Source is this information is dubious and the website staff have lied before and made up false statistics.
It also is directly funded by Australian Department of Defence and the American government. Their main focus is to spy on and track Chinese people in Australia.
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. A February 2020 article in the Australian Financial Review said that ASPI was criticised by Senator
Kim Carr for taking funding from the United States Department of State to track Chinese research collaborations with Australian universities while former foreign minister
Bob Carr accused it of having “one-sided, pro-American view of the world”;
[2] it also said that the institute had many supporters in the Australian parliament.
[2] ASPI in turn responded directly
[13] to these criticisms,
[14] saying "ASPI doesn’t have an editorial line on China, but we have a very clear method for how we go about our research."
[13]
In October 2018, the Australian
Digital Transformation Agency criticised an ASPI report on the Australian Government's
digital identity program. The Agency stated that the report "was inaccurate and contained many factual errors", and which "demonstrate a clear misunderstanding of how the digital identity system is intended to work".
[11] The author of the report responded to the criticism, saying his concerns were acknowledged in private despite being publicly rejected by the agency.
[15]
In June 2020, the ASPI was criticised by
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman,
Zhao Lijian for claiming that the
Chinese government was behind a spike in
cyber attacks against the
Australian government and Australian businesses.
[16] In response, ASPI executive director Peter Jennings said the ministry's comments were an attempt to distract attention from the think tank's research into the Chinese Government.
[16] This followed Australia's PM informing the public that a cyber actor was currently carrying out a sophisticated cyberattack against Australian government bodies and private companies, the comments were believed to be a warning to China.
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