Chinese Buying Up Australian Water Rights

Timothy Biirdnow

This is disgraceful.

China and U.S. are Biggest Investors in Water Entitlements

Apparently the U.S. and China have been buying up water rights in Australia.

How can you say a nation has sovereignty when it doesn't own it's own water? 

There is an old theory called the Hydraulic Empire or Water Monopoly Empire. It says that a state that owns all the water is absolute and can strangle any opposition. Egypt was one such. Another was....China. The Chinese understand the importance of controlling the water supply.

So if they are investing in water there is a reason. And in Australia water is life itself for the people there. The Chinese have no major agricultural interests in Australia, so why buy up all the water?

Seems to me they seek control.

During the First World War the Germans had to pay Britain royalties on every machine guy and every case of ammunition they used; the patent was held by the British and the Germans had to PAY for the privilege of owning weapons to kill Limeys. One wonders if that isn't the reason they lost the war. At any rate, when your enemies own something that valuable they can bleed you.

Clearly China is doing this to the Australians. We are too, apparently, but for different reasons. (Most likely for agricultural purposes.)

From the article:

"At the moment, there's a small percentage of water owned by foreign interests and much of that is by one property — Cubbie Station," Mr Littleproud said.

However, the Conservative Party's South Australian Senate candidate Rikki Lambert said it was a major concern to see China as one of the major investors in Australian water entitlements.

"Chinese foreign ownership is different to other forms [like British foreign ownership] because it is state-based," Mr Lambert said.

"The Chinese Government has effective control of any [Chinese] company that operates around the world."

"It's strategic because these countries are wanting to shore up their own food security and growing food in another country so they're not using their own water resources at home."

The Chinese aren't doing this for "food security"; they aren't growing food in Australia. It's for power and control.

Which is likely the reason we are doing this too.

If you own the water rights you can shut off the tap.

A nation that allows itself to be owned and controlled by a foreign power cannot be said to be sovereign. That doesn't mean aliens can't be allowed to own some property, but something as fundamental as water rights should never be sold to foreigners, unless they have a specific purpose for those rights and there is a sunset clause.

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