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Breaking the Australia–China media feedback loop
Posted By Fergus Ryan on May 24, 2018 @ 11:30
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[1] rosy version: https://foreignminister.gov.au/transcripts/Pages/2018/jb_tr_180522.aspx
[2] made sure to highlight it in their version: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/web/wjbzhd/t1561277.shtml
[3] laid the blame on ‘fake news’: http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/1207/c90000-9301584.html
[4] Fake news: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-media-report-china-proposes-military-base-in-south-pacific
[5] Fake news!: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/world/asia/china-fake-news-xie.html
[6] Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in Australia: https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/22/21/12/un-bribery-scandal-political-donor-chau-chak-wing-andrew-hastie
[7] the consistent line to the Chinese from DFAT: https://twitter.com/KirstyLNeedham/status/999082494417715200
[8] doesn’t run the official government line: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/margin-call/twiggy-the-sensitive-sinophile/news-story/581de2db3c0355dff81f5a2e42a87ea0
[9] Foreign Policy White Paper: https://www.fpwhitepaper.gov.au/
[10] determined advocate[s] of liberal institutions, universal values and human rights: https://www.fpwhitepaper.gov.au/foreign-policy-white-paper
[11] most likely source: https://johnmenadue.com/geoff-raby-the-current-mess-in-australia-china-relations/
[12] the: http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/why-china-no-longer-trusts-australia/news-story/2110141c468bb6ea866052283c6de119
[13] reports : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/01/australias-china-relationship-being-bungled-former-envoy
[14] repeated in the media: http://www.afr.com/news/world/asia/aspi-vs-acri-china-doves-and-hawks-go-to-war-20180503-h0zkt1
[15] probable explanations: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/chinese-communist-partylinked-donor-huang-xiangmos-former-adviser-joins-john-alexanders-team-on-bennelong-campaign/news-story/02cee0d6f92a49e50de42865163a7fda?nk=f592bd34ff7a40539a3ab79da259e291-1527044470
[16] Global Times: http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/china/2018-05-02/doc-ifzyqqip6247491.shtml
[17] calling for Julie Bishop to be sacked: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1102433.shtml
[18] frustrating our Beijing-based diplomats immensely: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-s-tabloid-media-cycle-spins-on-raby-v-bishop-spat-20180516-p4zfoo.html
[19] Weibo diplomacy and censorship in China: https://www.aspi.org.au/event/launch-weibo-diplomacy-and-censorship-china
[20] aggressively running his own line on Chinese social media: https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/04/26/kevin-rudd-china-weibo-australian-relations/