The new Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme, a long-needed recasting of Chinese-Australians' relationship with the government of the country they left behind, is already fostering a change in attitude. It will become even more effective when local Chinese media fully grasp the ethnic press's obligation to serve the community, not the Communist Party

Fan Bingbing was the much-feted face of China's movie industry until, one day in July, she simply vanished. The charge was tax evasion, for which she has since paid a massive fine, but it would be wrong to assume this was 'justice' in anything resembling the Western sense of the word

As the editor of an independent Chinese-language media company in Australia, I know firsthand the pressure Beijing brings to bear on outfits that do not parrot the official line. For us it has meant intimidated advertisers and lost revenue. For many it amounts to a systematic brainwashing