Australia's spy stories defy belief

Some Australian media outlets are indulging in conspiracy theories in their attempt to hype up a China threat.

To get political shelter in Australia, fraudster Wang Liqiang was audacious enough to portray himself as a spy for China and a key player creating political interference in Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as Australia. Wang's audaciousness is perhaps understandable as he is desperate to avoid being deported back to China where he will be tried for serious fraud.

Some Australian media, intending to defame China, have swallowed Wang's story hook, line and sinker, and are flopping around trying to breathe air into the story that he is a Chinese spy who has defected and is busy spilling the beans on the identities of China's senior military intelligence officers in Hong Kong to the Australian counter-espionage agency along with details of how Beijing funds and conducts operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.