The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. A Chinese defector to Australia who detailed political interference by Beijing. Fears of Chinese interference once seemed to hover indistinctly over Australia. Now, Beijing’s political ambitions, and the espionage operations that further them, suddenly feel local, concrete and ever-present. “It’s become the inescapable issue,” said Hugh White, a former intelligence official who teaches strategic studies at the Australian National University.

Source: New York Times November 29, 2019 05:37 UTC