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Interesting that there's another version of the story where "intelligence sources" say the culprit is Russia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/russian-agent-suspect...
Edit: wow, and at the end they even try to imply that anti-vaxers are involved with the Russians (with carefully chosen weasel words of course).
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>This honestly makes me suspicious. Arm of government says opposition of current government is corrupted. How convenient Didn't this happen during Obama's presidency, when Hillary and Trump were running?
Yes. And those accusations were true. And, quite possibly, these Australian accusations are also true. It may or may not be a convenient truth, or a truth withheld until a convenient time, or a similar truth about the other party might also be known to be true but not released. Or maybe Labour really is the more corrupt party and ASIO are earnestly working to protect Australian interests. All of these hypothesis are…
> Yes. And those accusations were true.
What's the rundown on this scandal? A link or TL;DR is fine -- not trying to derail.
Better coverage here: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-spies-attemp... "A Chinese spy ring attempted to bankroll NSW Labor candidates in the upcoming federal election in an attempt to get MPs elected to Australia’s Parliament. The plot was foiled by the nation’s counter-espionage agency ASIO, preventing the spies from installing sympathetic candidates into Labor’s preselection process." The opposition…
Sorry but this is ridiculous. The Labor party are openly friendly with China, this isn't some kind of spin. Not only that, but their supporters in the left wing media are even more so.
If anyone doubts that, have a read of this article from the main left-wing news site in Australia that is, no joke, trying to spin this into a story about anti-vaxers working with the Russians to interfere in the election.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/russian-agent-suspect...
As an Australian living in California I’m surprised we don’t see more such issues in California elections. There is out-of-state but still US money in referendum questions but that seems to be it, despite the fact that California’s economy is a lot larger than Australia’s. Australia is of strategic value to China, as it spent the last 20 years as a Chinese mining province, so I can understand their wanting to meddle…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Swalwell#Contact_with_Chi...
As an Australian living in California I’m surprised we don’t see more such issues in California elections. There is out-of-state but still US money in referendum questions but that seems to be it, despite the fact that California’s economy is a lot larger than Australia’s. Australia is of strategic value to China, as it spent the last 20 years as a Chinese mining province, so I can understand their wanting to meddle…
We do have these issues in CA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Swalwell#Contact_with_Chi...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. And those accusations were true. And, quite possibly, these Australian accusations are also true. It may or may not be a convenient truth, or a truth withheld until a convenient time, or a similar truth about the other party might also be known to be true but not released. Or maybe Labour really is the more corrupt party and ASIO are earnestly working to protect Australian interests. All of these hypothesis are…
>> Didn't this happen during Obama's presidency, when Hillary and Trump were running? > Yes. And those accusations were true. What's the rundown on this scandal? A link or TL;DR is fine -- not trying to derail.
Here is a pretty up to date summary, though, if a bit partisan: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/12/08/why_th...
Better coverage here: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-spies-attemp... "A Chinese spy ring attempted to bankroll NSW Labor candidates in the upcoming federal election in an attempt to get MPs elected to Australia’s Parliament. The plot was foiled by the nation’s counter-espionage agency ASIO, preventing the spies from installing sympathetic candidates into Labor’s preselection process." The opposition…
Please raise your hand if you trust the head of a spy agency to tell the truth.
Better coverage here: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-spies-attemp... "A Chinese spy ring attempted to bankroll NSW Labor candidates in the upcoming federal election in an attempt to get MPs elected to Australia’s Parliament. The plot was foiled by the nation’s counter-espionage agency ASIO, preventing the spies from installing sympathetic candidates into Labor’s preselection process." The opposition…
>spinning this to claim that the Labor party are friendly to China. Sorry but this is ridiculous. The Labor party are openly friendly with China, this isn't some kind of spin. Not only that, but their supporters in the left wing media are even more so. If anyone doubts that, have a read of this article from the main left-wing news site in Australia that is, no joke, trying to spin this into a story about anti-vaxers…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-11/china-accused-attempt...
Interesting that there's another version of the story where "intelligence sources" say the culprit is Russia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/russian-agent-suspect...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-11/china-accused-attempt...