Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols.

The revelations, contained in Monday night’s Four Corners program about a former Chinese spy, prompted a sharp rebuke from federal politicians who are concerned the act may have undermined Australia’s national security.

The Chinese police were permitted to enter Australia in 2019 to talk with a 59-year-old Chinese-born Australian resident.

The woman was targeted under a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) anti-corruption drive called Operation Fox Hunt, which relies on police from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) to make arrests.

Her case is one of 283 cases documented by an international NGO, Safeguard Defenders, in its recent report, Chasing Fox Hunt.

While Fox Hunt is described by the CCP as targeting “economic criminals”, human rights groups have said it is also used to silence dissidents and abduct people around the world.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      -176 months ago

      Might want to look up the etymology. Molotovs tended to be aimed at Western partisans.

      • @[email protected]
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        166 months ago

        The name originally comes from Finland and the Winter War, where they were used against soviet tanks.

          • @[email protected]
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            126 months ago

            Why don’t you quote that whole paragraph:

            The name’s origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his declaration on Soviet state radio that incendiary bombing missions over Finland were actually “airborne humanitarian food deliveries” for their “starving” neighbours.[13][10][better source needed] As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet incendiary cluster bombs “Molotov bread baskets” (Finnish: Molotovin leipäkori) in reference to Molotov’s propaganda broadcasts.[14][10] When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack and destroy Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the “Molotov cocktail”, as “a drink to go with his food parcels”.[15][16]

            • @UnderpantsWeevil
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              -156 months ago

              I gave you the link, my guy. I assumed you knew how to click it.

              • @nomous
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                26 months ago

                You were wrong and doubled-down. You should read the things you link my guy.

                • @UnderpantsWeevil
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                  -16 months ago

                  You were wrong

                  My guy, its right there in black and white.