{"id":56592,"date":"2019-11-24T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=56592"},"modified":"2019-11-24T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:08:31","slug":"australia-probes-deeply-disturbing-allegations-of-chinese-political-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=56592","title":{"rendered":"Australia Probes &#8216;Deeply Disturbing&#8217; Allegations of Chinese Political Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*pfft* In other (long forgotten) news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsroom.co.nz\/2017\/09\/13\/46657\/newsroom-investigation-national-mp-trained-by-chinese-spies\">New Zealand: National MP Trained by Chinese Spies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-australia-espionage-asio\/australia-probes-deeply-disturbing-allegations-of-chinese-political-interference-idUSKBN1XY0P9\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Australia\u2019s domestic spy agency is investigating whether China tried to install an agent in federal parliament in what Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said it had launched an investigation before the alleged plot was reported by Australia\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program and affiliated newspapers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The reports said a suspected Chinese espionage ring had offered \u201ca seven figure sum\u201d to pay for a Melbourne luxury car dealer, Bo \u201cNick\u201d Zhao, to run for a seat in Australia\u2019s federal parliament.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*pfft* In other (long forgotten) news: New Zealand: National MP Trained by Chinese Spies Via: Reuters: Australia\u2019s domestic spy agency is investigating whether China tried to install an agent in federal parliament in what Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d allegations. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said it had launched an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,23,36,27,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","category-coincidence","category-cointelpro","category-covert-operations","category-dictatorship","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56593,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions\/56593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}