CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHINESE ESPIONAGE ACTIVITIES
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The Australian Intelligence organisation ASIO has identified about 10 political candidates at state and local government elections whom it believes have close ties to Chinese intelligence services. Most of those identified by the security services have close ties to Chinese intelligence services and the Communist Party and were candidates at local government elections. ASIO believes the cultivation of political candidates is part of an orchestrated campaign by Beijing to insert agents of influence into Australian parliaments. Sources with knowledge of Beijing’s tactics described it as “strategic and deliberate’’.
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