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Committee Secretariat Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee Department of the Senate Committee Secretariat Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee Department of the Senate Dear Sir/Madam, I'm an Australian Broadcasting Corporation employee of 32 years. I am concerned about the cooperation between the Australian media and the Chinese Communist Party. I think this legislation is very important and timely because it can resolve issues pertaining to Australian foreign relations which are not in Australia’s interests. I am concerned with radio station 2SER’s online podcasts of the program “The Middle”. My concern arises over the content in episode 6 - “Reporting on China”, where the guests openly criticize Australian journalistic values and give consideration to the values of the Chinese Communist Party. The program presenters are Peter Fray and Wanning Sun. The program guests are journalist and writer Glenda Korporaal from The Australian newspaper and reporter Su-Lin Tan from the Australian Financial Review. This 2SER website link includes details of the program: https://2ser.com/2ser-launches-the-middle/ This 2SER link includes publicity photos from various episodes and a link to the episode 6 podcast: https://themiddleau.com/photo-gallery/ This 2SER link opens the episode 6 podcast: https://themiddleau.com/episode-6-reporting-on-china/ The opinions of this program understate the serious and deteriorating circumstances under which Australia is being positioned by Chinese Communist Party deceit. When a foreign power seeks to influence a country’s internal public debate and political system through unofficial channels in ways that are opaque, deceptive, or manipulative, we have left the realm of legitimate public diplomacy. The methods include monetary inducements to politicians to change their stance on key issues; sinecures to former politicians and financial support for research institutes that carry a pro-Beijing line; threats to mobilize Chinese-Australian voters to punish political parties who do not support Beijing’s policy preferences; “astroturfing” local grassroots organizations to give the appearance of broad support for Beijing and its policies within the Chinese-Australian community; co-opting Chinese-language media and local civic organizations to promote narratives and individuals who are friendly to Beijing; and a variety of efforts to drown out or silence critics. These efforts are designed to remain hidden from public view, often arranged indirectly through proxies, in order to create a layer of plausible deniability that makes it more difficult to nail down precisely the degree of interference and the scope of the problem. Bob Carr, former foreign minister in the last Labor government and former premier of New South Wales had previously denounced Chinese Communist Party ideology and the “pro-China lobby”. But, once he became director at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) in 2014, he came to personify the lobby which he had formally attacked. Even though he had never been an academic, Carr was granted the title of “Professor” and allowed to chair the ACRI board. He used his position to unfailingly support stronger Australia-China ties and counter Beijing’s critics. His primary function as a former dignitary and now friend of China was to speak highly of Xi Jinping and the CCP, while misrepresenting Australia’s position. In 2017, a program for senior Chinese editors and directors led by Mr Tang Yiyuan, deputy editor-in- chief of Beijing Daily Group was organised by the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre. The group visited Sydney and Melbourne for discussions with representatives of government, business, academia and media, as part of APJC’s on-going relationship with the All China Journalists Association. At the ABC‘s Ultimo Headquarters, the group met ABC journalist, Gavin Fang, and head of digital operations for ABC International, David Hua. At a round-table discussion and dinner with senior Australian journalists, the group shared their perspectives on the likely impact of economic growth of China’s One Belt One Road initiative. The function was co-hosted by Professor Bob Carr, director of the Australia-China Relations Institute, and Bill Petrovski, principal of William Roberts Lawyers. I am also including a self-contained document entitled Concerns of Potential Chinese Communist Party Influence on the ABC program “The Power of Falun Gong”. It describes the relationship between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Chinese Communist Party. Could you please investigate my letter of concern. Kind Regards, David Sercombe Concerns of Potential Chinese Communist Party Influence on the ABC Report “The Power of Falun Gong” Key Takeaways: • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) engages in a variety of tactics to influence Western media, including a deliberate campaign accelerated in 2017 to mobilize foreign media to mimic the Party’s tone and talking points on Falun Gong. • The ABC program “The Power of Falun Gong” has served as an extremely useful propaganda tool for the CCP, contributing to the atmosphere of harassment and violence faced by persecuted Falun Gong believers in China. CCP agencies responsible for the violent campaign against Falun Gong in China, have translated and published reports on the ABC program in record timing. • There are many examples of ABC executives and journalists partnering with Chinese state media, meeting with high ranking CCP officials, making comments favorable to the party’s anti-Falun Gong campaign, and engaging in self-censorship, particularly in Chinese-language coverage of China. The station’s extensive business and political ties to China render it especially vulnerable to CCP pressure, implicit or explicit. • While the potential CCP influence over ABC programming is a claim that should be handled carefully, the circumstances of this case are so egregious that a small taskforce should be established to examine whether or not there was any association between CCP-connected individuals and the ABC programming in question, or any other more indirect forms of influence. The CCP’s strategy of influencing Western media to toe its line on Falun Gong The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spends about $10 billion each year on its external propaganda to audiences around the world, including notable investment of resources in Australia, according to the Financial Times.1 In January 2020, Freedom House published a comprehensive study titled Beijing's Global Megaphone- The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence since 2017, examining the CCP’s tactics for influencing foreign media. The report notes that propaganda is spread not only through Chinese state- run media. Rather, “Chinese diplomats and other officials have gone to great lengths to develop ‘friendly’ relations with private media owners and reporters, encouraging them to create their own content that promotes key narratives favored by Beijing.”2 1 Jamie Smyth, "China’s $10bn propaganda push spreads Down Under," Financial Times, 9 June 2016, https://www.ft.com/content/324d82c4-2d60-11e6-a18d-a96ab29e3c95 2 Sarah Cook, “Beijing's Global Megaphone-The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence since 2017,” Freedom House, January 2020, https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/beijings-global-megaphone 1 A 2017 document3 was leaked from the CCP’s Leading Group on Preventing and Dealing with Heretical Religions (a.k.a. the 610 office), an extralegal agency set up in 1999 to lead the persecution against Falun Gong. The document clearly outlines the CCP’s strategy of mobilizing foreign journalists and international media to report on Falun Gong in a manner that more closely matches Beijing’s own demonization of the practice: By … cultivating non-governmental forces, we can fight heretical religions such as “Falun Gong,” thereby mobilizing influential and friendly people such as experts, scholars, journalists, and overseas Chinese community leaders to speak up. We shoulD strive to have foreign meDia take a tone more favorable to us [on Falun Gong]. Since those instructions were issued, there have emerged multiple reports of Chinese agents offering money to Western YouTubers and local media in countries like Argentina4 to publish content demonizing Falun Gong. CCP agencies have leveraged the ABC report to incite hatreD towarDs Falun Gong On July 17, 2020, two days after ABC sent out the press release5 about its upcoming program on Falun Gong scheduled for broadcast on July 21, the CCP’s 610 office published on its website an article6 titled “Big News! 21 Years After China’s Warning, Australia’s National Media Begins Exposing and Denouncing the Evil Conduct of ‘Falun Gong’“. The article mirrors the ABC press release, and translates its content in the same order. Three days after ABC aired the report “The Power of Falun Gong”, the CCP’s 610 office translated almost the full script into Chinese and posted it on its website.7 For 21 years, the CCP has dreamt of having a mainstream Western media report smear Falun Gong along the lines of its own defamatory propaganda. Their dream was finally realized. By promoting similar talking points, such translations of Western media reports carry far more power than the CCP’s own propaganda in inciting hatred towards Falun Gong practitioners in China. Many Chinese hold Western media outlets in higher regard than domestic sources because of their reputation for professionalism and independence. Since ABC is the national broadcaster funded by the Australian government, many Chinese may even
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