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The WA Government's fight with Clive Palmer is continuing to escalate, with the state's Premier labelling the mining magnate a "greedy hypocrite" and accusing him of "milking" Chinese … The Chinese government won’t allow Australians or any Australian company to control ports or airports in China. Squadron Leader said the landing strips are similar to R.A.A.F landing fields and fighters could be landed there easily from Chinese Aircraft Carriers “It should ring alarm bells for all Australians that the WA Labor Government has allowed Merredin Airport to transfer into Chinese ownership, meaning Australian aircraft need Chinese permission to land on their own soil,” Mr Palmer said. “It should ring alarm bells for all Australians that the WA Labor Government has allowed Merredin Airport to transfer into Chinese ownership, meaning Australian aircraft need Chinese permission to land on their own soil,’’ Mr Palmer said.

We don't put up a paywall – we believe in free access to information of public interest. The businessman has put his attacks on Beijing at the centre of his election campaign, despite most of his campaign funding likely coming from China.

We designed a…UC Davis Health today announced a partnership with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE to participate…Essays by members of Michigan Tech’s Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture from the 1,000…The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is welcoming the Queensland Government’s move to…Changing the perspective from which you recall memories activates different parts of your brain, according…A new robotic system allows medical staff to remotely operate ventilators and other bedside machines…/Media Release. Mr Brewster is also Mr Palmer’s nephew and a former manager at the billionaire’s Queensland Nickel mine.The ad goes on to explain the airport could “in effect” support a “Chinese communist” army.“It has the facilities necessary to support and sustain large-scale naval operations in the Indian Ocean,” former Royal Australian Navy commander Phil Collins says in another voiceover.“The power generation and water desalination plant, together with the bunker fuel capacity, provide the necessary logistics to provide a large ground force equipped with heavy equipment.”Clive Palmer's UAP has released a new ad claiming 'communist China' is running a 'clandestine takeover' of Australia.The airport is attached to an iron ore mine privately run by Chinese mining company CITIC, which is leasing a tract of land from Mr Palmer’s Mineralogy company.CITIC and Mr Palmer is currently in an ugly international legal dispute. Clive Palmer has blasted the WA Government for allowing Chinese control of Australian airports. Never thought I would see the day I supported Clive Palmer But his add on the Chinese Airstrip in the Pilbara is spot on An ex R.A.A.F. His billboards litter highways and arterial roadways, and letterboxes are filled with his flyers.It is estimated he has sent about five million unsolicited political texts since October.News.com.au contacted Mr Palmer and UAP for comment but they have not responded.Martin Brewster provides voiceover on the controversial ad. It’s an attack on China. He claimed when he became a member of the groups he was naive of their links with the communist party.News.com.au contacted Mr Yang for comment on this story but he has not responded.He has even shelled out to air his commercials on Australia’s highest-rating show, An advertising expert, who has worked on dozens of political campaigns, said the ads were “absolutely woeful” and called the political messaging around China a type of personal therapy for the billionaire, who is embroiled in a legal stoush with Chinese company CITIC.“Clive has an axe to grind with some Chinese people,” said Toby Ralph, a marketer who has worked on about 50 election campaigns worldwide.“This might be a public way of being on the psychoanalyst’s chair for him.“He’s spending $20 to $30 million at the moment,” added Mr Ralph, who has controlled in the vicinity of $1 billion in advertising over the course of his career.Mr Ralph said there was a gap between the amount of money spent on the campaign and the quality of the ads.“(The ads) look very self-made. Why should Bill Shorten or (WA Premier) Mark McGowan allow them to control our strategic assets?” the ad asks, before imploring viewers to vote for the UAP.Mr Yang last year defended his character after resigning from Chinese organisations linked to the communist party.

View in full Well, unlike many news organisations, we have no sponsors, no corporate or ideological interests. Mr Richardson says Mr Palmer's advertising campaign ahead of the upcoming federal election is an 'irritant' and that there will be 'no return on this investment'. The United Australia Party leader has admitted plans to spend $50 million on his election campaign.Clive Palmer's UAP have released a new ad making claims that 'communist China' is running a 'clandestine takeover' of Australia.Experts in strategic defence and marketing have dismissed the latest TV ad from Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, describing claims that “communist China” is attempting a “clandestine takeover of our country” as “tacky scaremongering” and “mind farts”.Mr Palmer ramped up his political rhetoric last week, claiming in the new political ad the Chinese government was working with Australian politicians to make military moves on Australian shores.The two-minute ad, which resembles a YouTube conspiracy video, takes aim at the West Australian Labor Party and the federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, saying “we can’t trust Labor with our future” because of the party’s supposed ties with “communist China”.The ad’s scariest claim centres on an airport built on red dirt in WA’s remote northwest, about 80km south of Karratha and 30km inland from the Port of Cape Preston.The remote airport is found in northwest Western Australia.The ad suggests the Chinese could use the airport to invade Australia, take over the state’s resources by stealth and support a “large ground force”.“Chinese communist-owned companies with the help of the Labor Party built and constructed a private jet airport,” the ad claims.“Australia could not repel military aircraft if they landed from carriers offshore.