Is Australia Afraid of Becoming China's Colony?

That may be the reason behind the forestalling of a Chinese takoever of Australia's RTZ mining company.

In rejecting the deal, Australian Prime Minister Keith Rudd rightly characterized the Chinese company as state-owned, and called China by its right name: The Communist People's Republic of China. The Chinese name, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo literally means "Chinese People's Communist Republic."

In many ways, Australia and China are complementary. Australia has lots of natural resources, China has many people. Australia is "land" rich (relative to its population), China is labor intensive. "Overcrowded" China probably wouldn't mind moving some of its people to Australia. But Australia would mind greatly. Nevertheless, a steady flow of aluminum, copper, iron, and other minerals flows from Australia to China.

In the past, densely populated European countries made colonies out of relatively sparsely populated resource rich countries. Australia may fear that China wants to do the same. Colonialism used to work the other way: Europeans colonized non-Europeans. But the colonization of a basically European country by a non-European country would be a "first."

That's why it's unthinkable.

Chinese demand is now saving Austraila from the recession that's now engulfing the rest of the developed world. But Australia is more worried about its independence, and is beefing up its armed forces with the proceeds of its exports to China.

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