I have been reporting on the China threat for so long, and in so many articles, that I have run out of new titles. No matter:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china-threat-to-america-fbi-director-warns-2018-2?r=US&IR=T
“FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday reiterated a commonly held view among US intelligence officials that China is seeking to become a global superpower through unconventional means – but he framed it as both a governmental and a societal threat to the US. Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray said that to undermine the US’s military, economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe, China was using methods relying on more than just its state institutions.
“One of the things we’re trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat on their end,” Wray said. “And I think it’s going to take a whole-of-society response by us.” In response to a question from Sen. Marco Rubio about whether China was planning to overtake the US as the world’s most dominant power, Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, echoed Wray.
“There is no question that what you have just articulated is what’s happening with China,” Coats said. “They’re doing it in a very smart way. They’re doing it in a very effective way. They are looking beyond their own region.”
I found the comments made later in the article of great relevance to Australia’s plight re the masses of Chinese that are fast replacing the rest of the Australian population:
“Wray pointed to China’s use of unconventional intelligence sources as an example of its reach. He said “collectors” – what the intelligence community calls people who collect intelligence on behalf of agencies or governments – had infiltrated US universities.
“I think in this setting, I would just say that the use of nontraditional collectors – especially in the academic setting, whether it’s professors, scientists, students – we see in almost every field office that the FBI has around the country,” Wray said.
“They’re exploiting the very open research-and-development environment that we have, which we all revere, but they’re taking advantage of it,” Wray said, adding that there was a “naiveté” among academics about the risks posed by foreign nationals at US universities.”
Australia is so deracinated, perhaps beyond even the wildest expectations of the power elites who engineered all of this, that no such debate is likely to occur in this land. What is Pauline Hanson saying about this? In fact, what is she saying at all? Does anybody know?