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

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.”