By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
IS the Chinese Communist Party so clumsy, petulant and insecure as to get its agents in Australia to email bomb threats against the Lodge in Canberra and a venue on the Gold Coast because of a tour by the Shen Yun Chinese cultural dance group, which is apparently backed by the Falun Gong spiritual movement that is banned by the CCP.
If that is the case, then Albanese and his China lovers need to take a reality check on their dealings with the CCP.
There is, of course, the possibility of US intelligence operatives pulling off a stunt like this in an attempt to cool the relations between Albanese and the CCP.
However, the shifty-eyed President Xi Jinping showed in 2020 that if he doesn’t like an Australian government, he will punish them. That year he imposed tariffs that covered a range of Australian products including barley, wine, and lobster. The reason was that Australia backed an inquiry into the Wuhan virus. It turned out to be inconclusive.
He went on to ban beef and restrict Australian coal imports, but when the commie-friendly Albanese government was elected in 2022, Beijing began to undo it all.
According to the ABC, a Falun Gong newspaper reported that organisers of the Australian Shen Un tour were sent threatening emails demanding that the shows be cancelled.
The ABC also confirmed that an email was sent to Shen Yun’s local organisers claiming that explosives had been placed around the Prime Minister’s residence, and that they would be detonated if the performances by Shen Yun proceeded.
The email message said: “Large quantities of nitro-glycerine explosives have been placed around the Australian Prime Minister’s Lodge, located on Adelaide Avenue in the Deakin area of Canberra, Australia.
“If you insist on proceeding with the performance, then the Prime Minister’s Lodge will be blown into ruins and blood will flow like a river.”
The ABC has been told Shen Yun received the threat on Tuesday, and passed it on to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in the late afternoon.
On Monday, the Gold Coast’s Home of the Arts (HOTA) theatre was evacuated just after midday after receiving an “unverified threat” via email which was apparently linked to Wednesday night’s Shen Yun performance.
Police said officers attended but found no suspicious items and the venue was re-opened to the public two hours later. They said there was no ongoing threat to the community.
So why would the CCP be so upset about a traditional and theatrical Chinese dance show? Apparently they detect elements of sly anti-CCP messaging in the performance and do not like the fact that Shen Yun highlights elements of Chinese culture that were suppressed or stamped out under communist rule.
There are now eight Shen Yun dance groups touring the globe simultaneously so the CCP cultural czars responsible for the historic suppression of “bourgeois” Chinese culture must be feeling somewhat put out and exposed.
The New York Times joined in on the attack on the New York-based Shen Yun and its associated mystical Falun Gong movement.
Ying Chen, an orchestral conductor with Shen Yun posted on X: “Recent coverage by outlets such as The New York Times has platformed outrageous allegations about Shen Yun, amplified by inaccuracies, cherry-picked claims, and a failure to inform readers of egregious conflicts of interest.”