'Wake up to the silent invasion': China expert warns Australians that Beijing is 'infiltrating' everything from property to politics - and it might be too late to stop it
- The Chinese Communist Party is infiltrating Australia, according to author
- Author Clive Hamilton said it was influencing 'all of Australia's major institutions'
- Mr Hamilton said he wrote the book to 'wake up' Australia to the alarming reality
- The professor said the Chinese Communist Party has tried hard to silence him
An author has begged Australians to 'wake up to the silent Chinese invasion', as he claims it might already be too late to stop it.
In his newly published book Silent Invasion: How China is Turning Australia into a Puppet State, professor Clive Hamilton said the Chinese Government was influencing 'all of Australia's major institutions, from politics to media, business and universities'.
Speaking on Live Leak on Tuesday, Mr Hamilton said 'no area of Australian society, politics or culture, is free from influence if there's an opportunity there'.
'They'll infiltrate anything they can,' he said.
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In his book, Professor Clive Hamilton claims the Chinese Government is silently invading Australia and it's already too late to stop it
He said the Chinese Government used Australia as a puppet, and it was leading to 'the erosion of Australian sovereignty'.
He wanted Australians to 'wake up' to the alarming reality.
'I wrote the book in order to wake up Australia, to give a full picture of the nature of these operations and why the Chinese Communist Party is targeting Australia,' he said.
Mr Hamilton said Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents were even targeting church groups in Australia.
'One of the most shocking elements I came across, and I don't want to exaggerate this, was the way in which agents of the CCP have made themselves present in the congregations of Chinese Christian churches in Australia, and of court the CCP is officially an atheist organisation,' he said.
'I was constantly surprised, nothing is sacred.'
'I wrote the book in order to wake up Australia, to give a full picture of the nature of these operations and why the Chinese Communist Party is targeting Australia,' he said (Ethnic Uyghur members of the Communist Party of China carry the flag)
The Charles Sturt University Professor of Public Ethics claimed the CCP covertly followed him since he started investigating for his book.
'It's not a pleasant thing to spend weeks and weeks feeling the state security in Beijing is keeping a close eye on you,' he said.
'We did have a spy sitting outside of this building carrying with her a "sniffer" – a device that looked like a mobile but is an electronic device that picks up all telephone communication in the building.
'It is unsettling.'
Professor Hamilton claimed the CCP covertly followed him since he started investigating for his book
Mr Hamilton said his publisher wanted to pull the book for fear of retribution (Chinese President Xi Jinping pictured)
Mr Hamilton said his publisher wanted to pull the book.
'They said they were afraid of retaliation from Beijing, which is a kind of brilliant but unwelcome vindication of the essential argument of my book,' he said.
The ethics professor said people tried to twist his words and accuse him of racism and xenophobia.
'I anticipated it, to be accused of racism and anti-China xenophobia, but when it comes at you, it's really quite hard to take it. You need to have the skin of a rhino to not want to crawl in a hole and stay there,' he said.
The ethics professor said he was not racist or xenophobic (Ethnic Uyghur members of the Communist Party of China carry a flag as they take part in an organised tour)
'You'd have to work hard to draw out of the book anything that could be used to draw that conclusion from the book.
'To think any criticism of the communist party is criticism of Chinese people… give me a break.'
He said it was time for liberal democracies to 'muscle up'.
'We need to make a fundamental decision to decide how much our freedom is worth,' he said.
In his newly published book Silent Invasion: How China is Turning Australia into a Puppet State, Professor Hamilton said the Chinese Government was influencing 'all of Australia's major institutions, from politics to media, business and universities'
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