On Tuesday in the Australian Senate, Labor's Kim Carr rose to his feet, thundering about "hawks intent on fighting a new cold war". In his sights was the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which he said was taking nearly $450,000 from the US State Department (ASPI says the true figure is less than half that amount) to track Chinese research collaborations with Australian universities, "vilifying and denigrating" Australian researchers and their work.

It's not the most vehement denunciation of ASPI on the public record. Only the most recent.