More Chinese Australians Needed to Bolster Intelligence Agencies: Liberal MP

More Chinese Australians Needed to Bolster Intelligence Agencies: Liberal MP
A woman wears a face mask as she walks through the Chinatown district on March 04, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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Liberal MP Dave Sharma has said that Australia’s intelligence agencies should tap into the country’s sizeable ethnic Chinese communities in the fight against foreign interference and intimidation from Beijing.

In a brief published by the pro-Beijing China Matters policy institute, Sharma said Chinese Australians should be harnessed as “assets.”