{"id":11439,"date":"2019-11-24T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/defecting-former-chinese-spy-a-convicted-fraudster-shanghai-police-claim"},"modified":"2019-11-24T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:58:58","slug":"defecting-former-chinese-spy-a-convicted-fraudster-shanghai-police-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11439","title":{"rendered":"Defecting former Chinese spy a convicted fraudster, Shanghai police claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wang \u2018William\u2019 Liqiang, 26, is in hiding in Sydney on a tourist visa and is seeking political asylum in Australia<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/nov\/23\/defecting-chinese-spy-who-revealed-espionage-in-australia-has-legitimate-claim-for-asylum-labor-says\">a man seeking political asylum in Australia<\/a> as a former Chinese spy is a convicted fraudster.<\/p>\n<p>The Age and Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday that Wang \u201cWilliam\u201d Liqiang had provided Australia\u2019s counter-espionage agency, Asio, details of how China\u2019s senior military intelligence officers fund and conduct political interference operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/24\/defecting-former-chinese-spy-a-convicted-fraudster-shanghai-police-claim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang \u2018William\u2019 Liqiang, 26, is in hiding in Sydney on a tourist visa and is seeking political asylum in AustraliaChinese police claim a man seeking political asylum in Australia as a former Chinese spy is a convicted fraudster.The Age and Sydney Mornin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[961,43,388,324,50,960],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-josh-frydenberg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}