# ASIO

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(under construction) </span>

[![image.png](https://dulandrift.formosahut.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/scaled-1680-/image.png)](https://dulandrift.formosahut.com/uploads/images/gallery/2023-02/image.png)

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you hear *THE Experts*' calls to turn up the *Secret Surveillance* dial on *Conspiracy Theorists*, it’s worth bearing in mind:</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the *exact same* *Secret-Security-MyGov* that has a long history of being penetrated by *CCP Influencers.* </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013 an event took place which originally i thought was a racist joke - against Aussies - playing on our dumbfuck stereotype ... </span>

*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you hear the one about the Aussie Spy Agency? They used a Chinese company to install all their communications wiring! Hahaha!</span>*

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even funnier is: it's not a joke. It happened. Or very similar. I shit you not:</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(53, 152, 219);">News 2013:</span></span>](https://www.theepochtimes.com/spies-posing-as-diplomats-to-win-over-journalists-intelligence-agency_5074271.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=Aomb-2023-02-22&src_cmp=Aomb-2023-02-22&utm_medium=Aoemail&est=Ss0d89p07NZiMalPj%2BwXmz%2Bek5QO3%2FMTv4Upr8I%2FreESReo%2FARB%2Fd1kb6TDUMdKA)<span style="color: rgb(53, 152, 219);"> </span>*SECRET and highly sensitive blueprints outlining the layout of Australia's **top spy agency's new headquarters** have been stolen by Chinese hackers*. ..<span id="bkmrk-the-blueprints-had-b" style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> *The **blueprints** had been taken from a **contractor** involved with the project.*</span></span>

*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The documents contained details of the ASIO building's floor plans, **communication cabling** layouts, **server locations** and **security systems**, potentially **putting the** </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">entire organisation at risk</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span>*

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bloody Hell! So everything there is to know about the layout of this public-funded *New Aussie Spy Org* was, from the beginning, still is, in the hands of *China's Spy Org*. </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Wonder if we have *their* Spy HQ blueprints, *everythings ...*) </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forget about the *Spy-Balloons*, CCP has already got the *All-U-Can-Surveil* deal from a much closer up perspective than that.</span>

*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="bkmrk-the-allegation-comes-0" style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: rgb(53, 152, 219);">News 2013:</span></span>](https://www.theepochtimes.com/spies-posing-as-diplomats-to-win-over-journalists-intelligence-agency_5074271.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=Aomb-2023-02-22&src_cmp=Aomb-2023-02-22&utm_medium=Aoemail&est=Ss0d89p07NZiMalPj%2BwXmz%2Bek5QO3%2FMTv4Upr8I%2FreESReo%2FARB%2Fd1kb6TDUMdKA)</span> The allegation comes just weeks after **Canberra softened its stance towards China**, claiming in May's **Defence** **White Paper** that it **no longer saw the rising superpower as a threat**. </span></span>*

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ah-ha. Only plausible reason the Aussie *Defence Bureaucracy* could say a *rising Totalitarian Superpower* *is no longer a threat* is if ...</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Defence* has been infiltrated. *Defence is* the threat.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coincidentally, Xi Jinping formally ascended to the position of President in March 2013.</span>

*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="bkmrk-it-comes-amid-deepen-0" style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It comes amid deepening concern about **widespread, aggressive state-sponsored hacking by China**, with </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">further allegations that its </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cyber spies </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have recently</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> obtained sensitive Australian military secrets and foreign affairs documents.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>*

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the Aussie Secret-Security Brains Trust, who, while these mega-breaches were going on, issued a White Paper saying it had: *<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="bkmrk-softened-its-stance-" style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">softened its stance towards China (coz) it no longer saw the rising superpower as a threat. </span></span>*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="bkmrk-%28%21%29" style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(!)</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>

[<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whistleblowers reported</span>](https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/hacking-chinese-spies-steal-asio-blueprints/news-story/c2a00c4e76b2c149eccb90dd48d475b6)<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Defence Department's classified email and restricted networks</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> were also accessed externally. In fact: </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(T)he </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">entire amount of information</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stored within the Defence Restricted Network, has been </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">leached out</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> over a number of years.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*The entire amount!*  Remember, this </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">leaching </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> done by any domestic *Conspiracy Theorist* that the secret service, by its own admission, spends most of its time/our money harassing. It was done by the CCP. The most obvious enemy by a mile. Walks in through the front door - owns the the whole layout + *the entire amount of information.*</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professor Des Ball:</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> At this stage, with construction nearly completed, you have two options. One is to **accept it** and **practise utmost sensitivity** even within your own headquarters. The other, which the Americans had to do with their new embassy in Washington ... was to rip the whole insides out and to start again.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Aussies chose </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Option A</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - accept that CCP has bugged our building &amp; knows the layout better than we do - though they skipped the </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">practicing of utmost sensitivity </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">part</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We'll get to that later.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The company involved in the *leak* hasn't been named. Why not? It's a Secret. *THE Secret World of Non-Accountability ...*  What could go wrong there? </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notwithstanding the official cone-of-silence, *AECOM*, a Global architecture/engineering Org that was integrally involved in building *The Great Aussie Spy HQ,* is one of the chief suspects. Amongst a small field of 3: AECOM (Overseer Development Giant), FJMT (architecture, smallish), Lend Lease (Construction Giant). </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lend Lease was involved in </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*dumping of asbestos-contaminated soil from the site*, &amp; not paying small contractors on time, sending several broke. When complaints mounted ...</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[ABC: ](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-30/claims-asio-building-is-hurting-construction-industry/4659524) </span>*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a statement the Federal Government said the managing contractor for the project **Lend Lease was responsible** for dealing with each of the sub-contracts.</span>*

*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lend Lease **referred all enquires to the Government**.</span>*

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So Lend Lease is no angel Org, but i still suspect AECOM in *The Great ASIO HQ Leak.*</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's my reasoning why:</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*AECOM* was charged with [ripping off Disaster Relief funds](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-joins-lawsuit-against-aecom-alleging-false-claims-connection-hurricane-disaster) in relation to Hurricane Katrina ... in 2005 (so exposed form well before ASIO's New-Era HQ was built in 2013). </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If it's a poor person looting in the aftermath of a disaster to survive, they'll be front-page crucified. If it's a *Big Global Org* doing the same thing, but *much, much worse*, you'll never hear about it. Take-away: AECOM is not/never was big-on-morality. A fact which didn't bother ASIO big-brass in the slightest when they awarded them the contract. Might have been a prerequisite.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have a *[Strategic Global Headquarters in Shanghai](https://www.developmentaid.org/organizations/view/53253/aecom-ltd-china)*. They are one of, if not *the* biggest western Orgs involved in Xi Jinping's Belt &amp; Road Initiative. </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="bkmrk-executivegov%3A-under--0" style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[ExecutiveGov:](https://executivegov.com/articles/who-are-the-aecom-leaders-and-founders/) *Under the auspices of BRI, AECOM is collaborating on railway, port and marine, airport, industrial parks, buildings and urban development projects, principally in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the Philippine*</span>*s*</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You could add *Spy HQs &amp; Australia* to that list of BRI projects. When you sign up to BRI, you sign up to CCP-rule. It's [set out in the contract](http://formosahut.com/forum/index.php?id=2277) , as we explored with Dan Andrews's sign-up - there's no grey area.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[AECOM's website:](https://www.developmentaid.org/organizations/view/53253/aecom-ltd-china) </span>*<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our (ASIO's HQ Developers) presence in the **Greater China region** spans more than **60 years** and we have offices in virtually all major cities, including Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, **Kaohsiung**, Shanghai, Shenzhen, **Taipei** and Tianjin.</span>*

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kaohsiung &amp; Taipei are not cities of CCP's China ... or *Greater China* (the new creepy lingo of CCP's expansionism). They're cities in Taiwan. A separate, self-ruled, democratic county. We all know that. Same as we know that China's brand of Totalitarianism, persecution of protesters, &amp; creepy bio-metric surveillance is bad ... don't we? Whose side are you *Secret Society* guys on here? </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Australian citizens'? Or CCP's side?</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Truism: *When you lie down with CCP dogs, you get up with fleas.* </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You don't get multi-billion dollar BRI contracts without strings attached. Don't need to be a top ASIO Spy to know that. In fact it helps if you aren't. </span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Media reports on the ASIO breach say the info was *hacked/stolen*, but a more likely scenario is the CCP simply *switched-on-the-computer* in the Shanghai Headquarters of AECOM &amp; got everything they needed from the comfort of home.</span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To go back to ASIO's Option A (according to Prof Ball): <span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**accept it** (total security penetration) and **practise utmost sensitivity** even within your own headquarters</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Aussie's wanted to practice *utmost sensitivity* as far as possible, but it was easier/much cheaper *not doing that*. In the end it became an economic-rationalists *no-brainer* (that ended up way more expensive for normal people, as well as opening the door to yet another calamitous security breach).</span></span>

<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's see what happened ...</span></span>