Why Gladys Liu must answer to parliament about alleged links to the Chinese government
- Written by Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
Liu denies having ties to the Chinese Communist Party, but she is closely connected with a number of United Front organisations in Australia.Lukas Coch/AAPAround 2005, the Chinese government began pushing its policy of huaren canzheng, or “ethnic Chinese participation in politics overseas”. It was a new tactic in the Chinese Communist...