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The Chinese "Spies" are not what you think of as Spies. They are Chinese foreign college students in Australia who report back to China if any of their classmat

by mullen 5y ago

The Chinese "Spies" are not what you think of as Spies. They are Chinese foreign college students in Australia who report back to China if any of their classmates do something that the Chinese government would not approve of. They also steal information when they can and just basically tow the party line while overseas. They all do it because the government is paying for their education and they are proven loyal to CCCP (That's why the government pays for their education overseas).

jfoster 5y ago
OK, but source? Australian population in 2016 born in China was ~500k. If you assume that the majority of this was happening within that population, if it's 50k "informants", that would mean it's 1 in every 10 people. If you further limited it to students, it would be even more than that. If this were actually known to be happening at such high frequency, I would expect that Australia would know about it & do something about it. https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/6101_036 https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/get...
- ShivShankaran 5y ago
  Absolutely no source. Remember that Fox news has minority viewership in US but in Australia it controls 90% of the news (Murdoch is from Australia). Most of the news, almost all the time are sensationalist nonsense like this. 10 years ago it was complaining about the Lebanese then the vietnamese and then finally its the turn of Chinese. If you want to experience the US 60's style racism go to Australia. Imagine a place in US named like this https://goo.gl/maps/aoUdGWvFmGcmV7f29 https://goo.gl/maps/aoUdGWvFmGcmV7f29
- bogantech 5y ago
  Chinese government threatens the family members still living in China: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-student-attended-a-protest-at-an-australian-uni-days-later-chinese-officials-visited-his-family-20190807-p52eqb.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-student-attende... Students doxxed and harassed after protesting https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/04/we-cannot-be-seen-the-fallout-from-the-university-of-queenslands-hong-kong-protests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/04/we-ca... The government doesn't do anything about it because Chinese students are a cash cow and every university in Australia as well as the property market would implode without that sweet cash
  - antifa 5y ago
    Couldn't find 50k, or any other number, in this articles.
octoberfranklin 5y ago
toe. You toe a line. As in standing where you're told, with your toes on the line. You tow a trailer. As in dragging it behind you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line#Misspelling_as_"tow_the_line" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line#Misspelling_as_... Sorry, this is just my personal pet peeve eggcorn. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Hacker News...

by mullen 5y ago

jfoster 5y ago

OK, but source? Australian population in 2016 born in China was ~500k. If you assume that the majority of this was happening within that population, if it's 50k "informants", that would mean it's 1 in every 10 people. If you further limited it to students, it would be even more than that. If this were actually known to be happening at such high frequency, I would expect that Australia would know about it & do something about it. https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/6101_036 https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/get...

ShivShankaran 5y ago
Absolutely no source. Remember that Fox news has minority viewership in US but in Australia it controls 90% of the news (Murdoch is from Australia). Most of the news, almost all the time are sensationalist nonsense like this. 10 years ago it was complaining about the Lebanese then the vietnamese and then finally its the turn of Chinese. If you want to experience the US 60's style racism go to Australia. Imagine a place in US named like this https://goo.gl/maps/aoUdGWvFmGcmV7f29 https://goo.gl/maps/aoUdGWvFmGcmV7f29
bogantech 5y ago
Chinese government threatens the family members still living in China: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-student-attended-a-protest-at-an-australian-uni-days-later-chinese-officials-visited-his-family-20190807-p52eqb.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-student-attende... Students doxxed and harassed after protesting https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/04/we-cannot-be-seen-the-fallout-from-the-university-of-queenslands-hong-kong-protests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/04/we-ca... The government doesn't do anything about it because Chinese students are a cash cow and every university in Australia as well as the property market would implode without that sweet cash
- antifa 5y ago
  Couldn't find 50k, or any other number, in this articles.

octoberfranklin 5y ago

toe. You toe a line. As in standing where you're told, with your toes on the line. You tow a trailer. As in dragging it behind you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line#Misspelling_as_"tow_the_line" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line#Misspelling_as_... Sorry, this is just my personal pet peeve eggcorn. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Hacker News...