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Concerns about the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s nefariously\ngrowing interference into the region (and Australia\u2019s) domestic politics,\nsociety and academy dominated the headlines Down Under this past fortnight. The\nadmissions of a former Chinese spy (who defected<\/a>\nto Australia) and revelations of Beijing\u2019s plans<\/a>\nto \u2018plant\u2019 a stooge in the Australian parliament have reinvigorated concerns\nabout China\u2019s behaviour tenfold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, the Australian government has announced the\ncreation of a taskforce<\/a>\nled by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the Australian\nSignals Directorate and Defence Intelligence to tackle national security\nthreats emanating from espionage and foreign interference in the country. This\ncomes amidst a growing\ndivide<\/a> within the foreign policy and national security community in\nCanberra over the nature of the challenge China presents to Australia\u2019s\nwellbeing and ways to deal with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wang Liqiang, a self-confessed former Chinese spy, defected\nto Australian authorities in early October and offered detailed information on\nBeijing\u2019s wide-ranging espionage activities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia\nin return for asylum. His claims are being investigated and so is his\napplication for asylum in Australia. Alex Joske believes<\/a>\nthat China is trying to silence Wang by concocting allegations of fraudulent\nbehaviour against him- which, in his view, indicates that he might be telling\nthe truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, revelations<\/a>\nof Beijing\u2019s alleged plot to place its own candidate, Bo \u2018Nick\u2019 Zhao in the\nAustralian parliament have caused a furore. Zhao had informed the Australian\nsecurity agencies about being approached by a Chinese intelligence operative\nwith $1 million to run for a seat in the parliament- and had later been found\ndead under suspicious circumstances in a motel in Melbourne in March this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Liberal MP Andrew\nHastie has described China\u2019s plan as \u2018\u2026a state-sponsored attempt to infiltrate\nour Parliament using an Australian citizen and basically run them as an agent\nof foreign influence in our democratic system.\u2019 These revelations drive home\nthe seriousness of what former ASIO head Duncan Lewis describes as China\u2019s\nendgame being to \u2018take over\u2019 Australia\u2019s democratic system through its\n\u2018insidious\u2019 foreign interference operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an interesting aside, New Zealand has placed a ban<\/a> on foreign political\ndonations over concerns of interference from China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as we read about the CCP\u2019s infiltration of the Hong\nKong protests, the people of Hong Kong voted<\/a>\nin record numbers to oust pro-Beijing politicians in district council elections\nheld earlier this fortnight. Pro-democracy candidates won a landslide in a\nremarkable display of the democratic aspirations of the city. Hong Kong\u2019s\nleader, Carrie Lam, who\u2019s close to the CCP, said that her government would\n\u2018listen humbly\u2019 to the people\u2019s views. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCP, on the other hand, responded with Foreign Minister\nWang Yi stating, \u2018Whatever happens, Hong Kong is always a part of China and any\nattempts to create chaos in Hong Kong or to jeopardise its prosperity and\nstability will not be successful.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne issued yet\nanother sharp statement<\/a>\ncalling China\u2019s arbitrary detention of Australian citizen Yang Hengjun \u2018unacceptable\u2019<\/a>.\nYang has been accused of espionage by China and has been under detention since\nJanuary this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of detention, the International Consortium of\nInvestigative Journalists received<\/a>\na cache of leaked Chinese government documents revealing the operational\ndetails of the mass internment camps for Uighurs in Xinjiang. It\u2019s arguably the\nbiggest<\/a>\nsuch leak of classified documents from China since the leak of the Tiananmen\npapers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving on to another part of the Indo-Pacific, it\u2019s being reported<\/a> that the Indian Navy expelled\na Chinese \u2018research\u2019 vessel allegedly conducting espionage in Indian waters\nnear the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This comes amid escalating competition\nbetween India and China in the Indian Ocean Region, and growing naval\nsynergy<\/a> between Russia and China, which manifested in the arrival of a\nRussian training ship in the Chinese-owned Hambantota port in Sri Lanka last\nweek.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly elected President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa\nvisited<\/a>\nIndia last week, his first overseas visit in office. The Rajapaksas are\ntraditionally seen as pro-China and there\u2019s concern in New Delhi over India\u2019s\npotentially waning influence in its own backyard. However, in light of the new\npresident\u2019s visit to New Delhi, there\u2019s hope that Sri Lanka would pursue a\nbalanced path. Perhaps as an indication of that hope, Indian Prime Minister\nNarendra Modi announced<\/a>\na US $450 million line of credit to fund development projects in Colombo,\nincluding $50 million to combat terrorism. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan and India held their inaugural defence and foreign\nministers\u2019 \u20182+2\u2019 meeting this week. The two sides discussed plans to increase\nmilitary and security cooperation including collaboration on weapons and\nmilitary hardware. Interestingly, Tokyo seemed\nto flag<\/a> the possibility that it might not join the Regional Comprehensive\nEconomic Partnership without India\u2019s participation. While that has now been\ndismissed as untrue, Japan has\nassured<\/a> that it will work concertedly to address New Delhi\u2019s concerns\nvis-\u00e0-vis RCEP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, some key Southeast Asia news- Vietnam released<\/a>\nits 2019 Defense White Paper last week, the first such document in a decade. As\nPrashanth Parameswaran notes, \u2018it provides an update into Vietnam\u2019s defense\nthinking amid changes in the regional security environment and of its own role\nwithin it, whether it be its development of international defense alignments as\nwell as broader trends such as the development of the regional security\narchitecture.\u2019 The release of the document, Parameswaran points out, is a\n\u2018significant development in and of itself.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significance for Australia<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Canberra is divided- the fault lines between the two \u2018tribes\u2019 in the federal bureaucracy, the more \u2018moderate\u2019 finance and foreign policy folks and the more hawkish and realist intelligence and security crowd are beginning to sharpen, as John Kehoe argues<\/a>. While the moderates advocate considering the economic costs of standing up to China, the latter warn about the dangers of not doing so, regardless of the short-term pain. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kehoe describes this fault line succinctly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The challenge DFAT and Treasury face is that their traditional beliefs that diplomatic and economic engagement with China would lead to more economic liberalisation and political liberation- as it has in other emerging countries- has been proved wrong. Under strongman Xi, China has become more authoritarian.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

In light of this, recent speeches and actions of former Australian politicians raise concerns. Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating addressed<\/a> a strategic forum in Sydney last month and admonished the security agencies, who in his words \u2018are now effectively running the foreign policy of the country\u2019, for leading a witch hunt against China. He put the blame of deteriorating ties squarely on the shoulders of Australian bureaucrats, politicians and media, overlooking the fact that China is the driver of the issues they raise.<\/p>\n

The problem lies with Chinese Communist Party\u2019s actions, not with those pointing them out. China\u2019s interference in Australia\u2019s domestic politics, aggression in the South China Sea, creation of debt traps through the Belt and Road Initiative and human rights violations in Tibet and Xinjiang are fundamentally against Australia\u2019s national interests and vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it\u2019s come to light that former senator Nick Xenophon has decided to represent Huawei as its legal representative in Australia- and claims that he\u2019s exempted from registering on the foreign influence register as he won\u2019t be lobbying politicians for Huawei.<\/p>\n

With Keating and Xenophon, and the ongoing divide within the foreign policy and strategic community, policymakers in Canberra have their hands full. <\/p>\n\n\n

Peter Hartcher puts it well,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u2026his (Keating\u2019s) conception is super-simplistic- China is big and getting bigger so be nice and don\u2019t upset them. The reality is much harder- how do you work with a big economic partner while it\u2019s trying covertly to take control of your country? You don\u2019t succeed by pretending it\u2019s not happening.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Australia needs to stand united in the pursuit of its national interests, and that begins with Canberra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUTHOR <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aakriti Bachhawat<\/strong> is a Researcher with the Defence and Strategy team at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and Research Assistant at the Griffith Asia Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n

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