Australia: "China debate borrows language from the Cold War" by @j_b_curran “The China threat narrative emphasises a sense of sometimes feverish alarm over what it sees as Beijing’s capacity to gradually erode the democratic foundations of Australia"
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/12/10/china-debate-borrows-language-from-the-cold-war.html
Ignore the united front and economic and political influence efforts. It is Australia's inherited and stepped-up rhetoric which is the problem
https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/news-opinions/professor-james-curran-speech-to-aiia.docx
Australia: For those interested, the following tweets show conclusive evidence of the CCP and its agents being behind the Victorian Government signing up to BRI
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22australia%20china%20belt%20and%20road%20initiative%22&src=typed_query
Australia: And the vast amount of evidence of CCP-PRC influence operations in Australia provided in Clive Hamilton's expose is dismissed simply because of its title #seenoevidence
https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/news-opinions/professor-james-curran-speech-to-aiia.docx
Australia: The #seenoevidence brigade and their claims of the current situation resulting from Australia's unnecessary reactions to an imagined China threat remind me most of the PRC's CGTN and Xinhua

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-07-03/China-Australia-s-threat-theory-will-only-end-up-in-humiliation-RPAu0UFGVi/index.html
Australia: But I can only heartily agree with Xinhua on this point: "Ideological rigidity real threat to West"
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/01/c_136942136.htm
Australia: For those interested in some of the united front influence bodies, activities and mechanisms in Australia, please free free to browse here:
https://twitter.com/search?q=australia%20united%20front%20%40geoff_p_wade&src=typed_query
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