is at war with Australia, hitting us with cyber attacks and trade boycotts while recruiting dozens of academics to steal Australian-funded science. How many of our 1.2 million ethnic Chinese would help its dictatorship, asks Andrew Bolt. It’s the question multicultural Australia is too scared to ask: how many of our 1.2 million ethnic Chinese would help China’s dictatorship? In fact, how many already help China as its leader instructs its military to “prepare for war”? This is not an idle question. China is already at war with Australia, launching cyber attacks and punishing us with trade boycotts. Meanwhile, it is recruiting dozens of Australian academics — many ethnic Chinese — to steal their Australian-funded science under its secretive “Thousand Talents Plan”. China is also openly appealing to the patriotism of Chinese Australians — to their love of China, not Australia. As former prime minister John Howard observed in a panel discussion in London on national security: “One million (Australians) are of ethnic Chinese background, terrific citizens making an enormous contribution to our nation, but it remains the case that China is very interested in the capacity to use those people to further her power and her interests.” This danger is now too real to ignore. A paper in the Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies this week warns China’s military build-up will help create “a much higher threat environment” for us over the next two decades.”
It is ironic to cite John Howard, who did more than any other PM to bring in the over-class of Chinese elites, as documented in a book that I reviewed many times, but can’t remember now. Wait, I will use the magic of the alor.org search engineer, and now I can quote my favourite journalist, myself on this issue:
https://alor.org/Storage/OnTarget/Volume44/Vol44No16.htm