Over three years ago I wrote a post titled, ‘China is in Charge‘. This wasn’t a celebratory post welcoming our new Han overlords but simply a recognition of the new geo-political reality that will become more and more evident in the coming decades. I am not one of those naïve Communist sympathisers that posts videos of light shows in Chinese cities on X as evidence of this either. The city in which I live has pretty LEDs on bridges and buildings and a competent videographer could easily produce a similar video in this city. The harder evidence is that China has a very large population, a huge industrial capacity and an advanced and very well-equipped military. This is the stuff that matters and it is now more openly flexing this power around the world.
The problem when you speak with even otherwise serious people who able to think beyond their own backyard is there unwillingness to accept this. “But isn’t China bad?” and “But China is Communist?” are usual rejoinders as if morality has ever had much of a say in the great games world powers play against each other at the expense of weaker nations. One can also point out that the United States actions to this very day are hardly that of an empire motivated by any philanthropic internationalism but this too falls on deaf ears. It is true at least that most Western nations still treat their subjects better than most others do and are more pleasant places to live. Though this is also changing fast with younger generations now unable to afford to buy into the property market and sometimes even find an affordable place to rent. Although only part of the wider problem of mass immigration, one reason for this is that rich Chinese are able to buy up a lot of property in many Western nations; including valuable farmland and desirable urban properties. The average citizen can not compete with this — and shouldn’t have to.
Indeed, the way the world is headed, the early history of both Australia and New Zealand in particular may one day be a small piece of trivia in the much longer history of China. In fact, it would be miraculous if these two nations don’t fall under open Chinese control before the end of the century. Australians may have trouble believing this but an example that should get your attention is the Port Darwin being leased to a Chinese company for 99 years. If you know anything about China, you know there are no real “private” companies and so Australia has effectively sold a major strategic port to China for just short of a century. The British similarly leased Hong Kong for the same time period that ended in 1997 which I am sure the Communists who came to power on the mainland in 1949 would not have honoured had they then had the power to re-annex the island. Another is the overturned but still highly concerning “belt and road initiative” in Victoria. This was not an act of charity from the Chinese government any more than the Panama Canal was for the United States in the early twentieth century. There are obvious Chinese interests in such initiatives they have signed around the world. These are two big examples but there are no doubt many smaller but important deals and arrangements in place all over Australia such as shenanigans involving overseas students at Australian universities. According to the CIA World Fact Book, over five percent of Australia’s population are Chinese and our own census data shows that Mandarin is the second most spoken language after English. These are mostly not the relatively few that remained after the Victorian Gold Rush either. There is another census in Australia this year which I expect to be darkly illuminating given the rapid increase in immigration since the last census in 2021.
While many Australians may not be too concerned about China; this is a very real threat. Australia is a large landmass with a small population that is extremely rich in natural resources. That it can’t support a large population is irrelevant. China and other nations such as India could easily swamp us if they wanted and none of our supposed allies could do anything about it. Although often mocked when I was in school and university, the early Australian settlers were very right to be concerned about their proximity to Asia and the coming decades will very likely prove their concerns correct. Adam Piggott wrote on this with a very plausible scenario with of how China (or perhaps India’s) annexation of Australia may play out:
China and India have made a concerted push to move comparatively large numbers of their citizens into Australia as immigrants. Unlike the false leftist notion that the majority of wars are caused by religion, the main starting point for military action over the coarse of history has been countries protecting their citizens in foreign lands. It is why Venice went to war with the Byzantine Empire, as just one example. It is why Germany invaded Poland at the outbreak of the European phase of The Second World War.
And it will be why China and India carve up the resource rich and strategic continent currently known as Australia. They will move in to “protect their citizens”, most probably after inventing a series of false flag attacks. And when one of the two moves then the other will have no choice but to follow, which will see a rush to the finish line on who gets the mineral goodies.
I would say that if you think this is implausible, then you aren’t well-read on history. The Chinese themselves could offer the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 as an example which was certainly a false-flag. As I wrote just before Christmas the “hate speech” laws currently being rushed through parliament are being justified by an event that (whether a false-flag or not), had nothing to do with Australians but is being used to achieve a desired outcome regardless.
Piggott also briefly mentions how Australia sold out it’s manufacturing base to China and other Asian nations. Until quite recently, Holden, Ford, Mitsubishi and Toyota were still manufacturing automobiles in Australia and there were still plenty of household appliances that were Australian made. Now there is very little manufactured here with toilet paper being the only thing that immediately comes to mind. Our economy is largely dependent on mineral exports and the nation is almost entirely reliant on imports meaning China could bring us to our knees with the few strokes of a pen.
While the United States is still asserting power as events with Venezuela, Greenland and (maybe) Iran show, it is not the world power it once was. As it retreats to its geographic sphere of influence, China will become more assertive in it’s own and Australia and New Zealand are very much considered part of this sphere.
As with my last post on China, I don’t write this with any enthusiasm. I don’t want Australia to be subject to — let alone part of China. I have a strong family history going back to the founding of the Colony of South Australia in 1836 and I love what British immigrants achieved here despite the warts that inevitably come with colonisation. The academics that have spent more than fifty years damning this proud history have given the Chinese all the intellectual ammunition they need to justify their own colonisation. Unlike the British, they will be far less kind and are unlikely to develop the same ethnic masochism that many elites in the West have.
There are only a couple of unlikely scenarios I see where Australia isn’t annexed outside a genuine miracle. If China somehow falls back into the cultural lull it has had over many centuries previously or if they really turn out to be the “paper tiger” overly hopeful analysts claim they are. Even if the latter is somehow true, they will still cause a lot of damage to Australia going down.
Most of our leaders going back before I was born had already began selling us out to places like China. The relaxation of our immigration restrictions following the end of World War 2 and completed by Whitlam in 1973 began the change to our nation’s make-up. The financialisaton of our economy that began in the 80s and continued into the 90s brought short-term prosperity at the expense of our sovereignty. Both of these actions were bi-partisan though not really voted on by Australians and have led us to the mess we find ourselves in now.
As mentioned, the current government is trying to pass legislation that could severely penalise one expressing these concerns publicly. Even if they fail this time, they won’t abandon these attempts altogether. There is no real opposition and only a few in Federal Parliament who voice any concerns. Monuments to our history and celebrations of our culture and heritage are either subverted or trashed. A significant enough group of heritage Australians are embarrassed by our history and work to undermine it. What world power wouldn’t take advantage of an otherwise wealthy and prosperous nation in such chaos and division?
In 2100 Pauline Hanson will be probably considered a modern Cassandra whose warnings were not heeded in the 1990s when there was still some hope of dealing with these looming problems. In 1998, Australia was still over 90% European and a reduced but still respectable industrial base. Now this is all gone. An Australian diaspora may one day write about what they once had and lost if they still have a place in the world as a distinct ethnicity.