{"id":139809,"date":"2025-11-05T07:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139809"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:34:51","slug":"hot-button-regional-issues-expose-australians-to-foreign-agents-spy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139809","title":{"rendered":"Hot-button regional issues expose Australians to foreign agents: spy chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRegional hot-button issues amplified by great power rivalry, such as the South China Sea and Taiwan, have contributed to more Australians \u201cthan ever before\u201d being exposed to foreign intelligence operations, Canberra\u2019s top spy has warned.<br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s social cohesion faced \u201cunprecedented\u201d tests, with international dynamics playing a role, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) director general Mike Burgess said in a speech on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe country had been among the targets of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3331600\/hot-regional-issues-south-china-sea-expose-australians-foreign-agents-spy-chief?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRegional hot-button issues amplified by great power rivalry, such as the South China Sea and Taiwan, have contributed to more Australians \u201cthan ever before\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"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\/139809"}],"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=139809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}