Australia as a Colony of Communist China By James Reed

Along with Jo Nova, Nation First is doing a superb job tackling the existential threats that Australia faces, and no, climate change is certainly not one of them, as both sites deal with almost daily. As a China critic I was pleased to see the question being posed at Nation First about whether Australia is becoming a colony of China. Their focus was upon the vast land buy ups  by Chinese elites, most of whom would be controlled by he CCP. These Chinese elites have increased their landholdings from 1.5 million hectares to 14.4 million hectares in just one year, all permitted by our pro-China Albo Labor puppet government. Worse still, in an act of historical stupidity or treason, essential ports like the Port of Darwin, are leased to a Chinese company linked to the People’s Liberation Army. How many communist Chinese ports are leased to Australian companies? No prize for guessing the answer.

The even greater danger than the sell-off of land, is the mass colonisation now occurring through the largest immigration intake in Australia’s history, predominantly non-white, and majority Chinese. This has already built up a strong representation within all aspects of the nerve centre of Australian society. While most of the migrants are hardworking, the indiscriminate intake such vast numbers have allowed, most security organisations admit, have let in PLA/CCP operatives as well. This is an even bigger problem with the open borders of the US, where tens of thousands of military age men from China have entered the US and disappeared into the wood work. Only a handful could take down the grid. If there were peaceful relations with the people exporting country, that had no ambitions of world domination, this would not be such a problem, but that is not so; the opposite in fact is true.  

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“Millions of hectares of Australian soil are being sold to Chinese elites and that too at a rising pace.

In 2017, for instance, Chinese-owned land increased from 1.5 million hectares to 14.4 million hectares – a factor of 10 compared to the previous year.

Since 2020, Communist China has overtaken the United Kingdom to become the largest foreign land owner in the country.

Some leftists, being the useful idiots they are, might decry this takeover of land as simply alarmism.

They might argue that China only owns an ‘insignificant’ share of Australian land.

However, what they fail to take into account is the economic and strategic value isn’t the same for all land types.

A mine, an agribusiness, a busy waterway, or a potential development site are all going to be a lot more valuable than barren, empty land in the middle of nowhere, even if the latter is many times larger.

In particular, mining accounts for a disproportionate share (86 percent) of total Chinese investment flowing into Australia.

Beyond mining, every Australian knows of massive Chinese investment in the real estate market.

This, in turn, has come to drive prices far above the means of your average Australian citizen in many of our major cities.

In fact, the Chinese buyout of real estate dwarves the next nine foreign sources combined.

Trends indicate that the property situation might continue to worsen for your average Australian.

China’s real estate investment in the country has been growing at an astonishing rate lately.

There is also the insidious trend of indirect ownership.

What the Chinese elites are doing is buying majority stakes in Australian companies and by proxy, gaining ownership of land these companies buy.

So, on books, it looks like the land is locally owned but in effect, this is land being put to use for Chinese interest.

Today, a lot of Australian businesses, especially, in our energy sector, are actually owned by China.

This not only raises potential concerns relating to our national security but also the information privacy of our citizens.

A large amount of confidential data that these companies gather ultimately ends up in the hands of the Chinese government.

This isn’t just a hypothetical threat, it is highly likely some of these companies are already selling our data to the Chinese Communist Party, or simply letting it fall into their hands.

The Australian energy company, Alinta Energy, (owned by the Chinese Chow Tai Fook Enterprises) was, last year, caught breaching privacy laws, by allowing customer information to be stored overseas rather than in Australia (as per their legal requirements).

Even Australian ports have been effectively sold off to China – the most highlighted example being the 99-year lease of Port Darwin in the Northern Territory.

That lease is held by Landbridge, a Chinese company with deep ties to the People’s Liberation Army which is the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party, and the principal military force of Communist China.

Last year, the ruling Albanese Labor Government recently decided not to bother reclaiming that port, despite public outcry about the lease.

Not that the preceding Morrison Liberal Government was any better.

When I served as a Federal Member of Parliament, I repeatedly issued calls for the reclamation of the Port of Darwin which fell on deaf ears.

As the chairman of the Parliament’s Joint Standing Committe on Trade and Investment Growth, I even delivered a report recommending that the port be brought back under Australian control.

Instead of just acting, the then government initiated a review into the lease that, sadly, simply whitewashed the whole thing and has allowed the Albanese Labor Government to not bother with reclaiming that port.

Unless we pressure our government to act, I fear that eventually, Australia will end up in a country that is little more than a colony of China, with its own citizens treated as second class.”