This could happen to a Lithuania near you:

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/chinese-takeover-of-island-near-australian-military-training-area-causes-unease-inside-defence-and-government/ar-BB1euKCt

Hi Foxy

Don't worry about Mr Opinion's repetitive OLO Comment Thread Debasing quips about China.

"Hark! Mopi be an idiot signifying nothing."

Shakespeare's "Planta III"

plantagenet,

If you guys don't think China poses a threat to Australia then just open the gates and let the Chinese walk in.

The politicians and bureaucrats have been letting it happen for the past four decades under an Asianization program (aka Australian Multiculturalism) during the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020).

But now they've realised that the Chinese are not the great bunch they thought they were and China is now a threat to Australia.

Bit late to be worrying now. The horse has bolted and the enemy is already inside the gate.

Australia was done for in 1788. English came in where other people were living, declared the land theirs, slaughtered a number of the original inhabitants, enforced their superstition on them even though they had superstitions of their own and made a country with the surviving original inhabitants second class citizens in 1967 when they were allowed to be citizens.

Lithuania was done for in 1368. Lithuania was a rarity, a feudal, multicultural society. The ruling house was pagan, but the nobility was representative of the general population – pagans, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Tatars etc. The Teutonic Knights mounted crusades against this non-Christian land at the edge of Christian Europe. In 1368 the ruling house of Lithuania contracted a marriage with the ruling house of Poland. Lithuania became Christian, and its days as a free, multicultural society were over.

david f,

So what's your point?

And David F., what do you think happened when the first white settlers (Pilgrim Father's) first landed at what's known as Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island all those years ago, David? Skirmishes broke out, resulting in a loss of life between indigenous Indians and the new white settlers. Often which were the result of misunderstandings or the un-avoidable pointing of weapons from both sides. It's good to hear from you, David F.