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WeChat Banned From Australian Defense Staff’s Work Phones

Last Sunday, the Australian Financial Review reported that Australia’s Defense Department has banned Tencent’s WeChat messaging app from its staff’s work devices. The move comes amid mounting concern about Beijing’s influence in Australia and a steadily mounting pile of observations and accusations of monitoring and censorship of WeChat messages. Global Times’ Deng Xiaoci quoted indignant responses from Chinese experts to the Australian