Mr O, do you lack courage?

Get ready to serve in Dads Army, Australia style.

Scott Morrison says that Australia will not be intimidated
by threats. He emphasized that "I am not going to trade
our values in response to coercion".

What is worrying is the attempts by some to link the CCP
with Chinese Australians. That is unfair. But as long as
the debate focuses on China - this type of fear mongering
and toxicity will continue.

Some of us seem to be unable to have a serious debate on
the issues involved without finger-pointing.

We should focus on facts like - from port facilities, to
infant formula, to commercial and residential real estate,
to agriculture - Chinese capital investment has continued
to grow and totaled $64 billion in 2018.

What is our government going to do about all this?

Will it continue to allow itself to be so reliant on China?

Foxy,

You're definitely right about the fear mongering. Look at this ABC news item re Canberra putting fear into the minds of people thinking of travelling to China:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-07/dfat-changes-travel-advice-for-australians-in-china/12431134

Mr O,

I'm beginning to suspect that you are a troll
who's here to cause mischief.

I shall not be responding to you any further.

I warn others about this person. He's not who or what
he says he is.

Dear Mr. Opinion,

I can only join Chris and Foxy in wondering where your defeatism comes from.

We might indeed become poor, we might even starve, we might all be bombed out, but we shall first give them a damaging good fight. We shall prevail or we shall die, but we will never become part of a Chinese empire.

By requesting America and/or India in advance, China could never benefit from defeating Australia, never acquire our space and natural resources, because if we fail in protecting our homes then they will turn our continent into Bikini Atoll, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/02/bikini-atoll-nuclear-test-60-years

«Look at this ABC news item re Canberra putting fear into the minds of people thinking of travelling to China:»

Too little! All Australians still there must be told to leave China AT ONCE. Due to the current shortage of guarded hotel-rooms, Australia should send empty cruise-ships, complete with police-guards, testing-kits and Corona-hospitals, for the dual-purpose of repatriating Australians from China while isolating them at sea.

«Question: Why are we harbouring Chinese agents under the guise of migrants?»

Because it is difficult to sort the goats out of the sheep.
Nobody knowingly harbours Chinese agents, any more than we knowingly harbour the Coronavirus. The answer is in more testing, testing and more testing. We should encourage the good majority of Chinese-born Australians to discover the rats and hand them in. Australian institutions that cater for Chinese people, universities in particular, should also face hefty penalties for aiding and abetting the enemy and should not be allowed to operate without an approved CCP-safe plan.

All Chinese diplomats should also be kicked out, there is nothing there to sort.

«The last thing Europe and the US will want is a war with China.»

But a war there will be, anyway. Trying to postpone it is futile so better get it all done with now.

Foxy,

That's curious because I thought you were a troll.