China’s chilling plan to ‘annex’ Australia

Some of China’s up-and-coming Communist Youth are asserting the land Down Under is rightfully theirs.

Jamestown Foundation open source intelligence analyst Shijie Wang has stumbled across an online discussion among Beijing’s best and brightest young minds.

The posts, isolated from the rest of the world behind the Chinese Communist Party’s “Great Internet Firewall”, advocate the “annexation” of Australia based on similar arguments to those being applied against the Himalayas, the East and South China Seas, the Senkaku and Spratly Islands and Taiwan.

The ancient Chinese Empire once went there.

Therefore, it belongs to China.

The expansionist advocacy flared after three Chinese warships last month circumnavigated Australia for the first time.

Along the way, the task group provoked controversy by conducting live-fire gunnery exercises beneath a busy Australia-New Zealand air traffic corridor.

Now, a fourth Chinese ship is visiting the island continent.

This time, it appears to be a surveillance vessel dedicated to mapping the ocean floor for mineral resources – and hiding spots for submarines...
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