The Dark Claws of the CCP in Australia By James Reed
There have been concerns raised in many jurisdictions about CCP penetration into their societies, such as through measures like police stations, used to openly keep an eye on Han Chinese, as revealed in a recent disclosure in New York. Apparently, these stations have been in existence for years, but in our Leftist culture, that worships the CCP, not much has been done about them. Just try one’s luck in a place like California, for example.
But, even closer to home, multicultural programming in Australian radio has been pumping out pro-CCP propaganda for decades to Chinese Australians, according to Nick Wong, a former Wellington-based Chinese newspaper publisher. Programs have been taken directly from Beijing, home of the CCP. But, we should not be surprised, since the Australian Left has since the time of Mao have has a love affair with the CCP. I did a philosophy course in the early 1970s for a time before dropping out of it in disgust, and the lecturer a classic Leftoid, had his office done out as a temple to Chairman Mao. Every single space of wall was full of communism. If he is still there, in his wheel chair and oxygen tank, probably god emperor Xi would be the new pin-up.
“A veteran radio journalist has raised concerns about the effect propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is having on Chinese-speaking Australians after he discovered that state-sponsored propaganda had been hitting the airwaves for over twenty years in Sydney.
Nick Wong, a former Wellington-based Chinese newspaper publisher, as well as a former member of the New Zealand Parliamentary Press Gallery, said he was concerned about the security implications of multicultural radio programming in Australia after working at 2tripleO 98.5vFM in Burwood, New South Wales.
Wong is an outspoken critic of Beijing and was once detained and tortured in China for going back to his home country without a valid visa.
Programs Taken Directly from Beijing
2TripleO 98.5FM, which identifies as a multicultural language radio station, has been using five hours of prime time every day to broadcast programs from China Radio International (CRI), the CCP’s state-owned international radio broadcaster, to the New South Wales community.
CRI has been identified in an ASPI report in late 2020 as a vehicle for the CCP to expand its media influence overseas “The influence environment, A survey of Chinese-language media in Australia,” an ASPI report in late 2020.
“The CCP has proactively expanded its media influence overseas by establishing more external propaganda outlets to make China’s voice heard. This has involved using both modern methods, such as social media, and traditional methods, such as newspapers, radio and television, ” reads the report.
“One traditional method has been China Radio International (CRI), which is a state‐owned radio broadcaster used to promote CCP‐produced content in 44 languages to nearly 70 affiliate radio stations globally.”
Wong said he listened carefully to the CRI program, which can be heard live on the station’s website, from Nov. 24 to Nov. 28, during the CCP’s 20th National Congress—an event held every five years.
“The Mandarin programme from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. fully propagated the CCP’s 20th National Congress and the leader Xi Jinping’s speech, and some news stories attacked Taiwanese democratic society,” he told The Epoch Times. “One or two Chinese community leaders in Australia were interviewed to support and promote the Congress.”
Wong believes that this poses a tremendous security concern, as the CCP uses programming to influence Chinese people overseas and penetrate into Australian society, especially the majority Chinese Australian population in the Greater Sydney area.”
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