China
is seeking to "take over" Australia's political system with an
"insidious" and systematic campaign of espionage and influence-peddling,
Canberra's ex-spymaster said in an interview published Friday.
Duncan
Lewis, who resigned in September after five years at the head of the
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), said China could
target anyone in political office, with the impact potentially not known
for years to come.
"Espionage
and foreign interference is insidious. Its effects might not present
for decades and by that time it's too late," Lewis was quoted as telling
the Sydney Morning Herald in his first interview since leaving office.
"You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country," he said.
"Not
only in politics but also in the community or in business. It takes
over, basically, pulling the strings from offshore," he added in the
interview with the newspaper's foreign editor.
Lewis
singled out incidents of Chinese agents making large contributions to
Australian political parties as part of a wide-ranging
influence-peddling campaign that also targeted media and the country's
universities.
"It's
quite clear to me that any person in political office is potentially a
target. I'm not trying to create paranoia, but there does need to be a
level of sensible awareness," he said.
The
former spy chief said the help of Australia's large ethnic Chinese
community was "vital in the work against foreign covert influence" much
like Muslim-Australians who have aided in the fight against terrorism....
The above AFP article is reported in Yahoo News. This kind of insidious articles to attack and badmouth China is nothing new. All western media is practising this, China is evil and the enemy. The truth, what China did is only following what they have been doing for centuries across the world, to colonise and control the world. Every Asian, African and Latin American countries are victims to such insidious attacks by the West, and they are crying wolf.
The ability for China to influence a white racist country is as good as zero. The white racist and supremacists are in charge in Australia and would not all it. The few immigrant Chinese can do nothing about it.
The threat that this wildlife is harping about is more real in Singapore. Singapore would not be influenced or taken over by China or it would have been done years ago. There are too many anti China bananas in Singapore that hate China more than the whites and would see China and mainland Chinese as their enemies. They have been attacking China in many ways and more vicious than the whites against China.
Though Singapore may not be a victim of China, it could easily fall victims to others with their gullible leaders and daft citizens. Like what this wildlife said,
'"Espionage
and foreign interference is insidious. Its effects might not present
for decades and by that time it's too late,"...
"You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country," he said.'
This day is near. There are all the signs that Singapore no longer belongs to Singaporeans and has been long taken over by foreigners. Only the last nail of the coffin is waiting to be slammed in to finish the job.
PS. Going to the stadium now.
PS. Going to the stadium now.