Liberal senator James Paterson has used a speech to the European Parliament to urge other democracies to work with Australia to counter China’s foreign interference.
As Joe Biden was negotiating a new submarine partnership with Scott Morrison,the US was secretly working on another deal.
Shortly after Meng Wanzhou flew from Vancouver after years of house arrest,Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announced that two Canadians jailed in China were freed.
The pace of cyber attacks on Australian governments and businesses is rising amid growing international tensions.
Survey suggests a majority of Australians believe the country should call out Beijing over its approach to Hong Kong and Taiwan,retaliate against Chinese trade sanctions and speak out on human rights abuses against the Uighur people.
Leading figures within Labor’s Right faction say Australia should use the United Nations to pressure Beijing on human rights and seek greater trade alliances with India and Korea.
Some of the federal government’s fiercest China critics say Labor leader Anthony Albanese is undermining the national interest with comments on Beijing.
The current head of ASIO,Mike Burgess,said covert agents of foreign powers made up just a tiny minority of diaspora communities.
Cabinet Minister Peter Dutton says he threatened to resign from Malcolm Turnbull’s ministry in order to pressure him into banning Huawei from the 5G network.
Upgrading Australia’s communications network meant our national security experts had to get to grips with tech titan Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government. A ban would infuriate Chinese leaders. The alternative was worse.
A senior spy says the main risk posed by Huawei’s involvement in Australia’s 5G system was not Chinese spying but that Beijing could order the company to disconnect the network altogether.