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… the Western propaganda machine because earlier this year, she exposed the work of the taxpayer-funded Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). It should be a political scandal that ASPI is also funded by foreign governments, most significantly the US State Department, and the world’s biggest weapons manufacturers, to use its … corporation to make wild claims against China that are reported worldwide as if they are fact. In a 2020 report called “Uyghurs for Sale”, ASPI claimed China was using its Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang for “forced labour”. Ms James, who has degrees in law and public policy, …

… The Australian Citizens Party has launched a video and petition calling for a Senate inquiry into the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) for foreign interference. The ACP’s video charges: “A sinister, well-funded institute is warping Australian public opinion for the benefit of … “ Stop foreign influence: Investigate the Australian Strategic Policy Institute ”, is available to watch on YouTube. The ACP has combatted ASPI’s disinformation and lies since at least 2014, when ASPI’s then-director Peter Jennings ramped up an information warfare campaign against Australia’s developing relationship with China, our biggest …

… Council on Foreign Relations, which recently pushed for a New Cold War with Russia . The influence of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is obvious: a number of Hamilton’s points are essentially lifted from old ASPI articles. The acknowledgments for his book are a laundry list of ASPI “ghostwriters”, who are referenced by name but with no hint they work for ASPI, the institution driving most of the anti-China narrative in …

… rigour. 1 In a previous paper published this January, Ms James had comprehensively debunked the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) influential February 2020 report Uyghurs for Sale . 2 Media, governments and human rights NGOs around the world had for two years … used as forced labour in factories around the country. Ms James’s painstaking legal analysis, however, demonstrated unequivocally that none of ASPI’s evidence of human rights violations stood up to proper scrutiny. As the Australian Alert Service noted at the time, Jaq James is eminently … there for several years, including as a university lecturer. As Ms James explains in the executive summary of her second paper, despite the ASPI report’s obvious shortcomings, Sen. Patrick made it the “central reference point” of his rationale for a private member’s bill he introduced …

… outlets connected to US and UK foreign interference operations in Australia. Most notable of these is the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), supposedly an Australian Defence Department think tank, but which also takes money from the US State Department and the UK, Dutch and … diplomacy every country engages in), and China is “genociding” Uyghur Muslims (although their population and living standards have risen), ASPI’s former longtime boss Peter Jennings would regularly warn of war with China within “months”. The ACP exposed that ASPI was being paid to propagandise Australians, to force us into line with the sudden anti-China shift in the USA, which started during the Obama …

… to its New Cold War on China she has spearheaded for several years, in close collaboration with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and other academic fraudsters on this side of the Tasman. Anne-Marie Brady. Photo: YouTube Brady rose to international prominence as a source … of the Washington, DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, where Brady is a “Global Fellow”. Like its Australian analogue ASPI, the Wilson Centre bills itself as an “independent, non-partisan think tank” but is nothing of the sort. Created by the US Congress in 1968, … subsequent predicates become “proof” by default. This is entirely unsurprising given that a major source for the Australian’s purported exposé, ASPI boy-wonder “strategic analyst” Alex Joske, was also a key contributor to Brady’s report and her most-cited individual source. “I am grateful …

… status.” ‘Alarmist nonsense’ Immediately the lease was announced, warmongering Canberra think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and other “security-threat obsessives”, as Everingham aptly describes them, began clamouring that having the port “controlled” by a Chinese company posed an unacceptable national security risk. A spate of media reports citing either ASPI commentators or unnamed “national security sources” asserted without evidence that Landbridge was a proxy for the Chinese People’s Liberation … (PLA), and that its owner, Chinese billionaire Ye Cheng, was a “senior Communist Party official” (in fact he is not even a member). In essence, ASPI et al. suggested that the lease arrangement would give Landbridge complete control over access to the port, enable it to spy on Australian and …

… Markson’s malarkey began to flow, including from unexpected quarters. Notable among the latter was former Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) researcher turned “independent journalist” Vicky Xu, lead author of the March 2020 ASPI report Uyghurs for Sale , which used fraudulent methods including mistranslation of official documents to portray work placement schemes in … deputy defence secretary who has been Australia’s anti-China warmonger-in-chief since he took up his current sinecure as executive director of ASPI in May 2012. (ASPI is sponsored by various armament manufacturers and the US and allied governments, but most of its funding comes from the …

… which incites war against China at the behest of its US government donors, and which in turn drums up Australian government contracts for ASPI’s private weapons manufacturing donors. ASPI is one of the loudest spruikers for the military-industrial complex which foments and profits from evil wars. Morrison’s hostile China policy … it to veto the agreement. In addition, Pompeo’s State Department directed considerable funding to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Australia’s chief anti-China agitator and war propagandist. ASPI and Hudson Institute staff have collaborated on panel discussions and …

… and the veracity of its claims of “unprecedented” foreign interference in Australia. China Daily’s footage of Labor Senator Kim Carr attacking ASPI in Parliament, which ASIO used in the media to create an impression of undue Chinese influence. Labor Senator Kim Carr referenced a 14 October … video showed an 11 February 2020 parliamentary speech by Carr, where he denounced the “hawks intent on fighting a new cold war” and criticised ASPI, exposing its US government influence and funding. Under questioning from Carr, Burgess revealed that on the same day the China Daily exposé …