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ExomatrixTV
22nd November 2019, 18:02
Why is China on the move in the South Pacific?
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Related?: Why China is building islands in the South China Sea:
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South Pacific Nation Tuvalu Rejects (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-pacific-nation-tuvalu-rejects-china-offer-to-build-islands-and-retains-ties) China offer to build islands and retains ties with Taiwan
The Sinister Reason (https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/the-sinister-reason-china-is-so-interested-in-the-south-pacific.html) China is so interested in the South Pacific
China Is Leasing an Entire Pacific Island. Its Residents Are Shocked (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/australia/china-tulagi-solomon-islands-pacific.html).
Australia must prepare for a Chinese Military Base in the Pacific (https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/jul/15/australia-must-prepare-for-a-chinese-military-base-in-the-pacific)
Japan, US and Australia push back on China's South Pacific expansion (https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Japan-US-and-Australia-push-back-on-China-s-South-Pacific-expansion)
ps. The main reason that I post this, is that this could escalate in to WW3!
Johan (Keyholder)
23rd November 2019, 00:09
True, I can confirm that from personal experience.
And it has been going on for a long time.
In 1985, I was in the Kingdom of Tonga for the first time. It was like paradise then.
The second time, early 1990's, the main island was already incredibly polluted.
And the third time, about 15 years ago, the Chinese were very much present there.
Very sad story.
ExomatrixTV
25th November 2019, 01:31
Chinese Spy Spills Secrets to Expose Communist Espionage Network | 60 Minutes Australia
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Australia is now 'starting to wake up' to Chinese 'infiltration'
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Seabreeze
27th November 2019, 08:06
https://bougainvillenews.com/
TigaHawk
28th November 2019, 03:13
I'd wager they're trying to setup so that if poopoo does hit the fan, they'll be able to reign Australia in quickly and neatly. Both due to having us surrounded... literally and due to how much influence they've been sneaking in via politicians, bribes and CCP loyalists migrating over and settling, however remaining 100% loyal to CCP.
aoibhghaire
28th November 2019, 11:46
If China make an agreement with Bougaineville, they won’t be able to start again the Panguna mine.
Biggest open cast mine at the time in the southern hemisphere.
They can use the island as a port, but I know they know that Bougaineville has massive rich copper, gold resources. Probably now the biggest in the world when you integrate the secret potential mines (not excavated yet). They will fall into the trap as others have as will be explained.
The agreement would not have been with the original revolutionaries, under Francis Ono, who started the first environmental revolution. The central area where the war took place was at the mine. The natives lost 20,000 people. Their environment was devastated resulting with copper sulphate rivers. The International Red Cross was prevented from coming in, hence the huge casualties Helicopter gunships and frigates surrounded the island. A similar scene from the movie AVATAR. The incredible and amazing thing is the revolutionaries won the war. Know one new how they did it. Even the secret services and mercenaries didn’t know and gave up.
If Avalonians are still interested this will be the first explanation if requested anywhere in public how this result came about. Project Avalon is the only site that would understand. I’ll give a clue AVATAR.
The Australian Parliament didn’t know there was a war until a Greenpeace activist announced this on ABC (interviewed as a silhouette) to prevent his real self. He had to escape from the Australian secret service, which he successfully did. He did go back to Bougaineville to help the revolutionaries build up there weapons against the Papua New Guinea (PNG )and Australian government forces.
There are cultural reasons why this war started which I’m not going to elaborate on here. The feminine is embedded within the land. Destroy the feminine, the reaction is war. This was not understood by RioTinto.
Whoever are the recognized authorities in Bougaineville don’t seem to be aware that there are 5 other major potential mines kept secret. The revolutionaries knew this because the original plan by Rio Tinto and the Australia was a compulsory mass migration policy of the whole population to Queensland. This meant that Bougaineville was to become just one big mine. Not only the biggest at the time in the Southern hemisphere but would probably be the biggest in the world.
China in its ‘agreements’ to infiltrate Bougaineville would be ignorant of the above and more. If it’s the resurrection of the mine, then all out war will start again. Unless the mine is excavated in a environmental way. RioTinto still owns the mine. May be it could be the spark of a possible war with China triggered by the Bougaineville/Australia/ USA. Bougaineville is looking for independence. This result should be known soon. PNG and Bougaineville may become a protectorate of Australia. PNG is already a protectorate of Australia.
BMJ
29th November 2019, 09:16
Chinese owned and built an illegal airport in Western Australia, and built massive runaways on artificial islands in the pacific.
Coupled with deep water ports, capable of mooring aircraft carriers, in every instance.
It is obvious the Chinese intend to to gain a foothold in Pacific Island countries.
If China cannot takeover these countries by
- buying our assets that is farming and natural resources such as bauxite and iron mines,
- buying there way into political influence and
- influencing the current and next generations through cultural enrichment of the communist way (think Confucius Institute influence in universities).
Then Plan B is an invasion of all Pacific nations via island hoping down to the number one prize Australia.
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority as would every indigenous group in their country.
Then in the best of communist traditions we will be
- organ harvested,
- forced to renounce our culture and religions in re-education camps or
- terminated en masse in concentration camps that would make the Auschwitz Concentration Camp look like a day care centre.
The leverage we have is that China desperately needs US Dollars, export to the western countries and imports of our resources. Via increased import taxes or restrictions on exports of resources the west could force China's economy to shrink and so reverse their expansionist plans in the Pacific.
Furthermore, China's chain of artificial militarized islands dotted across the pacific are "illegal" they need to be removed as they are not sovereign Chinese territory along with all their equipment.
Below is a 2 minute video on deep water ports and an "illegal" airport in Western Australia, which suggests a staging point for an initial invasion of Australia by the Chinese.
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Chinese Communist government controlled companies have exercised control of airports and ports in Western Australia contrary to the security of all Australians.
Sunny
29th November 2019, 09:39
China has been very active in Fiji. Here is a sampling of some articles from The Fiji Times. (I am not posting links because they want you to have a subscription to read the whole article).
Of things I know about, thay are building a dam in Taveuni -- the workers building it are Chinese -- they built a little apartment building for their workers to stay in -- Someone complained to me that when the Chinese do projects the workers are Chinese, not Fijian -- and that a new hospital they built has Chinese doctors -- but I have no personal knowledge about it.
Off to China
A GROUP of immigration officials will be learning border control among other things in China. The 28 officials leave next week and will spend two weeks at the China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong. Chinese ambassador to Fiji Zhang Ping said the two countries started this training program 10 years ago. “We have seen the..
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Chinese naval ship berths in Capital City
A Chinese navy training vessel is in the country to strengthen relations between Fiji and China. Qi Jiguang berthed at the Kings Wharf in Suva yesterday, and according to the Chinese Ambassador to Fiji, Qian Bo, it was conducting its routine foreign visit. “It is a pretty new ship and this a second external visit...
28-storey plaza
PREPARATORY works have been completed and construction is expected to progress in the coming months on what is dubbed as Fiji’s new tallest building, the WG Friendship Plaza. The plaza, a proposed 28-storey building along MacGregor Rd in Suva, is an investment by WG International Real Estate Co (Fiji) Ltd, a locally-registered Chinese company.
SCC, Guangdong seal MOU on relationship
CONSTRUCTION of a friendship garden and landmark building at the FDB foreshore as well as the renovation of the Suva Civic Centre auditorium and lower hall will begin soon. This is after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Suva City Council (SCC) and the Guangdong Province of the People’s Republic of China
Fiji, China seal pact for new health and wellness centre
A NEW agreement between the Fijian and Chinese governments was formalised yesterday that will see the construction of a health and wellness centre at the State House compound in Suva. The agreement in the form of a memorandum of understanding was signed by the Official Secretary to the President Pene Baleinabuli and the Director-General Guangzhou.
Another thing I heard is that a Chinese company was building a massive resort but was destroying the environment and the Fijian government revoked their permit to build: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/02/08/435281/fiji-resort-charges-too-little-too-late#
https://www.9news.com.au/world/60-minutes-fiji-malolo-island-freesoul-woody-jack-navrin-fox-casino-environment/f274506f-ac5c-42b0-9404-ad59c1c57b83
Another Chinese resort -- https://fijisun.com.fj/2016/08/27/groundbreaking-for-chinese-wyndham-project-on-coral-coast-planned-tuesday/
This is about another Pacific Island nation, Palau:
Empty hotels, idle boats: What happens when a Pacific island upsets China
KOROR, Palau (Reuters) – Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an escalating diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan. Late last year, China effectively banned tour groups to the idyllic tropical archipelago, branding it an illegal destination due...
BMJ
29th November 2019, 09:44
Steve Bannon provides a lot of information in a concise way on the reasons driving China's expansionist dream.
Steve Bannon's Warning On China Trade War (w/ Kyle Bass) | Real Vision Classics
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Real Vision Finance
Steve Bannon and Kyle Bass discuss America’s current geopolitical landscape regarding China. Bannon and Bass take a deep dive into Chinese infiltration in U.S. institutions, China’s aggressiveness in the South China sea, and the potential for global conflict in the next few years. Filmed on October 5, 2018 at an undisclosed location.
BMJ
29th November 2019, 09:49
Retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding whom spent several years living in China and associating with China's political elite gives his perspective from China's point of view on China's desire for global domination.
Is the US-China Trade War a Cold War? (w/ Kyle Bass and Gen. Robert Spalding)
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Real Vision Finance
Is globalization breaking down before our eyes? Kyle Bass sits down with retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding to discuss what’s really happening inside China. Spalding spent years living in China as Defense Attache in Bejing and served as the chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Spalding brings his deep knowledge of the people, culture, economy, and military posture of China to the table in discussing the multifaceted threat to the US posed by the rising Asian superpower in the US China trade war. Filmed on September 27, 2019 in Washington D.C.
Sunny
29th November 2019, 09:57
Fiji also broke ties with Taiwan:
Pacific Fiji
19 May 2017
Fiji closes Taiwan office, holds talks with Beijing
8:18 am on 19 May 2017
Fiji has closed its representative office in Taiwan.
Taiwanese media quote Fiji's representative Karai Vuibau as saying the closure follows a review of Fiji's embassies and missions worldwide.
The closure coincides with Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama attending China's Belt and Road summit in Beijing this week.
Although Fiji has been adhering to the the One China policy, it opened a trade and tourism office in Taipei in 1975.
A Taiwanese politician Lu Shiow-yen said the closure was orchestrated by China to embarrass Taiwan.
She added that attempts by Taipei to convince Fiji to leave just one or two officials in Taiwan were unsuccessful.
The office served as Fiji's de facto embassy in Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic relations.
Taiwan has diplomatic ties with several Pacific countries, including Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Nauru.
Fiji and China hold talks in Beijing
According to its president, Xi Jinping, China wants to expand cooperation with Fiji.
Xinhua reports Mr Xi met with the Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama on Tuesday.
Mr Bainimarama has been attending a two day infrastructure summit, the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing.
The news agency reports China is willing to expand cooperation with Fiji on agricultural technology, green development, investment and trade.
Mr Xi told Fiji's leader that China would encourage more tourists to Fiji and support the expansion of Chinese business in Fiji.
According to Xinhua, Mr Bainimarama said Fiji would stick to the one-China policy.
He said Fiji would deepen cooperation with China in areas like agriculture, infrastructure, trade and people-to-people exchanges.
There would be more coordination on climate change and sustainable development, Mr Bainimarama said.
Gracy
29th November 2019, 12:06
I reckon sometimes it's good to flip the script on situations like this. China is a rising power, yes that's a given, and it's also perfectly legitimate IMO.
What if the roles were reversed, China is the worlds super power, occupies North America, designates South America as it's "back yard", has 800 some military bases around the world in 70 some countries, and also rules the world economically via the petro dollar.
What if now the upstart US occupying that part of Asia wants to at least shore up it's own "back yard", and surrounding areas, by designating the South China Sea as theirs? Is that unreasonable by modern day super power standards?
Does that automatically make the US in this scenario "bad guy"? My answer is probably, according to China in this scenario, who greatly dislikes ANY challenges to it's world domination.
BMJ
29th November 2019, 22:18
Then in the best of communist traditions we will be
- organ harvested,
- forced to renounce our culture and religions in re-education camps or
- terminated en masse in concentration camps that would make the Auschwitz Concentration Camp look like a day care centre.
The above comments were based on my understanding of the persecution of the Muslims, House Christians and Uyghurs minorities in China.
The Chinese Communists have no respect or tolerance for their own minorities.
Also note that China's population that has increased from 650 million in 1960 to 1,400 million in 2015.
With this in mind if they resettle there every growing population to oceania , how could we be expected to be treated if we become the minorities in our own countries?
This report below can provide an insight into the Chinese Communist way of dealing with their unique minority non conformists cultures.
How China is creating the world’s largest prison
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ABC News In-depth
Tell the World: Exposing how China is creating the world’s largest prison.
Four Corners uncovers disturbing evidence of how China is effectively operating the world’s largest prison.
It’s a remote corner of the world, but what is taking place in China’s Xinjiang province is nothing short of breathtaking.
Today its Uyghur population is being systematically rounded up and detained, with estimates of as many as a million citizens being held in re-education camps.
Even those still left in their homes are being monitored. The communist regime is using cutting edge technology, mass surveillance tools and artificial intelligence to control an entire population.
By piecing together witness accounts from Australian citizens caught up in the Chinese Government’s campaign, along with satellite imagery analysis and official documents uncovered online, the truth about what is occurring in Xinjiang is laid bare.
We have uncovered evidence of detainees being forced to work in factories with implications for Australian companies doing business in the region.
We also reveal concerning evidence about Australia’s links to China’s dystopian surveillance state and the tools used to racially profile its own citizens.
The events unfolding in China are creating heartbreak for Uyghurs in Australia.
They have stayed quiet for fear of provoking the authorities into punishing their relatives. Now, in desperation they are breaking their silence to tell the world what is going on.
This program features contributions from:
Nurmuhammad Majid, East Turkistan Australian Association
Adam Turan
Sadam Abudusalamu
Nurgul Sawut, Australian Uyghur Association
Prof James Leibold, ethnic policy in China, La Trobe University
Dr Darren Byler, anthropologist, University of Washington
Almas Nizamidin
Nathan Ruser, Satellite analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Dr Adrian Zenz, Independent researcher
Hayrullah Mai
Gulnur Idreis
Cheng Jingye, China's Ambassador to Australia
Gracy
29th November 2019, 23:51
Well now here again, while of course China is no angel, but does that make the US the world's moral authority?
For instance, China is in the process of building the world's largest prison?
Israel has for some time been running, and terrorizing, the Palestinian people whose ever shrinking territory for some time now holds the record of world's largest prison.
Who is Israel's biggest champion with no questions asked? The US.
Who has the world's highest per capita prison population? The US, and the vast majority are black and brown people arrested for non violent crimes.
I'm not even going to go into how the US goes around the world destabilizing entire regions with sanctions, coups, and proxy wars...
Who is the US to be wagging the Bill Clinton finger at China, or anyone for that matter?
AutumnW
30th November 2019, 03:41
The U.S, through various organizations, Christian groups, embassies in Hong Kong is trying its level best to destabilize China through Hong Kong. Note the synchronized timing of events.
Trade wars and then shortly thereafter the shtf in Hong Kong, softening the ground for another color revolution.
China is a totalitarian state without a history of democratic rule, as far as I know. The U.S. had something resembling democracy or a free society for most, but now, not at all. In some ways China is less free than the U.S. In other ways the U.S is less free with its two tiered justice system. The foreign policy of the U.S. is the most oppressive, bullying -- much more than the Chinese.
Just maybe this is one of the reasons the Chinese are desperate to control the areas around their borders. In other words, What Gracy May said. Thanks Gracy:highfive:
Seabreeze
30th November 2019, 11:19
29 November 2019
271119 POLLING CONTINUES SMOOTHLY
NEW DAWN FM NEWS
Polling in the Bougainville Referendum continues smoothly with 223 of 224 polling places opening today across Bougainville and Papua New Guinea.
Two days of polling are now complete in Gizo, Solomon Islands, and Cairns, Australia, as the teams make their way today to Honiara and Brisbane respectively for polling on Thursday and Friday.
Chief Referendum Officer Mauricio Claudio said reports from all areas continue to be of polling taking place in a peaceful and joyous atmosphere – with voters freely casting their votes.
“We’re delighted that people are taking ownership of the referendum and coming out to vote, and that this complex electoral operation across three countries continues to be a positive contribution to the overall peace process,” Mr Claudio said.
source and full text : https://bougainville.typepad.com/newdawn/
....Bougainvilleans have continued to push for independence which is being tested in a two-question referendum which
started
this week and will end on December 7
with voters being asked whether they want complete independence or just greater autonomy from Papua New Guinea.
source and full text :
November 29, 2019 · 9:01 am
The High-Stakes Race For Bougainville’s Copper And Gold
https://ramumine.wordpress.com/tag/bougainville/
BMJ
3rd December 2019, 11:36
It is obvious the Chinese intend to to gain a foothold in Pacific Island countries.
If China cannot takeover these countries by
- buying our assets that is farming and natural resources such as bauxite and iron mines,
- buying there way into political influence and
- influencing the current and next generations through culture enrichment of the communist way (think Confucius Institute influence in universities).
China's Plan A, for Australia and the Pacific region.
China is playing 'long, cunning game' with Australia, South Pacific regions (8 Minute video discussion at the link)
Sky News host Peter Gleeson says the Chinese are playing a “cunning” and “long” game by acquiring businesses, infrastructure and loans across Australia and the South Pacific, adding that our nation should be “very, very wary of any encroachment by the Chinese”.
Mr Gleeson’s comments come as China’s Mengniu Dairy will purchase and take over Lion Dairy and Drinks, which includes several iconic Australian brands such as Dairy Farmers, Masters and Pura.
“I think the way in which the Chinese have transparently gone after business in this country, particularly agri-business, is a long term strategy that the Chinese are renowned for,” Mr Gleeson told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
"If we look further afield to the South Pacific… I'm very concerned at the way in which the Chinese are strategically looking at the geopolitical options in the South Pacific.
“I’m talking about putting money into infrastructure and big, big loans that cannot be repaid by these some of those smaller pacific nations.
“We have a good relationship with China but you can see it from a mile off - these guys are playing a very long, cunning game.”
Link: https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6109051696001
BMJ
3rd December 2019, 12:49
Specific to securing China's interests and sphere of influence in the Pacific region it has been rapidly modernizing it's naval fleet.
The four goals of China in the Pacific
A report this week by the British-based global risk assessment company, Oxford Analytica, says China has four objectives in extending its reach into the South Pacific.
One is to extend its security perimeter into a region hitherto the preserve of the US and its allies and to create a buffer between China and its neighbors.
The second is to press forward with its diplomatic contest with Taiwan. Of the 17 countries worldwide that still have full diplomatic relations with Taiwan and none with Beijing, six of them are Pacific Island states – the Solomon Islands, Palau, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands.
Beijing’s third objective is to gain access to the natural resources of the South Pacific and its islands, especially fish and timber. China is already the largest trading partner for most of the islands and has about $30 billion invested among them.
The fourth objective is to draw the South Pacific nations into Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative by selling them infrastructure, especially port facilities to benefit Chinese commerce and the long-range deployment of its navy.
Link: https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/china-targeting-pacific-isles-for-strategic-bases/
How is China modernizing its navy?
Over the last few decades, China’s navy has rapidly expanded. As of 2018, the Chinese Navy consists of over 300 ships, making it larger than the 290 vessels comprising the deployable battle force of the US Navy.1 The fleet sizes of other leading nations are comparatively smaller. The British Royal Navy consists of 75 ships and the Royal Australian Navy has a fleet of 46 ships.
Link: https://chinapower.csis.org/china-naval-modernization/
Full Text: China's National Defense in the New Era
BEIJING, July 24, 2019 (Xinhua) -- The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China released a white paper titled "China's National Defense in the New Era" on Wednesday.
Link: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/24/c_138253389.htm
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BMJ
6th December 2019, 00:33
Thank you Catherine Austin Fitts for bringing this to my attention. :sun:
The Australian government does not have the strength of character to confront the threat to Australia's welfare, (or they are "complicit globalists"), that Chinese Communist Party presents.
As evidenced by their lack of will to formally investigate Chinese Communist Party ever growing influence in Australia.
Some personal thoughts.
The obvious point is that the "Chinese Communist Party is a threat to Australia's national security".
Therefore Australia needs to remove all CCP influence from our government, business and universities.
How:
- Buy back all assets purchased by CCP at a fair price or by force if necessary.
- Provide full government funding of our universities and colleges. Which will ensure they get back to educating instead of chasing the dollar.
- Provide priority to Australian students to these university positions.
- Drastically reduce foreign students from the current 825,000 or 50% or so total intake at the moment.
- Investigate relations with CCP in government and business and determine the intent of these relations and if they pose a threat to Australia's national security and deal with them accordingly.
Furthermore, decrease our dependence on China trade by:
- Increase our rate of import tax to even 100% or more on all imported goods to stimulate and rekindle Australian industry and protect those industries. (We cannot compete with China labour rates)
- Seek other export customers for our coal and iron etc. (Of which there are plenty of other customers such as India)
Also:
- Purchase 12 Barracuda-class Nuclear Submarine from France which are available and proven design which France is willing to supply.
- Instead of buying 12 "redesigned and unproven" Barracuda-class Submarine converted to "diesel / electric" (WTF). This is case of winning votes and not defending Australian borders.
Note, nuclear submarines have unlimited range and a submerged speed of 25 knots versus diesel / electric submarines that have a limited range and a submerged speed of 4 knots (or walking pace).
Link: http://www.submarinesforaustralia.com.au/
- Assist our Pacific neighbours pro actively in grow their economy's, education of their peoples.
- Extend our support of Pacific nation border protection by assisting in this process. One good point is the gifting of 21 brand new Guardian-class patrol boat to our Pacific neighbours.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian-class_patrol_boat
"We're Sitting Ducks" - Australian Politicians Warn Of Threat From Chinese Regime
Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times,
More than a dozen Australian senators voted Tuesday calling for an investigation into Australia’s relationship with China, with one politician saying that Australia is a “sitting duck” to foreign influence from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“We’re sitting ducks here. We’re leaving ourselves open and we’re letting the Communist Party in China come in here and undermine our democracy,” Jacqui Lambie, an independent Australian senator, said late Tuesday in response to a motion to start a Senate inquiry into Australian’s relationship with China.
The motion, led by crossbencher Rex Patrick, was supported by all the other crossbenchers: Senators Lambie, Stirling Griff, Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, and Cory Bernardi. Senators from the Greens party also supported the motion.
The motion, which required a 23 majority vote to pass, failed at 15 votes. No senators from Australia’s two major political parties—the Liberal and Labor parties—indicated their support. A total of 38 votes were cast against the motion.
Patrick said that the inquiry should examine all aspects of Australia’s relationship with China, including trade relations between the two countries, Chinese investment in Australia’s infrastructure and agriculture, and the influence and alleged interference in Australia, which includes the CCP-linked activities in Australian university campuses, as well as the CCP’s role in cyberattacks.
‘Existential Threat’
Prior to the vote, Lambie accused the Liberal and Labor parties of lacking the courage to protect Australia from Chinese foreign influence, saying that such parties have not only been influenced by money from the CCP, but also have been causing Australia to be more economically dependent on China.
Both Lambie and Patrick noted how Duncan Lewis, the former Director General of Security at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), told Nine newspapers in November that the CCP is seeking to take over Australia’s political systems through “insidious” foreign interference investigations.
“It’s about time the people in this place woke up to China’s attempts to infiltrate our economy and our democracy,” Lambie said, later adding, “Everyone knows that the communist Chinese government uses money to influence our political processes.”
Lambie cited multiple examples of such alleged attempts, including a case earlier this year where AU$100,000 ($68,284) in cash was donated to the New South Wales Labor party that became part of an investigation by the state’s corruption watchdog.
“Now we’ve heard that Chinese attempts to infiltrate our politics go even further … They’re not just trying to influence politicians with money; they’re trying to get elected to sit in this chamber … wherever they can buy or get seats in the Australian parliament, they’re coming,” Lambie said.
“There are no security checks, there’s little to stop it from happening. It’s absolutely beyond shocking.”
“People are literally showing up dead. Someone who was supposedly cultivated by the Chinese government to run as a Liberal Party candidate in the Commonwealth Parliament has shown up dead,” Lambie added. “Nothing’s been proven but it’s really concerning … I think we all know what’s going on here.”
Bo “Nick” Zhao, a Melbourne luxury car dealer, was found dead in a Melbourne motel room in March. His death is under investigation. Zhao had earlier told ASIO that he was offered “a seven-figure sum” to run for a seat in Australia’s federal parliament.
“What is clear is that China is actively trying to reshape our democracy, and no one seems to be talking about that seriously enough. Honestly, where’s your courage? What are you scared of? This is not some wacky conspiracy theory. This is happening,” Lambie said.
“This is an existential threat to our society, and Australians are scared,” she later said. “They’re scared that our country is being bought up … it is being bought up.”
Patrick noted how the Director General of Security Mike Burgess “couldn’t bring himself to actually name” China last week when he announced an ASIO investigation into allegations that the CCP tried to implant Zhao into Canberra.
“Obviously, there are considerable diplomatic sensitivities involved and we have allowed ourselves to become hugely economically dependent on the export of raw materials to the Chinese market,” Patrick said.
“But it is a worrying thing when debate in this parliament is politically constipated for fear of reaction from Beijing.”
On trade, Lambie expressed disappointment and said that Liberal and Labor parties have failed to manage Australia’s economic dependence on China.
“The major parties have turned a blind eye … We’re selling off Australian values for a quick buck,” she said.
“A third of Australian exports are China-bound. We ship out more than $120 billion in iron ore and coal exports to China and our universities—shame on them!—rake in over $32 billion from international students.
“All up, we trade nearly $194 billion worth of goods and services between China and Australia—more than we trade with Japan and the United States combined. Who does that? Who leaves us in a position like that? All that money is making us complacent. There’s no reason for us to be singularly focused on China.”
Prior to the vote, the Greens’ Senator Nick McKim said that the Liberal and Labor parties were “riddled with CCP influence as they are, riddled with dirty CCP money as they are—are going to collude, once again, to vote such an inquiry down.”
“I’m telling you now, you’re all standing on the wrong side of history here. History will be written one day,” McKim added.
“History will record those who stood up and tried to address this situation, and history will record those who rolled over and let the CCP tickle their collective bellies. And unfortunately, it remains the case that both major parties in this place will be on the wrong side of history.”
Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/were-sitting-ducks-australian-politicians-warn-threat-chinese-regime
Justplain
6th December 2019, 04:52
Yes, indeed, Australia is a prime target for the Chinese. Although the USA is no better morally than China, having likely been responsible for the destabilization of Australian governments and leaders that opposed Pine Gap, you still have to realize that Chinese have a more imperialistic attitude towards the rest of the world than the Americans do. The American interest is in fascist economic domination. The Chinese want economic, political and cultural domination. This Is an existential threat to Australia.
China being pumped full of globalist trade money is interfering all over the world. In Canada, the housing market has been flooded with Chinese buyers who buy residences only to leave them vacant. I have talked to several active, knowledgeable real estate agents who indicate that most of this is dirty money, somehow illegal, and the property purchases are a form of money laundering. This is not a political ploy, but an economic one, which the communists don't interfere with, as it aligns with one of its goals of economic domination.
The Chinese government has immature imperialist ambitions, just as the USA has/had criminal fascist designs (a la 'confessions of an economic hit man'). So, neither country can be trusted. Australia and the Pacific islands would be wise to restrict the Chinese presence, IMHO. The more developed the Chinese military get, the more aggressive the Chinese government will become, and a war may well result. Just as the illuminati want.
MorningFox
6th December 2019, 11:07
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority
Ohhhh the horror! Let's not forget the genocide the white australians did to the native aboriginals. What's the difference? Why do you think the white Australians deserve that land? Just curious.
greybeard
6th December 2019, 11:12
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority
Ohhhh the horror! Let's not forget the genocide the white australians did to the native aboriginals. What's the difference? Why do you think the white Australians deserve that land? Just curious.
Same with the Red Indians Morning Fox
Chris
ExomatrixTV
6th December 2019, 15:28
100% Related: China’s Silent Takeover While America's Elite Slept
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China expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.
The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure--and they're winning. It's almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese.
In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China's most brilliant ploys, including:
• Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students.
• Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China.
• Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.
Spalding's concern isn't merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights.
Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it's still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat--and win--China's stealth war.
BMJ
6th December 2019, 15:54
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority
Ohhhh the horror! Let's not forget the genocide the white australians did to the native aboriginals. What's the difference? Why do you think the white Australians deserve that land? Just curious.
Well I do deserve the land because I was were born here like most Australians and that makes it my home.
Regarding the aboriginals, I was not around back then 100 or 200 years ago and none my relatives were responsible for anything that happened back then.
In fact my parents migrated from europe in the earlier 1960's to Australia.
So with this in mind sorry Morningfox I and my generation cannot speak about what happened to the aboriginals hundreds of years ago, nor take responsibility for the actions of that generation.
MorningFox
6th December 2019, 17:49
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority
Ohhhh the horror! Let's not forget the genocide the white australians did to the native aboriginals. What's the difference? Why do you think the white Australians deserve that land? Just curious.
Same with the Red Indians Morning Fox
Chris
Yes, and the rest...
MorningFox
6th December 2019, 17:52
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority
Ohhhh the horror! Let's not forget the genocide the white australians did to the native aboriginals. What's the difference? Why do you think the white Australians deserve that land? Just curious.
Well I do deserve the land because I was were born here like most Australians and that makes it my home.
Regarding the aboriginals, I was not around back then 100 or 200 years ago and none my relatives were responsible for anything that happened back then.
In fact my parents migrated from europe in the earlier 1960's to Australia.
So with this in mind sorry Morningfox I and my generation cannot speak about what happened to the aboriginals hundreds of years ago, nor take responsibility for the actions of that generation.
Well no, and I didn't really suggest you should. However, you think you deserve that land, but it seems to me that it's fair game for whoever is powerful enough to take it. Seeing how it was so ruthlessly and mercilessly taken from the aboriginals by the white man, I don't really see how you think you have any more claim to it than the Chinese, ultimately. In fact it seems quite fitting, frankly, that white man be eradicated from it in the same manner.
I mean no ill will towards you as an individual but the white man that currently rules Australia isn't really any different from the white man that took it all those years ago. If the Chinese were to take Australia over it would seem that karma had come full circle.
(I'm white too, by the way. Sadly as a race we have been a cancer to this earth)
Justplain
6th December 2019, 18:35
I dunno about this eye for an eye mentality about historical wrongs. If the current society is just, and hopefully has tried to make some amends for historical wrongs, then I believe it is perfectly legitimate to be concerned about nefarious infiltration of your society. Our goal should be for a just society that increases human independence. So, it is unacceptable for a foreign power to intercede by whatever means to impose itself in any way in that territory.
So, believing that Australian society is reasonably just, I find no problem in supporting their claim to the Australian geographical region. And, support their right to defend that territory.
Gracy
6th December 2019, 18:45
I think the overarching point here is, to me anyway, that for all the pearl clutching and hyperventilating Western Empire loves to do when nations such as China and Russia so much as even shift positions in their easy chairs, we're the ones that not only have the deep histories of plundering and subjegation, we're still doing it.
Not that China wouldn't do the same if they could, I don't know, but it's not part of their history so far as I know.
To play a spin on Yoda, I can see him looking at the West, the US in particular, and saying something like "hmmmmmm, the hypocrisy runs deep in this one".
East Sun
7th December 2019, 01:20
tHIS WAS A REPLY TO BMJ
(sorry for the screw up)
ight, but the british get off free with a lot in respect of what they have done.
If there is such thing as reincarnation as I believe there is,we may be reincarnated generation after generation
and come back as the ones we oppressed or did damage to.
It does not seem fair that would be so as we were always controlled by the ruling class and it is they
who should get their just deserts., and they should, each in their own perspective.
It should not be the controlled peons that get blasted by karma but the greedy
overlords.
I really hope there' a reckoning of some kind that sorts out the good from the evil ones.
Justplain
7th December 2019, 03:21
If one believes that human affairs in the present and future should be conducted with integrity and respect, then, with that being said, any malintended intervention by any nation into another's affairs is not tolerable. In that context, whether the interloper is Chinese, American, British or Russian or whatever, these type of interventions are not acceptable.
So whatever guilt trips you may be feeling about past immature imperialist activities of your ancestry, these should not preclude you from taking precautions that your current, just society, does not become a victim of such meddling.
The Chinese are not to be trusted. Neither are the Americans, nor Russians nor British. This is a sad commentary on current international affairs, however it is true.
So, nations of the South Pacific, take precautions not to be swamped by the Chinese. Just ask the Tibetans or uighers. And you don't need to feel guilty about defending yourselves
BMJ
7th December 2019, 08:35
Thereafter the Chinese would settle in Australia and other Pacific nations en masse and white Australians would become a minority
Ohhhh the horror! Let's not forget the genocide the white australians did to the native aboriginals. What's the difference? Why do you think the white Australians deserve that land? Just curious.
Well I do deserve the land because I was were born here like most Australians and that makes it my home.
Regarding the aboriginals, I was not around back then 100 or 200 years ago and none my relatives were responsible for anything that happened back then.
In fact my parents migrated from europe in the earlier 1960's to Australia.
So with this in mind sorry Morningfox I and my generation cannot speak about what happened to the aboriginals hundreds of years ago, nor take responsibility for the actions of that generation.
Well no, and I didn't really suggest you should. However, you think you deserve that land, but it seems to me that it's fair game for whoever is powerful enough to take it. Seeing how it was so ruthlessly and mercilessly taken from the aboriginals by the white man, I don't really see how you think you have any more claim to it than the Chinese, ultimately. In fact it seems quite fitting, frankly, that white man be eradicated from it in the same manner.
I mean no ill will towards you as an individual but the white man that currently rules Australia isn't really any different from the white man that took it all those years ago. If the Chinese were to take Australia over it would seem that karma had come full circle.
(I'm white too, by the way. Sadly as a race we have been a cancer to this earth)
I answered honestly.
Your comments are off topic and have not add any value to topic which is "Why is China on the move in the South Pacific?"
It seems your only intention is continue to bait me into a argument and I am not interested in wasting my time going around and around on your off topic comments.
MorningFox
7th December 2019, 08:57
tHIS WAS A REPLY TO BMJ
(sorry for the screw up)
ight, but the british get off free with a lot in respect of what they have done.
If there is such thing as reincarnation as I believe there is,we may be reincarnated generation after generation
and come back as the ones we oppressed or did damage to.
It does not seem fair that would be so as we were always controlled by the ruling class and it is they
who should get their just deserts., and they should, each in their own perspective.
It should not be the controlled peons that get blasted by karma but the greedy
overlords.
I really hope there' a reckoning of some kind that sorts out the good from the evil ones.
The fact of the matter is that us, the people, carried out these acts, regardless of being coerced by a corrupt controlling elite. The common people still did the atrocious deeds. We didn't have to, but we did. Just as now, there would be no war if the common people said no. WE are responsible.
If the world continues to blame the elite while continuing to carry out their dastardly deeds, then we are no better than them. Without us they are nothing.
Soon they'll have robotic police. Faster, stronger and smarter than us, without empathy or questions. Once that happens it is truly over, but until then we still have the chance to say no. WE are responsible.
Frankly I couldn't give one fig if this is off topic or not, this is the most important topic, bar none, for humanity at this point in time.
BMJ
22nd December 2019, 07:43
It seems that Hollywood is used also to portray the globalists intent and by presenting that intent to the people a means of gaining spiritual consent.
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
Summary of the movie:
Australia is invaded by Asian "Coalition Nations", who want Australia's vast natural resources in order to sustain their own growing populations.
Most of the population is rounded up and placed in camps.
A group of teenagers coming back from camping realize that something is amiss, and discovery the invasion and use of the local Cobbler's Bay as one of only three main ports being used by the invaders for resupply, from there on in the teenagers wage a guerilla war to fight back against the invaders.
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Link to the full length movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSdgi1ht9k
Regarding the Disclosure Rule
Quote:
"“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices”.2 Corinthians 2:11
This verse explains that among the rules of engagement in this war, the armies of darkness HAVE TO disclose their intentions. You would think, well, that’s cool, this gives us an upper hand. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
The armies of darkness manage to comply with that rule without giving away their intentions in a direct manner. What they do is hide things in plain sight, trick you to buy beyond the sale, use symbols and coded language to get you to eat from the poisonous trees of bogus rhetoric and false knowledge.
And where did they gather all these poisonous trees?
Yes, you got it: in Holy Wood!
The metaphysical purpose of Holy Wood and all essentially related tools such as the music industry, the media, advertisement, school etc… is to enable the legions of darkness to be in compliance with the disclosure rule without drawing too much of our attention"
Link: https://www.serial.rocks/post-5
BMJ
15th February 2020, 02:02
This article about newly confirmed Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Philip Davidson thoughts on the oceania region and the threat that we face from China, indicates that Australia has been riding on the back of the China's economic boom for the last several decades and always looking to and expecting leadership and support from the USA in any regional conflict.
When in fact we need to reduce the influence of China and also take a leadership role militarily in Oceania by increase or own strength and preparedness for a possible conflict with China.
Be prepared to be punished: US Indo-Pacific Commander
Newly confirmed Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Philip Davidson, has used a number of recent interviews in Australia to raise the alarm about China’s willingness to directly coerce the nation, leveraging economic, political and strategic means to isolate the nation.
Australia as both a continent and a nation is unique in its position, enjoying relative geographic isolation from the flash points of global and regional conflagration of the 20th century.
Blessed with unrivalled resource wealth and industrial potential, the nation has been able to embrace vastly different approaches to the nation’s strategic role and responsibilities.
However, the growing conventional and hybrid capabilities of peer and near-peer competitors – namely Russia and China – combined with the growing modernisation, capability enhancements and reorganisation of force structures in the armies of nations, including India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, all contribute to the changing nature of contemporary warfare.
This perfect storm of factors, swirling like a maelstrom across Australia’s northern borders, has largely gone unnoticed by the Australian public, beyond the odd port visit by American or, as recently happened, Chinese naval vessels that seem to cause momentary flurries of concern.
Meanwhile, Australia’s strategic and political leaders appear to be caught in an increasingly dangerous paradigm of thinking, one of continuing US-led dominance and Australia maintaining its position as a supplementary power.
Prior to establishing a new paradigm and priorities, it is critical to understand the nation’s history of strategic policy making and the key priorities that have defined Australia's position in the Indo-Pacific since federation – traditionally, Australia’s strategic and defence planning has been intrinsically defined and impacted by a number of different yet interconnected and increasingly complex factors, namely:
Guaranteeing the enduring benevolence and continuing stability of its primary strategic partner – via continued support of their strategic ambitions;
The geographic isolation of the continent, highlighted by the 'tyranny of distance';
A relatively small population in comparison with its neighbours; and
Increasingly, the geopolitical, economic and strategic ambition and capabilities of Australia’s Indo-Pacific Asian neighbours.
This state of 'strategic dependence' has placed Australia at a disadvantage and entrenched a belief that the nation is both incapable of greater independent tactical and strategic action and must consistently support the designs and ambitions of great powers, with little concern for the broader impact on Australia and its national interests as a form of insurance.
This perfect storm of factors poses a major challenge for Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australia's economic, political and strategic decision makers as they struggle to get Australia off its dependence upon China.
Recognising this, The Australian's political editor Paul Kelly has painted a stark image for 2020 in his piece 'Scott Morrison stuck between a rock and hard place on China', stating:
"As the rich-world nation whose living standards have benefited the most from China’s 21st-century boom, Australia is about to discover the meaning of interdependence on China. The Morrison government faces a triple event scenario, drought, bushfires and the coronavirus, each a serious challenge, each more lethal in its economic impact."
The state of economic dependence on the totalitarian and disruptive Chinese regime has placed Australia in a unique conundrum, as the 2020s will see the nation increasingly torn between its largest economic partner in Beijing and its strategic benefactor and ideological partner, the US.
Recognising these challenges, recently confirmed Commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Philip Davidson, has used his new position to paint a rather concerning image for Australian consideration, calculation and response as we inch into the 2020s.
Beijing's growing reach is 'pernicious'
Australia's economic dependence upon China places the nation in an increasingly vulnerable position, challenging the economic, political and strategic sovereignty of the nation and is something that ADM Davidson clearly articulated during an address to the Lowy Institute.
"Beijing has shown a willingness to intervene in free markets and to hurt Australian companies simply because the Australian government has exercised its sovereign right to protect its national security," ADM Davidson explained.
While economic in nature, this relationship between Australia and China places the nation in a state of 'strategic dependence' on Beijing, limiting Australia's economic, political and strategic sovereignty and the potential response to mounting Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea and increasingly further into the Pacific.
This is something that ADM Davidson explained in detail as insidious and undermining in its nature, saying, "Beijing's approach is pernicious. The party uses coercion, influence operations and military and diplomatic threats to bully other states to accommodate the Communist Party of China's interests."
Evidence of this can be seen from the South China Sea and Beijing's repeated belligerence in the area, through land reclamations and the militarisation of island fortresses in defiance of international condemnation, and increasingly assertive maritime and aerial interdiction operations throughout the region bringing China's armed forces into direct confrontation with US, Japanese, Australian and other allied forces.
Further challenging Australian and US policy makers is the pervasive expansion of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 'debt diplomacy', which has already seen disastrous results for developing nations from Africa to the Pacific, with Beijing taking direct control of key strategic and economic assets, including mines and airports to major maritime hubs like Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka.
Closer to home, repeated rumours about China's plans to establish a major naval base in Fiji or the Solomon Islands serve as powerful reminders that Australia is at the epicentre of the new Cold War.
ADM Davidson expanded on these points, describing the BRI as a "stalking horse to advanced Chinese security concerns", while stressing, "Australia has [the] right to be very concerned about the Chinese potentially building a base in the island chain. Part of the Indo-Pacific strategy the US has put forward – and I believe Australia has made quite clear is in its national interest – is to prevent such bases from happening".
The 'defining strategic challenge of our time'
It is important to recognise that for the first time America has a true competitor in China – a nation with immense industrial potential, growing wealth and prosperity, a driving national purpose and a growing series of alliances with re-emerging, resource rich great powers in Russia.
Unlike the Soviet Union, China is a highly industrialised nation – with an industrial capacity comparable to, if not exceeding, that of the US, supported by a rapidly narrowing technological gap, supporting growing military capability and territorial ambitions, bringing the rising power into direct competition with the US and its now fraying alliance network of tired global allies.
Recognising this, ADM Davidson articulated the need for recognition of this great power competition, telling Sky News' Kieran Gilbert:
"I would say the defining strategic challenge of our time is indeed China and its very pernicious approach to the region in all aspects, whether it is the way they provide developmental funds, the diplomatic cohesion they put on others, their activities in the South China Sea and the very disruptive ways that they use their economy to punish others when they don’t like what others are doing."
Further compounding matters for Australia's leaders, Dr Andrew Davies of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) highlighted the importance of recognising the limitation of US power in a recent piece for ASPI, saying, "The assumption of continued US primacy that permeated DWP 2016 looked heroic at the time. It seems almost foolishly misplaced now."
Dr Davies' comments have been further reinforced by Dr Malcolm Davis, senior analyst at ASPI, who spoke to Defence Connect about the growing importance of resetting the nation's defence posture, saying:
"We need to burden share to a much greater degree than before, and accept that we can no longer base our defence planning on the assumption that in a major military crisis or a period leading up to a future war, the US will automatically be there for us," Dr Davis explained.
"In fact, if we want to avoid that major military crisis, we have to do more than adopt a purely defensive/denial posture, and be postured well forward to counterbalance a rising China or to be able to assist the US and other key allies, notably Japan, to respond to challenges. We can’t be free-riders."
Dr Davis went further, telling Defence Connect, "That means that our defence strategy, based around an emphasis on ‘air-sea gap’ needs urgent and comprehensive review, and the objective should be to consider how Australia can play a more forward and robust role in the Indo-Pacific region alongside the US and other key partners.
"That then has implications for a) ADF force posture; b) force structure and capability development beyond the 2016 IIP; and c) future levels of defence spending above the nominal 2 per cent GDP figure alluded to in DWP16. It also has huge implications for readiness, mobilisation and force sustainment. We must assume that we are going into a more dangerous and contested future that will have a higher operational tempo than in the past, with dramatically reduced warning times – and I think Dibb is correct – we are in ’strategic warning’. I’d go so far as to say it’s possibly a ‘pre-war period’."
Your thoughts
Australia’s position and responsibilities in the Indo-Pacific region will depend on the nation’s ability to sustain itself economically, strategically and politically.
Despite the nation’s virtually unrivalled wealth of natural resources, agricultural and industrial potential, there is a lack of a cohesive national security strategy integrating the development of individual yet complementary public policy strategies to support a more robust Australian role in the region.
Enhancing Australia’s capacity to act as an independent power, incorporating great power-style strategic economic, diplomatic and military capability serves as a powerful symbol of Australia’s sovereignty and evolving responsibilities in supporting and enhancing the security and prosperity of Indo-Pacific Asia.
Shifting the public discussion away from the default Australian position of "it is all a little too difficult, so let’s not bother" will provide unprecedented economic, diplomatic, political and strategic opportunities for the nation.
However, as events continue to unfold throughout the region and China continues to throw its economic, political and strategic weight around, can Australia afford to remain a secondary power or does it need to embrace a larger, more independent role in an era of increasing great power competition?
Further complicating the nation’s calculations is the declining diversity of the national economy, the ever present challenge of climate change impacting droughts, bushfires and floods, Australia’s energy security and the infrastructure needed to ensure national resilience.
Link: https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/key-enablers/5577-be-prepared-to-be-punished-us-indo-pacific-commander
BMJ
24th October 2020, 02:16
New Bill to Allow Foreign Forces and Troops to be Used on Australian Soil
UN Agenda 21/30’s vision is coming to fruition. Setting up nations in the UN to allow armies from other nations to be used on their soil against their own people with impunity.
By General Maddox.
18 October 2020
Just when we thought the Omnibus Bill (which passed following some amendments) was an overreach of authoritarian power, the Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020 has been put forward.
This law will allow foreign troops and foreign police forces to be used on Australian soil against the Australian people in times of a declared “emergency”. Most likely under the banner of NATO or the United Nations.
These foreign forces and/or police will be able to act with impunity, immune from all prosecution for any laws they break, damage to persons and private property caused whilst on Australian soil.
If passed the new law will allow foreign troops to be called upon in an emergency. But what constitutes an emergency? Industrial action? Anti-government protests? Civil unrest? Another fake Pandemic? The definition is so broad that it basically can mean anything that they want it to mean.
However that’s not even the point. Military. Especially foreign military should never ever be used against civilians. Make no mistake their primary role is to kill the enemy at the behest of government in order to protect Australia and her interests. It is not to police civilians at home.
Should this bill pass that means at any point in time if an emergency is declared foreign military or foreign police can legally be used to suppress the Australian people. Let that sink in. Also let it sink in that we are currently under a state of disaster in Victoria and a state of emergency across all of Australia.
One must ask the question, why? When this so-called “pandemic” is almost in the rear view mirror. Why go for this massive power grab now? And who’s behind this?
This new law is an absolute abomination and when you combine it with the recently passed COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) and Other Acts Amendments Bill 2020 you really start to get a very clear picture of where Australia is heading politically. History is repeating and the masses are oblivious.
“Because of their large size and scope, omnibus bills limit opportunities for debate and scrutiny. Historically, omnibus bills have sometimes been used to pass controversial amendments. For this reason, some consider omnibus bills to be anti-democratic.” – Wikipedia
The Victorian government’s COVID-19 Omnibus Emergency Measures and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2020 was rushed through the state’s legislative assembly. The Bill was tabled by State Attorney General Jill Hennessy.
The Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020 was tabled by none other than the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
These two people represent a clear and present danger to the people of Victoria.
The #CoronaHoax has been exposed. No one is dying from a virus that has never been isolated. It’s not a threat to humanity let alone the people of Victoria. Look anywhere else in Australia… COVID-19 as a…thing, a way of life is pretty much gone. Only a few ridiculous measures are still in place and hopefully soon to be gone too. Yet Victoria is going ahead, guns blazing, and carrying on the COVID-19 narrative. Why?
Could it be that Melbourne, in fact, all of Victoria, is a part of the “Strong Cities Network”? A UN/Globalist Soros backed initiative. Also tie in that Victoria (the only state in all of Australia) is signed on to China’s Belt and Road Initiative and all of these draconian laws we mentioned earlier start to make sense.
It’s about setting up a hub within our national borders to kickstart the next step towards the overall goals of complete implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 doctrine.
We and many others have been discussing and writing about these plans for our future by the globalist cabal for years. We have mentioned the extension of vaccine related laws since the No Jab – No Play laws first came in. No jab – No Travel is one of those extensions. Even Bill Gates talks about making sure we have vaccine and immunity passports to travel. Well now Victoria has taken the lead on this directive too.
Link To Article:
https://realnewsaustralia.com/2020/10/18/new-bill-to-allow-foreign-forces-and-troops-to-be-used-on-australian-soil/
Link to A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the Australian Defence Force, and for related purposes:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2020B00123
The relevant section:
4 After section 123
Insert:
123AA Immunity in relation to certain assistance
(1) A protected person (see subsection (3)) is not subject to any liability (whether civil or criminal) in respect of anything the protected person does or omits to do, in good faith, in the performance or purported performance of the protected person’s duties, if:
(a) the duties are in respect of the provision of assistance, by or on behalf of the ADF or the Department, to:
(i) the Commonwealth or a State or Territory, or a Commonwealth, State or Territory authority or agency; or
(ii) members of the community; and
(b) the assistance is provided to prepare for a natural disaster or other emergency that is imminent, or to respond to one that is occurring or recover from one that occurred recently; and
(c) the assistance is provided at the direction of the Minister under subsection (2).
(2) The Minister may, in writing, direct the provision of assistance in relation to a natural disaster or other emergency if the Minister is satisfied of either or both of the following:
(a) the nature or scale of the natural disaster or other emergency makes it necessary, for the benefit of the nation, for the Commonwealth, through use of the ADF’s or Department’s special capabilities or available resources, to provide the assistance;
(b) the assistance is necessary for the protection of Commonwealth agencies, Commonwealth personnel or Commonwealth property.
(3) Each of the following is a protected person:
(a) a member of the Defence Force;
(b) an APS employee in the Department;
(c) a person authorised under subsection (4) to perform duties in respect of the provision of assistance mentioned in subsection (1).
(4) The Chief of the Defence Force, or the Secretary, may, in writing, authorise a person, or each person in a class of persons, to perform duties in respect of the provision of assistance mentioned in subsection (1), if the person, or each person in the class of persons, is any of the following:
(a) an APS employee or other employee of the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority or agency;
(b) a member of the naval, military or air force of a foreign country, or a member of a foreign police force (however described).
(5) The Minister may, in writing, delegate the Minister’s power to make a direction under subsection (2) to the Chief of the Defence Force or the Secretary.
Note: Sections 34AA to 34A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 contain provisions relating to delegations.
(6) In performing a delegated function or exercising a delegated power, the delegate must comply with any written directions of the Minister.
(7) A direction made under subsection (2) is not a legislative instrument.
(8) This section does not prevent assistance being provided by or on behalf of the ADF or the Department in circumstances where a direction has not been made under subsection (2).
BMJ
16th December 2020, 12:37
Further to my post above the bill has now been passed that is the "Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement of Defence Force Response to Emergencies) Act 2020"
This law will allow both "Australian forces" and "foreign forces" to act in time of emergency (read any future act of rebellion against the government) with get this "complete immunity from prosecution or liability" for their actions.
It would seem the Australian government on the heals of their COVID induced recession are expecting things to get a lot worse and are prepared to treat the Australian people as a hostile force.
So Australians can expect that we may be going down the same road as Venezuela.
Progress (bill was passed on the 8 December 2020)
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6594
Defence Legislation Amendment (Enhancement ofDefence Force Response to Emergencies) Bill 2020
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/billsdgs/7585955/upload_binary/7585955.pdf;fileType=application/pdf
kfm27917
16th December 2020, 19:51
my understanding is that the law of karma applies to individual souls.
I am not aware that it applies to nations or societies.
ralfy
21st December 2020, 16:08
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Deborah (ahamkara)
21st December 2020, 16:46
Hi rally. thanks for posting! The video is nearly two hours, so I wonder if you could give a quick summary, or an indication of which parts are most relevant to the thread? thanks!!
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