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Those who think Prince Andrew’s Chinese spy scandal is dreadful will be shocked by recent events in Spain. King Felipe VI of Spain received a delegation led by Dr Chau Chak Wing at the Royal Palace in Madrid. This is what the king said about Dr Chau

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A dive into the toolkit of China’s infamous technology transfer strategy: The Shapeshifting Evolution of Chinese Technology Acquisition by Matthew Brazil

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More from the report for those who can’t access because of the paywall

Xi Jinping added new “red lines” to US-China relations and warned Joe Biden against challenging them. Xinhua named the 4 red lines as: (1) Taiwan question, (2) democracy and human rights, (3) China's path and system, and (4) China's development right

Chinese Communist Party propaganda boss on a secret mission to Australia

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Some Australians are conducting surveys on social media to gauge public opinion about whom they think is the former politician who has betrayed Australia

https://x.com/ayei_eloheichem/status/1763443644525400330?s=46&t=jh0nO2kVunD3l_FxQY8hnA

For the first time, Beijing’s top intelligence agency has laid out 10 conditions subject to scrutiny by its agencies. MSS also acknowledged that “invitation to tea” is the euphemism for “being summoned or investigated for suspected offences”.

About Wissam Haddad

https://dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/police-seize-weapons-in-suburban-raids-islamic-extremist-leader-wissam-haddad-to-front-court/news-story/cda96bc23ce63270cb18b0472c37249d

6 former Australian Prime Ministers issued joint statement on Israel-Hamas conflict: “Our nation’s success depends on us not allowing conflict overseas to turn Australians against each other.”

Global Engagement Center Special Report: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Reshape the Global Information Environment

Recommend this latest publication of Alex Joske on the history of China’s state security apparatus for those who are interested in a possible link of China’s united front effort to its foreign intelligence network.

https://deserepi.org/0/joske_ssd.html

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China’s designated spokesperson to and for Australia.

China’s state media are spearheading a disinformation campaign domestically and internationally against Japan regarding the Fukushima nuclear wastewater release, presumably to take heat off China’s economic crisis.

Full text of Cheng Lei’s message from jail

I submitted an ID document as Twitter requested. But Twitter Support replied with a request for more ID documents. This looks like profiling exercise in disguise. I am not playing their stupid games. Goodbye to Twitter.
This is my reply

So it finally happened. Twitter locked me out of my account claiming that I was underage. I instinctively knew since the changeover that something disastrous would happen there and I would have to leave Twitter. But I didn’t expect it to be executed in such a stupid way.