Feng Chongyi, who was detained for 10 days in China in 2017, told the South China Morning Post that allegations in the Global Times, a tabloid affiliated with Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily, were “outrageous slander”. Photo: Handout
Chinese academic accused of being an Australian spy slams ‘outrageous slander’ in Beijing-run tabloid
- Feng Chongyi, an academic accused by the Global Times of being an Australia spy, slammed ‘propaganda machine of the Chinese Communist Party’ for tabloid splash
- State media story is the latest in a series of accusations of espionage from both Australia and China, as geopolitical tensions creep up
Feng Chongyi, who was detained for 10 days in China in 2017, told the South China Morning Post that allegations in the Global Times, a tabloid affiliated with Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily, were “outrageous slander”. Photo: Handout
