Secret Chinese spying operations in Australia revealed | Four Corners

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Published 2024-05-13
For the first time ever, a former spy for China’s notorious secret police – one of the most powerful arms of the country’s intelligence apparatus – goes public, exposing the covert and illegal operations he was ordered to carry out on foreign soil and the dissidents he was tasked with tracking, including in Australia, Canada, India, Cambodia and Thailand.

In a major investigation reported by the ABC’s Echo Hui, the spy – who goes by the name Eric – comes out of the shadows at great danger to himself, revealing his face to expose how China has used its global network over the last two decades to surveil, silence and kidnap those its government and president Xi Jinping deems enemies of the state.

The spy divulges his double life and the secrets he’s been guarding. He reveals the inner workings of the secret police, including the companies they use as cover, who his targets were, and the tactics he used to hunt them down.

It raises tough questions about China’s global reach and Australia’s national security.

Read more about this story here: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-13/china-spy-secret-po…

Read more about Eric's story here: ab.co/4dFexeK

This episode was originally broadcast as ‘Ruthless Pursuit’ on 13 May 2024 on ABC TV and ABC iview.

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00:00 - A spy speaks out
02:11 - The escape
04:21 - Investigating China's secret police
10:30 - Running from China
22:19 - An enemy of the state
30:15 - Secret international operations
40:45 - International law
42:43 - Security threat
All Comments (21)
  • @Boston82bl
    Australian government needs to wake up and step up.
  • @anarkia_zh
    Great work ABC 🎉 hopefully this video will be promoted on the Chinese ABC newsletter too. The Chinese who live in Australia deserve to know the truth too.
  • @mycute25
    Not suprised Here also in the Philippines and they want to took our land also.
  • @306champion
    I find this no surprise at all but thankyou for bringing it out.
  • @edwardfletcher7790
    It's quality work like this that the ABC is most famous for. The stories other news outlets don't dare run !
  • @methylenedioxy818
    Great job ABC! It's important that stories like this be told. And to those in the comments who are saying "what's the big deal? All countries do this. What's the difference between this and what the CIA does?" the key difference is that the CCP has VERY different ideas of what a "crime" is than most of the rest of the world. Political opposition/criticism and political cartooning are not crimes in democracies.
  • @antenna69
    wow only now they have noticed. this has been going on for a long long time
  • @frederickzoreta6617
    They’ve been doing this all over the Philippines 🇵🇭 too. And they’ve also had a growing presence in Canada 🇨🇦.
  • @cabbytabby
    So fascinating that this is the first time I’ve seen a person who has been able to do this
  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    Please share this video with all that you know.