26 June 2020

Warning issued to Australia over Chinese disinformation and cyber techniques

Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre

Director of Foreign Policy and Defence at the US Studies Centre Ashley Townshend told Sky News that Australia “needs to be very sensitive to the way China is using both cyber and disinformation techniques to advance its interests”.

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Ashley Townshend
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, United States Studies Centre
Ashley Townshend is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre and Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the founding co-chair of the annual US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue and was the Director of Foreign Policy and Defence at the United States Studies Centre from June 2017 to June 2022.

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