Right wing Oz PM and legislature greatly up war spending....

...in line with other nervous, VERY nervous, neighbors of the Chinese bully hegemon. Just what seems to be behind it?
Well, listening to radio Oz, it would seem that Chinese interference in Aussie government affairs has been going on for at least two decades. The usual shtick,--- bribing of pols, other officials, academics, etc. Africans will know. They've been taking belt and road up the hind side for decades as well.
But apparently, it goes much deeper, as do all such stateshuperson decisions. It would seem that a number of factors in the personal civil and political freedom democracy that is the PRC, are converging on the one party state.
China has a gaggle of strong winds on her nose. Water, food, other resources-including non -oil/coal energy, health care, jobs, minority dissent, and so on. Neo Han Imperialism in Darker Africa has helped a bit, but is also beginning to backfire, as people and some governments there wake to to smell the tea and won-ton soup..
Combine this with the above worried neighbors, including others, such as the USA and the West, all joining to stand up to the many now clear sins of high Party rulers' dictates, and these dictators also are more and more nervous. Worrisome indeed.
It seems a stretch to me, but then such levels of politics often plum evade me. But I'm reading in many sources, hearing in international radio and TV, from other ham radio operators, and Asians (wealthy Han Chinese), who visit this popular tourist trap on the ocean, alarming talk..
Combined with the major screw ups/cover ups, of the most recent gift to the world, the Wuhan Virus, and the pushes backs from neighbors, we now hear pleas to stop treating the PRC as an enemy. Right, AS IF, quite.
The responses of increased military spending, including a good deal for IT defenses, and huperson intelligence, are mostly allegedly based on fears of a popular melt down in China! Hard for me to fathom. But as always, don't take my words for it.
But can the world afford such military spending?