Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia

　　2016年，澳洲查爾斯史都華大學公共倫理學教授克萊夫．漢密爾頓意識到有件大事正在發生，那就是：與中國共產黨關係密切的華裔富商已經成為澳洲兩大黨的最大金主。漢密爾頓針對中國因素在澳洲的影響力展開調查，結果讓他震驚。



　　他發現，從政界到文化圈，從房地產到農牧業，從大學到工會，甚至連小學，都遭到中國因素的滲透。中國因素瞄準澳洲社會的菁英人士，動員部分澳洲華人買通在政界的影響力、限制學術上的自由、恐嚇批評他們的人、蒐集訊息給中國情報單位、以及在澳洲街頭抗議澳洲政府的措施。



　　說中國共產黨與澳洲民主正在對撞絕對不誇張。中共決心要贏，澳洲卻故意無視。本書針對長久以來一直被澳洲人視為理所當然的威脅予以全面的研究與有力的論述，漢密爾頓教授承認中國對澳洲的經濟繁榮很重要，但他不禁要問，澳洲的主權究竟值多少？



　　本文取自左岸文化《無聲的入侵：中國因素在澳洲》

Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese government's influence in Australia. What he found shocked him.

From politics to culture, real estate to agriculture, universities to unions, and even in primary schools, he uncovered compelling evidence of the CCP's infiltration of Australia. It is no exaggeration to say the CCP and Australian democracy are on a collision course, with the CCP determined to win, while Australia looks the other way.

Thoroughly researched and powerfully argued, SILENT INVASION is a sobering examination of the mounting threats to democratic freedoms Australians have for too long taken for granted. Yes, China is important to Australia's economic prosperity; but, Hamilton asks, how much is sovereignty as a nation worth?

'Anyone keen to understand how China draws other countries into its sphere of influence should start with Silent Invasion. This is an important book for the future of Australia. But tug on the threads of China's influence networks in Australia and its global network of influence operations starts to unravel.' -Professor John Fitzgerald, author of Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia

Author

Clive Hamilton

　　Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and public intellectual. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra. For 14 years, until February 2008, he was the Executive Director of The Australia Institute, a progressive think tank he founded. Clive has held visiting academic positions at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, University College London and Sciences Po in Paris.

　　He has published on a wide range of subjects but is best known for his books, a number of which have been best-sellers. They include Growth Fetish (2003), Affluenza (with Richard Denniss, 2005), Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change, (2010), Earthmasters (2013), What Do We Want? The story of protest in Australia (2016) and Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the Anthropocene (2017).