Age of the Dragon

Why a Chinese company shouldn't control Darwin Port

Bradley Perrett
Updated September 10 2021 - 4:23pm, first published August 27 2021 - 6:00am
Chinese-owned company Landbridge began a 99-year lease on Darwin Port in 2015, alarming national security experts. Picture: Shutterstock
Chinese-owned company Landbridge began a 99-year lease on Darwin Port in 2015, alarming national security experts. Picture: Shutterstock

Ministers and the Department of Defence are supposed to be a little ahead of the rest of us in seeing dangers to national security, what with their intelligence briefings, secret threat assessments and all.

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Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett is a regular ACM columnist with a focus on Australia's relationship with China, covering defence, strategy, trade, economics and domestic policy. He was based in Beijing as a journalist from 2004 to 2020.

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