Recently, the Australian newspaper quoted a Chinese book that is openly out for sale as a "leaked" exclusive document, in a humiliating article that smears China over the inception of COVID-19, twisting the content of the book to agree with its own intrigue theory that China took part in weaponizing the novel coronavirus some years prior to the pandemic.
Australian court upholds laws against foreign interference
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press
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Australia s Attorney-General Michaelia Cash speaks at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, April 8, 2021. Cash said Wednesday, May 12, 2021, that her government had never been more determined to keep Australians free and safe from foreign interference after Chinese-born political adviser John Shi Sheng Zhang lost his challenge in Australia s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)Mick Tsikas/AP
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) A Chinese-born political adviser on Wednesday lost his challenge in Australia’s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics.
Rod Mcguirk
Australia s Attorney-General Michaelia Cash speaks at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, April 8, 2021. Cash said Wednesday, May 12, 2021, that her government had never been more determined to keep Australians free and safe from foreign interference after Chinese-born political adviser John Shi Sheng Zhang lost his challenge in Australia s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP) May 11, 2021 - 10:44 PM
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â A Chinese-born political adviser on Wednesday lost his challenge in Australiaâs highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics.
John Shi Sheng Zhang also lost his High Court challenge in a unanimous decision of seven judges to the validity of search warrants executed by police at his Sydney home and offices last year as part of an investigation into illegal foreign interference
File Image: This photo taken on 28 April 2021 shows a medical staff member preparing a dose for a university student to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a university in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province. (AFP via Getty Images)
China has attempted to play down the so-called “leaked documents” which have been used to suggest that its scientists discussed the weaponisation of coronavirus five years before the Covid-19 pandemic began. x
While officials are yet to issue a statement on the matter, the state-run Global Times newspaper lashed out at The Australian for their report calling it “an embarrassing article that smears China over the origins of Covid-19”.
A Chinese-born Australian political adviser yesterday lost his challenge in Australia’s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics.
John Zhang (張智森) also lost his Australian High Court challenge in a unanimous decision of seven judges to the validity of search warrants executed by police at his Sydney home and offices last year as part of an investigation into illegal foreign interference on behalf of China.
Zhang was an adviser to New South Wales Lawmaker Shaoquett Moselmane, whose membership in the opposition Labor Party was suspended after he was also the target of police raids.
The raids in June last