“Double agent” Gladys Liu partied with CCP head in parliament

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And why not. She has the CCP stamp of approval. Via Herald Sun:

Liberal MP Gladys Liu brought the head of a group linked to China’s overseas propaganda arm to a celebratory event held in the government party room of Parliament House in Canberra.

Zhou Guohua was among a large group of supporters who joined Ms Liu at the party to celebrate the Hong Kong-born MP’s maiden speech on July 23.

Mr Zhou is the president of the Shanghainese Association of Australia, an organisation named in parliament as part of the United Front, an arm of the Chinese Communist Party which spreads propaganda and seeks to develop influence overseas.

The revelations have sparked crossbench senator Rex Patrick to call for more controls to be put in place over where representatives of foreign-linked political organisations can go in Parliament House.

…“Serious questions have been raised about Ms Liu’s connections with China’s ‘United Front’ organisations and she has failed to provide the parliament with an adequate account and explanation of her foreign political associations.”

So, not only does Gladys refuse to personally endorse Australian foreign policy tenets around China, as well as mumbling alarming things about Hong Kong in the Party Room, and courts and channels money directly opposed to Australian foreign and strategic policy goals into the Government, plus occupied senior positions in CCP propaganda outfits, not to mention abused Chisholm voters with dubious election day signage, then lied about all of it, she also uses and abuses the credibility of parliament house to aid campaigns for CCP control.

Peter Dutton once described Sam Dastayari as a “double agent” for far less. Appropriately, he resigned plus answered all questions. How is it that Ms Liu qualifies as a fit and proper person to be in the Australian Parliament when “double agent” Sam Dastayari does not?

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She is not. But she holds the Morrison Government’s majority in the palm of her hand so here we are, getting a picture of what favours she is facilitating for her CCP-associated donors in return.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.