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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
Oh yeah huge influence here. The Aussie economy is pretty much propped up by resource exports to China, Chinese property investors, and Chinese students.
This was in the news today. The Chinese own a mine in Australia that is located on a top secret missile testing site.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...20-p52isk.html
Also a few years back the idiots running this country leased the Port of Darwin to the Chinese for 99 years. That’s right Australia’s most strategic port location is being run by China. |
Technically the port is leased by a privately held company from China and isn't ruled by China.
Although when you are a Chinese billionaire, I am sure you are probably closely tied to the country's ruling party, so maybe in practice it is the same thing.