An overseas pro-Beijing organization is a driving force behind a decade-long infiltration into Australia, including promoting China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, internal documents reveal. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transcontinental investment project aimed at expanding China’s global influence through political, economic, or cultural cooperation, was first proposed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2013. In recent years, the Australia International Trade Association (AITA) has organized more than 70 visiting tours for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Australian officials. As an Australian civil organization with close ties with the CCP’s United Front Work and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AITA has launched extensive local events focusing on promoting the Belt and Road Initiative. Forums to Promote BRI Since the BRI officially began in 2015, AITA has held forums anually across Australia to promote the BRI, according to the CCP’s foreign affairs documents obtained by The Epoch Times. On Sept. …