One day in late May 2005, Chinese envoy Chen Yonglin gathered his wife and daughter, stepped out of his country’s consulate into the streets of Sydney, and defected to the Australian authorities.
Already disillusioned by the Chinese Communist Party’s widespread human rights abuses, Chen had bad news to tell. Australia, he said, was home to 1,000 Chinese spies. Two years later, Chen gave extensive interviews with The Epoch Times detailing Beijing’s campaign of propaganda, bribery, and blackmail to sway the large Chinese-Australian diaspora in favor of the Communist Party’s agenda.
