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This is Catherine. I write about China.

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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | U.S. Forces Raid Ship, Seize Cargo Headed to Iran From China
A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, an operation aimed at blocking Tehran ...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Chinese Embassy in Cambodia warned Chinese nationals not to travel to the O’sma Casino area in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. Local news said that the Casino was bombarded and some Chinese nationals were injured. kh.china-embassy.gov.cn/lsfws/lingsh...
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领事提醒|再次提醒靠近柬泰边境的中国公民加强安全防范
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This is an archived version of the report for those who are not a subscriber archive.today/2025.12.06-2...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I note that while he served at BIT, Lu was officially an academic staff at the University of Queensland. I can’t find his BIT appointment mentioned in his biographies at the Australian and British universities websites that Lu previously and currently works.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New media report revealed that Max Lu, VC of Wollongong University, served as a Director of a research centre in a Chinese university that specialises in weapons research. His appointment at the Beijing Institute of Technology was from 2005 to 2009. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nationa...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Check this report by Andrew Greene for the Nightly for more details: thenightly.com.au/politics/con...
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Defence quizzed on IT supplier’s alleged China links
New questions over a key IT contractor’s role in Defence after claims about links to China sparked a political storm.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Australia’s defence officials were quizzed during Senate hearings about contracts awarded to Pioneer Computers which is also supplying surveillance drones to the WA Police Force. Pioneer Computers’ Jeff Li had been identified as a member of the UFWD linked Guangdong Overseas Exchange Association
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ASPI report reveals new ways that the Chinese Communist Party is using large language models (LLMs) and other AI systems to automate censorship, enhance surveillance and pre‑emptively suppress dissent. Congratulations to @fergus.bsky.social 👍 www.aspi.org.au/report/the-p...
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The party’s AI: How China’s new AI systems are reshaping human rights - ASPI
This report shows how the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming China’s state control system into a precision instrument for managing its population and targeting groups at home and abroad.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A Finnish-Chinese businessman acted as a middleman in a spy ring targeting NATO military secrets. He warned a journalist not to investigate the matter. yle.fi/a/74-20195820
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”Tämä on liian vaarallista” – vakoiluvyyhtiin sotkeutunut liikemies varoittaa Ylen toimittajaa tutkimasta aihetta
Suomalais-kiinalainen liikemies toimi välikätenä vakoiluvyyhdissä, jonka kohteena olivat Naton sotilassalaisuudet. Hän varoitti toimittajaa tutkimasta aihetta.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A China-linked TV streaming devices currently on sale in the USA does much more than facilitating illegal online media streaming, they are also used to hijack household networks to create botnets krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-y...
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Is Your Android TV Streaming Box Part of a Botnet?
On the surface, the Superbox media streaming devices for sale at retailers like BestBuy and Walmart may seem like a steal: They offer unlimited access to more than 2,200 pay-per-view and streaming ser...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Check this link for the full ICIJ report on China’s transnational machinery of repression. www.icij.org/investigatio...
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Inside China’s machinery of repression — and how it crushes dissent around the world - ICIJ
Interviews with more than 100 victims in 23 countries, along with internal government documents, reveal the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma’s help in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in the purge of a top official. This is just one of the stories revealed in an ICiJ report on the sinister tactics China uses to silence critics beyond its borders. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma implicated in intimidation campaign by Chinese regime
Billionaire appears to have been asked to pressure friend to return to China to help pursue out-of-favour official
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion last year into sensitive networks belonging to multiple US telecommunications companies arstechnica.com/security/202...
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FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members
FBI accepts tips by TOR in likely attempt to woo China-based informants.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Australian officials are investigating reports that Russia has lodged an official request to base several long-range aircraft in Indonesia, just 1300 kilometres away from the Australian mainland. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Vladimir Putin seeks access to Indonesian air force base: reports
Australian officials are investigating reports that Russia is seeking to base several long-range aircraft in Indonesia, just 1300 kilometres from Darwin.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Six Hong Kong government officials responsible for the implementation of national security laws have been sanctioned by the USA for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. www.state.gov/u-s-sanction...
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U.S. Sanctions Six Individuals for Undermining Hong Kong’s Autonomy - United States Department of State
Beijing and Hong Kong officials have used Hong Kong national security laws extraterritorially to intimidate, silence, and harass 19 pro-democracy activists who were forced to flee overseas, including ...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Singapore has a problem: China had set up a “back door” into Western markets via financial intermediaries – such as trading firms, shell companies, and holding companies, including in Singapore and elsewhere – to act as the listed buyer for restricted goods www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Chipping away at controls: Singapore’s challenge with China-linked companies
A tech fraud case has again put the Southeast Asian nation in the spotlight.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
An investigation by Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice found SMIC uses Samoan companies to recruit Taiwanese engineers. Others Chinese firms pretend to be Taiwanese or Singaporean companies to evade scrutiny. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...
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SMIC, other Chinese companies accused of illegal operations in Taiwan
Massive six-city investigation comes amid concerns over Beijing aggression
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows
A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A hot topic of discussion on China’s social media today is military invasion of Australia. This follows the unannounced military exercises that the PLA’s navy conducted off the coast of Australia last month chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/03/tran...
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Translation: “Why is Everyone Talking About China ‘Seizing’ Australia?”
Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or “nabbing/seizi...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
An elaborated comment on the case substack.com/@wlyeung3913...
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I received several requests for my comment on a very disturbing incident that involves an anonymous bounty letter sent to some random residents in the Australian city of Melbourne asking for help in t...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Self-exiled Hong Kongers in Australia face daily threats and harassment for speaking out against Beijing. A bounty letter sent to random residents in Melbourne targeting Kevin Yam mark the latest instance of efforts to silence critics abroad asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...
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Australian foreign minister condemns Hong Kong 'bounty letters'
Hong Kong police silent on letters offering reward for information on dissident
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
US DoJ indicted 12 Chinese nationals for cyber crimes. On the list are 2 MPS officials, 8 i-Soon employees and 2 members of the notorious APT27. Check this press release for their names. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Justice Department Charges 12 Chinese Contract Hackers and Law Enforcement Officers in Global Computer Intrusion Campaigns
The Justice Department, FBI, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Departments of State and the Treasury announced today their coordinated efforts to disrupt and deter the malicious cyber activiti...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state. Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state
Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Sincerity Group is a part of the Australasian Business Centre 澳亚商务中心 with members from major pro-China community and business groups, including the WA Australia China Friendship Society represented by Glenn Dewhurst, a former local politician who served as the Mayor of the city of Gosnell.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Another director of the Sincerity Group, Ting Zhang 张霆, is the founder of the WA Association of Chinese Engineers 西澳华人工程师协会. The Association’s inauguration is widely covered by websites linked to CCP UFWD. www.chinaqw.com/hqhr/2014/11...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Sincerity Group is a property developer headed by Liaoliang Zhu (Leon) 朱嘹亮. Zhu is active in the pro-China community network in Perth and is the President of the WA Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce 西澳大利亚浙江总商会会长.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Australia's Global Lithium Resources is pressing the government to halt a takeover attempt by investors from the Sincerity Group 籴信集团. My research indicates that these investors have close links to Perth’s pro-China united front network. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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Australia's Global Lithium seeks government help, alleging Chinese control attempt
Australia's Global Lithium Resources is pressing the government to halt what it calls a takeover attempt by Chinese investors of its cornerstone asset ahead of a shareholder meeting this week.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek has been banned from Australian government systems and devices, following an assessment by intelligence agencies that the software poses an “unacceptable risk” to national security. Security ban for DeepSeek AI www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Taiwan’s top diplomat in Canberra has said Taipei stands by to offer Australia advice in tackling disinformation campaigns as the nation braces for a surge in conspiracy theories and fake news in the run up to the Federal election. thenightly.com.au/politics/aus...
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Taiwan offers advice for Australia to help fight fake news
Taiwan’s top diplomat in Canberra says Taipei stands by to offer advice in tackling disinformation campaigns as Australia braces for a surge in conspiracy theories and fake news ahead of the election.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Is this another sign that Beijing is preparing for war? Satellite images suggest that China’s military is building a massive complex in western Beijing that US intelligence believes may serve as a wartime command centre www.ft.com/content/f376...
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China builds huge new wartime military command centre in Beijing
Complex will be bigger than Pentagon and include bombproof bunkers for leaders, say US intelligence officials
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MW Hyde @mwhyde.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Taiwanese navy should have boarded and seized this ship and arrested the captain. It's staggering what the Chinese government is allowed to get away with around the world. What a fiasco.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The USA is sanctioning a China-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group 北京永信至诚科技集团 for its involvement in malicious botnet operations www.state.gov/sanctioning-...
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Sanctioning PRC Cyber Company Involved in Malicious Botnet Operations - United States Department of State
The United States is imposing sanctions today on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated (Integrity Tech), which has links to the People’s Republic of China (P...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas!
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
So I ended up depositing the money in the bank and reimbursed the University with a personal check. So it is impossible to trace even if the Chinese side paid for Carr’s trip. Note, they usually will not pay for air tickets directly. It’s usually through a cash reimbursement later.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My experience of dealing with China based institutions is that they reimburse guest travel expenses by handing out cash to them. That happened to me once. The university paid for the air ticket. When I handed over the cash to our admin people. They refused to accept and said that its against rules
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I would say definitely not by UTS. Just checked their regulations, adjuncts can access research funds if they earn them, but can’t use those for travel to conferences. Apart from that adjuncts are not entitled to any other staff development funds.
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MW Hyde @mwhyde.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Who paid for Professor Carr's trip to Guangzhou, I wonder?
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Australian researcher Alex Joske exposed Zheng Bijian’s MSS link in his 2020 book Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World. Read the chapter "The concoction of China's peaceful rise" for details. publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/...
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Spies and Lies by Alex Joske | Hardie Grant Publishing
A forensic and gripping examination of China's intelligence work globally.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Former Australia FM Bob Carr echoed views of Zheng Bijian 郑必坚, a think tanker with links to China’s spy agency the MSS, during a MSS sponsored event. Carr said Australia will not follow US curb on trade with China because Australia needs China-made solar cells m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/c...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
More scandals from the British Royal Family: Sarah Ferguson and Zara Tindall were found receiving payments from HK businessman Sei Hoe HON (Johnny) 韓世灝 who has multiple titles from China’s foreign influence agencies. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Fergie and Zara paid thousands by tycoon with shady Chinese links
A Hong Kong tycoon who paid Sarah Ferguson and Zara Tindall hundreds of thousands is linked to China's shadowy foreign influence network, The Mail on Sunday reveals.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chinese cyber attacks, people familiar with the matter said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Probes China-Founded Router Maker on National Security Fears
The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chines...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would decide the constitutionality of a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. if the social-media app doesn’t shed its Chinese ownership www.wsj.com/tech/supreme...
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Supreme Court to Consider TikTok Ban
The court scheduled fast-track oral arguments for Jan. 10 on whether the law violates the First Amendment.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Chen Jinping pleaded guilty to running a secret police station at Lower Manhattan under instructions from China’s Ministry of Public Security www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-y...
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New York Resident Pleads Guilty to Operating Secret Police Station of the Chinese Government in Lower Manhattan
Chen Jinping, 60, of New York, New York, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to act as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in connection with opening and operati...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
UNESCO is partnering with Chau Chak Wing’s Kingold in offering a new youth leadership program. China Daily said the announcement was made during the 2024 Imperial Springs International Forum in Madrid www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202412/14/...
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UNESCO launches new youth leadership program
Gabriela Ramos, assistant director-general for social and human sciences at UNESCO, announced a new youth leadership program on the sideline of the 2024 Imperial Springs International Forum in Madrid ...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I noticed there are a large number of global organisations, famous institutions and government bodies listed as “partners” of the Club de Madrid. Are these partners aware of who Chau Chak Wing is? the Club’s link to Dr Chau? clubmadrid.org/who/partners/
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What we do, Club de Madrid, partnership, network expert democracy
Partnerships at Club de Madrid: Programatic partners, financial partners, third party collaborations. What we do, Partnership, democracy
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I also note there is a “President’s Circle” at Club de Madrid. It’s current members include: Chau Chak Wing, listed as the Club’s Chair of Asia-Pacific, Chau’s company Kingold and the UFWD linked Australia China Friendship & Exchange Association clubmadrid.org/who/presiden...
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President's circle | Club de Madrid members
Unique platform for an open exchange of views and experiences at the highest level.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I note on Club de Madrid’s membership list these names: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley clubmadrid.org/wp-content/u...
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Club de Madrid claims to be the world’s largest forum of democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers, who leverage their leadership experience to strengthen inclusive democratic practice and improve the well-being of people in the world clubmadrid.org/club-de-madr...
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About Club de Madrid
Largest forum of democratic Presidents and Prime Ministers, to improve peoples well-being around the world.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Chau Chak Wing is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and political donor who was exposed as as an unindicted co-conspirator in an FBI investigation into a UN bribery case, and was identified by an Australian senator as the “puppeteer” behind a political interference plot www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Who is Chau Chak Wing? The alleged ‘puppeteer’ behind foreign interference plot
Named in Parliament this week, Chau Chak Wing has a long history of supporting both sides of politics.
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C.A. Yeung @redditiosymboli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The royal reception was a part of the 2024 Imperial Springs Forum initially a pet project of Chau Chak Wing & the united front linked Australia China Friendship & Exchange Association. In 2024 the forum was cohosted for the first time by Club de Madrid english.news.cn/20241213/999...
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2024 Imperial Springs Int'l Forum highlights collective actions in addressing global challenges
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