Xi Jinping's spy games on Chinese Australians are only getting bolder
That rings a bell. Two decades back this paper reported on Cheng Yonglin, first secretary in China's Sydney consulate, exposing a local informant network secretly monitoring the religious practices of another Buddhist congregation in Australia, Falun Gong.
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