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**** Concerns grow over China's covert infiltration into New Zealand's government
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Around 50,000 Chinese tourists will visit New Zealand in the next few days to celebrate their Chinese Lunar New Year (stuff.co.nz)
Public concerns in New Zealand about the increasing covert
infiltration of pro-Chinese planted officials in the governments of
New Zealand, Australia, and other countries were raised on Thursday by
revelations that she and her employer have been targets of harassment,
break-ins, and burglaries.
In September of last year, professor Anne-Marie Brady of New Zealand's
University of Canterbury published a detailed report on China's
intelligence activity to guide, buy and coerce political influence on
a global basis, with emphasis on New Zealand. Brady's work was
extremely effective because she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and she
based her research on Chinese-language media both inside and outside
of China.
On Thursday, Brady spoke to the Australian Parliament's Intelligence
and Security Committee in Canberra, and said that she had a break-in
and robbery at her house. Three laptops, including one on which she
wrote the paper, two cellphones and an encrypted memory stick from her
last trip to China were taken, but other valuables were not taken.
This followed receipt of letters threatening violence against her, and
an earlier break-in and robbery of her university office.
Brady says that she links the two-breaks to work she has conducted on
China's global influence campaign. New Zealand Herald and Stuff (New Zealand)
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**** New Zealand MP Jian Yang faces heavy scrutiny from covert links to China's military
****
On September 13 of last year, it emerged that China-born Yang Jian, a
government official and MP in New Zealand's ruling National Party had
been in China's military intelligence services and had joined the
Chinese Communist Party, but had not revealed these affiliations when
he applied for citizenship.
Yang moved from China to New Zealand in 1991, and became an MP 12
years later. At a press conference, Last week, Yang, an MP for New
Zealand’s governing National Party, confirmed he had taught English to
Chinese spies in the 1980s and 1990s, and that he had been a member of
the Communist Party while in China, but that he had not declared the
names of the military institutions he taught at when applying for
citizenship. These Chinese institutions were the People's Liberation
Army-Air Force Engineering College and the Luoyang language institute,
the latter run by China's equivalent of America's National Security
Agency.
At the press conference, Yang said:
<QUOTE>"I am not a spy. I refute any allegations that
question my loyalty to New Zealand ... Although I was not born
here I am proud to call myself a New Zealander, obey our laws and
contribute to this country. I challenge those who are propagating
these defamatory statements to front up and prove
it."<END QUOTE>
Nonetheless, Yang remains under scrutiny by the governments of not
only New Zealand but also Australia, he briefly interned with a
sensitive Australian parliamentary committee before moving to New
Zealand.
One question that has not been satisfactorily answered is: Why did he
leave China at all to come to New Zealand in 1991.
In 1991 The China expert and author Peter Mattis says that there are
two plausible explanations. 1991 was shortly after the Tiananmen
Square massacre, so one scenario is that he left to escape his
homeland and put his past behind him to create a new life. The other
was to work covertly for military intelligence, most likely China's
Second Department, dealing in human intelligence. Newsroom (New Zealand, 27-Dec-2017) and Australian Broadcasting (20-Oct-2017) and Guardian (13-Sep-2017) and South China Morning Post (13-Sep-2017)
****
**** Anne-Marie Brady's report, 'Magic Weapons', documents China's global influence strategy
****
China's president Xi Jinping once used the term "magic weapon" to
refer to China's United Front Work Department. Officially it focuses
on building support for the Communist Party in China, but it's become
a coercive propaganda tool targeting Chinese globally, especially in
Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., and Canada, but in other countries
as well. The agency particularly surveils and targets Chinese
students abroad and foreign universities to adopt language that favors
pro-Beijing policies, such as delegitimizing Taiwan, and Western
ideals and values, such as liberal democracy, Christianity, or Falun
Gong.
Thanks to Chinese emigration, there are now large communities of
Chinese people in Australia and New Zealand. Chinese propaganda has
been so thoroughly successful that Chinese media in Australia is now
almost overwhelmingly pro-Beijing, and is promoting Chinese values
("socialism with Chinese characteristics"), rather than Western values
of liberal democracy and freedom. United Front Work attempts to sway
elections so that pro-Beijing policies are adopted.
Anne-Marie Brady's report, entitled "Magic Weapons: China's political
influence activities under Xi Jinping," describes in detail how
Chinese propaganda works in New Zealand:
<QUOTE>"There are currently around 200,000 ethnic Chinese
resident in New Zealand, out of a population of 4.5 million New
Zealanders. The majority of Chinese in New Zealand live in
Auckland, where they make up around 10 percent of the
population. Chinese consular authorities keep a close eye on all
Chinese community activities, but especially in Auckland. They
have achieved this through close links with core pro-Beijing
Chinese community groups, and by maintaining oversight over other
Chinese community groups, ethnic Chinese political figures, and
Chinese language media and schools in New Zealand. Moreover,
during the Xi era, the PRC embassy has supported the setting up of
new organizations that report back to united front bodies in
China, and, according to two former Australian-based Chinese
diplomats, by placing supporters and informers in New Zealand
Chinese organizations that are more independent minded and pose a
potential threat to China’s interests. This is classic CCP
party-building and organization work; one of the three “magic
weapons” of the CCP. The current level of supervision over the
ethnic Chinese community in New Zealand is a remarkable
achievement. All throughout the Cold War years, with only a few
exceptions, Chinese New Zealanders were neither pro-CCP nor
pro-PRC, even if they were not necessarily pro-Chinese Nationalist
Party or pro-ROC,76 and New Zealand’s Chinese-language media,
community groups, and language schools were proudly
independent. ...
The organization most closely connected with the PRC authorities
in New Zealand is the Peaceful Reunification of China Association
of New Zealand (PRCANZ), founded in 2000. ... The name of the
organization is a reference to the “Peaceful Reunification” of
mainland China and Taiwan. However, the organization also engages
in a range of activities which support Chinese foreign policy
goals, including block-voting and fund-raising for ethnic Chinese
political candidates who agree to support their organization’s
agenda. When Chinese senior leaders visit New Zealand, it is
united front-affiliated organizations such as PRCANZ who organize
counter-protest groups to shout down pro-Falungong, pro-Tibet, or
any other group critical of China who come to protest when China’s
senior leaders visit New Zealand."<END QUOTE>
Brady's report also gives a detailed account of Yang Jian's activities
in including New Zealand's government, as well as the activities of
other China-born officials.
New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern discount's Brady's report,
and says that she's seen no evidence of spying by Yang Jian or other
China-born officials:
<QUOTE>"Certainly I haven't seen evidence of that from
[Brady] directly. It sounds to me like it's an insinuation that's
being made.
Of course, we do have close links as a country with China and as a
party with China. It's another step again though to make that kind
of link."<END QUOTE>
Diplomat and Washington Post and New Zealand Herald (20-Sep-2017) and South China Morning Post (23-Sep-2017)
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, New Zealand, Australia, China,
Anne-Marie Brady, Jian Yang, National Party,
People's Liberation Army-Air Force Engineering College,
Luoyang language institute, Peter Mattis, Tiananmen Square,
Magic weapons, Xi Jinping, United Front Work Department,
Jacinda Ardern
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Concerns grow over China's covert infiltration into New Zealand's government
- New Zealand MP Jian Yang faces heavy scrutiny from covert links to China's military
- Anne-Marie Brady's report, 'Magic Weapons', documents China's global influence strategy
****
**** Concerns grow over China's covert infiltration into New Zealand's government
****
Around 50,000 Chinese tourists will visit New Zealand in the next few days to celebrate their Chinese Lunar New Year (stuff.co.nz)
Public concerns in New Zealand about the increasing covert
infiltration of pro-Chinese planted officials in the governments of
New Zealand, Australia, and other countries were raised on Thursday by
revelations that she and her employer have been targets of harassment,
break-ins, and burglaries.
In September of last year, professor Anne-Marie Brady of New Zealand's
University of Canterbury published a detailed report on China's
intelligence activity to guide, buy and coerce political influence on
a global basis, with emphasis on New Zealand. Brady's work was
extremely effective because she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and she
based her research on Chinese-language media both inside and outside
of China.
On Thursday, Brady spoke to the Australian Parliament's Intelligence
and Security Committee in Canberra, and said that she had a break-in
and robbery at her house. Three laptops, including one on which she
wrote the paper, two cellphones and an encrypted memory stick from her
last trip to China were taken, but other valuables were not taken.
This followed receipt of letters threatening violence against her, and
an earlier break-in and robbery of her university office.
Brady says that she links the two-breaks to work she has conducted on
China's global influence campaign. New Zealand Herald and Stuff (New Zealand)
****
**** New Zealand MP Jian Yang faces heavy scrutiny from covert links to China's military
****
On September 13 of last year, it emerged that China-born Yang Jian, a
government official and MP in New Zealand's ruling National Party had
been in China's military intelligence services and had joined the
Chinese Communist Party, but had not revealed these affiliations when
he applied for citizenship.
Yang moved from China to New Zealand in 1991, and became an MP 12
years later. At a press conference, Last week, Yang, an MP for New
Zealand’s governing National Party, confirmed he had taught English to
Chinese spies in the 1980s and 1990s, and that he had been a member of
the Communist Party while in China, but that he had not declared the
names of the military institutions he taught at when applying for
citizenship. These Chinese institutions were the People's Liberation
Army-Air Force Engineering College and the Luoyang language institute,
the latter run by China's equivalent of America's National Security
Agency.
At the press conference, Yang said:
<QUOTE>"I am not a spy. I refute any allegations that
question my loyalty to New Zealand ... Although I was not born
here I am proud to call myself a New Zealander, obey our laws and
contribute to this country. I challenge those who are propagating
these defamatory statements to front up and prove
it."<END QUOTE>
Nonetheless, Yang remains under scrutiny by the governments of not
only New Zealand but also Australia, he briefly interned with a
sensitive Australian parliamentary committee before moving to New
Zealand.
One question that has not been satisfactorily answered is: Why did he
leave China at all to come to New Zealand in 1991.
In 1991 The China expert and author Peter Mattis says that there are
two plausible explanations. 1991 was shortly after the Tiananmen
Square massacre, so one scenario is that he left to escape his
homeland and put his past behind him to create a new life. The other
was to work covertly for military intelligence, most likely China's
Second Department, dealing in human intelligence. Newsroom (New Zealand, 27-Dec-2017) and Australian Broadcasting (20-Oct-2017) and Guardian (13-Sep-2017) and South China Morning Post (13-Sep-2017)
****
**** Anne-Marie Brady's report, 'Magic Weapons', documents China's global influence strategy
****
China's president Xi Jinping once used the term "magic weapon" to
refer to China's United Front Work Department. Officially it focuses
on building support for the Communist Party in China, but it's become
a coercive propaganda tool targeting Chinese globally, especially in
Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., and Canada, but in other countries
as well. The agency particularly surveils and targets Chinese
students abroad and foreign universities to adopt language that favors
pro-Beijing policies, such as delegitimizing Taiwan, and Western
ideals and values, such as liberal democracy, Christianity, or Falun
Gong.
Thanks to Chinese emigration, there are now large communities of
Chinese people in Australia and New Zealand. Chinese propaganda has
been so thoroughly successful that Chinese media in Australia is now
almost overwhelmingly pro-Beijing, and is promoting Chinese values
("socialism with Chinese characteristics"), rather than Western values
of liberal democracy and freedom. United Front Work attempts to sway
elections so that pro-Beijing policies are adopted.
Anne-Marie Brady's report, entitled "Magic Weapons: China's political
influence activities under Xi Jinping," describes in detail how
Chinese propaganda works in New Zealand:
<QUOTE>"There are currently around 200,000 ethnic Chinese
resident in New Zealand, out of a population of 4.5 million New
Zealanders. The majority of Chinese in New Zealand live in
Auckland, where they make up around 10 percent of the
population. Chinese consular authorities keep a close eye on all
Chinese community activities, but especially in Auckland. They
have achieved this through close links with core pro-Beijing
Chinese community groups, and by maintaining oversight over other
Chinese community groups, ethnic Chinese political figures, and
Chinese language media and schools in New Zealand. Moreover,
during the Xi era, the PRC embassy has supported the setting up of
new organizations that report back to united front bodies in
China, and, according to two former Australian-based Chinese
diplomats, by placing supporters and informers in New Zealand
Chinese organizations that are more independent minded and pose a
potential threat to China’s interests. This is classic CCP
party-building and organization work; one of the three “magic
weapons” of the CCP. The current level of supervision over the
ethnic Chinese community in New Zealand is a remarkable
achievement. All throughout the Cold War years, with only a few
exceptions, Chinese New Zealanders were neither pro-CCP nor
pro-PRC, even if they were not necessarily pro-Chinese Nationalist
Party or pro-ROC,76 and New Zealand’s Chinese-language media,
community groups, and language schools were proudly
independent. ...
The organization most closely connected with the PRC authorities
in New Zealand is the Peaceful Reunification of China Association
of New Zealand (PRCANZ), founded in 2000. ... The name of the
organization is a reference to the “Peaceful Reunification” of
mainland China and Taiwan. However, the organization also engages
in a range of activities which support Chinese foreign policy
goals, including block-voting and fund-raising for ethnic Chinese
political candidates who agree to support their organization’s
agenda. When Chinese senior leaders visit New Zealand, it is
united front-affiliated organizations such as PRCANZ who organize
counter-protest groups to shout down pro-Falungong, pro-Tibet, or
any other group critical of China who come to protest when China’s
senior leaders visit New Zealand."<END QUOTE>
Brady's report also gives a detailed account of Yang Jian's activities
in including New Zealand's government, as well as the activities of
other China-born officials.
New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern discount's Brady's report,
and says that she's seen no evidence of spying by Yang Jian or other
China-born officials:
<QUOTE>"Certainly I haven't seen evidence of that from
[Brady] directly. It sounds to me like it's an insinuation that's
being made.
Of course, we do have close links as a country with China and as a
party with China. It's another step again though to make that kind
of link."<END QUOTE>
Diplomat and Washington Post and New Zealand Herald (20-Sep-2017) and South China Morning Post (23-Sep-2017)
Related Articles
- China-Australia relations plummet over China's illegal militarization of South China Sea (16-Dec-2017)
- Xi Jinping says that China will now have a 'say' on all international issues (01-Jan-2018)
- Xi Jinping's 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics' is identical to Hitler's National Socialism (24-Oct-2017)
- New Zealand and U.S. resume military cooperation (29-Oct-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, New Zealand, Australia, China,
Anne-Marie Brady, Jian Yang, National Party,
People's Liberation Army-Air Force Engineering College,
Luoyang language institute, Peter Mattis, Tiananmen Square,
Magic weapons, Xi Jinping, United Front Work Department,
Jacinda Ardern
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