‘Can Rattling’ Keating Cuts Loose Over Revelations of Beijing-Backed Spy Ring

Published on March 5, 2024

With typical rhetorical flourish, former Australian Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating has taken issue with the foreign minister, Senator Penny Wong, over her comments to ASEAN in the wake of the “A-team” spying revelations. According to the country’s domestic spy agency, a group of Beijing-backed agents had convinced a serving Australian politician to betray his country and attempted to influence the child of a prime minister. In her speech at the ASEAN meeting in Melbourne, Ms. Wong warned that coercion and threats of the use of force were risking the region’s stability, without specifically naming Beijing. She also pledged $64 million($41.8 million) to support maritime security in the region....

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