Looks like China is getting ready to turn up the heat on Australia if it allows HK refugees to flee here:

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/china-threatens-australia-over-helping-fleeing-hong-kong-citizens/news-story/748091de11f803581b8a163c968ffc35

Do it, take HK people.

You cannot have an evil regime dictate to a liberal democracy what it can or cant do.

A liberal democracy has to stand for something.

Chris,

I think China will be really pissed off if Scott Morrison permits entry to any Chinese fleeing to Australia or providing sanctuary to any Chinese here already.

If he does he will be poking a stick at an angry bear. Knowing the way the Chinese behave it wouldn't surprise me if China also threatened force to get its citizens back.

I noticed in the news that Bronwyn Bishop has now jumped on the China Beware bandwagon and saying that China now poses a military threat that Australia helped in building up its power by trading with it.

The link I gave earlier certainly made a lot of sense.
That's why I'm puzzled somewhat by the reactions.

The link made it quite clear that the CCP calls the shots
in China internally and externally. And unless we understand
the Party's objectives, how the leaders think and make decisions,
our policies are likely to come up short.

Chinese language is widely taught in Australia, including through
the Confucius Institutes. But China studies, as a discipline is not
currently structured or incentivised to develop expertise on
China's ruling CCP or the PLA.

Since the mid 1990s we're told that Australia's empiral research
expertise on China (and Asia more broadly) has declined.
Fewer Australian universities offer courses on Chinese politics,
while those that do tend to be historically focused.

The knowledge gap is not only impoverishing the public debate.
Universities are also incubators for Australia's next generation
of China experts who will populate government, business, and
academia itself.

It's pointed out that a healthy public discourse requires -
strategists, linguists, economists, historians, and political
scientists to contribute - as each sees "the problem" from
different angles.

Moreover the China debate is too important to leave exclusively to
country experts, some of whom have a vested interest in preserving
their access and networks in the People's Republic of China.

Finally, we're told that academia is not playing the role it
could and should to raise Canberra's policy game and elevate the
public debate on China.

The government should explicitly identify this as a knowledge
gap for Australian universities to fill.

Dear David F.,

I think we're all Bidening our time and hoping that we
won't be Trumped once again.

ok Foxy, let's waste tax money on overrated so-called experts. I am sure it will happen, because that is what university leeches do, long after the horse has bolted.

I mean where were they ten years ago. Even I, a former factory worker, knew what the CCP was doing, that the US would not put up with it, and that Australia was living on borrowed time.

But at politics conferences, the only one I went to because they are merely wank-fests, the so-called Chinese expert described me as a racist. Should of given him a serve, stupid pencil neck geek.

But Foxy, you will never convince me it is needed. Most of people who study politics are a bunch of dills living in Disneyland.

When it comes to the CCP, I am proud to be rightwing. Because democracy, which is the antithesis of authoritarianism, is the only possible saving grace for the world, at least people who want to be relatively free in this mad, mad world.

In the meantime,

https://www.hudson.org/events/1836-video-event-china-s-attempt-to-influence-u-s-institutions-a-conversation-with-fbi-director-christopher-wray7202

Dear Chris,

«The only solution with the CCP is a Cold War.»

Too late, it is more likely to be a hot one.
In fact, it likely is a hot one already, likely that China already fired the first shot - a biological weapon called COVID-19.

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Dear Mr. Opinion,

«If he does he will be poking a stick at an angry bear. Knowing the way the Chinese behave it wouldn't surprise me if China also threatened force to get its citizens back.»

And the alternative?
Suppose we fail to poke that stick and help the Hong-Kong refugees, then it would indeed surprise me if China threatened force... instead they would simply use it, at their tactically copportune time when they can make the best of the element of surprise.

It is not a question of "If", it is only a question of "when" - we already are at war and nothing you do or don't will change that!

Rather than turning your back-side to them, better turn around to face them and fight, there is nothing to lose!