{"id":35624,"date":"2022-02-11T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35624"},"modified":"2022-02-11T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:23:20","slug":"australia-foils-china-bid-to-fund-labor-partys-federal-election-candidates-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=35624","title":{"rendered":"Australia foils China bid to fund Labor party\u2019s federal election candidates, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese spies sought to fund candidates for Australia\u2019s centre-left Labor opposition party in an upcoming federal election but the plot was foiled by the Australian national security agency, multiple media outlets reported on Friday.The plot was arranged by an unnamed businessman with strong Chinese connections who sought to fund candidates in the state of New South Wales in exchange for influence in public office, said the reports.But it was detected and stopped by the Australian Security\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/australasia\/article\/3166692\/australia-foils-china-bid-fund-labor-partys-election?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 PostChinese spies sought to fund candidates for Australia\u2019s centre-left Labor opposition party in an upcoming federal election but the plot was foiled by the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35625,"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\/35624"}],"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=35624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}