Via Domain:
Asian immigration is transforming Australia and the country will soon become “more Asian than European”, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has predicted.
Dr Mahathir, the 94-year-old political elder statesman of south-east Asia, made the comments during an exclusive interview with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He will meet with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Bangkok on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit on Monday.
Mahathir Mohamad, who is in Bangkok for ASEAN and East Asia summit meetings, says Australia will be more Asian than European one day.
Reminded of past comments where he described Australia as a European colony that was not part of Asia, and a deputy sheriff of the United States, Dr Mahathir said: “Whatever white Australians might think of it, the fact is geographically they are more in the Asian region than in Europe.
“They can try and sustain their culture, their language, but the inflow of Asians into Australia will certainly change the character and distribution of population in Australia. And in the future, they are going to be more Asian than European.”
What a pig is Mahatir. He sees everything through the prism of race. I would reject this outright if I could.
That said, that Australia will be “Asianised” is simple fact if mass immigration persists at the current levels and it will come with some very real, very practical problems:
- falling living standards;
- high priced houses;
- gutted labor standards.
But there are two other features to it that are the real unknowns. The first is that it will lead to a major sundering of social relations as expressed through the geography of democratic power. By that I mean that the vast majority of Asian migrants will settle in Sydney and Melbourne, which will transform into unrecognisable Asian megacities.
These two may then govern an enormous country occupied largely by those of European origins. This will lead to deep fractures in the democracy, the kind we are already seeing in QLD where angry ethnic Europeans are voting for nationalist parties. This will only grow and it is concievable that, in fact, a European minority supported by the Bush will govern over a massive urban Asian majority with unknownm consequences.
The second problem it will bring is this, via the ABC:
Australian and Chinese leaders have talked up the opportunities for future cooperation on issues of common interest, brushing aside recent diplomatic strain stemming from philosophical differences.
A 45-minute meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was the first item on Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s agenda as he flew in to Bangkok on Sunday afternoon ahead of the East Asia Summit on Monday.
Canberra’s relationship with Beijing has been tense over the past few years, with China taking exception to accusations the country is trying to interfere with Australia’s political system.
Mr Morrison and Mr Li pushed the importance of their nation’s economic partnership, while also respecting each other’s political processes.
“There is no historical feud or fundamental conflict of interest between China and Australia.”
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in an Australia with five million ethnic Chinese will be immense. Indeed, a third possible politcal environment will be that an ethnic Chinese minority will rule all of Australia’s multicultural hoard, either directly or implicitly with the armed support of the CCP. And anyone getting in the way of that will simply be shipped off to Pilbara labour camps.
Does the 50m population Asianised Australia resemble the cultural/class enmities of Malaysia? Or is it more like the unsustainable ethnic power splits of the British Raj? Is it Tibet in all but name? One thing is certain, it won’t be any kind Australia that you and I recognise.
If you think Australian insitutions and culture is homogenous and strong enough to hold together the kind of ethnic, cultural and power mix described the Dr Mahatir then you’re a braver man than I am. I am a dedicated supporter of mutlicutluralism as it stands but I recognise that it hangs on the dominance of liberal European values.
Taking this for granted is reckless beyond belief.
