Sarawak Report provides even more revelations about John Holland parent CCCC and its part in Xi Jingping's Silk Road aka Belt & Road project: Details suggest that Australian Government intelligence on the Belt & Road project is false

by Ganesh Sahathevan




DFAT China hand Graham Fletcher seems to have missed  material 
adverse information about the Silk Roadthat has been in the public 
domain since at least 2017. He is the current Ambassador to China




Sarawak Report's latest revelation about John Holland parent  Chinese Communications and Construction Company (CCCC)includes this insight into China's Silk Road (or Belt & Road) project:

On the Chinese side (Malaysian Jho Low) had cultivated another powerful relationship with none other than the nephew of President Xi, Xinyuan Liu, who was present in Kuwait with the Al-Sabahs and key Chinese officials at the signing of the alleged Kuwait-Silk Road  Partnership in April 2016.

The deal was perhaps reminiscent of the ‘state to state’ partnership signed between Najib and Abu Dhabi. Both ventures, like many of Jho Low’s 1MDB related gambits, appear to have proven to be largely empty facades behind which huge sums went missing.

The revelations are available in full at this link. Readers should also refer to Sarawak Report's earlier story about CCCC and the Malaysian scandal. It includes information about the Greenland Group, which recently made headlines in Australia in relation to its hoarding of scarce face masks.

Sarawak Report is published online out of an apartment in London. It does not appear to have any permanent staff apart from its editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown. Despite these constraints it has discovered and  published significant intelligence about the methods used by Xi Jinping to promote and expand his Silk Road since at least 2017. The intelligence should have alarmed any government agency, but here in Australia the current Ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher was of the opinion in 2018 that the Victorian Government 's Silk Road/BRI deal "had merit". There was also no objection to the PLA linked Landbridge buying the militarily sensitive Darwin Port.

In light of the above one must conclude that Australian government intelligence on China and the Silk Road/BRI project is false.
Whether it is false by design, incompetence or negligence is irrelevant but what is needed is a purge of the so-called "China hands".We can start by calling home Graham Fletcher. 

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