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Vision Times 2017 special edition The Giant Awakens: A collection of insights into Chn govt influence in AUS visiontimes.com.au/the-giant-awak…

What did y’all think “Year of the Horse” meant? gas? diesel?

Are "liberal values" all that binds Australia together? Or are there some ethnic, linguistic, and cultural components which need to be preserved for it to be still the same nation?

Had a few Chinese refugees contact us asking: can we have their spot? 😅

One of Iran's soccer player initially granted asylum by Australia appeared on Iranian state TV saying Australian police were asking strange questions (2:47), as if we scared her off from seeking asylum. Seriously? This is really playing into the hands of Iran's propaganda machine

Beijing isn’t just participating at the @UN; it’s working to reshape it. Our recent @ChinaSelect investigation found a systematic campaign by the Chinese Communist Party to expand influence through funding, personnel, and peacekeeping deployments tied to its strategic interests. From surging financial leverage to embedding officials in key roles, the CCP is bending multilateral institutions to serve Beijing, not the global good. The U.S. and our allies must lead with transparency, accountability, and strength to defend the integrity of the international system. foxnews.com/politics/china…

@jiandie131 @TheHillsCouncil The council responded and claimed they did not know William Yu despite him appearing in VIP photos of the 2025 &2026 LNY events with the Mayor and other events as well. I don't think the council understands the intricacies of the Chinese community at all, unfortunately.

@maree_jun @TheHillsCouncil Could it be the Hills council were concerned by his connections ? Or some other reason ?

Sydney local council @TheHillsCouncil 's Castle Hill Lunar Street Festival 2026 partnered with William Yu (余俊武 Yu Junwu), a prominent figure in the Chinese Communist Party's United Front influence network, and his Huaxing Arts Troupe for this year's performances. Yu is a strong advocate for China reunification, saying that he uses arts and performances to promote Chinese culture, repay the motherland and achieve peaceful reunification. The Hills LNY festival also featured a speech delivered by Sydney Chinese Consul General Wang Yu calling on the Hills district Chinese locals not to be misled by "wayward" and "radical" groups and that the Chinese Communist government is the one promoting true Chinese traditional culture (although he does not mention that the CCP denounced traditional Chinese culture and all religions in 1949 in order to solidify power which brought about the infamous decade long Cultural Revolution). This LNY street festival was funded by taxpayers’ @nsw_olg @nswdphi Open Streets program, yet it features a non-local organization led by a prominent UFWD person who promotes the CCP’s political interests. Yu is currently the president of the Australian Chinese Performing Artists Association (ACPAA), the leader and founder of the Sydney Huaxing Arts Troupe, a director of the Beijing Overseas Chinese Friendship Association, vice president of the Cultural Promotion Association of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office. Yu and Huaxing Arts Troupe are also mentioned by @alexjoske as part of the overseas united front network in his 2020 research report “The party speaks for you: Foreign interference and the Chinese Communist Party’s united front system”. Yu has a close VIP relationship with the Sydney Chinese Consul General Wang Yu, appearing at many Chinese Consulate events. Wang Yu also spoke at the Huaxing Arts Troupe’s 10th anniversary in 2025. United Front Work Department (UFWD) acts directly under the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and is a large clandescent Communist party web that infiltrates the Chinese diaspora around the world through forms of “cultural exchange”, art performances and various events. Yu’s profile is featured in Beijing’s UFWD website, emphasizing “unity” –--- very different to Australia’s values of diversity and harmony.

National oil stockpiles. Look who is last on the list 🥲

Correction: William Yu's performance groups have not partnered with the Hills Shire Council this year, but they claim to have partnered and hosted the performances for the 2025 LNY festival in the Hills. For this year, they applied to perform.

The CCP’s new “ethnic unity” law is a cover up for the Party’s intensifying Orwellian campaign of total “Sinicization.” It exposes the true aim of the CCP’s United Front strategy: total obedience and absolute subservience to the Party-State. economist.com/china/2026/03/…

You know how we say South Korea and North Korea and no one loses their minds about it? We can do the same when we talk about China and Taiwan. It’s fine. Don’t waste your time getting caught up in CCP verbal gymnastics.

Weaning the West off China’s cheap drones will take time. But Taiwan has made a flying start econ.st/4bMjCSn Photo: Getty Images

"Australian expat was Chinese spy asset, jury finds". Wow. smh.com.au/national/austr…

@stephendziedzic I wonder what will happen tonight

"Is even saying 'Go Taiwan' not allowed?" More controversy at the Asian Cup after a former coach is kicked out of a Sydney stadium, apparently for using the word "Taiwan" during a chant. Taiwan's de facto Embassy has lodged a complaint with the AFC abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1…

Taiwan's ex-national coach was kicked out of the #wac2026 in Sydney during the Taiwan vs India's game for chanting 台灣加油 (Go Taiwan). He was told they can only say "Go China Taipei". But that's ridiculous because Taipei is a city, not representative of all of Taiwan! Why is @afcasiancup @FootballAUS trying to politicise sport in favour of Communist China? He was initially told he cannot be standing up when cheering . But plenty of Indian fans were standing up. In the past, it has always been ok to chant "Go Hong Kong" or "Go Macau" for their soccer teams. These slogans also carry "political" meaning. Double standards? Kudos to the two Aussie fans in the video standing at the front in support of Taiwan! I wonder what will happen at the Taiwan vs China game this weekend? @afcasiancup @FootballAUS PLAY FAIR and let Taiwan's team the freedom to determine their own chant! #Taiwan #china

@ArabellaSL @DrewPavlou About giving asylum to Iranians?

@maree_jun @DrewPavlou Drew's post is a lot of rubbish. Just because he says rubbish doesn't make it true.

Omg! Trump retweeted your post! @DrewPavlou yiiikes! Incredible! 😃 bet you didn't see that coming! Lol they were circulating this screenshot in the Chinese social media.

Multiple members of the military have been caught spying for China. In several cases like this one they sold information about their own units to the PRC. Stupid as well as treasonous.

Australian journalist @ChengLeifreedom 's new show is cancelled by Rising festival due to China's pressure. This is just another vivid example of China's transnational repression in Australia particularly in culture and art industry. I myself as a long time censored Chinese Australia dissident artist are living in this struggle here as well. I am fully in solidarity with Chenglei's brave show '1154 Days'. Let's show our support to it on 28 May at Arts Centre in North Melbourne. tix artshouse.com.au/events/1154-da…

8 years after the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme, we are once again seeing CCP related censorship in our communities. Most recent case in Sydney's Hills Shire Council with the selection of certain dance groups and cancellation of other groups to appease the CCP. x.com/maree_jun/stat…