Preface ix
1. Dyeing Australia red 1
2. How China sees itself in the world 8
'Brainwashed' 9
The party is the nation 11
Sick man no more 14
'Twisted patriotism' 16
The great rejuvenation 17
China's claim to Australia 21
3. Qiaowm and the Chinese diaspora 25
Mobilising overseas Chinese 25
Bob Hawke's gift 27
The United Front in Australia 29
Chinese-Australians resist 34
Contesting Chineseness 36
Chinese Hansonism 40
Controlling the news 40
Chinese voices 45
The long arm of China's law 47
'They can do anything. They don't care.' 52
4. Dark money 55
Huang Xiangmo in China 55
China's crony capitalism 59
Xi's corruption crackdown 62
Huang in Australia 64
Bipartisan guanxi 68
Chau Chak Wing 73
Zhu Minshen 79
Zhu and the Olympic torch 81
Zhu's role in Dastyari's downfall 83
Political plants 86
5. 'Beijing Bob' 93
The 'China-Whatever' research institute 93
ACRI under pressure 95
A true friend of China 100
Media deals 103
Credulous journos 104
6. Trade, invest, control 110
How dependent are we? 110
The party-corporate conglomerate 113
Beijing's Australia strategy 115
Trade politics 120
Assets for sale 125
One Belt, One Road 125
The Australian OBOR connection 129
7. Seduction and coercion 134
Chinas fifth column in Australia 135
'China is our destiny 136
Norway and the Dalai Lama effect 142
China's geoeconomics 143
Coercing Australia 147
8. Spies old and new 151
Spying on ASIO 151
A thousand spies and informants 152
Huawei and the NBN 154
Huawei's reach 159
Honey traps 161
The Fitzgibbon-Liu affair 163
Hikvision 165
Cyber theft 168
Racial profiling 172
Cyber warriors 173
9. 'Malicious insiders' and scientific organisations 177
'Mobilising Ten Thousand Overseas Chinese' 177
HUMINT (human intelligence) 179
Professional associations 182
CSIRO 188
10. 'Engineering souls' at Australia's universities 194
Thought management 195
Funding PLA upgrade 200
'Make the foreign serve China 203
More PLA collaboration 206
Carrying the torch at UNSW 210
Ethnic enclaves 213
'Academic malware1': Confucius Institutes 215
The party in our classrooms 219
Patriotic students 220
'Denounce and inform 223
What to do? 227
11. Culture wars 230
Chinese voices 232
Sally Zou's gold 235
Real estate woes 237
Patriot writers 239
Co-opting God 243
Chinese Anzacs 244
The Peoples Liberation Army of Australia 248
Digital totalitarianism 249
Beijing's Antarctic designs 252
12. Friends of China 255
The China club 255
The innocents 258
The 'realists' 260
The capitulationists 262
The pragmatists 266
Dear friends 268
The appeasers 270
Australians against democracy 273
13. The price of freedom 276
Acknowledgements 282
Notes 284
Index 343