BEWARE BEIJING BLIND-SPOT: Aussie Politicians Help Well Connected Chinese Coke King's Evil Enterprise

The Sunday Tele reports:

The Sydney businessman (Frank Hu)boasted of his links to Chinese President Hu Jintao, was photographed with John Howard and cultivated dozens of federal MPs, although well-known Sinophile Kevin Rudd was silent yesterday on whether he was one of them.

Hu's company, the Australia-China International Exchange Centre, ran information sessions for MPs in Parliament House and organised visits to China for parliamentary delegations, which included meetings with senior Communist Party officials.

On one such visit in 2003 Hu, also known as Hu Yang, was pictured beaming with the Chinese president as he met a parliamentary delegation led by Liberal MP Judi Moylan in Beijing, which also included the current Speaker, Harry Jenkins...

The Sunday Telegraph has been told Wang has high-level contacts in the Chinese military...

Former Sydney Chinese consulate official Chen Yonglin, who dramatically defected in 2005, recalled that Hu boasted to Chinese authorities about his influence in Australia.

Too many Australian politicians turn a blind eye to human rights abuses, corruption and other hideous aspects of the Beijing regime in China.

This manifestation of it, where several of the most prominent Australians in public life have been duped into unwittingly promoting the commercial interests of a cocaine trafficker is probably one of the most shocking ever reported.

The freebie trips, lavish banquets and vague anticipation that a post-political career in Beijing brown-nosing beckons is usually enough to keep many politicians from ever criticising one of the world's most insidious and corrupt police states. Perhaps after the case of Frank Hu they will be more prudent in their dealings.

FIRST WIFE OF COKE KING STRIKES BACK

In an amusing aside, the Tele explains all was going great guns for the cocaine trafficker:

But it all came crashing down on March 11 when police swooped on the 50-year-old as he left a Sydney hospital where his girlfriend, for whom he left his wife last year, was to give birth to their first child.

That sounds awfully like a victory for the First Wife's Club. Hell hath no fury and all that.

Game on.