The utter stupidity of Australian defence policy

A great article was just published on how Australia is building up its northern defences in order to provide a bulwark against China.

Australia is constructing a new naval port on its northern coast to counter a rising China in the Indo-Pacific­ region, Australian Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said the government recognized the "vital importance" of militarizing northern Australia for national security purposes.

This is so utterly mind-bogglingly stupid that I can only assume that the entire project is just pork barrel politics for defence contractors.

First, Indonesia is much closer than China.

Second, if China is a threat, why is Australia importing Chinese people?

A staggering number of recent immigrants to Australia are Chinese, and I would wager that a massive number of Austrlian STEM PhD students are either Chinese Australians or foreign exchange students of Chinese ethnicity.

The Australians don't seem to realize that immigration and warfare are functionally identical: both involve capturing territory and resources.

The idea of fighting China sounds all fine and dandy with a largely non-Chinese population, but what happens when 40% of Australia is Chinese? What happens when Chinese engineers and researchers occupy positions in the universities, defence companies, large industrial organizations (or worse, national intelligence agencies)?

These people don't have the brains to realize that allowing mass immigration from China is effectively handing the country over.