{"id":41747,"date":"2022-02-16T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/16\/future-fund-forced-to-divest-5m-from-sanctioned-chinese-weapons-company"},"modified":"2022-02-16T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:30:31","slug":"future-fund-forced-to-divest-5m-from-sanctioned-chinese-weapons-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41747","title":{"rendered":"Future Fund forced to divest $5m from sanctioned Chinese weapons company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investment was first revealed using freedom of information laws which the Coalition is trying to prevent happening again<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Future Fund has been forced to divest about $5m in taxpayers\u2019 money from a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer sanctioned for selling arms to the genocidal Myanmar military.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/29\/australias-future-fund-invested-in-weapons-manufacturers-that-have-sold-arms-to-myanmar-military#:~:text=Australia%27s%20sovereign%20wealth%20fund%2C%20the,accused%20of%20crimes%20against%20humanity.\">Guardian revealed<\/a> that Australia\u2019s sovereign wealth fund had invested $4.9m in five subsidiaries of the Chinese arms conglomerate Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/16\/future-fund-forced-to-divest-5m-from-sanctioned-chinese-weapons-company\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment was first revealed using freedom of information laws which the Coalition is trying to prevent happening againFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Future Fund h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2914,"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":[43,324,50,1035,82,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-freedom-of-information","category-myanmar","category-weapons-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747","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\/2914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41747\/revisions\/41757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}