The Coalition didn't see China as a threat when they sold off the Port of Darwin to them and then saw the Minister responsible become a board member of the Chinese company at $800,000 per annum.

Abbott as PM expressed Australia’s wish to ‘be a true friend’ to China and ‘help build the Asian Century'.

Abbott was set to accept an invitation by China to become a founding member of its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and was only talked out of it by Obama.

Yet we are going after the Greens for some God forsaken reason?

All true.

The difference being China has changed. The Greens have not.

Japan has sent a the vice foreign minister to SI.

Japan believes that the China-SI deal "could affect the security of the Asia Pacific and (they) are watching the development with concern". It is a "threat to some of the world's "busiest sea lanes".

Sogvare's claim that there will be no Communist Chinese military base cannot be taken for granted. Unfortunately, Morrison has not been able to say what he would do if it did happen.

You don't say what you will do, you just leave them wondering.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1518708161846202368

Need I say more!

Michael Shoebridge of Australian Strategic Policy Institute is probably right when he says that Sogavare wants Chinese police and Chinese military to keep him in power AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE.