The Western Australian government has been accused of ignoring the state’s non-Mainland Chinese (NMC) community after the McGowan government appointed two allegedly pro-Beijing community leaders to a taxpayer-funded policy advisory council. Western Australian CCP influence expert Tshung Chang called out the WA Government for choosing CCP-linked individuals Ting Chen and Edward Zhang over other leaders in the Chinese community, despite a wealth of available nominees. “Perth’s Chinese community is not homogeneous. It has Non-Mainland Chinese from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan,” Chang told The Epoch Times. “Zhang and Chen have been involved in groups that support mainland China and the CCP, but there are many others that don’t.” The news of the appointments first appeared in The Age on June 22, which noted that the two men would be joining the WA’s Ministerial Multicultural Advisory Council (MMAC) and that both were allegedly avid advocates for the CCP with concrete …