The Australian Labor Party: Making Oz Part of Communist China One Election at a Time, By Paul Walker
Covered at The Australian is the unsurprising event of Albo, Wong and other merry socialist friends courting Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party to get donations and the powerful Chinese vote: "Labor has courted Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party's foreign-influence arm in a pre-election push to secure Australian Chinese donations and lock in the community's votes in key seats."
What happens with the inevitable conflict between the US and China over Taiwan? Who could trust the political judgment of those who get cosy with senior Chinese Communist Party figures? A vote for Labor is a vote for the surrender of Australia. Read on, and pass this on to all you know today before voting. It may not be possible to defeat Labor now, but a hung parliament will hang them up!
"Labor has courted Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party's foreign-influence arm in a pre-election push to secure Australian Chinese donations and lock in the community's votes in key seats.
The Australian can reveal Anthony Albanese celebrated his birthday in March at an intimate lunch with the Chinese Building Association of NSW, which has close ties to state-run construction firms in China.
And Foreign Minister Penny Wong enjoyed yum cha in Brisbane last month with ALP donor Peter Zhiwu Zheng, the president of a Chinese cultural association linked to the CCP's United Front Work Department, which was posted by a Chinese nuee more
The revelations come after The Australian revealed cabinet minister Clare O'Neil's campaign recruited 10 members of a Chinese United Front-linked group to staff polling booths in her seat of Hotham on polling day.
Australian Chinese votes will be critical in at least 10 seats in Saturday's election, including four each in Sydney and Melbourne, and one each in Brisbane and Perth.
The Prime Minister, who was lauded last year by Chinese state-run media as an example for other world leaders to follow, is banking on solid support from the community to get Labor across the line.
The Coalition has also worked hard to win over the ethnic group by cultivating ties with Chinese organisations, and has preselected a candidate with strong ties to Beijing for the unwinnable sixth spot on the LNP's Queensland ticket.
Members of the CBANSW sang happy birthday to Mr Albanese and presented him with a sparkler-topped cake at the function in early March, just weeks before the Prime Minister called the May 3 poll. Video of the event was circulated on WeChat by a Beijing-based influencer who shares Australian content with more than 3 million followers.
Anthony Albanese celebrated his birthday at an intimate lunch with a group of Beijing-backed property developers in March, just weeks before he called the election. Picture: WeChat
The CBANSW's China-born chief executive, Carson Gao, who is seated to Mr Albanese's right in the video, was in China this week spruiking investment opportunities in Australia's resurgent property sector. Mr Gao led the association's delegation during meetings with the China Real Estate Association, major developers and supply chain firms.
The association's president and founder Hao Liu is managing director of the Chinese-owned construction company Starryland Australia, whose parent company is the state-owned Hubei Fuxing Science and Technology Co. Another of the association's board members, property developer Harvard Shen, is on the committee of the United Front body Australian Chushang Entrepreneurs Association.
Moreton is home to the largest concentration of people with Chinese ancestry in Brisbane, according to census data, and is one of the many outer-suburban seats Peter Dutton has targeted.
Mr Zheng, who has donated $13,000 to Queensland Labor and $1090 to the LNP since 2019, according to AEC records, is president of the Australia China Cultural and Economic Promotion Association – a key United Front group in Queensland.
According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute: "The overseas functions of United Front include increasing the CCP's political interference, interfering in Chinese (expat communities), suppressing dissident movements, building a permissive international environment for a takeover of Taiwan, intelligence gathering, encouraging investment in China, and facilitating technology transfer."
The CBANSW lunch for Mr Albanese followed a prime ministerial invitation to Mr Gao last year to attend a lunch in Parliament House's Great Hall with Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
Mr Gao also hosted Skills and Training Minister Andrew Giles and Labor's member for Bennelong, Jerome Laxale, in January to discuss the sector's challenges and opportunities, and invited opposition housing spokesman Michael Sukkar to address its 2024 gala dinner. Bennelong and Mr Sukkar's Deakin also have large Chinese communities.
Clive Hamilton, who exposed the Chinese Communist Party's global program of influence and subversion in his book Hidden Hand, said the CBANSW almost certainly took its cues from the CCP. "It's fair to assume that any Chinese business association is one that Beijing will have an interest in – it's just how they work," Professor Hamilton said.
Labor campaign headquarters declined to comment on Mr Albanese's dealings with the association and Senator Wong's meeting with Mr Zheng. Mr Gao also passed up the opportunity to comment, saying he was feeling ill after returning from his China trip
Penny Wong and Labor's candidate for Moreton Julie-Ann Campbell, right, meet with Australia China Cultural and Economic Promotion Association president Peter Zhiwu Zheng (to the left of Senator Wong) in Brisbane on April 7. Picture: Facebook
Labor took the heat out of the Australia-China relationship after it deteriorated under the Morrison government, with Beijing slapping trade bans on $20bn worth of Australian exports. Mr Albanese worked hard to stabilise bilateral ties, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 in Bali six months after he was elected, and travelling to China for an official visit 12 months later. The Prime Minister has been at pains to avoid offending Beijing, declining to nominate China in last Sunday's leaders debate as the nation's biggest security threat despite the recent circumnavigation of the continent by three Chinese warships, and a bipartisan pledge to strip Chinese company Landbridge of its lease over the Port of Darwin. "I am the Prime Minister of a country and how you deal as Prime Minister is diplomatically," he said.
The Opposition Leader , who has softened his hawkish rhetoric on China in recent times, was less restrained. "The biggest concern from our intelligence agencies and defence agency is in relation to the Communist Party of China, and they're worried about conflict in our region," Mr Dutton said.
"They're worried about what that would do to … our trade, what it would do for our security settings, what we would need to do to respond to say a cyber attack on our country."
The election watchdog has revealed it will refer allegations that the Hubei Association planned to send dozens of volunteers to support Ms O'Neil and Greens candidates to a national taskforce for investigation. The taskforce, which includes ASIO and Australian Federal Police officials, is investigating the association's involvement in teal MP Monique Ryan's campaign in Kooyong.
The LNP has also faced scrutiny over its preselection of ethnic Chinese property developer Peter Zhuang on its Queensland Senate ticket. Mr Zhuang maintains extensive business interests in China and his biography says he is the treasurer of the Australia-China Friendship Society of Queensland.
In Melbourne, the Chinese community is concentrated in three marginal seats in the city's eastern suburbs – Labor's Chisholm and the Liberals' Menzies and Deakin, all of which will be crucial to the election outcome – as well as Greens' leader Adam Bandt's seat of Melbourne.
Kooyong is a fifth Melbourne seat where the Chinese vote will play a part but the Victorian redistribution has moved a sizeable proportion of the community across the border into Menzies.
The marginal Labor-held seat of Reid in Sydney's inner west is at the heart of the city's large Chinese community, with more than 50 per cent of people in Burwood having Chinese ancestry.
Labor's Sally Sitou, who has Chinese Laotian parents, won Reid in 2022, and holds the seat with a margin of 5.2 per cent after the NSW electoral redistribution.
Other Sydney battleground seats where the Chinese vote will be crucial include: Bradfield, where teal candidate Nicolette Boele is hoping to topple the Liberals at the second attempt; Bennelong, which Labor MP Jerome Laxale hopes to retain after seeing the boundary changes render the seat notionally Liberal by just 0.04 per cent; and Labor MP Andrew Charlton's Parramatta, which has had a sizeable increase in its Chinese community after large parts of Epping and Eastwood were shifted out of Bennelong.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/01/asian-american-poll-stereotypes-chinese-threat
More than one in four Americans believe Chinese Americans are a threat to U.S. society, and 40% believe Asian Americans are more loyal to their countries of origin than to the U.S., a new survey found.
Why it matters: Five years after the pandemic, when the U.S. saw a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, Asian Americans are still battling harmful stereotypes and deep-seated misperceptions.
By the numbers: 63% of Asian Americans report feeling unsafe in at least one daily setting, according to the STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S.) released Thursday at the start of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
The same percentage believe it is at least somewhat likely they will be victims of discrimination based on their race, ethnicity, or religion in the next five years. By comparison, 33% of white Americans say the same.
Asian Americans (40%) are far less likely than white Americans (71%) to completely agree that they belong in the U.S., and are least likely to feel they belong in online spaces/social media and their neighborhoods.
Zoom in: This year's survey found that a record percentage (40%) of Americans believe Asian Americans are more loyal to their countries of origin than to the U.S., up from 37% last year.
That's the highest rate since the inaugural STAATUS survey launched in 2021.
About two-fifths of Americans support legislation prohibiting foreign citizens from certain countries, including China, from purchasing land.
Stunning stat: Fewer than half (44%) of Americans strongly agree that Japanese American incarceration — the forcible detainment of 120,000 people with Japanese ancestry during World War II — was wrong.
What they're saying: "One of the most alarming results over the past five years has been the doubling of this perception of Asian Americans as more loyal to their country of origin," Norman Chen, CEO of The Asian American Foundation and co-founder of the STAATUS report, tells Axios.
"It questions the loyalty and patriotism of Asian Americans in this country."
Chen said the survey also found that most Americans continue to believe the "model minority" myth of overachieving Asian Americans who are "good at math" — stereotypes that are also harmful.
Between the lines: Rising antisemitism, anti-Arab American and anti-Muslim incidents have dominated the news since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel, taking the focus off hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Zoom out: The survey also found that 42% of Americans cannot think of a famous Asian American.
Actor Jackie Chan (11%) (who is not American) and Bruce Lee (6%) have been the most popular responses for five years in a row, followed by Kamala Harris (4%) and Lucy Liu (3%).
Yes, but: Many Americans back teaching Asian American history in schools.
The STAATUS Index found that nearly 80% of Americans support specific initiatives to uplift Asian American communities.
Around 41% backed legislation requiring Asian American history to be taught in schools.
Methodology: This survey was conducted from Jan. 22 to Feb. 25 by Savanta Research. It is based on a nationally representative probability sample of 4,909 U.S.-based respondents, aged 16 and older, conducted via an online panel.
The margin of sampling error is +/-1.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level, for results based on the entire sample.
Electoral/political comment authorised by Arnis J. Luks
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