‘Predatory’ Beijing Focusing on Australia’s Resources and Wealth: Former MI6 Boss

File photo of an image on a placard in Melbourne, Australia, to call for end to Chinese Communist Party militarisation of South China Sea on Sept. 30, 2018. Leigh Smith/Facebook

Beijing has set its “predatory” eyes on Australia’s wealth and land, the former head of British intelligence service MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, has warned.

Dearlove, who ran the spy agency from 1999 to 2004, said Australia’s untapped wealth and resources were very attractive to Beijing.