Aim of the Chinese regime is to undermine our democracy

I WOULD like to thank Mr Keith Woods and the Bulletin for the timely article highlighting how allpervasive the Chinese Communist Government’s infiltration of Australian society is (‘Council loses the plot by censoring children’s art’, GCB, 15/5/18).

So many Australians are not aware that the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, set up specifically to infiltrate other nations, is using a vast array of individuals, organisations, Australian politicians and the media to infiltrate and subvert every aspect of Australia’s social, political, economic and cultural landscape.

Their principal aim is to change our core national and democratic values and pacify our resistance to Communist China’s increasingly aggressive and expansionist plans to control and influence our region and large parts of the globe.

Their interest is to fracture Australia’s strategic alliance with the United States and isolate us from other democratic nations with similar values to our own.

As we have seen in recent times they have had enormous influence on Australian political parties and individual politicians who have been carefully cultivated, often by Chinese billionaires who are directly linked to the Chinese Communist Party and who front numerous Chinese/Australian organisations.

These organisations, such as the “Australia Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Unification of China” (ACPPRC), purport to advance Australian economic, cultural and social ties with China, but instead they operate to crush or block any activity in Australia that is seen by China as being contrary to its interests. This includes anything from censoring childrens’ artwork depicting Taiwan, to blocking support for the visiting Dali Lama, and even intimidating Qantas for showing Taiwan as being a separate destination from China on its website.

Australians should not forget that this is the same despotic regime that mercilessly crushed thousands of democracy protesters to death under the tracks of its armoured military vehicles during Tiananmen Square massacre. It is the same Communist Chinese Government that ignored the Permanent Court of International Arbitration in The Hague and used military force to occupy and militarise disputed islands in the South China Sea.

Mr Woods’ article highlights one of the many thousands of ways that the Communist Chinese Government is chipping away at the cornerstone of Australia’s hard won democratic values and sovereignty. There are numerous patriotic Australians of Chinese origin, many of whose families have been here since the time of the Victorian gold rush, who are horrified at the efforts made by Communist China to undermine our democracy.

It is time ordinary Australians, its politicians of all political parties and its elected Government showed Beijing just what a strong, democratic and independent Australia looks like and is capable of. As Mr Woods suggested, I will certainly be flying the Tibetan flag on World Tibet Day on July 6, and no Communist Party apparatchik from Beijing will be telling me otherwise!

PEARCE DOUGHERTY, BURLEIGH HEADS