Paul Kelly seems to have the balance right even if he is bit soft on what sort of regime Communist China really is. But an assumption of total innocence may also be naive.
Our security people at the very highest level should look into the matter crisply and with a hard edge. Much of the other side of Hu's emails should be with his employers and other contacts. And who knows what ?
And what about giving China first refusal rights for a stabilising period ? In foreign trade one does not get to choose the political nature of the other party. We should be perspicacious.
And even Communist regimes do not last forever. It is no accident that the Tianmen Square statue look like the Statue of Liberty. The more advanced China becomes the more likely that its people will require their liberty.And the Chinese comrades know this. Itis a conundrum.