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AU Financial Review
3 days ago
- AU Financial Review
Xi Jinping's spy games on Chinese Australians are only getting bolder
On August 4 the Australian Federal Police charged a local Chinese national with covertly collecting and sharing information about an Australian Buddhist community with a foreign security agency. 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.
AU Financial Review
3 days ago
- AU Financial Review
Xi Jinping's spy games on Chinese Australia are only getting bolder
On August 4 the Australian Federal Police charged a local Chinese national with covertly collecting and sharing information about an Australian Buddhist community with a foreign security agency. 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.
