Russia currently caused the"most aggravation to the UK"but it was China that posed the greater long-term threat,said MI5 chief Ken McCallum.
Former Liberal Party operative Bo'Nick'Zhao was found dead in a hotel room in 2019. He was soon to be sentenced to fraud,had up to $8 million debts and died of an overdose.
A Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in the 1970s,Preston reflects on the difficulty covering China then,but observes that it seems impossible for an Australian reporter to do it safely today.
The federal government,not the states,needs to be in command when it comes to doing deals with other nation states.
China often suspects religious groups and worshippers of undermining the control of the Communist Party and the state.
When Australian police and intelligence action puts the national relationship with China in the dock,it's more than sensitive. It's explosive.
The FBI alleged Qing Wang was a participant in the Thousand Talents program,a scheme the US says is created by China to access foreign technology or data.
A sleeper agent for a foreign government operated in Australia for years before he was caught,as ASIO also reveals its terrorism leads have doubled in a year.
Federal parliament will debate whether ASIO needs extra powers as more information emerges about the man who tried to put an alleged spy in the House of Representatives.
Soon after lodging a $3 million Supreme Court claim,Filip Shu started calling around Sydney journalists. What was motivating him?
A self-confessed Chinese intelligence operative seeking to defect to Australia has had his assets frozen by the NSW Supreme Court.