Chinese Officials More Willing to Betray CCP, Leak Information: Australian Spy Chief

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The head of Australiaโ€™s foreign spy agency has hinted that disgruntled officials in non-democratic societies, such as China, are more likely to betray their governments and leak information as the regimes tighten their control.

Paul Symon, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS)โ€”the countryโ€™s equivalent to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agencyโ€”revealed that the organization benefited when authoritarian regimes are suppressing dissent within their borders.

โ€œWhen leaders abolish fixed political terms, for example, they become responsible and accountable for everything, including the disillusion that emerges from within. This provides us with an edge,โ€ he told the Lowy Institute in Sydney on the 70th anniversary of the agencyโ€™s founding.

โ€œWe noticed that in closed societies, top officials will always reinforce leadersโ€™ biases and assumptions. That after all, is the safest career path for them, speaking truth to power is an enduring strength of our system,โ€ he said in reference to democratic system.

Symon then said he believed more and more officials โ€œunhappy with the trajectory of closed societiesโ€ would start speaking out or โ€œtake risksโ€ to do so.

The spy chief said that while he was travelling in India he would reflect on the โ€œdiversity in the colour of the ancient culture which is Indiaโ€ and yet, in China, authorities have enforced a โ€œmonoculture.โ€

โ€œWe donโ€™t yet know exactly how that will play out, but what weโ€™re seeing is more and more signs of officials and individuals interested in a relationship,โ€ he said referring to the increasing number of people who are seeking to have a relationship with ASIS.

โ€œThat is a very real concern about their culture, the lack of diversity in their culture, and the direction that theyโ€™re heading.โ€

The revelations from the head of ASIS follow that of the 2019 defection of Wang Liqiang, a former Chinese military intelligence in Australia.

Wang gave details of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was funding efforts to undermine the democratic movement in Hong Kong, meddle in Taiwanโ€™s elections, and infiltrate Australiaโ€™s political circles.

His decision to defect came about after much consideration and when he gradually realized the โ€œdamage that theย CCPโ€™s authoritarianism was doing to democracy and human rights.โ€

โ€œMy opposition to the Party and communism became ever-clearer, so I made plans to leave this organization,โ€ he said, noting that his time in Australia allowed him to experience democratic freedoms, and become โ€œmore ashamed of what the CCP was doing to undermine democracy around the world.โ€

โ€œSo I decided to completely abandon my work and make a clean break with the party.โ€

Byย Daniel Y. Teng

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