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Self-Confessed Chinese Spy Spills Secrets in Australia

Associated Press

   PERTH, AUSTRALIA - A self-confessed Chinese spy has given Australia's
   counterespionage agency inside intelligence on how Beijing conducts its
   interference operations abroad and revealed the identities of China's
   senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong, media reported.

   Australia's Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told reporters Saturday that the
   detailed accusations of China infiltrating and disrupting democratic
   systems in Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan are "very disturbing."

   The Nine network newspapers reported Chinese defector Wang "William"
   Liqiang told ASIO, the country's counterespionage agency, that he was
   involved in the kidnapping in 2015 of one of five Hong Kong booksellers
   suspected of selling dissident materials. The incident has been a
   reference point for protesters during the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong.

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