China's government has the perfect implementation of slave labour, complete subservience of the people to government organisations, something that the Australian Government is taking notes on.
Australia was setup as a slave labour camp in the form of a penal colony, were the administration has not faltered from this blueprint, and today it has progressed to a first class slave labour camp where people are under the illusion that they have freedom.
The people in the Australian government are supporting China, as in the words of ex Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:
"Australia is open for business"
and that (slave labour) is
"good for the economy"
See article from 23 Jun 2018 by news.com.au of the headline:
The story China went to furious lengths to stop from airing
CHINA’S Canberra embassy issued a fierce threat over a story they didn’t want Aussies to know. Here’s what happened.
Is China taking over?
FIVE days before 60 Minutes aired a program about China’s quest for global dominance, the team received a furious phone call.
“Take this down and take it to your leaders!” the voice on the other end was yelling.
On
the line was Ms Saxian Cao, the Head of Media Affairs at the Chinese
Embassy in Canberra, and she was laying into the program’s Executive
Producer Kirsty Thomson.
“You will listen! There must be no more misconduct in the future!” Ms Cao reportedly shouted into the phone.
According to
Nine News, Ms Cao accused the network of filming the exteriors of the Chinese Embassy in Vanuatu illegally — a claim Ms Thomson refuted.
Ms Cao also claimed a drone was used to fly over the embassy in a potential safety hazard, which was also disputed.
The report claimed the phone did not end amicably, with Ms Cao shouting: “You will not use that footage!”
It
highlighted the lengths to which the Chinese government will go to
silence voices it doesn’t agree with — even within Australia, amid an
ongoing national debate over foreign interference laws.
The offending
60 Minutes
episode — which aired earlier this week — covered the ongoing issue of
Chinese encroachment in the Pacific, including the country’s Belt and
Road Initiative, a Chinese-built wharf in Vanuatu, and the wider issue
of foreign interference in Australia.
So what was the Chinese Communist Party so keen to hide?
CHINA’S RISING INFLUENCE IN THE PACIFIC
Papua New Guinea will soon be the second country in the Pacific to sign on to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
“When
in China, we’ll be signing the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative,” PNG
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said earlier this week, according to local
media.
“That is a great potential for Papua New Guinea, which
means that this will help integrate our own economy to the global
economy … The rest of the world is making business with China and we
cannot simply sit back and allow these opportunities to go by.”
The PNG leader is currently in Beijing for a week-long visit.
The move will no doubt raise alarm bells in Canberra, with fears China is increasing its presence in the Pacific region.
In April,
Fairfax Media reported Beijing was negotiating a military base less than 2000 kilometres from our border.
China
and Vanuatu have both denied the report, which claimed Beijing was
eyeing a military base in the island nation, with global ramifications.
“No
one in the Vanuatu government has ever talked about a Chinese military
base in Vanuatu of any sort,” Foreign Minister Ralph Regenvanu said. “We
are a non-aligned country. We are not interested in militarisation.”
The move prompted fears in Australia over Beijing’s aims for greater military influence in the South Pacific region.
The Conflict Islands in Papua New Guinea.Source:Supplied
But
Beijing’s economic influence in Vanuatu remains undeniable, with China
responsible for almost half of the island nation’s foreign debt.
In
places like Sri Lanka and the African nation of Djibouti, China has
been granted control over ports after the countries defaulted on massive
loans taken out to build the ambitious projects.
There are now
fears the same pattern will play out in Vanuatu where China has loaned
the country $114 million to build a wharf at Luganville — the site of
America’s second largest base in the Pacific during World War II.
CHINA’S DEBT-TRAP STRATEGY
China’s
debt-trap game goes something like this: they offer the honey of cheap
infrastructure loans, then attack with default when these poorer
economies aren’t able to pay their interest down.
At the heart of this sits the
Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion-dollar project that seeks to connect countries across continents on trade, with China at its centre.
The
ambitious plan involves creating a 6000km sea route connecting China to
South East Asia, Oceania and North Africa (the “Road”), as well as
through building railway and road infrastructure to connect China with
Central and West Asia, the Middle East and Europe (the “Belt”).
This map details China's Belt and Road Initiative.Source:Supplied
In the interview with
60 Minutes,
Dr Malcolm Davis, senior analyst in defence strategy and capability at
the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said China is mainly
targeting poorer countries and employing a “debt-trap strategy”.
He said the trillion-dollar project basically forces other countries to align themselves with it.
“It
gets countries — particularly poorer countries — hooked on debts they
can’t pay back,” he said.
“When they can’t pay it back, China basically
grabs ports, facilities or territory. It’s a debt-trap strategy.
“It
services their need in terms of accessing resources, sustaining
contacts and national development, and maintaining that ‘China Dream’.
It’s really vital for the Communist Party to maintain prosperity if they
want to maintain power.”
WHY THE PACIFIC IS CRUCIAL
Why
is the Pacific so important to China? From the rising superpower’s
perspective, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Fiji are
the most crucial, as they have the most minerals and natural resources.
But
while the strategic aspects of China’s interest in the region have been
highlighted recently, experts believe they have been over-hyped.
“I
don’t think (the region) is enormously important to China,” Australian
National University’s Development Policy Centre deputy director Matthew
Dornan told
news.com.au.
“The amounts of aid they provide are still not huge. Australia provides a lot more.”
According
to the Lowy Institute, China spent $2.2 million on 218 projects in the
Pacific between 2006 and 2016. This is a lot less than the $10 million
Australia contributed.
“I don’t think the Pacific tops its list in terms of strategic importance, even if it does for Australia,” Dr Dornan said.
Australia will no doubt be keeping an eye on China’s strategic moves in the Pacific region.Source:News Corp Australia
While
the Pacific may not be high on China’s agenda, Australia appears to
have woken up to the importance of the region to its own interests.
Foreign
Minister Julie Bishop recently returned from a bipartisan trip to some
Pacific nations with Labor shadow minister Penny Wong. They visited
Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.
Ms Bishop has denied that the trip was aimed at countering Chinese influence but in an interview with
Fairfax Media,
acknowledged that China’s construction of roads, ports, airports and
other infrastructure in the region had triggered concern that small
Pacific nations may be saddled with unsustainable debts.
“We want to be the natural partner of choice,” Ms Bishop told Fairfax earlier this week.
“We
want to ensure that they retain their sovereignty, that they have
sustainable economies and that they are not trapped into unsustainable
debt outcomes.
“The trap can then be a debt-for-equity swap and they have lost their sovereignty.”
