Beijing accuses Canberra of lying about spy threats
abc.net.au
abc.net.au
In 2020, Wang Liqiang, a man convicted of fraud in China, applied for political asylum in Australia, claiming to be a Chinese spy[1].
However, the video of Wang's 2016 trial and the verdict had been publicly available online for years[2].
In the 1980s and 1990s, Australian agents bugged the Chinese embassy on behalf of the United States, an incident reported by the ABC in 1995[3]. Photos of the bugs in the embassy building were widely circulated online[4].
Not to mention the antics of bugging other countries' embassies[5].
- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Liqiang
- [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3mIbJXa_ps
- [3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-08/the-chinese-embassy-b...
- [4] https://x.com/shen_shiwei/status/1277417056841814017
- [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93Indonesia_sp...