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   澳大利亞學者 理查森(GRAHAM RICHARDSON)
  【環球網綜合報道】中國要把澳大利亞變成木偶國?看到這種“中國過敏症”言論,你也許會“嗬嗬”一過。然而去年底,澳大利亞查理斯特大學(Charles Sturt University)教授漢密爾頓(Clive Hamilton)還真寫了一本名為《無聲的入侵:中國如何把澳大利亞變成木偶國》(Silent Invasion: How China Is Turning Australia into a Puppet State)的書,詳述了中國影響力滲入澳洲。
  雖然澳大利亞近來時不時出現對華不友好言論,但澳大利亞人是否對其買賬呢?一名澳大利亞學者不幹了,近日撰文反駁。
  2月28日,澳大利亞學者 理查森(GRAHAM RICHARDSON)在《澳大利亞人報》發表題為《《無聲的入侵》作者把我們當傻子(Clive Hamilton is treating us as mugs)》的文章,他在文章中批駁了作者的觀點,認為作者把他們當作傻子和孩子對待,並表示把中國視為“敵人”的想法簡直是瘋了。
  以下為文章摘編:
  任何指責像凱爾(Bob Carr)和基廷(Paul Keating)這類人是中國影響力代理人的人,都知道自己陷入一場鬥爭。當他成為一個荒謬古怪的人,最糟的是,當他成了一名愚蠢的愛表現的人時,他真應該好好想一想,並且閉上嘴,把他的筆束之高閣。
  作者筆下,基廷的罪是他主持了一場澳大利亞中國商業論壇的事實。試圖促進與我們最大的貿易夥伴進行更多的貿易,在我看來是最符合澳大利亞利益的。
  凱爾試圖敦促澳大利亞實行獨立的外交政策也是明智的。我們不必在外交政策的每個方麵都言聽計從地跟隨美國。談到中國,任何智商在50以上、理智的澳大利亞人都知道 ,現在以及在可預見的未來,澳大利亞在經濟上都需要中國的合作。
  在《無聲的入侵:中國如何把澳大利亞變成木偶國》這本書的第22頁,作者寫道:“中國正在利用虛假的曆史來定位自己,從而在未來對澳大利亞有所控製”。我五歲時第一次聽說‘黃禍’(yellow peril)正從中國席卷而來。位於悉尼赫斯特維爾南部的聖拉斐爾小學當時由慈善修女會主持,安妮特修女警告二班學生:中國人來了。麵對即將來臨的“侵略”,我嚇得一周沒有睡覺。在我五歲時修女們可能會讓我想到的,並沒有延續到後來63年的人生經驗中。澳大利亞人可以比大多數人更好地察覺癔病似的廢話。漢密爾頓把我們當作傻子和孩子對待。
  不顧所有實證研究的說法,漢密爾頓的中國/澳大利亞“朋友們”就足以讓他斷言“澳大利亞有超過10萬至20萬華人忠於中國人民共和國”。
  我知道澳大利亞的英國人在英國與澳大利亞比賽時總是為他們的老家歡呼。我認識克羅地亞人和塞爾維亞人,意大利人和希臘人,他們也是這樣做的,但不意味著他們是間諜或不忠誠的公民。
  說到虛偽,漢密爾頓甚至和我們的總理不相上下。讓我們來看看他對民主的看法。他在書的第213頁上寫道:“當我研究帶動這個國家辯論的各種’中國之友’的觀點時,有一件事讓我感到震驚 – 有些人如此不看重民主”。這般愛國立場挑動起靈魂,嚇倒了相應的勢力。然而,其價值觀卻被這樣的事實削弱了——2007年,他在博客上提出,在氣候變化問題上或許應該停止民主。
  我要說明的是,除了與那個參與北京奧運會的男子共進午餐外,我在過去十多年中都沒有與中國政府的代表或外交官談過話。
  但是,我們應該像無頭蒼蠅一樣亂撞,把中國視為“敵人”的想法簡直是瘋了。澳大利亞這艘好船,應該把漢密爾頓,還有那些汙染我們思想的其他垃圾一起扔下船。

 

《無聲的入侵》作者把我們當傻子

https://cn.theaustralian.com.au/2018/02/28/3435/

Clive Hamilton教授. Picture: Gary Ramage
政治專欄作者:GRAHAM RICHARDSON @SkyNewsRicho

任何指責像Bob Carr和Paul Keating這樣的人是中國影響力的代理人的人,都知道自己陷入一場鬥爭。當他成為一個荒謬古怪的人,最糟的是,當他成了一名愚蠢的愛表現的人時,他真應該好好想一想,而且閉上嘴,把他的筆束之高閣。

作者筆下,Keating的罪是他主持了一場澳大利亞中國商業論壇的事實。試圖促進與我們最大的貿易夥伴進行更多的貿易,在我看來是最符合澳大利亞利益的。

Carr試圖敦促澳大利亞實行獨立的外交政策也是明智的。我們不必在外交政策的每個方麵都言聽計從地跟隨美國。談到中國,任何智商在50以上、理智的澳大利亞人都知道 ,現在以及在可預見的未來,澳大利亞在經濟上都需要中國的合作。

中國人實行一種計劃經濟(command economy),這意味著他們的領導人能隨時決定開放和關閉。

在《無聲的入侵:中國如何把澳大利亞變成木偶國》這本書的第22頁,作者Clive Hamilton寫道:“中國正在利用虛假的曆史來定位自己,從而在未來對澳大利亞有所控製”。我第一次聽說‘黃禍’(yellow peril)正從中國席卷而來,是在我五歲的時候。位於悉尼Hurstville南部的St Raphael’s小學當時由慈善修女會(Sisters of Charity)主持,Annette修女警告二班:中國人來了。麵對即將來臨的侵略,我嚇得一周沒有睡覺。在我五歲時修女們可能會讓我想到的,並沒有延續到後來63年的人生經驗中。澳大利亞人可以比大多數人更好地察覺癔病似的廢話。Hamilton把我們當作傻子和孩子對待。

不顧所有實證研究的說法,Hamilton的中國/澳大利亞“朋友們”就足以讓他斷言“澳大利亞有超過10萬至20萬華人忠於中國人民共和國”。

讓我告訴你吧,Clive:我知道澳大利亞的英國人在英國與澳大利亞比賽時總是為他們的老家歡呼。我認識克羅地亞人和塞爾維亞人,意大利人和希臘人,他們也是這樣做的,但不意味著他們是間諜或不忠誠的公民。

說到虛偽,Hamilton甚至和我們的總理不相上下。讓我們來看看他對民主的看法。他在書的第213頁上寫道:“當我研究帶動這個國家辯論的各種’中國之友’的觀點時,有一件事讓我感到震驚 – 有些人如此不看重民主”。這般愛國立場挑動起靈魂,嚇倒了相應的勢力。然而,其價值觀卻被這樣的事實削弱了——2007年,他在博客上提出,在氣候變化問題上或許應該停止民主。

我要說明的是,除了與那個參與北京奧運會的男子共進午餐外,我在過去十多年中都沒有與中國政府的代表或外交官談過話。我也知道中國政府並不總是站在一切善良和神聖的一邊。毫無疑問,中國在執行對朝鮮的製裁方麵沒有足夠強硬。中國在它所建造的人工島嶼上建立軍事和海軍基地是最危險的冒險主義。

但是,我們應該像無頭蒼蠅一樣亂撞,把中國視為“敵人”的想法簡直是瘋了。澳大利亞這艘好船,應該把Hamilton,還有那些汙染我們思想的其他垃圾一起扔下船。

(新聞背景:《無聲的入侵:中國如何把澳大利亞變成木偶國》(Silent Invasion: How China Is Turning Australia into a Puppet State)一書的作者Clive Hamilton是澳大利亞查爾斯特大學的公共倫理學教授。他是一位活躍的公共知識分子,經常對媒體評論公共政策。據稱本書詳述了中國共產黨的代理人在澳大利亞的活動,揭示中共對澳大利亞的滲透。)

Chinese agents are undermining Australia's sovereignty, Clive Hamilton's controversial new book claims

 

Thousands of agents of the Chinese state have integrated themselves into Australian public life — from the high spheres of politics, academia and business all the way down to suburban churches and local writers' groups — according to a controversial book to be published on Monday.

The book, Silent Invasion: How China Is Turning Australia into a Puppet State, is written by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University.

In it, he alleges that a systematic Chinese government campaign of espionage and influence peddling is leading to "the erosion of Australian sovereignty".

That erosion is caused, in part, by a recent wave of Chinese migration to Australia including "billionaires with shady histories and tight links to the [Chinese Communist] party, media owners creating Beijing mouthpieces, 'patriotic' students brainwashed from birth, and professionals marshalled into pro-Beijing associations set up by the Chinese embassy," Professor Hamilton writes.

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ABC News has been given a pre-publication copy of the book, which is being published in the middle of widening public debate over China's influence in Australia and concerns Beijing has thousands of unofficial "spies" in the country.

Those concerns were given some credence by the Government late last year, when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced he planned to enact new foreign interference laws to counter such espionage.

Mr Turnbull used strong language at the time, paraphrasing a famous Chinese communist slogan to say Australia would "stand up" to foreign governments meddling in Australian affairs.

The book will cause particular angst among Australia's political class.

It lists more than 40 former and sitting Australian politicians who Professor Hamilton says are doing the work of China's totalitarian Government, if sometimes unwittingly. Many are household names.

"[Former prime ministers Bob] Hawke and [Paul] Keating, when their political careers ended they went on to become reliable friends of China, shuttling between the two countries, mixing with the top cadres and tycoons," Professor Hamilton writes.

"While Hawke's China links proved lucrative, Keating was more interested in influence."

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VIDEO: Clive Hamilton was interviewed after his book was pulled by leading publisher Allen and Unwin.(ABC News)

'Beijing Bob'

An entire chapter, titled Beijing Bob, is dedicated to former Labor foreign minister and NSW premier Bob Carr.

The chapter accuses Mr Carr of "pushing an aggressive pro-China stance in Labor caucuses".

Professor Hamilton chronicles Mr Carr's 2015 appointment as the founding director of the Australia-China Research Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology, Sydney.

ACRI was created with a $1.8m donation from billionaire property developer Huang Xiangmo, who has donated millions to Australian politicians and has been described in the book as being one of Beijing's most powerful agents of influence in Australia.

"Huang sits at the centre of a web of influence that extends throughout politics, business and the media," Professor Hamilton writes.

Mr Huang has been the subject of public speculation ever since the ABC News revealed his millions of dollars in political donations, and his questionable connections to senior federal politicians, in a series of stories in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

"Let's call the Australia-China Research Institute for what it is," Professor Hamilton writes.

"A Beijing-backed propaganda outfit disguised as a legitimate research institute, whose ultimate objective is to advance the CCP's [Chinese Communist Party's] influence in Australian policy and political circles, an organisation hosted by a university whose commitment to academic freedom and proper practice is clouded by money hunger, and directed by an ex-politician suffering from relevance deprivation syndrome who cannot see what a valuable asset he has become for Beijing."

Mr Huang denies his donations and influence within Australian society are connected to the Chinese Government, describing the allegations as innuendo and racism.

Mr Carr, who declined to comment for this article, has previously said ACRI took a "positive and optimistic view" of the Australia-China relationship and was "independent" and "non-partisan". He rejected any suggestion he was working with or for the CCP or its proxies.

 

The book also details a list of Chinese-Australian academics whom Professor Hamilton says are allowing the transfer of potentially national security-significant research — in sensitive areas such as space, artificial intelligence and computer engineering — from Australian universities to the Chinese military.

Silent Invasion appears to have also divided Australian Parliament, with Labor and Liberal members of a classified parliamentary committee at odds over whether they should provide legal cover for the book.

Plans were hatched recently by members of Parliament's intelligence oversight body, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS), to publish a digital copy of the book.

The release would have been the first time the Australian parliament published a book in its entirety — therefore granting it a limited form of parliamentary privilege — in an effort to protect the information it contains from legal attack.

While Liberal members of the committee broadly supported publication of the book, the majority of Labor committee members did not, arguing it was not appropriate for the Australian Parliament to give the book its imprimatur.

Silent Invasion was provided to the committee in a submission as part of an inquiry into Mr Turnbull's foreign interference laws.

The book's release by the committee would have been seen as an inflammatory act by Beijing, already smarting from Mr Turnbull's announcement.

Co-opting God

In another section of the book, Professor Hamilton describes a curious relationship between Chinese Christian churches in Australia and the atheist Chinese Communist Party, which has a history of supressing Christianity at home.

 

He refers to classified Chinese Government reports which instruct Chinese officials to infiltrate overseas churches that have Chinese congregations. "They instruct cadres to monitor, infiltrate and 'sinify' overseas Chinese churches by actively promoting the CCP's concepts of Chineseness and 'spiritual love'."

In 2014, he notes, the website of the Canberra Chinese Methodist Church included a statement which linked the rise of the CCP to God's will: "The awe-inspiring righteousness of Xi Jinping, the President of the People's Republic of China, and the rise of a great nation that is modern China are part of God's plan, predestination and blessing."

Many Chinese church pastors believe their congregations have been penetrated by Chinese Government cadres, Professor Hamilton writes.

"One pastor told me: 'There are lots of communists in our church community.' He guessed that around a quarter or a third are or have been communists. Some join the church for the companionship, some for the social contacts; others are the [Chinese Government's] assets."

The manuscript also alleges that people connected to the Chinese Government have infiltrated Australia's writing scene. It states that a group called the Australian-Chinese Writer's Association was recently taken over by "pro-Beijing forces".

Professor Hamilton describes how well-known Australian writing forums such as the Melbourne Writers Festival and Writers Victoria have unwittingly hosted local Chinese writing groups operating under Beijing's control and "whose aim is to spread into Australian society the CCP worldview, one that is extremely intolerant of artistic license and dissenting views."

A 'landmark win' for China

Silent Invasion is so controversial it almost didn't make it to publication. It was due to be released late last year by Allen & Unwin, but the publisher baulked over concerns it would be targeted by Beijing and its proxies in Australia. Melbourne University Press also turned down the book.

That led Professor Hamilton — the author of half-a-dozen books about climate change, politics and economics — to hit out at what he described as an attempt by the CCP to muzzle public debate in Australia.

"[This is a] landmark win for the Chinese Communist Party's campaign to suppress critical voices," Professor Hamilton wrote to Allen & Unwin chief executive Robert Gorman at the time.

The book was recently acquired by Hardie Grant, run by Sandy Grant, who in the 1980s published the controversial memoir of former British intelligence officer Peter Wright. The publication occurred against the wishes of the British government, which was trying to censor the book.

Mr Grant told the ABC he was aware publishing Silent Invasion may invite the attention of the Chinese Government, but he hoped it would not be serious. "This is a debate being held at the ABC, the New York Times, the London Times; we are just one voice in that, we are hardly a serious thorn in the Chinese Government's side," he said.

Professor Hamilton may also have reason to be concerned about the impact of authoring the book. This week New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered intelligence officers to investigate break-ins at the home and office of prominent NZ China academic Anne-Marie Brady.

Professor Brady has spent her career researching China's global influence and her 2017 paper, Magic Weapons, caused global waves when it revealed how deeply China had penetrated NZ's Government.

 

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