AFP Deputy Commissioner, Ian McCartney is quoted in the ABC story: “Foreign interference is contrary to Australia’s national interest, it goes to the heart of our democracy. It is corrupting and deceptive, and goes beyond routine diplomatic influence practiced by governments.” McCartney said tha...
CANBERRA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Australia's parliament has passed strict new foreign interference rules that place more stringent controls on former politicians lobbying on behalf of overseas interests, and those seeking to disrupt the country's democracy. The new laws strengthen foreign espionage offe...
Australia passed sweeping foreign interference laws not-so-subtly targeted at ChinaTara Francis Chan
CANBERRA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Retired Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb hit out at the government's new "foreign interference laws" on Wednesday, declaring that many hardworking Australian businessmen and women would be negatively portrayed for working with foreign companies. Robb was the trade...
“My biggest concern is Australia’s national sovereign interest,” he told reporters. Australia in 2018 passed sweeping national security laws that ban covert foreign interference in domestic politics. Beijing protested that the laws were prejudiced against China and poisoned Chinese-Australian ...
“Interference by the People’s Republic of China is rife in Australia and includes a divide-and-conquer strategy…using universities to build its ‘discourse power’,” Professor Hamilton told the committee. “If certain agreements are inconsistent with or undermine Australia’s foreign policy, ...
These revelations brought some much-needed attention to deficiencies in Canada’s enforcement of its laws against foreign bribery. While this scrutiny is welcome, and allegations of political interference are especially troubling, the SNC-Lavalin affair may be a somewhat misleading illustration of the ...
regardless of the nature of the activity undertaken by or on behalf of the sovereign. The doctrine of absolute sovereign immunity is based on the sovereign equality of states and the principle of non-interference in other states' affairs. In practice, this means that no matter what a foreign ...
AFP: The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia, and India said on Monday that they were seriously concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas. How does China comment on this? 林剑:中方一贯认为,国与国之间的合作及地区倡议都应有利于促进地区和平、稳定与繁荣...
(Committee on the Judiciary1911, p. 2). Second, in 1917, the Espionage Act sought to ‘punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States’ (Conference Report1917, p. 1). These laws laid the groundwork for FARA and the ...