What of the Chinese infiltration of our cultural institutions?
The Chinese Confucius Institutes have thirteen centres in Australia. We have struggled to get even a couple of Western Civ centres promoted by the Ramsay Centre. It has been like drawing teeth. The University of Queensland cheers on the other side, utterly forsaking its role at a promoter and an enabler of free thinking and scholarship.
What a disgrace.
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This is merely one of many, many examples of venal Australian subservience to a ruthless, foreign imperial regime, to whom we owe neither respect nor subservience. The crimes of xenophobia and racism are routinely cited as a way of silencing dissent in the face of Chinese diplomatic and economic aggression. The racism card is now everywhere, endlessly played by dupes, useful idiots and unknowing, teenage, communist fifth columnists.
This is masterful soft power, at which the Chinese are past masters. What are the gnomes in Canberra doing about all this? Well might we all ask. And the progressive left claims to be against imperialism. The left has sold out everything it once stood for, and against.
Thank God for Clive Hamilton. And the NCC.
According to Wikipedia:
China syndrome" is a fanciful term-not intended to be taken literally-that describes a fictional result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, "all the way to China.
Well, as it has happened, China has itself drilled all the way through the earth's core to the other side – us.
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As for Jack Nicholson, he of the cut nose when roughed up in the movie Chinatown, well he might now well argue that we in the West have had our noses well and truly cut by Chinese not-so-soft power. Actually, we have cut off our noses to spite our faces. At the moment, the focus, of course, is on China's role in the global spread of the virus that has crippled Western economies. That is only the start of it.
China wins. Always.
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Paul Collits is a freelance writer and editor and a retired academic. He has higher research degrees in Political Science and in Geography and Planning. His writing can be followed at The Freedoms Project. His work has also been published at The Spectator Australia, Quadrant, Lockdown Sceptics, CoviLeaks, Newsweekly, TOTT News and A Sense of Place Magazine.