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McCarthyism Down Under

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

McCarthyism Down Under

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison held a somber press conference on Friday to announce that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had conducted a raid on a sitting member of the New South Wales parliament all because, so far, he’d said favorable things about China and had traveled to the country.

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Shaoquett Moselmane at centre of international espionage investigation after 11 years out of the spotlight

He became the first Muslim MP in the NSW Parliament when he joined the Upper House in 2009 to fill a vacancy.

NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane’s home, office raided by police

Shawki Moselmane said his brother was “a very respectable man” who was the subject of racism, and that the AFP would not find any evidence.

Did Australia’s China paranoia make ‘spy’ Wang Liqiang’s claims too easy to believe?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Did Australia’s China paranoia make ‘spy’ Wang Liqiang’s claims too easy to believe? | South China Morning Post

On Friday, the Sydney-based Daily Telegraph reported that Australian intelligence officials had briefed Prime Minister Scott Morrison on their assessment that Wang was not a Chinese spy “at a level that would attract any interest from Australia”.

Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Twitter’s decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia’s former ambassador in Beijing as “the architect of the China threat theory in Australia.”

Hawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands of Chinese Accounts

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Twitter suspends over 20,000 China-linked accounts that were spreading false news

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The accounts also tweeted about two other topics: Taiwan and Guo Wengui, an exiled billionaire waging a campaign from New York against China’s president and party leader Xi Jinping and his administration. Most had little to no followers and failed to get much attention. The accounts were suspended under Twitter’s manipulation policies, which ban artificial amplification and suppression of information.

Twitter suspends over 20,000 China-linked accounts that were spreading false news

They’ll be censoring antiwar activists, eventually, if they aren’t already!