Pressure is mounting on the federal government to take back key national assets from Chinese control amid fears the communist superpower could disrupt our crucial infrastructure using advanced cyber attacks.
Two of Australia s most important harbours - Darwin Port and the Port of Newcastle - were leased to Chinese companies as state governments cashed in on lucrative private investment.
The Port of Newcastle, the world s biggest coal port, was handed over to a Chinese-backed consortium for 98 years for $1.75 billion when Mike Baird was NSW Premier in 2014.
The decision means the port is half controlled by Aussie company Gardior and half by China Merchants Port Holdings Company until 2112.
Australian Senate Uyghur Inquiry Crosses China’s ‘Red Line’
An Australian government inquiry into the use of Uyghur forced labour in China has been told the government’s investigation into the slave labour is crossing “a red line” for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In a submission to the Senate inquiry, analyst Vicky Xu, who was lead author on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s 2020 report “Uyghurs for Sale,” said the CCP could not countenance any investigations into human rights or Uyghur rights.
“The Chinese Communist Party considers any form of investigation of the treatment of Uyghurs as crossing a red line, ” Xu said.
Other New Zealand departments and councils have also used buses from CRRC. Wellington s Metlink service relies on dozens of electric buses purchased from CRRC by operator NZ Bus, KiwiRail recently ordered 10 new diesel locomotives from the company (topping up 63 it has bought since 2009) and the Government s Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund has subsidised the purchase of at least one CRRC bus for Tranzit to the tune of $370,000.
AUCKLAND TRANSPORT
A mock-up prepared for a 2018 Auckland Transport document shows the plan to electrify the CityLINK buses. Forced labour concerns The deployment of the buses in Auckland and Wellington and KiwiRail s decision to purchase 10 more trains came after the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) found CRRC was one of 82 companies potentially directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through abusive labour transfer programmes .
Things to know about all the lies on Xinjiang: How have they come about? China Watch Institute, China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-28 12:45 Share CLOSE A Uygur family in Yuli county, Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 15, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
In recent years, manipulated and encouraged by the anti-China forces in the United States, some truth-bending academic institutions , rumor-mongering experts and scholars and amateur actors with no moral scruples have created a chain of lies to defame Xinjiang and mislead international public discourse, often through dirty funding, fact-twisting stories and massive smear campaigns.
Truth shall not be tainted, the world should not be deceived and narrative about Xinjiang mustn t be distorted. The recent reports by independent US news website thegrayzone.com and Australian publication Australian Alert Service, and a series of press conferences held by the Xinjiang Uyghur Auto
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