Police arrest a woman in her 30s in the ACT. Courtesy of AFP
Young Chinese nationals living overseas are targeted by the CCP to work as spies via methods like financial incentives, career opportunities, online grooming, or outright coercion, says a former Australian Federal Police (AFP) agent.
Paul Johnstone’s comments come in response to the arrest of three Chinese nationals have been charged with reckless foreign interference for allegedly spying on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a Canberra-based Buddhist group called the Guan Yin Citta.
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