{"id":1219,"date":"2021-02-18T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2021-02-18T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:00:16","slug":"chinese-australian-billionaires-defamation-victory-against-abc-and-fairfax-inflames-debate-over-beijings-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-Australian billionaire\u2019s defamation victory against ABC and Fairfax inflames debate over Beijing\u2019s influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostNearly four years after an Australian current-affairs television programme aired a report alleging that Chinese-Australian billionaire Chau Chak Wing was a corrupt lobbyist acting for the Chinese government, his name was finally cleared.The Australian Federal Court ruled earlier this month that he had been defamed and granted him a payout of A$590,000 (US$450,000), while the producers of the defamatory programme, the ABC and Fairfax Media, were ordered to pay his costs, marking another major\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3122245\/chinese-australian-billionaires-defamation-victory-against-abc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostNearly four years after an Australian current-affairs television programme aired a report alleging that Chinese-Australian billionaire Chau Chak Wing was a corrupt lobbyist acting for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}