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| Subject: China spreads its watching web of surveillance across OZschwitz, using their students as useful idiots Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:17 pm | |
| Fairfax Media reported this week that China was building covert networks of informants at leading universities in Melbourne and Sydney to keep tabs on ethnic Chinese lecturers and students.
The Chinese consulate in Sydney denounced the report as ''totally groundless'' and having ''ulterior motives'', while reminding Australia that China has become its largest source of international students. Hong Kong's Phoenix Television, which beams into China and across the diaspora, interviewed two Chinese students in Sydney who both said the report was ''unfounded''. The Global Times, a popular nationalist tabloid that is a subsidiary of the People's Daily, posited that Fairfax was being used by the ''US-Australia intelligence system'' to manage its ''public relations crisis'' since Edward Snowden's revelations.
Those reports generated thousands of comments and tens of thousands of messages across social media, most of which raged against the ''groundless'' Fairfax report and the political agendas of the Western media. Many wrote letters directly. Beneath the venom and profanities, however, there were other messages it would be dangerous for Australian institutions to ignore.
''You know our face, what we look like, but you don't know why we behave like that, as described in your article,'' said Albert Zhang, a student at Bond University, in an email that linked to a video of a Melbourne University lecture titled ''When China Rules the World''. ''In Australia, we are just a minority group. We are not expecting your asshole government is going to stand for our interests … [We] have to rely on pressure from our asshole government. Another point I want to make is we feel homesick from time to time.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/china-spreads-its-watching-web-of-surveillance-across-australia-20140425-379om.html#ixzz2zwlwdWPK |
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