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# China’s $39bn Fortress on Australia’s Doorstep
- URL: https://goodoil.news/chinas-39bn-fortress-on-australias-doorstep/
- Published: 2021-02-06T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-06T16:58:16.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

Yet again, the Chinese Communist Party is weaponising the moronic greed of a South Pacific panjandrum ruling a running-down island state desperate for cash. No, I’m not talking about **Jacinda Ardern** inching ever-closer to the poisoned carrot that is **Xi Xinping**’s “Belt and Road Initiative”.

Papua New Guinea is swallowing the carrot whole. Now China is showing the whip hand – and unleashing a new, blatant threat against not just Australia but the whole South Pacific.

> A Chinese company says it wants to build a new $39bn city with a major seaport, industrial area and free-trade zone on Papua New Guinea’s south coast, just kilometres from Australian territory.  
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> The “New Daru City” proposal will escalate concerns within Australian security agencies over China’s interest in PNG’s impoverished Western Province, where another Chinese company plans to build a $200m fisheries industrial park.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the_bfd_newdaru.jpg)

The proposed Chinese city will be just 200 kilometres from Australian territory. The BFD.

This would not just be a strategic threat to Australia – especially after the frankly mind-boggling 2015 decision to sign away the Port of Darwin to a Chinese company – but the entire South Pacific. It would also be an environmental and economic disaster, allowing Chinese fleets to spread their pillage of the oceans unchallenged.

> Hong Kong-registered WYW Holding, a developer of Myanmar’s New Yangon City, has asked PNG Prime Minister James Marape to approve the development under a “Build Operate Transfer” arrangement, where PNG would receive the assets after an unspecified period of Chinese ownership and management\[…\]  
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> Mr Mo said the proposed city would span 100sq km and include fisheries and agricultural processing facilities, and ­provision for “intensive manufacturing”\[…\]

In other words, another polluted Chinese wasteland spewing smog and filth into the Torres Strait.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/szedzo_ks1w.jpg)

Coming soon to Papua New Guinea. The BFD.

As [*The BFD* has reported](https://goodoil.news/myanmar-in-trouble-a-little-background/), China has already used BRI funded projects such as New Yangon City to seize a strategic stronghold in the Indian ocean and a base to strike at India. The proposed New Guinea development would similarly stitch up the South Pacific.

**Bluntly, China is trying to divide and conquer two of the members of the “Quad” informal alliance. Japan should keep a sharp eye on the Senkaku Islands.**

As usual, China is proceeding by a combination of divide-and-conquer and playing the greed of puffed-up local politicians. This is the strategy China used in beguiling socialist cockerel **Daniel Andrews** to sign up to the BRI in clear defiance of the federal government and security agencies. In Papua, the communists have waved a wad of cash at a greedy local politician before bedazzling the prime minister with an apparent *fait accompli* bigger than the national GDP.

> Daru, which has a population of just 20,000 people and is the centre of a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic, is about 200km from the Australian mainland but within kilometres of Australian ­islands in the Torres Strait.  
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> The proposed value of the ­development would exceed PNG’s annual GDP by about $US5bn\[…\]  
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> While The Australian understands the letters were received by Mr Marape’s office, his spokesman said the Prime Minister was “unaware of such projects”\[…\]  
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> Western Province Governor Toboi Awi Yoto is a strong backer of Chinese investment in his region, and a recent critic of Australia.

So, if Australia won’t “gibsmedat” to a grasping Pacific mendicant, China will.

A vast Chinese owned-and-run city on Australia’s doorstep is a provocation akin to the Soviets stationing missiles in Cuba in 1962\. Whether China is seriously going to build a massive \[fortress\] city in PNG or whether they are just literally and metaphorically fishing, the threat to the Asia-Pacific region from aggressive Chinese expansion is now undeniable.

> The Lowy Institute’s Pacific program director, **Jonathan Pryke**, said such “absurd” projects were emerging across the region.  
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> “It seems the strategy is to try and get a politician of some level to sign off, generate enough attention around it that Beijing notices, and hopefully something will come out of it that gets the money flowing\[…\]But frankly they are too good to be true.”  
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> [The Australian](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/china-dangles-39bn-carrot-to-build-city-on-our-doorstep/news-story/0c8b1219fb3db6d51a5a8d95e224f50b?ref=goodoil.news)

Somebody needs to get this message across to the dangerously naive Ardern government. Use crayons and lots of colourful pictures if you have to.

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