Tàu cấm dân Úc ngay trên nước Úc

Posted on December 2, 2020

Một tư nhân Trung Quốc đã mua một hòn đảo của Úc và đã ngăn cản người Úc đặt chân lên đó, khiến người dân địa phương và khách du lịch thất vọng. Hình ảnh một phần hòn đảo Keswick đã bán cho Trung quốc.
Đảo Keswick, một nơi  du lịch được nhiều du khách ưa thích, đã được mua lại bởi công ty China Bloom và người của công ty này đã ngăn chặn người dân địa phương bước chân đến. Công ty nầy đã ngăn người Úc đến gần các bãi biển, cấm thuyền của họ đến đảo và thậm chí ngăn chặn họ đến gần đường ranh của hòn đảo.

Tin tức đã được đăng tải trên trang web Newsweek: Chinese Company Buys Australian Island Then Bans Australians From It (newsweek.com)

Lâu nay chính quyền các Tiểu bang và tư nhân Úc đã bán nông trại, hầm mỏ, cơ xưởng kỷ nghệ, phi trường, hải đảo, hải cảng v.v. cho Trung quốc, mà người dân Úc không mấy khi hay biết. 

Báo chí Úc đã báo động Úc sẽ trở thành “Tỉnh thứ 28 của Trung quốc khổng lồ”: “Australia is selling off natural resources, farmland and property to China at a “crazy” rate, putting us at risk of becoming the “24th province” of the East Asian behemoth”.

Vài vụ mua bán, cho thuê điển hình (click vào ảnh sẽ có ảnh to rỏ).
1/ Cảng Darwin cho TQ thuê 99 năm với giá 500 triệu: 2/ Mỏ than vùng Hunter, bán cho TQ:

3/ Windfarm Tasmania bán cho TQ:
“The Australian airport owned by CHINA – and a secretive firm paid just $1 for a 100-YEAR lease on the land”. China trả $1.00 thuê phi trường 100 năm ở Perth.

 

Uranium to China could go in nukes (Nuclear Bomb)

Dan Box, The Australian, January 18, 2006

GOVERNMENT officials negotiating the sale of Australian uranium to China admit there is no guarantee it will never be used in nuclear weapons.
Australian diplomats, due to meet their Chinese counterparts today in Canberra, are expected to push for China to agree to safeguards similar to those signed by other nuclear weapons states that buy Australian uranium, such as the US, Britain and France.

The agreements are designed to prevent the use of Australian uranium in nuclear weapons. However, they allow countries with both nuclear power and nuclear weapons programs to mix Australian uranium with uranium from different sources.
The safeguards state only that an equivalent amount of uranium bought from Australia – designated Australian obligated nuclear material (AONM) – is not used in nuclear weapons.
This means Australian uranium can be mixed with uranium from other sources provided a portion of the total, matching the size of the Australian export, is used only for nuclear energy.
Australian officials admit the system means it is possible for Australian uranium to end up being used in the production of nuclear weapons.
“On an atom-for-atom basis it is theoretically possible,” a government source said.
A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday Australian negotiators would insist that safeguards preventing the use of AONM in weapons production would be a condition of any trade in uranium to China.
“Use of AONM for nuclear weapons, nuclear explosive devices, military nuclear propulsion (or) depleted uranium munitions will be proscribed,” he said.
Responsibility for monitoring the use of AONM is held by the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, whose director-general, John Carlson, is leading the talks in Canberra.
The office already accepts there is public concern the AONM principle means Australian uranium may end up being used in nuclear weapons. “This overlooks the realities of the situation, that uranium atoms are indistinguishable from one another and there is no practical way of attaching flags to atoms,” it says in a 2000 report.
Critics of the current negotiations also argue that any export deal will allow China to use Australian uranium for its energy, diverting more of its existing uranium supplies to its weapons program.
In December, Chinese ambassador to Australia Fu Ying told an audience at the Melbourne Mining Club that China had enough uranium resources to support its weapons program but would need to import more to meet its power demands.
China is planning a significant expansion of its nuclear energy program.
The Uranium Information Centre says China gets about half its uranium needs from its own mines – about 750 tonnes – with the balance imported from Kazakhstan, Russia and Namibia in Africa.
Today’s talks are the result of years of informal negotiations between government and industry on both sides.
WMC Resources, the former owner of the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia, lobbied Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in 2004 to open up discussions on an export safety agreement.
While Australia sits on about 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves, the industry’s attempts to profit from this have suffered under longstanding Labor policy restricting mine development.
A number of senior party figures, including federal Opposition resources spokesman Martin Ferguson, support a change in the policy, widely expected to be debated at the ALP conference next year. This would be a significant step towards overturning restrictions on uranium development in place in individual Labor-held states.
“It’s hard to accept that under the current policy we can, by 2011 or so, have the largest uranium mine in the world (at Olympic Dam) and be potentially the largest exporter of uranium in the world but, at the same time, say that some other little uranium mine which is a pip on the horizon can’t be developed,” Mr Ferguson said./-