I agree the U.S. wouldn't permit a Chinese mine to be built near the facilities, because yeah, it would be a hotbed of spies. This series shined a light on the geopolitical tensions between Australia and the U.S. , which I had not ever considered before this series, never realized existed on any significant level. But this series revealed they do indeed exist, and the reasons why. As well as the precarious state of play with regard to the South China Sea.
ne of the most interesting points of intrigue for me, is the fact that the land Pine Gap is built on belongs to the Aboriginals. A Trade deal between the Aboriginal tribe and China was being carefully and secretly negotiated. Although, the question of whether or not Kath, the Australian Deputy Chief was "in on it," was never made clear. She was in on something we know, but because the series was abruptly shut down after the first season had been completed and released, we'll never get that answer from the story teller's perspective. Certainly the scene ending the last episode put a punctuation point on what appeared to be a successful intelligence operation between the Aboriginal and Chinese Trade spy. It looked like the road to building the mine right next to Pine Gap facility would be eminent.
Kath's relationship with Jasmina was also very intriguing to me... As a Serbian Orphan during Kosovo/Serbian war because her parents were massacred by the CIA somehow Jasmina ends up in Australia apparently under the tutelage of Kath before she was hired as an analyst. Jasmina has no love for the U.S. and neither does Kath for that matter. So interesting, I would have liked to have seen the dramatization of that particular dangling thread.
So many points of interest, yet on Wikipedia essentially says Pine Gap was widely panned. Why? I think because there are no endless chase scenes, gratuitous explosions (other than the cell phone in the microwave oven) torture scenes etc.
One more thing, I really enjoyed the character "Moses". he was a trip.
this bit from Wikipedia hints at the possible reason why the "show couldn't go on".
Nine-Dash Line controversy
Pine Gap was removed from Netflix in Vietnam, following an order from the country's Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information, as a map with the nine-dash line was shown in two episodes of the series, albeit in a context in which characters criticised China's claim over the waters in on-screen dialogue.[14][15] In November 2021, the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board of the Philippines ordered Netflix to remove certain episodes that featured the nine-dash line, deeming it "unfit for public exhibition" after the country's foreign department issued a complaint calling the line "illegal" and a "violation of Philippine sovereignty".[16]
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