Based on Yoshiko Sakurai’s column, this essay examines the Chinese Communist Party’s operations to dominate Australia as exposed in Clive Hamilton’s Silent Invasion. Through the mobilization of Chinese students during the Beijing Olympic torch relay, overseas Chinese operations, political donations, infrastructure acquisitions, control of power grids, and China’s retaliation against Australia for demanding an independent investigation into the origin of COVID-19, it argues that Japan must confront this grave national-security warning.

2020-06-04
Tens of thousands of Chinese students gathered in Canberra, where the Olympic torch had arrived, and ordinary Australians were kicked and beaten by the Chinese.
Why must one suffer the violent outrages of foreign students in one’s own country?
The following is from Yoshiko Sakurai’s serial column, which closes the latest issue of Shukan Shincho released today.
She is the supreme national treasure among the “national treasures” as defined by Saicho.
While reading this essay, I was reminded of the outrageous attitude taken by Arima of NHK’s Watch 9 toward Toshiba, when Toshiba was in difficulty after its acquisition of Westinghouse, WEC, had backfired.
Toshiba is an unquestionably genuine major corporation representing Japan and is also a group of the world’s finest engineers.
He treated Toshiba as a zombie company.
If Toshiba had completely collapsed, there can be no objection that China would have been the first to joyfully scheme to acquire it.
Toshiba has continued to be a “national treasure” as a company.
There can be no objection that NHK itself, whose brain is made up of a masochistic historical view and pseudo-moralism left over from GHQ brainwashing, and which has continued to behave in a way that is no exaggeration to call an agent of China, is the zombie company.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is not a single person at NHK who can be called a journalist.
On the contrary, recently I have felt that famous NHK announcers, especially those who appear on news programs, men and women alike, may all have fallen into China’s honey traps.
Their behavior, in which they almost completely ignore the basics of journalism, the five Ws and one H, wave around “false kindness, pseudo-moralism” to an abnormal degree, criticize the government, and lecture the people, is that strange and abnormal.
For example, in the United States, riots called racial-discrimination protests broke out after the death of a black man at a strange timing.
Any proper journalist would immediately think that Chinese intelligence agencies might have been moving behind the scenes through SNS and other means, and would investigate.
But NHK shows not the slightest sign of doing such a thing, and instead reports that it is racial discrimination in America and that America is internally divided.
It goes without saying that the one watching such reporting with a smirk is China, the CCP.
Their expressions and their reporting are both extremely strange and abnormal.
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China’s Invasion of Australia Is a Warning to Japan
Australia stopped just at the brink.
Before most people noticed, the country was about to be taken over by China.
Although there are already areas where it is too late, China’s invasion “can still be stopped.”
It is still possible for Australians to take measures to protect their homeland.
It is not easy to shake off China’s evil hand, but the hope is that the Australian government, and part of the parliament at least, have finally realized that their homeland had been corroded for many years by China’s infiltration operations in every field.
The reality of how China began building a system through which it could move Australia at will is described in detail in Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, by Clive Hamilton, supervised in Japanese translation by Tetsuhide Yamaoka and translated by Masashi Okuyama, published by Asuka Shinsha.
The author, Mr. Hamilton, is a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia.
In 2008, the year of the Beijing Olympics, he became suspicious of the penetration of Chinese influence in Australia.
Tens of thousands of Chinese students gathered in Canberra, where the Olympic torch had arrived, and ordinary Australians were kicked and beaten by the Chinese.
Why must one suffer the violent outrages of foreign students in one’s own country?
To begin with, how did tens of thousands of Chinese students suddenly gather in Canberra?
That question was the beginning of his research on China.
Does his experience not overlap almost completely with the incident in the same year in which Chinese students gathered in Nagano City and committed violence against Tibetans and Japanese?
Mr. Yamaoka, the supervising translator, once had the experience of stopping the installation of a comfort-woman statue on public land in Strathfield, a suburb of Sydney, by cooperating with Japanese mothers living there and discussing the issue together with local Australians.
This book reached Japanese readers through the hands of two researchers who know the reality of China’s infiltration operations.
This book is unmistakably a warning to Japan.
Mr. Hamilton writes that the people of Australia opened their country too much, without even dreaming of China’s intentions of invasion.
I have a grave sense of crisis that Japan is about to proceed down the same path.
Electric Power Is the Rice of Industry
Beijing’s grand strategy is to separate America’s allies from America, strip away America’s power, and build a Sinocentric world.
Silent Invasion discovers that Beijing sees Australia and New Zealand, NZ, as the “weakest links” among America’s allies, that it wants to turn these two countries into second Frances, that is, “countries that say no to America,” and that, to this end, the Chinese government adopted a policy of changing the whole of both countries and their whole societies in a pro-China direction so that they would be easier to control.
This is China’s standard method.
In 1998, Jiang Zemin, then China’s president, visited Japan as a state guest.
In the China policy toward Japan compiled by the Chinese Communist Party before that visit, there is a similar description.
It says that in order to control Japan, it is important to change the values of the Japanese people so that the Japanese themselves will serve China, and that the best means to that end is to use historical issues forever.
Mr. Hamilton states that, in order to dye all of Australia in pro-China colors, the Beijing government began experimentally using overseas Chinese in 2000 and fully established this as a system in 2011.
Overseas Chinese scattered throughout the world number around 23 million, and out of Australia’s total population of 25 million, more than one million are citizens of Chinese descent, and they too are included among the targets of the Beijing government.
The command center that organized overseas Chinese into a major force was the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.
This office engages in a wide range of activities, including political donations from wealthy Chinese businessmen, mobilization of bloc votes from Chinese citizens during elections, support for the election of Chinese candidates, the incorporation of senior government officials, and the inducement of policy decisions beneficial to China.
Mr. Hamilton emphasizes that we must not forget that “the Chinese Communist Party is moving according to a well-thought-out, long-term strategy for domination.”
In addition to changing the minds of Australians to be pro-China, China has worked to obtain an unquestionable right of control over Australia.
One of these methods is the acquisition of infrastructure.
One of the many examples is electric power.
Five power supply companies in Victoria and the only power transmission company in South Australia are already owned by China’s state-owned State Grid Corporation and the Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings.
EnergyAustralia, one of the three major electricity retailers in Western Australia and a major company with three million customers, was also bought by the China Light and Power Group, which is based in Hong Kong and has deep ties to Beijing.
Alinta Energy, one of Australia’s largest energy infrastructure companies, was also sold for four billion Australian dollars to Hong Kong tycoon Chow Tai Fook.
Electric power is the rice of industry.
Without a stable supply, a nation’s industry cannot exist.
If the Australian government adopts a policy that goes against China’s wishes, the Beijing government can tighten its grip on Australia by stopping the supply from power companies owned by Chinese capital.
Specially Sweet Words
Mr. Hamilton warns as follows.
Because Australia’s power distribution network is integrated with its telecommunications service network, the owner of the former becomes able to access all internet and telephone message functions of all citizens and all organizations in Australia.
China can literally see all of the Australian government’s information as if holding it in its hand.
That means Australia has been stripped naked, government and all.
China further strengthened its offensive and tried to lease, for 99 years, the power infrastructure Ausgrid, which covers the capital Canberra and the state of New South Wales, where Sydney is located.
It was in August 2016 that the Australian federal government barely blocked this.
However, pro-China forces inside Australia counterattacked thoroughly against that government decision.
Then something strange happened.
In April 2017, the Foreign Investment Review Board, which was supposed to have raised its level of caution toward China, suddenly softened and permitted the sale of the huge infrastructure operating company Duet Group to a Chinese consortium centered on Cheung Kong Infrastructure for 7.48 billion Australian dollars.
Australia’s battle over its national destiny is going back and forth.
At present, Beijing is retaliating with import restrictions on Australian agricultural products because Australian Prime Minister Morrison demanded an independent investigation into the origin of the novel coronavirus.
For Australia, which depends on China for 30 percent of its exports, this is a major blow, but the prime minister’s approval rating has jumped to 66 percent, doubling.
The country to which the irritated Beijing government has begun offering specially sweet words is Japan.
On May 26, the Global Times, the organ of the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial titled “Japan Is Not Australia.”
It said that Japan is different from Australia, that Japan should not side with the United States but should come to China’s side, and also wrote as follows.
“If, amid U.S.-China friction, Japan stands not on the side of justice, the Chinese side, but on the side of its ally, it cannot use the Japan-U.S. alliance as a natural safety measure.”
It is a threat that if Japan sides with the United States, China will not leave it alone.
Japan and Australia are now in the midst of China’s offensive.
Together, they must join forces and protect their countries, their people, and their economies from the invasion of the Chinese Communist Party.