The Long Umbilical Cord: The role of race in China’s diaspora engagement in Australia
Journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
Year: 2021

Incidents in recent years that involve China exerting extra-territorial control over foreign citizens of Chinese descent, has given rise to two concerns: That Beijing is increasingly willing to insert itself into the domestic affairs of other jurisdictions and that the Communist Party leadership regards ethnic Chinese as within their own domain, regardless of citizenship. Nowhere is this more prominent than in Australia, where intelligence agencies have flagged a suspected widespread campaign by