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Australia declares all Chinese students a threat to its national security

Akshay Narang by Akshay Narang
March 31, 2022
in Geopolitics
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Australia declares all Chinese students a threat to its national security

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is unequivocal about one point: all Chinese students pose a threat to Australia’s national security.

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In fact, Canberra may have discovered a way to prevent all Chinese student spies from entering the country. Let’s find out how.

Australia blocks Chinese students who had flown to Sydney

China has protested Australia’s decision to turn back Chinese students who had flown to Sydney for failing to disclose that they had received compulsory military training at Chinese universities.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news briefing on Tuesday that several Chinese students got their visas revoked and were repatriated back to their home country.

Wang complained, “The Australian behaviour goes against the nature of people-to-people interaction and win-win cooperation.”

Australia holds the right to cancel visas

An Australian Border Force spokesperson made it clear that the government body wouldn’t comment on individual cases. However,  it “can and does cancel visas at the border if a traveller has provided false information”.

The spokesperson added, “We are committed to facilitating the entry of legitimate visa holders into Australia, but will not hesitate to use the powers we have to protect Australia’s national interests when required.”

How does it harm all Chinese students?

Now, the latest move by Australia is harmful to almost all Chinese students.

Wenbin said that Australian border officials interpreted mandatory military training rendered by Chinese universities as equivalent to actual military training. So, the repatriated students may not have been affiliated with the PLA, yet they found themselves in trouble.

For many Chinese students, it becomes a permanent threat of sorts. There is a mandatory military course that Chinese students have to go through at the university level. The military training stint is short and normally ranges from 7 to 24 days. The CCP perceives it as a means of enforcing loyalty from the Chinese youth.

However, China doesn’t classify this training course as conventional military training though it could be a part of Beijing’s civil-military fusion policy.

The latest move by Australian border personnel now establishes a strong precedent. It creates an example for students who try to go to Australia in future.

Chinese students are effectively left with two options⸺ mention your compulsory military training at the university level in visa applications. In this case, the application could get rejected at the scrutiny stage.

The other option that they have is to conceal this vital information. In that case, Australia will reject them upon their arrival.

What this effectively means is that Canberra has imposed a blanket ban on Australian students.

In either case, it is China and Chinese students that stand to lose. For the past several years, China has been trying to push its propaganda in Australian universities. Worse still, China’s military-affiliated students try to steal sensitive Australian military and tech secrets.

Read more: How China infiltrated Australian varsities and created a spy network to steal military secrets

However, Scott Morrison has emerged as one major China hawk. He is on a mission to end the era of Chinese sabotage and propaganda campaigns in Australia. And it seems that as a part of his fight, he has made a grand announcement⸺ Chinese students are a threat to Australia’s national security.

Read more: Scott Morrison will now use a Chinese app to run an anti-China campaign among Chinese Australians

 

 

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  1. Avatar Zebadee says:
    2 months ago

    Not all Chinese students at the college and university level have to do military training. It is not compulsory. At institutions where it is (and there are many), the course runs for only a few days and usually involves a lot of running and jumping exercises no different from a regular PE class. Not great preparation for a career in espionage.
    And, how would Australia know that students have done this training? There is no way of checking and verifying that is, indeed, the case. Does weekend paint-balling count against future students too?

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  2. Avatar Lee Heng Soon says:
    1 month ago

    Why go to Australia? The country’s technologies are not higher than that of China. China should ban her students from studying there.

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  3. Avatar Francis Lee says:
    1 month ago

    The Australian government created this imaginary enemy in China, and is not in the interest of both countries!

    Towards better Australia-China relations
    https://youtu.be/SnRWEdNIOYI

    Reply
  4. Avatar Winnietheslobdictator says:
    1 month ago

    Chinese cabbage trolls with brainwashed minds and no idea what China are doing to Australia and other western nations. China has no friends except Russian murderers.

    Reply
    • Avatar KENT says:
      1 month ago

      Biden and Nato expahsion is the cause of the war , the real murderer.

  5. Avatar Mark says:
    4 weeks ago

    The same thing should happen in United States, Canada and Britain. Chinese students are all over the universities there, no just spying and stealing technological and scientific achievements but they are constantly spearding CCP propaganda, they are so brainwashed, have no respect for free world values, not just endangering national security but threatening basic human values, all higher education institutes in western nations must get rid of these Chinese students before it’s too late.

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