Australia is part of the white man’s intelligence network, Five Eyes. That means too much CIA input into anti-China perceptions in recent years. It also helped bring down the Whitlam government.

Five Eyes, the intelligence alliance between Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand was established in 1946. Today, we need to ask, who are the Five Eyes loyal to?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press has reported that in the 1980s British intelligence agencies accounted for eight per cent of the Five Eyes inputs, while the three smaller powers – Australia, Canada, and New Zealand – together contributed only about 2 per cent. A decade ago, the Australian expert, the late Professor Desmond Ball, estimated that the CIA provided 90 per cent of Five Eyes input. Since then, the gap has almost certainly widened, with US technological capabilities growing exponentially.

Not surprisingly, Australia’s picture of China and the world is thus substantially constructed by the US National Security Agency, CIA and Defence Intelligence Agency. Looking through its rear vision mirror, the US sees China rapidly catching up and mistakenly assumes that China will act as violently, just as the US has throughout its history. So when US agencies, with their jaundiced view of China, identify it as an existential threat, Australian analysts absorb that framing. Easily done!

Heavily influenced by the US, Australian intelligence agencies drove much of the China panic that started about a decade ago. As senior journalist Max Suich argued at the time, the pressure to rev up policy against the Chinese stemmed primarily from the Australian intelligence agencies, bolstered by Defence.

The avalanche of US intelligence stories hostile to China, via Five Eyes, was used in briefings to the anti-China hawks in our legacy media and US funded think tanks. These hawks know zilch about China but, having been on the Washington drip feed for so long, they were naturally at ease spruiking Washington/Langley propaganda about China.

Professor Wanning Sun has pointed to several........

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