Oh wow. @4corners. I’m actually feeling incredibly nauseous after watching tonight’s program. Nauseous, angry, frightened and intimidated. Here’s my take on tonight’s episode....
China are teaching their youth a narrative that the West has humiliated China over the last 100 Years, and now China are flexing their muscles, ready to fill the void when the US collapses as a super power.
Part of this narrative is to infiltrate and influence Australia, and our universities have become the perfect place to do it. Since the Australian Government sucked funding out of Australian universities, the latter has become very dependent on the international student dollar.
When our universities are so dependent on Chinese students for their revenue, they lose their independence and credibility. They seem to have become just another branch of the CCP without even realising it.
In addition to this, the Australian Research Council has given millions of dollars to fund Chinese projects. The resultant technology from these projects has since gone on to be used to surveil people in China.
It’s clear that many Australian universities have put money over our national security and national sovereignty. There is a clash of cultures on university campuses that is putting out freedom of speech at risk.
The Australian Gov has been asleep at the wheel, and are only slowly waking up. It is the decisions of previous governments to cut funding to universities that has allowed this to happen, and it will be interesting to see if - and what - it does to protect our national interests
