Do you accept that Australia will become a Chinese nation or a part of a global Chinese empire?

What if the Chinese empire isn't entirely Chinese?

Who built China? Was it the Chinese;
Or was it global elite and multinationals who moved the jobs and wealth TO China?

Hi Mr O, in my case I"m Australian enough to pay taxes to keep the likes of Indy in welfare payments each fortnight. He hates public servants, but if they didn't pay his handout into the bank he'd be down to Centrelink complaining faster than Usain Bolt can run. Unlike Indy we are not "party members" and that must make us enemies of the state.

The best way to combat China is to smarten up our economy.

We are over-dependent on commodity exports to China at the expense of the more balanced and forward-looking development and management of our own economy, which is a much easier and smarter pursuit than trying to combat spying. The way for the West to beat or resist Chinese aggression is via improved industrial and economic performance.

We need "clear strategic thinking and economic efficiency". But, we are short on both.

What is your reason for thinking that I am an enemy of Australia?
Mr Opinion,
Your posts suggest so !

Mr O, be a true blue dinky-di Aussie link Indy....get yourself on welfare!

Dear Paul,

«Hi Yuyutsu, why do we have to assume China is our enemy, what wrong have the Chinese ever done us?»

China is a threat to any one who values personal, group and religious freedoms. They already crushed the good people of Tibet, they threaten Taiwan, they expand their territory by building new islands and influencing poor countries, they build ever more threatening weapons, they crush the religious within, they follow everyone with computerised cameras, they threaten their citizens and ex-citizens even overseas with punishing their families; and of course they lock up millions of Uighurs in concentration camps. Their intention is to enslave the world and make it subservient to their nation, party and race. There is much more and the similarities with Hitler's Germany are striking.

«Too often in our short history as nation we have...»

Our? We? Please speak for yourself, I am not a nation!

«Too often in our short history as nation we have assumed these people, or those people, are our enemy, out to do us harm.»

I did not say that China is necessarily an enemy of the nation of Australia as such, but rather that it is an enemy of all good and peaceful people. It may well be, though not comforting at all, that since both Australia and China have nationhood in common and as nationalism is growing within Australia, they could even become partners in crime.

«We started early on with the Boars of South Africa, then progressed to the Turks of the Middle East, Germans, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc etc»

So what do you suggest? That good people should remain silent in the face of evil?

«Australia has shown itself to be a most aggressive and belligerent nation»

But of course: aggressiveness and belligerence are the very nature of nationalism. The trouble is that while nationalism raises its ugly head even in Australia, in China, like in Nazi Germany, it is in its zenith.