ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess called out China’s “ruthless business model” of using espionage to gain a global advantage at the Five Eyes summit in California.
“The Chinese government is engaged in the most sustained, scaled, and sophisticated theft of intellectual property and expertise in human history,” he told reporters.Mr Burgess said the fact the Five Eyes members – intelligence bosses from Australia, the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom – brought their usually-secret meeting to the public reflected the nature of China’s threat.
“Their spymaster gave them money and a shopping list of intelligence requirements and sent them to Australia.” Mr Burgess said ASIO deported a Chinese national over an attempted espionage plot just last month. Picture: Supplied. He said the unnamed Australian company realised something was wrong when customers started to return “broken” products to its factory – and they realised the products weren’t even theirs, but “exact knock-offs”.
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