Former major general, now-Senator Jim Molan, has called on the National Press Club to refrain from giving the Chinese Embassy further opportunities to “spread its lies and disinformation.”
His comments come after the Chinese Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian addressed the country’s Press Club on Aug. 10—at the invitation of CEO Maurice Reilly and Director Peter Phillips.
Molan said he watched the address and was unsurprised by the “thinly veiled aggression, deflection, and blame-shifting” that has become common from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) representatives.
“Disappointingly, the ambassador chose to take the platform extended to him by the National Press Club and use it to criticise Australia’s media for not glossing over China’s human rights abuses, lies and war-like aggression in our region,” the Liberal Senator said in a statement issued on Aug. 11….