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Dr John
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Centre, Head of Strategic Policing and Law Enforcement,
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Dr Jennifer
Yan, Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of
Health Research; Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases
Specialist, Royal Darwin Hospital
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Dr Joshua
Francis, Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of
Health Research; Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases
Specialist, Royal Darwin Hospital
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Brendon Grylls, Director,
Brendon Grylls Group
This year’s conference theme is
“Rebound & Resilience: Leveraging the North’s
Potential for Australia’s Recovery.” This gives Darwin
the opportunity to host some exceptional keynote speakers
who will provide vital knowledge across all sectors of
By ERIKA KINETZ
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) â Chinaâs ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
Liu Xiaoming, who recently stepped down as Chinaâs ambassador to the United Kingdom, is one of the partyâs most successful foot soldiers on this evolving online battlefield. He joined Twitter in October 2019, as scores of Chinese diplomats surged onto Twitter and Facebook, which are both banned in China.
Since then, Liu has deftly elevated his public profile, gaining a following of more than 119,000 as he transformed himself into an exemplar of Chinaâs new sharp-edged âwolf warriorâ diplomacy, a term borrowed from the title of a top-grossing Chinese action movie.
Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter
By ERIKA KINETZMay 12, 2021 GMT
https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-china-europe-middle-east-government-and-politics-62b13895aa6665ae4d887dcc8d196dfc
BRUSSELS (AP) China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
Liu Xiaoming, who recently stepped down as China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, is one of the party’s most successful foot soldiers on this evolving online battlefield. He joined Twitter in October 2019, as scores of Chinese diplomats surged onto Twitter and Facebook, which are both banned in China.
Contentious COVID-19 bioweapon book has familiar researcher
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Three Australian books about China are making headlines. Two of them are by expelled China correspondents. And the third is by
The Australianâs investigations editor and Sky News host Sharri Markson, which explores the contentious possibility that the coronavirus pandemic began with biological experimentation taking place in a laboratory in Wuhan.
Marksonâs book, published by News Corpâs HarperCollins, is the outlier in more ways than one.
Sky News host Sharri Markson is the author of a new book exploring whether the coronavirus was a Chinese bioweapon. Â
Sky News
By ERIKA KINETZ
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) â Chinaâs ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media.
Liu Xiaoming, who recently stepped down as Chinaâs ambassador to the United Kingdom, is one of the partyâs most successful foot soldiers on this evolving online battlefield. He joined Twitter in October 2019, as scores of Chinese diplomats surged onto Twitter and Facebook, which are both banned in China.
Since then, Liu has deftly elevated his public profile, gaining a following of more than 119,000 as he transformed himself into an exemplar of Chinaâs new sharp-edged âwolf warriorâ diplomacy, a term borrowed from the title of a top-grossing Chinese action movie.