One Nation's Shan Ju Lin fears Chinese Government will take over

• Asian candidate to run for One Nation in Queensland
• Shan Ju Lin believes the Chinese Government has too much influence in Australia

By Kristian Silva

Shan Ju Lin was announced as One Nation's Bundamba candidate on the weekend.

A woman believed to be One Nation's first Asian candidate is not offended by Pauline Hanson's infamous remark 20 years ago that the country was at risk of "being swamped by Asians".
Shan Ju Lin said she believed she and the party would get the votes of "good Asians" in the Queensland election, slated for 2018, as they too feared the rising influence of the Chinese Government in Australia.
She understood why Ms Hanson made those comments, which included claims that Asians "form ghettos and do not assimilate".
"For European people it's very difficult to distinguish Chinese or Korean or Japanese, and I can understand why she said it," Ms Lin said.
"She sees the problem ahead of everybody, including you and me.
Ms Lin, a school teacher who moved from Taiwan to Australia 26 years ago, said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was exerting too much influence on Australia.
It was already influencing the Labor and Liberal parties, she said, adding there would be serious consequences if huge numbers of its supporters moved to Australia.
"The Chinese Communist Party is a great threat to Australia because they bought a lot of businesses and our harbours and properties," she said.
"They will take over power of Australia. 
"They will form their own government.
"Would you like 500 million people to move to Australia? Would you like to see that happen?"
Political tensions between China and neighbouring Taiwan stretch back more than 60 years, and Ms Lin said she had disliked the CCP since birth.
The CCP is also cracking down on Falun Gong, a Chinese meditation and spiritual movement that Ms Lin has participated in.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) supporters were behind an incident in the Brisbane suburb of Sunnybank in 2010, when projectiles were fired at anti-CCP newspaper the Epoch Times while she was inside with staff.

'Good Asians' will back One Nation: Lin
Shan Ju Lin says Ms Hanson also has concerns about China's influence.

In 2018, Ms Lin will run in the Queensland state election seat of Bundamba — not far from Pauline Hanson's old Ipswich stomping ground, west of Brisbane.
She has ties to the area because of multicultural festivals she organised through the World Harmony Society.
Ms Lin is set to come up against former Labor police minister Jo-Ann Miller, a candidate who enjoyed a huge swing at the last election but has been dogged by political scandals since 2015.
While the Bundamba electorate is an overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon, Ms Lin said she believed Brisbane's Asian community would support her bid to win a seat for One Nation.
"There are two groups of Asians... the good Asians will be like me," she said.
"The other group will be supporting CCP, and those people who support CCP are selfish people."

LNP, Labor, KAP, now One Nation
Shan Ju Lin speaks at a World Harmony Society event, a group she is president of.

For the One Nation challenger, this election tilt could be a case of fourth time lucky.
Ms Lin said the Liberal National Party and Labor had previously approached her to run in other elections, but withdrew their support because of her involvement with the Epoch Times and views about the CCP.

A Chinese language poster promoting Shan Ju Lin when she was KAP candidate.

She ran in the Queensland seat of Moreton for Katter's Australian Party (KAP) in the 2016 federal election, but secured less than 2 per cent of the vote.
However Ms Lin claimed the campaign was doomed from the start because she received little backing from KAP headquarters and did not even meet party leader Bob Katter.
Having spoken to Ms Hanson in person, Ms Lin said things were different this time.
"I believe she supports me," Ms Lin said.
She said she believed she was One Nation's first Asian candidate.
While Queensland campaign manager Jim Savage could not recall any others, he said the party had not kept records of the ethnic backgrounds of its past candidates.
"But when we have an Asian candidate everyone wants to know about it."
Mr Savage said One Nation supported Ms Lin's strong anti-CCP stance.
"Is China an evil communist dictatorship? Absolutely, communism is the diametric opposite to what One Nation stands for," he said.

Ms Hanson announced on the weekend 36 candidates to stand at the next Queensland election.

Australia's Chinese Fifth Column

The 'patriotic education' of Chinese students at Australian universities
Alexander Joske and Philip Wen

The day before a gala celebration marking China's National Day was held in Canberra last week, organisers found dozens of posters they had put up at the Australian National University to promote the event defaced with fluorescent green paint.
In large Chinese characters, vandals had smeared the words "Tiananmen Students" along with the numbers "six" and "four", a reference to the Communist Party's darkest of stains: peaceful, student-led pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square suppressed in a hail of gunfire and bloodshed on June 4, 1989.
As a crowd of bemused onlookers gathered, the event's incensed organisers, from the university's Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA), hastily tore down the defaced posters.
A Chinese student at ANU, Erica Zhao, said, "It's quite cowardly to vandalise the posters behind people's backs," adding, "Australia is a place for free speech. If they felt bad about the posters they could have just spoken out rather than play tricks.
"It [the Tiananmen Square massacre] was not ANU Chinese students' fault."
The act of vandalism may appear innocuous in isolation, but campus spats of a political nature among Chinese students in Australia are exactly the type of incidents Beijing increasingly seeks to monitor.
As larger numbers of Chinese students study abroad, and are exposed to unrestricted and frequently critical media coverage of the Chinese government, greater efforts are being made to ensure they do not return with new-found opposition to the Communist Party.
A directive handed down in January by the Ministry of Education emphasised the importance of "patriotic education" in ensuring all university students – even those studying overseas – "always follow the party".

The defaced China National Day posters at Australian National University.

"Assemble the broad numbers of students abroad as a positive patriotic energy," the document says. "Build a multidimensional contact network linking home and abroad — the motherland, embassies and consulates, overseas student groups, and the broad number of students abroad — so that they fully feel that the motherland cares."
Official CSSA chapters which maintain close links with Chinese embassies and consulates proliferate on university campuses worldwide, and are increasingly vocal in countries with large Chinese student populations such as Australia.Cheng Jingye, China's new ambassador to Australia,with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in August. 

The Chinese embassy and consulates in Australia routinely help fund and provide venues for major CSSA student events. 

The CSSA at Sydney University, for example, says on its website that one of its key aims is to help the "Education Office of the Chinese embassy to organise all forms of activities relating to Chinese students".
One former CSSA executive at an Australian university told Fairfax Media that executives from universities all around the country are flown, at the embassy's cost, for regular conferences with Chinese officials on collaborating with the embassy and on the latest party doctrines.
The association's executives are prolific in their output of pro-government statements, with former president Zhu Runbang recently penning an article for state-owned media company China Radio International entitled, "Overseas Chinese and Chinese Students in Australia Support the Chinese Government's Legal Rights in the South China Sea."
Last year, the president of the ANU CSSA intimidated and yelled at staff in ANU's pharmacy for stocking the Epoch Times, a dissident newspaper with ties to the Falun Gong, until they let him throw the papers out.
Mention of the Tiananmen massacre is strictly censored online and in school textbooks in mainland China, and for many young Chinese students they only learn of the full extent of the events of 1989 when they move overseas for study.
The defaced posters incident at ANU appeared to result in a heightened security presence at the "I Love China 2.0" Chinese National Day gala, held at the Canberra Theatre on Thursday night with Chinese ambassador Cheng Jingye the keynote speaker.
A group of men in black suits, communicating via walkie talkies, appeared to be operating independently to uniformed security guards at the venue.
Focusing their attention on attendees they considered unwelcome, they repeatedly followed and harassed a student journalist for ANU's campus newspaper Woroni, even tailing him when he went to the toilet.
Both the CSSA and Canberra Theatre declined to comment on the security situation at the event.
The night's programme featured schoolchildren waving Chinese flags as they chorused "this is your birthday, my Motherland". 

Another patriotic song belted out the line "the black-eyed, black-haired, and yellow-skinned are forever the descendants of the dragon".
And in a video package aired that evening, an interview with a young ANU student was shown as a shining example for all those watching. 

Having immigrated at age five and holding Australian citizenship, she was asked whether she considered herself more Chinese or Australian.
"More Chinese," came her quick reply.