On August 4 the Australian Federal Police charged a local Chinese national with covertly collecting and sharing information about an Australian Buddhist community with a foreign security agency.
That rings a bell. Two decades back this paper reported on Cheng Yonglin, first secretary in China’s Sydney consulate, exposing a local informant network secretly monitoring the religious practices of another Buddhist congregation in Australia, Falun Gong.
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John Fitzgerald is a historian of China and the Chinese diaspora. His books include Cadre County: How China Became the Chinese Communist Party (2022) and Taking the Low Road: China’s Influence in Australia’s States and Territories (2022)
