Australian Politics Is Open to Foreign Cash, and China Has Much to Gain

SYDNEY, Australia — As the United States investigates Russia’s efforts to sway last year’s presidential election, Australia is engaged in a heated debate over how vulnerable its own political system is to foreign influence — and whether China is already meddling in it. {snip}

The question of Chinese interference is a sensitive one for Australia, an American ally that has embraced Beijing as its largest trade partner and welcomed Chinese investors and immigrants in large numbers. The political establishment here has generally been reluctant to tackle the issue.

But the nation is now asking how a multicultural society should police a Communist power that has a record of mobilizing, and sometimes bullying, ethnic Chinese overseas to support its goals — and how it can do so without succumbing to racist xenophobia that treats everyone of Chinese descent as suspects.

Do you have examples of Latin American governments/foreign power acting similar to the old Yugoslavia which is one of the most extreme examples in our lifetime?

Or the Turks? But it is the anti-government Turks who are activists in the US, isn’t it? And Muslims? well most Turks and certainly the Turk government is very Muslim. So redundant?

I’ve casually known many Muslims from India to North Africa. With one exception, I’m not aware of any influence their governments had over them. The one exception was three Palestinian Brothers who were buying a liquor store and explained that they would not be paying sales taxes and would not report most income in their cash business. They got the money to buy the store from the PLO (which got it as foreign aid from the US) and these Palestinian Brothers would have to pay heavy taxes to the PLO forever, sort of like the PLO actually owned the store. And the Brothers clearly feared for their lives if they didn’t pay back the PLO.

It was not long ago that the Turks threatened England with a million refugees over Turkish elections/Turk activism in England, and they tell their dual citizen people how to vote in English elections - i.e., pushing EU membership.

With muslims, it’s the immans, CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, Hessbolah etc activists, students and union-related, who coerce the vote - mostly towards the dems - via peer pressure in self-isolated communities.

and with the Hispanics, well, we are flooded with Mexican, Central, South American and other national activists, funded in part by their own governments, who get a million legals and illegals all riled up and in the streets demanding policies in the best interest of especially Mexico, such as ‘equality/amnesty’ or ‘more free stuff’ and again, directing voting towards Dems. Mexican former presidents on tv and Mexican consulates in closed town hall meetings and such pretty much guarantee constant agitation and no integration or skin-in-the-game with the dual-citizen nonsense. It’s not a fluke they’ve raised their minority status (and share of entitlements funds) above our own native Indians and our blacks in less than a decade. Just as the aborginals are being pushed aside by the demands of foreign minorities in Australia, who, as the article says, tend to vote how “their” country wants them to vote rather than the best interest of the country where they actually live.

The vast majority of activists of Latin American ancestry are natural born citizens of the USA. Actually the number of non-citizens leftist activists is a very small percentage.

I assume you are aware that Oscar Lopez and every single member of the FALN and of its mortal enemy, the far left PSP are natural born citizens.

Right win libertarian Vicente Fox beat the 80 year hold of the Left wing PRI by winning the vote of Mexican citizens in the US. Now as an ex-presidente he is vocal about Trump. But as president, neither he nor his successor social conservative Calderon, nor his PRI successor has involved themselves in US domestic affairs while in office. ... Unless you can say that Calderon’s extreme war on drugs was interference in our access to drugs.

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