If we sell too much to China they may believe that we belong to them. The ALP is falling for China's great con. Australia has to understand that China is not civilised. It is a greedy country that was too long under communist rule. Now they believe the world owes them a living and they plan to make it an ambition.
Already they have asked the US government to guarantee the value of the assets they hold in America, some trillion dollars. If the Americans did this and China called it the US would be bankrupt.
And now we have that magnificent example of political and business morality, Bob Hawke, recommending that we do business with China. What is it about Bob that he likes us to deal with military dictatorships. Remember how he wanted us to get into bed with Burma, one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet, after China.
I was in China in the early seventies with deputy prime minister, Dr Jim Cairns. Our group experienced the authoritarian nature of China's bureaucrats. They attempted to manhandle us in tto queues for the buses, the cars, the restaurants. Senior journalist Greg Clake, who speaks Mandarin, told them, "You can't treat Australians like this; you'll have trouble on your hands." The point is they treat their own citizens far worse.
They are constantly attempting to recruit Australians as spies and if the Defence Minister doesn't think he's being milked for information he's VERYdumb. They invited the disgraced Nixon to China for a straight information buy. They attempted to recruit me as a spy but I told them that our country was totally transparent ( at that time departments had open government journals). The individual attempting to have me send them information had to finally say, "We are very different peoples." And he was right. We are never going to win against the Chinese we should just make sure that we don't make them envious of what we have.
If you wish to read of our spying on China (for the CIA), spy recruiting and my fisticuffs with George Bush senior read my satirical reportage, Compulsively Murdering Mao, available on Amazon.
Bill Green
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