'Travel with caution': China upgrades advice for Australia

China has warned its citizens they could be arbitrarily searched and have their property seized in Australia, escalating its travel advice as tensions rise between the two countries.

The warning, delivered by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs over Chinese social media site WeChat on Monday night, is the third upgrade in as many months after Beijing warned students and tourists that they could face racial discrimination in Australia during the coronavirus pandemic.

Exiled Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo accused the Australian Tax Office of acting as a "despicable tool of political persecution" last year as he fought a $140 million tax bill. Huang had his Australian permanent residency visa cancelled for reasons including character grounds amid allegations he was acting as an agent for the Chinese Communist Party.

There have been reports of Chinese students being racially abused during the pandemic but the Morrison government maintains these are isolated incidents, not a systemic response to the coronavirus, which was first reported in China.China is Australia’s number one source of tourists and students, accounting for billions of dollars in spending across both sectors.

ErykBagshaw You gotta love China! Imagine no cheap: building materials, 'designer' clothing, food, toys, labour.. Oh and where will the casinos lure their gamblers from? What about tourism? Crikey! Capitalism up shit creek unless Govt. repeats history and generates propaganda for war.

ErykBagshaw Stop trading with corrupt Chinese government. Plenty of opportunities with the rest of south east Asia and beyond.

ErykBagshaw Since when? What a crock of absolute BS.

ErykBagshaw Chinese Communist Party should not have control over Port of Darwin . . . seize it ScottMorrisonMP and expel those responsible from NT CLP.

ErykBagshaw Cool..lets seize them and sell them half price so young Australians can afford to buy...fck China!

ErykBagshaw What do we expect with a PM like this?

ErykBagshaw China - cancer of the world! Good riddance to them..

ErykBagshaw CCP showing their true colours

ErykBagshaw If only they had warned it's citizens to not eat bats the world probably wouldnt be suffering from the Wuhan wog

ErykBagshaw The best way to piss off China is to be nice to the Chinese ..not just because it is how we should be to everyone but strategically it is smart to call out China

ErykBagshaw They must have been watching reruns of Border Security

ErykBagshaw At least toilet paper and hand sanitiser is not being stripped from the shelves anymore.

ErykBagshaw I say we should start with the labor party bribes. Get back the port of Darwin. Chinese developers and their daigou network who took all our medical supplies pre pandemic.

ErykBagshaw Lol these guys are experts at bulkshit propaganda

ErykBagshaw Goodbye . Better that way

ErykBagshaw Keep away from Australia & that includes CPC & PLA shonks masquerading as businessmen & investors seeking access to Federal & State MPs to peddle dubious deals & China influences. MFA_China globaltimesnews PDChina XHnews1

ErykBagshaw CCP is showing their true self now. Over 2 decades of being a parasite on the west

ErykBagshaw But their children rather stay in Australia than their motherland China, lol

ErykBagshaw I think all these greedy Liberals, Developers, Investors and the Govt praying for the Chinese Property Investors to return just got knocked out of the ring IT'S OVER

ErykBagshaw We gone brainwash these folks with some facts after the big Boeing lands.

ErykBagshaw TOT for TAT - how long will this go on ?

ErykBagshaw The Chinese citizenry should feel quite at home then

ErykBagshaw The CCP is pure evil.

ErykBagshaw Just as well our borders will be closed for probably the next 12 months and mass tourism is further away still

ErykBagshaw Advising to not travel to Australia when we aren’t letting people in is wise.

ErykBagshaw Bullshit. China warned people reconsider traveling to Australia because of increasing discrimination and violence against Chinese people. Never mentioned anything about search or property seize.

ErykBagshaw Oh and China doesn’t arbitrarily imprison and execute innocent people? Australia should arbitrarily block all sales of property and businesses being sold to China.

ErykBagshaw Saves us money not having to install Chinese road signs up in NSW especially when the tourists don’t drive any way

ErykBagshaw Chinese Propaganda. What a load of bull shit.

ErykBagshaw Self-projection on China's part.

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