How Australian taxpayer dollars are secretly funding foreign military technology

Shadow Minister for Defence James Paterson joined Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings to express severe alarm over reports detailing foreign influence peddling and university research loopholes. He warned that Chinese-backed networks are actively using fake social media bots to incite public outrage against Australian and U.S. data centres, aiming to sabotage Western AI capabilities while Australian taxpayer-funded research is simultaneously being leaked to foreign military-linked institutions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.