Professor Anne-Marie Brady FRSNZ
@Anne_MarieBrady
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Tracking politics of China--domestic and foreign; NZ foreign policy; Pacific and polar politics--plus🐦and🐓
Joined April 2010
We take democracy for granted, we think that once our societies have achieved it, it will always be available to us. But democracies depend on us all, we need to constantly work on the social contract. We make, or break, our democracies every single day.
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我与勇敢抗议政府的中国人民站在一起。 . 加入我并发布您的图片。 让🇨🇳中国政府知道全世界都在观注。#中国抗议
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I stand with the people of China who are bravely protesting against their government. A4 white paper is being used as a symbol against censorship. Join me & post your image. Let the🇨🇳 government know the whole world is watching. #A4Revolution
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I'm back. I cleared my name. Thank you for all the support I received from my academic peers at University of Canterbury and around the world, from NZ Members of Parliament, and from the many people in Aotearoa and across the world who have offered support. Cheers!
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Five years ago, I sounded the alarm about how .NZ was being targeted by a concerted foreign interference campaign by China. It is has taken 2 lengthy Parliamentary inquiries, and 4 years of internal discussion to get us to the point where NZ government would name the problem.
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Some of the biggest names in social media, from @Twitter to @LinkedIn @Zoom & @Facebook, appear to be getting into a habit of silencing CCP critics. Yesterday it was my turn to be censored. Thanks for your support in getting it overturned @edwardlucas .
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Australia, Germany, Canada all supporting Taiwan's full membership of WHO.
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I have 3 objections to Confucius Institutes .1 They breach our laws on freedom of religion/association.2 The contract requires partner unis subsidise them 50% =our taxpayers subsidise 🇨🇳 influence agenda .3 CIs are based in our unis & have silencing affect on China issues.
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Seems like @Twitter may have briefly forgotten they don't work for Xi Jinping #CPC100Years
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🇳🇿NZ Defence Force also trained 🇨🇳PLA personnel at the Command and Staff College in Trentham NZ. NZ's MOD has an ongoing agreement with PLA to train defence personnel signed July 2019. Minister @PeeniHenare, you ok with this?.
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🇨🇳 government now denying Australia & NZ's right to accreditation of Head of Mission in Hong Kong SAR. HK is a separate customs territory, so China is denying HK economic autonomy & punishing HK, Australia & NZ for #COVID19 travel bans to China travelers.
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This is the world we live in now, the WHO afraid of offending Xi.
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A leading NZ🇳🇿 news site tells readers commentary must follow PRC🇨🇳 law, or they'll risk being reported to CCP govt. There should be a law against this foreign interference, but NZ media laws are weak & the NZ Media Council principles ignore censorship.
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The thing that worries me a lot about Biden filling the State Dept and NSC with Obama-era staff is that on the areas of US policy with which I am most familiar--China, the Pacific and the polar regions--they underestimated the CCP and the Kremlin.
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I guess it is a bit late to tell the world, but People's Democratic DICTATORSHIP/人民民主专政 is the CCP's own name for the system of government ruling China since 1949. So calling Xi a "dictator" is about as non-controversial as saying the moon is round.
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NZ media needs to tell the story of how NZ chemists, supermarkets and warehouses were emptied of masks, gloves & other equipment & sent to China, thereby creating unnecessary shortages here.
In just 5 weeks after the Wuhan lockdown, China imported 2 billion masks, equal to 2-1/2 months of worldwide mask production.
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The PRC🇨🇳 Embassy NZ has issued a threatening statement to media organisation @NZStuff, telling them to cease investigating China's foreign interference activities in Aotearoa NZ🇳🇿
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A whopping 80% of New Zealanders want @jacindaardern NZ government to promote human rights with PRC🇨🇳, even if it has an impact on economic relations .73% of NZers have no confidence in Xi Jinping as world leader .67% have an unfavourable view of the PRC
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Read my report on PLA's access of NZ's military technology/knowhow via our companies & universities, in breach of our laws, international obligations--and national interest. Released to @NZParliament on 23/7/20, then published @TheWilsonCenter #nzpol.
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I'm proud to be an adviser to @ipacglobal .So good to see a nonpartisan group of politicians from Australia, Canada, EU, Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden, UK, US, joining to #standtogether on China . NZ politicians must step up too. United we are strong.
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Like I said, NZ's China policy isn't pretty to watch.
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Today's the 2 -year anniversary of the burglary at my house, when a (broken) laptop I wrote #MagicWeapons on was stolen, plus 2 other laptops, a burner phone I'd taken to 🇨🇳, & another old phone. Valuables were ignored. The next day there was a (2nd) break-in at my uni office.
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If you are a business person, academic, journalist, politician visiting China, be cyber-safe: .take a stand-alone laptop--or even better none at all; take a burner phone; set up a dedicated China-only email account; don't use public wifi; discard gift USBs; don't share your own.
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Phoenix TV 凤凰卫视 founded by ex PLA propaganda apparatchik, & so trusted by CCP, a technician told me that in Zhongnanhai "all the TVs are tuned in to Phoenix"--not CCTV. All 🇨🇳, HK & Overseas China media must serve as “mouthpiece of the Party” regardless of ownership/location.
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The draft security agreement between PRC🇨🇳 & the Solomon Islands🇸🇧 has implications for the security of all the Pacific islands. If a hostile power controls a base on the Solomons they can block shipping traffic from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean, into the Coral Sea, & beyond
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Ōtautahi Christchurch today: the people of the Garden City quietly lined up to lay flowers and send aroha out to our Muslim neighbours, friends, students and visitors so viciously attacked three days ago. We love you and we stand with you. ❤️🇳🇿
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Jian Yang/杨建 retiring from Parliament is a tactical move, not a fundamental shift. @NZNationalParty woke up to the fact that he was a liability for them--after promoting him 3 times. They are in panic mode. It hasn't resolved National's dependence on funding from CCP proxies.
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@NewsroomNZ @nzchinacouncil @nzherald @NZStuff @winstonpeters Special mention also @TheSpinoffTV who published this gem by @BMarchetich: .Probably the best summary of the significance of Zhang Yikun/National Party funding scandal for NZ democracy & why you should care about Chinese govt interference in our politics .
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The CCP has established a new online portal that allows people to report compatriots in China and abroad to police for political crimes.
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Should NZ🇳🇿 form a post-Covid bubble with Taiwan🇹🇼--and our Pacific partners, to create a 60 million+ common market, access high-quality PPE that does not come with political strings attached, & avoid dependence on the China market?. Look out for my article @NZStuff tomorrow
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The NZ MSM media and NZ politicians won't talk about Yang Jian MP's 15 year-role in PLA military intelligence and membership of the CCP. Daisy Lee asks the difficult questions, drawing on new Chinese sources.
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"Jiang said officials treated Xinjiang like a war zone, & police officers were told that Uyghurs were enemies of the state." All detained--men, women, children as young as 14--were tortured to extract confessions to justify imprisonment. #UyghurGenocide.
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Crackdown on Judaism in China. In 2019, the Chinese government targeted the ancient Kaifeng Synagogue because Judaism is not one of the CCP's “Five Authorized Religions”. Govt personnel removed all Jewish signs and the flag of Israel from doors and windows.
Kaifeng Jewish Community Suffers New Suppression.Under the pretext of “religious infiltration,” the CCP’s crackdown against religious groups has hit again the oldest community of Jews in the country.
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A Chinese naval vessel is making a trip to NZ to practice passing through Cook Strait . I’d like to hear PLA-Navy explain why they need to know how to do this, & NZ govt explain why they permit it . PLA-Naval Submarine Academy among trainees on the trip.
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"Sometimes, one or another of us would faint. If she didn’t come round, a guard would yank her to her feet and slap her awake. If she collapsed again, he would drag her out of the room, and we’d never see her again. Ever."
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Two former US Homeland Security personnel have been charged for having sold PRC Ministry of State Security (MSS) agents access to FBI's sensitive and confidential database of U.S.-based dissidents from the PRC.
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China introduced tight censorship restrictions on information relating to #coronavirus aimed at controlling the narrative.Those who "disrupt social order" by posting on social media information other than Xinhua, govt sources, risk 3-7 years imprisonment .
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This year, for the first time ever, 🇨🇳registered 26 Chinese People's Armed Police Force Coast Guard vessels to operate in the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission Convention Area. It is also the area of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd island chains. My latest @Diplomat_APAC 🧵
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Sāmoa🇼🇸 now confirms it will scrap the deal set up by previous government for a [redundant and costly] PRC🇨🇳-funded port
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"Sophisticated Chinese efforts have been uncovered in Australia & New Zealand to buy influence within universities, bribe politicians, & harass the Chinese diaspora community into becoming advocates for Beijing."
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NZ suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong. Also: NZ subjects military and dual-use goods & technology exports to Hong Kong to same Wassenaar Arrangement limits as it has with China. Incredible that there was this loophole.
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This is huge. Immigration NZ are closing their Beijing office, which was run by PRC🇨🇳 Public Security Bureau company, & after closure of other INZ visa offices, had been processing most visas for NZ = birdseye view for PSB of who was trying to get to NZ.
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New Zealand is “on the edge of viability as a member” of its allied relationships, because of its “supine” attitude to China & its “compromised political system” .#nzpol you are going to want to read every word of this superb @FT report 🎓@JamilAnderlini
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Wow, Muller is justifying Jian Yang's CCP membership now. It is not possible to voluntarily leave the CCP, it's not like being in a NZ political party. When is National going to accept that their main fundraiser, is a political liability in 2020 election?.
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Now that foreign academics are banned from visiting 🇨🇳 due to Covid19, will my peers find their voice & speak up about what they mutter in private? Fear of losing access is given as the reason why many would not speak up for Hong Kong, Uighur, or against the oppressive rule of Xi.
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USA: .54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments. China was the source of their undisclosed support for 93% of those investigated.
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Chinese-New Zealanders who have seen foreign interference first-hand say the Government needs to create new laws to prosecute Chinese Communist Party agents, who the SIS has confirmed are interfering in NZ’s democracy.
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Crikey! Public acknowledgement that my research helped change US--and allies--global strategy on China. The paper that started it all is here: As reported by @BethanyAllenEbr @zachsdorfman .
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NZ to pass legislation *under urgency* to ban foreign donations to level of $50 cash. Political parties required to do due diligence on donations. A good start, more needs to be done to make our democracy resilient against foreign interference. #nzpol.
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Just a regular Sunday at a CCP-controlled "Three Self Patriotic Church", China's only government-sanctioned Protestant church. Any pretense of separation between Church & State disappeared under Xi Jinping. The CCP controls the churches via the United Front Work Department.
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Today I visited Freeman Yu @xmyhm in hospital. His eyes are open, but he can't yet speak. He was crying as he tried to communicate with me. He called my name, but no other words were clear. Freeman loves NZ & has bravely spoken up @NZParliament on CCP political interference in NZ
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China's #COVID19 figures are simply not reliable, .More than 43,000 people tested + for Covid-19 in February but did not show symptoms. They were not included in 🇨🇳 official number of infections: 80,000.
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It is overwhelming for me to watch @NZStuff Long Game on CCP foreign interference and espionage in NZ. There was so much I wanted to say, but I did not feel safe doing so. The public conversation has not been mature. We need a hundred such reports.
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Yesterday my car was sabotaged, two tyres had been interfered with; someone broke in to my garage to do it. It was only be chance I took the car into the mechanic for the six-monthly warrant and he noticed it straight away.
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New Zealand’s intelligence service has accused China of foreign interference in its democracy, amid increasing tensions and geopolitical competition in the Pacific region.
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A 13, 000 member Telegram channel is collecting information on protesters to send to PRC Ministry of State Security. The group tracks aviation staff, posting photos of them in uniform alongside social media posts if they express support for HK protests.
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This is massive. Thank you for your courage in speaking up against what is happening in #Xinjiang @SonnyBWilliams . 🏉Rugby, & the All Blacks, are well known in 🇨🇳 .Chinese rugby squads have imported a fair few🥝& Pacifica players in recent years .
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In the final weeks before the crackdown Chinese journalists were marching in the streets. A @ChinaDaily banner said “Journalists Demand: No More Lies!” another proclaimed: “I ♥ Free Press”. Suddenly, @PDChinese @CCTV began to report truthfully on the events in the Square. #六四
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Journalists/commentators: stop saying "the Chinese" when you mean "CCP government" .Clearly distinguish between CCP government, China the nation, Chinese people in China, & ethnic Chinese citizens in other states .Noticed this often @NZMorningReport also @NZStuff Uyghur doco.
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Taiwan's inclusion on the list of invitees to Summit of Democracies is no mistake. Taiwan🇹🇼 is a thriving democracy, which emerged out of 40 years of martial law. Their experience of overcoming authoritarianism is a model to others--including PRC🇨🇳.
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Kudos @nzlabour @ipacglobal NZ MP Louisa Wall for raising issue of forced organ harvesting in PRC🇨🇳.The China Tribunal found Falungong followers were the main source of supply & medical testing of Uyghurs appeared to be so as to use them as an "organ bank".
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Look back with anger.
Hua Chunying, PRC spokesperson says: "some countries" have "inappropriately over-reacted" to #coronavirus. Countries being attacked for temporary China travel bans/repatriation of nationals should not take it personally, it's the Party line on the crisis .
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The honeytrap is a classic tactic used by both China and Russia to set up politicians and other elite figures for blackmail. So be careful who you open your door to in 🇨🇳 hotels.
A Sydney property developer secretly filmed councillors with sex workers on a “boys’ weekend” trip to China so he could blackmail them into voting for his projects. Full details:
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NZ government should order the closure of the PRC government’s illegal police presence in our country immediately.
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I strongly recommend this important documentary by @FT on capital flight from China🇨🇳 and global organised crime. Relevant for all jurisdictions, from the US, to Europe, to the small island developing states of the Pacific.
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Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. George Orwell, 1984.
A #hkpolice officer intentionally treaded on the hand of a female protester who was arrested. #hkpolicebrutality #StateTerrorism #antiELAB #FreeHongKong #HongKongProtest
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Useful Chinese idioms, an occasional series:. 吃人家的嘴软，拿人家的手短."If you eat other people's food, your mouth will be soft; if you take their gifts, your arm will be shortened.". In other words, there is so such thing as a free banquet or trip.
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The Chinese Communist Party government’s rule by fear endangers Chinese citizens—and the world. Only by understanding how this global disaster emerged in 🇨🇳 can we prevent it from happening again. Join us & sign.
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Useful Chinese idioms, an occasional series:. "Kill the chicken to scare the monkeys" #杀鸡儆猴 (shā jī jǐng hóu). To harm someone in order to intimidate others.
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The dark night gave me dark eyes.Yet with them I seek the light. One Generation/一代人 by Gu Cheng 顾城.Cartoon by @JeffBellNZ . #A4Revolution
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"There’s been a culture in Hong Kong of a focus on business, & don’t get too involved in politics. So that’s what’s so remarkable about these protests. people have had enough, they recognise that it’s a fight to the death – the death of their society."
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NZ in the headlines for all the wrong reasons again . NZ, along with several other states, outsources biodata collection & visa processing in Beijing to a co owned by Chinese police. Cost savings without proper consideration of ethics or national security.
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Many buildings in Chinatown in Honiara, Solomon Islands🇸🇧 have been burned down and are now being looted, but a building festooned with the flag of Taiwan🇹🇼 is left untouched.
In the heart of China Town, where buildings are burning in all sides.This building stands.
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"I am not afraid of them anymore, because they already killed my soul." . Brave Uyghur women with eyewitness evidence of systemic rape, torture and brainwashing in the CCP government's Xinjiang detention centers.
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It’s a remarkable feat to get a NZ Labour PM to stand with a US President for a joint statement on greater military cooperation between the 2 countries. Xi Jinping’s strategic overreach in the Pacific has achieved what decades of official negotiations could not.
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If NZ's allies and friends are concerned about NZ government's stance on China, then they should hurry up and sign meaningful FTAs & drop trade barriers to help us diversify. Our exporters are concerned NZ will be targeted, just like Oz has been. Looking at you US, EU, UK.
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Leaked documents reveal 2 Aotearoa-NZ🥝citizens are being held in China's concentration camps--along with many other foreigners. NZG silent. #nzpol.
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The bloodied petition to @NZParliament urging our MPs to pass legislation to address CCP political interference activities has now been retrieved from the car wreck. Justice Select Committee tabled the petition, but took no action. People feel forsaken.
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At the heart of the bloodbath unfolding @NZNationalParty is an allegation of Beijing-backed political donations being laundered to escape reporting laws. Time to face up to the rot at the heart of our democracy & break the hold of corrosive outside money: Reform electoral finance.
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Isolating Taiwan is a core goal for CCP🇨🇳 right now. Taiwan led the world in controlling Covid-19 & is generously sharing expertise--& their high quality PPE. Xi govt also do not want an inquiry into Covid origins . Castigating Australia, France, NZ, etc = 舌战 to isolate Taiwan.
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"Chinese NZ Herald is a propaganda outlet of. CCP United Front Work operations in NZ, wh. follows Beijing’s ideological & political guidelines" @tituschen.Parent company NZME is in denial. If you do business with PRC, you must understand the Party-State.
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PRC🇨🇳 signed agreements on cyber security with Australia, Canada, G-7, G-20, UK, & USA & agreed to UN norms on state activity in cyberspace. Their malicious cyber activity breaches these bilateral & international agreements.
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It feels like it couldn't get any worse, but CCP propaganda channels are getting ready to promote Xi to a level we haven't seen since CultRev/文革. There's every indication Xi is going to formally elevate himself to a status on par with Mao Zedong. Watch messaging at 2 Sessions.
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Wonderful news today🥰, I have been chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ Te Apārangi🔖 .Shout out to my husband ZJ👨🎨, the wind beneath my wings🕊️; my wonderful children👩🎤👨🎤👨🎤; whanau👨👩👦👦; & comrades👨🚒👩🚒 @TheWilsonCenter @UCNZ @royalsocietynz .
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Xi Jinping is the most powerful CCP leader in the past 40 years. The fact that he has steadily been able to place his people at the top of all China's core intelligence agencies, as well as over the propaganda & thought work xitong is a sign of his political strength. However, 1/.
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Translation in case significance was lost: .Bridges, leader of NZ's main opposition party; Brownlee, spokeperson on NZSIS; Yang, who worked for 15 years in China's military intelligence; have just met with the leader in charge of China's secret police.
National Party MPs Simon Bridges, Gerry Brownlee, and Dr Yang Jian met with Guo Shengkun ,郭声琨, 中共中央政法委书记. Guo is the CCP Politburo Standing Committee leader with responsibility for the Ministry of State Security (MSS) 国家安全部.
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“Use the local to surround the centre” 利用地方保养中央. CCP🇨🇳 foreign interference targets mayors, indigenous groups (such as iwi in NZ), and sister-city relations, to undermine central governments, gain intelligence, and promote China’s agenda.
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March 30, 2022: PRC🇨🇳 & Solomon Islands🇸🇧 signed their security agreement, effective immediately, which allows the PLA to station military & intelligence personnel in the Solomons & PSB to send police.
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At what point does NZ's quiet shift on China, look more like timidity, even appeasement? Oz, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Slovenia, UK & US signed this joint statement. NZ was invited, would not sign.
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China is by far the main source of state-sponsored cyber-attacks on NZ. In 2021, MSS🇨🇳 APT31 targeted myself and @NZParliament MPs Louisa Wall and Simon O'Connor for hacking. The FBI discovered it, and informed NZ. GCSB🇳🇿 took 2 years to tell us about it .
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This is so unbearable. The CCP did similar things in the Cultural Revolution, including forcing imams to eat pork, destroying churches & temples, making Buddhist nuns & monks marry, imprisoning religious leaders. Very painful to see Xi Jinping administration taking 🇨🇳 backwards.
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