From George Christensen MP

Dear Subscriber First Name,

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called out the Chinese Communist Party in a speech to a major international security forum, stating: 

“Tensions over territorial claims are growing. The pace of regional military modernisation is unprecedented. Democratic nations face new threats from foreign interference. Cyber attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Disinformation is being used to manipulate free societies. The trade rules that have allowed us to prosper have not evolved to meet new challenges. And economic coercion is increasingly employed as a tool of statecraft.” 

This comes as China steps up its military aerial drills over maritime territory which they do not own and which is crucial for the shipping of Australia's imports, particularly strategic imports such as fuel. 

The Prime Minister's swipe at China comes hot on the heels of the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in the greatest human rights violations of the century. 

Certainly, we are seeing this in Hong Kong with the new national security laws depriving Hong Kong residents of their freedom and even being used to target citizens of Western nations. Australian citizens could be targeted under this law. Be careful if you ever intend on holidaying in Hong Kong!

Time’s up for TikTok

This week, I called for the Chinese app TikTok to be banned in Australia. 

Along with WeChat, there are considerable concerns about privacy and data security for Australians given the control that the Chinese Communist Party has over the parent company of the TikTok app.  In the US, President Donald Trump has declared that TikTok will either be shut down or sold to a US company; a declaration that China opposes. I wonder why?

Yours truly,

George Christensen MP

P.S. If you live in Central or North Queensland, please get to know our fantastic LNP State candidates Amanda Camm (Whitsunday), Chris Bonanno (Mackay) and Tracie Newitt (Mirani) and consider giving them support. They are real fighters who will shake things up in Brisbane.

A sorry story of uni censorship

You may have heard of University of Queensland student Drew Pavlou. He has been suspended from his university following his activism against the atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party. 

The entire fiasco shows how deep the Chinese Communist Party influence is in Australian university campuses. It needs to end. I interviewed Drew Pavlou on my Conservative One podcast about these matters last week. 

Prosperity is coal-powered

China continues to literally power ahead with the Global Energy Monitor showing they are planning on building new stations to produce more than 153,000 megawatts of coal-fired power (on top of the 1.022 million wegawatts already being generated!).

Yet, the green left climate alarmism and phobia against coal in Australia is going to see the end of our aluminium industry and its workers and many other industries and workers as well. 

If our nation is to have a fighting chance, economically, against Communist China we must unshackle ourselves from the green left climate alarmist agenda. Australian workers should not be sacrificed on the altar of the Paris Agreement as the sacrifice won't appease the climate gods but it will strengthen Communist China's Xi Jinping, who now thinks he's a god.

Beyond the fake news…

Beyond the mainstream media we discover the truth. Here’s what I’ve been reading:

With all the threats and sabre-rattling from Communist China, we must remain vigilant about the enemy within: radical Islamists. A new French study has found that 60 per cent of Islamist foreign fighters went on to commit terror offenses. This is why I was so supportive of efforts to strip foreign fighters of their Australian citizenship, saying at the time that, "it is appropriate we take whatever step necessary to protect our citizens – that is the first role of government." 

The war on Christianity continues. Groups like Open Doors are exposing atrocities that countries like North Korea, Afghanistan and Somalia (amongst a host of others) have committed against Christians. 

But don't think it can't happen in Western nations. Blogger Bernard Gaynor exposes attacks in Australia and around the world that the mainstream media won’t publish or broadcast.  The Australian Christian Lobby features testimony and stories from Christians who have been targeted or “cancelled” (as they say). In Scotland, the Catholic Church is fearing that owning a bible could become a hate crime. We must be vigilant against attacks on our faith!