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Embracing China involves risks for Australia : Comments

By Peter Coates, published 5/5/2008

It seems that Kevin Rudd's Government has given China a broad degree of latitude outside normal diplomatic behaviour.

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Hmnn Im not even going to bother answering your comment directly Centra.

You may not have a religious bone in you body Centra and thats fine. But please do not condemn what you do not understand instead condemn what you know is wrong. And that is this Genocide of Falun Gong in China is wrong!!
Posted by Jana Banana, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 4:37:38 PM
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You read about Chinese spies in Australia here on OLO.

Well now "The Australian" is supporting this fact:

see "CHINESE SPYING ON AUSTRALIA" in The Australian, May 31, 2008

"THE worst-kept secret in Australian intelligence - that China operates spies out of its Canberra embassy - has been officially admitted in the top-secret records of the Hope royal commission.

The admission comes despite the longstanding denial by China that it runs spies under diplomatic cover in Australia.

Yesterday, a spokesman at the Chinese embassy told The Weekend Australian: "There have never been intelligence officers at our embassy."

But the Hope report, released publicly this week under the 30-year rule, reveals that Chinese espionage against Australia goes back at least three decades.

It says that, despite the dysfunctional and ineffective nature of ASIO at the time, the domestic spy agency had detected an increase in spies from both the Soviet Union and China between 1970 and 1975.

"Over (that) period, Soviet and other Soviet Bloc identified and suspected intelligence officers posted to diplomatic missions in Australia rose from (number blacked out), not to mention the intelligence officer component at the Chinese (PRC) embassy believed to be about (number blacked out) intelligence officers," the report said.

...It is believed to be the first official Australian admission of China's espionage activities in Australia. However, security officials have been giving off-the-record warnings for years about China's increasingly robust espionage presence in Australia.

In June 2005, The Australian revealed that ASIO had set up a new counter-espionage unit, largely to combat the rise in the number of Chinese spies.

Security sources admit the number of Chinese agents in Australia is greater than the ranks of Russian spies who dominated Canberra during the Cold War.

They say Chinese spies perform three roles in Australia: acquiring sensitive technology for military and strategic advantage; stealing technology and information for commercial gain; and monitoring and infiltrating groups that Beijing tries to suppress, such as Falun Gong."
Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 1 June 2008 8:55:01 PM
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