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Worldwide network of governments and NGOs involved in huge anti-China propaganda campaign – there IS a hybrid war against China
Best China Info note the same ‘narratives’ including the latest round of allegations of ‘genocide’ and declarations of propagandised by the UK and US governments the US State department and Secretary of State Pompeo, (who also removed ETIM from the terrorist list) and also the ASPI and Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (@ipacglobal See: ipac/status) and influential far right-wing Henry Jackson Society, and such dubious characters as Senator Marco Rubio (See: Hollywood Producer Gave Marco Rubio 500,000 to love Joshua) Baroness Helena Kennedy, ipac.global/team/baroness-helena-kennedy/ Benedict Rogers et al, and so, ultimately the US and UK governments, along with Netherlands, Australia and others, and their continuing racist propaganda agitprop campaign against China.
(Where did the lies start? Part 1 of 4. Millions of #Uyghurs in camps #Xinjiang? Where did the lies and propaganda about China’s Xinjiang Uyghurs Actually Start? Part 1 of 4. A Self-Certifying Self-Perpetuating closed-unit Loop of Scripted Disinformation, Spin and Lies from CIA – NED Radio Free Asia Adrian Zenz CHRD Part 1: https://youtu.be/xPcDYdq-Xek Part 2: https://youtu.be/Rfe0b7NGNIA Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2M9k2OgCUk )
It is transparently obvious that there is a massive and concerted inter-governmental conspiracy to coordinate a hybrid war against China, including a McCarthyist ‘witch-hunt’ of Chinese-born academics and professionals throughout the western world – baseless claims made by CIA NED media outlets like Radio Free Asia and deeply spurious and completely debunked concoctions made up by Adrian Zenz form the basis of almost all the claims and allegations against China regarding the Xinjiang region. It’s the same gang involved and embroiled in all this.
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‘The Australian Research Council launched investigation into Australian academics, based solely on US government-funded research by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, after report in Murdoch press‘
Karl Wilson for China Daily covered this story on October 26 2020. Reproducing in part here:
China Daily Global / 2020-10 / 26
‘Think tank’ pushes anti-China barrow by
Karl Wilson in Sydney | China Daily Global
Australian ASPI – backed by US military corporations
The questioning encountered by three Chinese-Australian citizens in a recent Senate hearing on issues facing diaspora communities in Australia had an eerie resonance. As Yun Jiang, Osmond Chiu and Wesa Chau came away from the hearing they might have been forgiven for wondering whether they had been transported back to the 1950s and the communist witch hunt of senator Joseph McCarthy in the United States.
At the hearing on Oct 14 Senator Eric Abetz asked all three if they were prepared to “unconditionally condemn the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship”. The line of questioning was straight out of the McCarthy handbook and received a swift backlash on social media.
Behind the anti-Chinese stance is a small clique of politicians, journalists, academics and an outfit that calls itself the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, also known as ASPI. ASPI, established in 2001, describes itself as “an independent, nonpartisan think tank that produces expert and timely advice for Australia’s strategic and defense leaders.” The reality is not just a little different but the exact opposite.
ASPI is big on pushing the anti-China barrow whether it be related to alleged buying political influence, taking over Australian companies, infiltrating universities or spying. As this anti-China push has gathered pace over the past few years, some analysts have suggested that Australia’s China policy-making has undergone a leadership shift, with influence moving away from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and toward the Prime Minister’s office and defense and national security agencies.
Former Australian foreign minister Bob Carr has said ASPI “consistently expresses pro-American positions” while being funded by major US military and armaments corporations. Labor Senator Kim Carr earlier told the Senate: “In parts of the defense and security establishment there are hawks intent on fighting a new Cold War. They have waged a muttering campaign against collaborations with China and have found eager acolytes in sections of the Australian media.”
In July the Business Analysis and Commentary website reported that ASPI had been awarded a contract worth A $214,500 ($153,000) by the Department of Defence for “management advisory services”. Last year it was given an even bigger amount, $614,536.
It has also been reported that ASPI has received funding from the governments of the United States, United Kingdom and Japan as well as NATO. Its corporate supporters are said to include BAE Systems, Raytheon, Saab, Northrop Grumman, Naval Group and MBDA Missile Systems.
Jocelyn Chey, Australia’s former consul-general to Hong Kong, criticized ASPI for lacking basic knowledge of China’s political system. Geoff Raby, former Australian ambassador to China, said ASPI is “very much the architect of the China threat theory in Australia”.
ASPI is widely read by members of the Australian Parliament, especially those beating the Cold War drum. Andrew Hastie, who chairs the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, is a good example.
James Laurenceson, director of the Australia China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney, said that with no sign of the political tensions between the two countries easing, the big danger is the erosion of the economic and people-to-people ties that were once the glue holding the relationship together.
14 December 2020 | Written by Marcus Reubenstein
Another article by @Reubenstein reveals and makes transparent the Australian government policy / Murdoch News Corp agenda against China, which in turn reveals a deeper and wider conspiracy of propaganda and aggression from AUKUS axis. N.B. Best China Info have been kindly allowed to re-publish this by Marcus Reubenstein. Another expose of the racist Sinophobic agenda of the US / Raytheon / Arms corp funded ‘ASPI’ – Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the Australian Research Council and Rupert Murdoch / Newscorp.
— ChinaBazzar
Marcus Reubenstein’s article begins:
‘The day after The Australian newspaper published a story accusing 32 academics at Australian universities of being part of program providing research to the Chinese military, the Australian Research Council (ARC) wrote to universities demanding they investigate individual academics who had applied for government research grants.
The sole basis for that demand, ARC officials told universities, was a report written by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and paid for by the US State Department.’
The Australian’s article, co-authored by Sharri Markson and Kylar Loussikian, raised concerns over the Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese government scholarship and grant-based recruitment program to halt the brain drain of Chinese academics moving overseas.
Two key experts interviewed for the article were the ASPI analyst who wrote the US-funded report and a New Zealand academic who is an ASPI associate. Markson and Loussikian wrote, “Australian academics are giving the Chinese Communist Party access to their technology and inventions where there is the risk they could be used for military or intelligence purposes.”
The Australian did not provide any proof to substantiate this claim or to back up the allegations of misconduct levelled at the mostly Chinese born academics who had received Commonwealth research grant money in Australia. Research applications from these academics had already undergone three levels of Australian government checks by the ARC, the Australian National Audit office and assessment against Department of Defence export control regulations.
A Senate inquiry was told no concerns had been raised by any government bodies in relation to the research applications, yet The Australian published the names and photographs of all 32 academics.
Among those ‘named and shamed’ were many who had called Australia home for decades.
The overwhelming majority engage in research that is not in any discernible way connected to military applications.
Their fields of study include food science, immunology, orthodontics, osteoarthritis, data analysis, optics, environmental systems modelling, sea ice ecology, plant physiology, marine science, climate change, clean energy, renewable energy, textiles, ceramics, solar cell technology and healthcare database development.
The Research Council reacts
The ARC is the government body that administers federal grants for university research. In its correspondence to universities, the ARC stated that academics had been identified as having connections to Chinese universities which ASPI had rated as “high risk”.
The letter’s author, ARC’s Chief Programs Officer Kathie Dent, identified the ASPI research and included a web link to ASPI’s China Defence Universities Tracker.
The tracker identifies 159 Chinese universities with alleged links to military or weapons manufacturers, with 92 of those labelled as “high risk”.
The ASPI report, which the ARC relied upon to launch its investigation, was entirely funded by a $190,000 grant from the US State Department.
Neither the ARC nor The Australian reported that one of the supposed “high risk” academics had no links to any Chinese government research programs and that ASPI, and its analyst Alex Joske, were forced to issue a public apology.
sent the day after The Australian story is published
ARC questioned by Senator
It emerged in a Senate Committee hearing in October that the ARC relied solely on the ASPI report, with CEO Professor Sue Thomas confirming the letter had been sent to the universities.
Under questioning from Labor Senator Kim Carr, she admitted that the Go8 (Group of Eight), which represents Australia’s top research universities, had expressed serious misgivings about the accuracy of the ASPI research in a letter to the ARC.
When asked specifically about those concerns Professor Thomas stated, “Universities feel it [ASPI research] is not a good source of information.”
Carr pointed out, “There have been occasions when the institute [ASPI] has actually got the wrong university, got the wrong person and got the wrong country! Is that true or not?”
Professor Thomas responded, “There was one instance… I can’t remember the details of who it was about, we would prefer not to comment on individuals.”
Carr countered, “The point is he’s been commented upon. He’s been pilloried across the country. You put out, on the basis of this material, statements to these universities a day after this article appeared; that’s the case, isn’t it?”
“It was fairly soon after,” was the response from the ARC chief.
The News Corp investigation
In August, The Australian’s Markson emailed a list of questions to at least 32 academics at leading universities across Australia.
The primary basis for these questions appeared to be the ASPI report, which contained false information.
The academics were asked about links to the Chinese government and whether they were giving the Chinese Communist Party access to research related to “military or intelligence purposes”.
According to evidence later presented by the ARC to a Senate Estimates committee, there had been no irregularities in relation to their applications.
Separate to that, academic grants are assessed against the Defence Export Control Act, which prohibits the sharing of defence technology with foreign governments.
When asked how many academics in Australia had breached these controls—a central allegation of The Australian’s report—the ARC chief responded, “Zero that I am aware of.”
Carr then put to the ARC, “Someone puts some scurrilous material in a Murdoch newspaper, you decide that you’re now going to run this jihad against some of our most prominent scholars!”
The “corroborating” experts
Aside from ASPI’s Alex Joske, Markson and Loussikian sought comment from Matthew Henderson, a vocal anti-China campaigner with conservative UK think-tank Henry Jackson Society. Its co-founder, Matthew Jamison, quit in 2017, saying it had become a “far-right … racist organisation, run in the most dictatorial, corrupt and undemocratic fashion”.
The other expert quoted was Canterbury University (NZ) Professor Anne-Marie Brady. Several weeks earlier Professor Brady had co-authored a report on alleged Chinese military infiltration of NZ universities that was published by the US government-funded Wilson Center, of which she is a fellow.
comment on an ASPI report
Markson’s story did not mention that Brady was also an associate of ASPI, with a profile page on its website.
Support from former Howard minister
The ABC, which a recent APAC News investigation revealed has provided significant favourable coverage of ASPI’s work, conducted an in-depth interview with Alex Joske on Radio National. That interview was with Amanda Vanstone.
Aside from being a part-time ABC radio host, Vanstone is a former Howard government cabinet minister who is enmeshed in the defence establishment, she sits on the board of long time ASPI sponsor, Lockheed Martin.
In interviewing ASPI’s Joske—on an Australia taxpayer funded radio program—Vanstone failed to disclose that her company has paid his think-tank $160,000 in the past two years alone.
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