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David Brophy Profile picture
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May 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Been some good stories on the Falungong media empire in the US by @EliClifton et al. Question that still needs exploring in Oz is whether or not Vision Times is part of that empire. I know they deny it, but stuff like this... trove.nla.gov.au/work/212691312…
It's not an insignificant question, now that a VT editor sits on the advisory board of the govt's Foundation for Australia China Relations. Of course, DFAT can appoint anyone they like, but there's a fairly big difference between "independent community newspaper" and FLG media.
I know there's not much interest in this story, but if it is FLG media, then getting that seat is a) quite an achievement! And b) a pretty big symbolic gesture from the government, whether they realise it or not. Seems like a question that needs to be resolved.
I should tag @maree_jun here, though we've been around the block on this question before.

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Apr 4
Quite some shenanigans at USyd regarding the new Group of 8 definition of antisemitism. Many solid critiques have been made of this, most recently by @jumanabayeh, and not surprisingly staff have strong reservations. What to do? overland.org.au/2025/03/silenc…
The university took the definition to Academic Board last month, proposing to include the definition alongside other definitions in the appendix to its anti-racism statement. But this "proposal" wasn't actually put as a proposal to Academic Board, and no vote occurred. Image
The meeting report nevertheless said that Academic Board "resolved to note" the definition. That was strange enough, since no vote took place. But then this week's edition of Staff News annouced that Academic Board had "endorsed" the new definition! Image
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Oct 21, 2021
Just got through @markwillacy’s book. To coincide with Alan Tudge’s speech today, I’m going to just post a couple of scenes from Australia’s proud recent history of standing up for freedom and liberal values.
Blooding - the execution of prisoners as a rite of passage - wasn’t just carried out in Afghanistan. Preparing people to do it was part of training in Australia.
One possible such case - a village imam taken out and shot because he happened to have the same name as someone the SAS was looking for.
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Sep 28, 2020
Some thoughts on recent stoushes, and my own position, which evidently confuses people.

I’m sure the @ASPI_ICPC report is mostly accurate. It’s an impressive piece of work. But the empirical debate is substituting for a political debate, and no amount of data will shift that.
Camp skepticism or denialism, in its various forms, is really not about empirical questions. It reflects skepticism towards the actors and organisations making the running on China issues in the West. We're better off just facing up to that and talking about the politics.
The vitriol on the weekend is a sign of the centre collapsing on this issue, and the pressure is pushing some (thankfully not all) towards simple anti- and pro-China camps. These are both conservative positions in their own way. I want to restate what I see as the alternative.
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Sep 26, 2020
Interesting side note to @BackgroundBrief's report on the Falun Gong and Oz media a while back. Last year the Department of Human Services had a partnership with FLG's Sound of Hope 希望之声, which resulted in the show "Engage Australia" 走入澳洲. ozvoice.org/radio-programs…
A Youtube series with the same title was also made. It began with videos about life in Australia - the kind of stuff that the Department presumably had in mind. Then, in July, the "Engage Australia" Youtube channel changed its name to "Voices" 真觀點. youtube.com/channel/UCAwVp…
If you search Youtube for 走入澳洲 today, you'll go straight to Voices. The video announcing the change is here. The first episode of the rebranded series is on Dr Yan and the Coronavirus - currently a hot FLG talking point. It continues in that vein. youtube.com/channel/UCAwVp…
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Sep 8, 2020
Bit more on this still vague story here. Raid said to have occurred on 26/6, on 4 PRC journos from 3 media orgs, relating to the Foreign Interference Transparency Scheme, & came up with nothing. Date would place it in advance of the Cheng Lei detention. chinanews.com/gn/2020/09-08/…
June 26 was the day after the raid on Moselmane. Possibly related?
Xinhua story seems to confirm that it was linked to the raid on Moselmane, and adds that the Chinese journalists were told to keep the raid secret. Not sure exactly what that means - were they legally prevented from revealing it? xinhuanet.com/world/2020-09/…
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Aug 4, 2020
Does anyone have a link to the original offending article in Chinese? The author's name "Cho Yao Lu" comes from the Russian articles cited here, not sure what his actual name is.
Ok, think I found it. The Russian title is Таджикистан инициировал передачу Китаю его земель и потерянные горы Памира были возвращены истинному хозяину, which seems to be this article: 塔吉克斯坦主动归还中国领土，丢失的帕米尔高原最终回归 Image
Twitter won't let me link to it because it's such a junk website, but if you search the title you'll find it. If this is the article in question, it's not making new irredentist claims to Tajik territory. It's just an article celebrating the 2011 border agreement.
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