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by ABoldGambit 2167 days ago
ASPI is literally a US State Department-funded front group to publish anti-China propaganda.

The report it put out contains very little evidence of anything not widely reported elsewhere.

This second hand account from the Sunday Guardian (barely a newspaper, owned and run by a Hindu Nationalist politician) contains distortions/misunderstandings of an already threadbare report.

I don’t know why this is on HN. Its literally just propaganda. Share something from reputable sources.
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jryle70 2167 days ago
Do you have any link to back up the claim "ASPI is literally a US State Department-funded front group to publish anti-China propaganda"?

ASPI is an Australia think tank, founded by Australian government and partially funded by Australia's Department of Defense, according to their website [0]. Clearly they're biased but not necessarily anti-China. Australia was pretty cozy with China until very recently.

[0] - https://www.aspi.org.au/

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Shared404 2167 days ago
That's what it looked like to me as well, but I didn't spend long enough researching ASPI to feel comfortable making the claim.

Thank you for doing more where I didn't have time.

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Shared404 2167 days ago
I just happened to stumble across it and thought it was worthwhile information to have. I'm sorry if this is offensive.

Edit: Slightly better link [1]. Still from ASPI, here's a link to their home page [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/03/05/china-move...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/

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rbecker 2167 days ago
> little evidence of anything not widely reported elsewhere

Are you trying to say the claims are true, since they were independently reported? Or that they mostly lack evidence? Without telling us which claims are confirmed by other sources, which are unsupported, and which are distortions, we can only speculate.

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ABoldGambit 2167 days ago
I'm saying that the US State Department-funded ASPI report and a rehashed column from a Hindu nationalist newspaper that barely qualifies as journalism are poor sources on this subject: neither provide any credible information on this subject.
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