When such a senior DFAT boss speaks out so. DFAT boss warns international students to resist Chinese Communist Party’s ‘untoward’ influence 
I have blogged on the utter stupidity of leasing the Port of Darwin to the Chinese.
First six blogs here.
It’s not so much communist propaganda as rapid xenophobic nationalism. Nationalism sells a lot better than communism in China.
This is strictly OT but while on the subject of “Imagine how bad the reality must be” just enjoy this gorgeous news item out of 2012.
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