Do you have any link to back up the claim "ASPI is literally a US State Department-funded front group to publish anti-China propaganda"?

ASPI is an Australia think tank, founded by Australian government and partially funded by Australia's Department of Defense, according to their website [0]. Clearly they're biased but not necessarily anti-China. Australia was pretty cozy with China until very recently.

[0] - https://www.aspi.org.au/

That's what it looked like to me as well, but I didn't spend long enough researching ASPI to feel comfortable making the claim.

Thank you for doing more where I didn't have time.

I just happened to stumble across it and thought it was worthwhile information to have. I'm sorry if this is offensive.

Edit: Slightly better link [1]. Still from ASPI, here's a link to their home page [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/03/05/china-move...

[2] https://www.aspi.org.au/

> little evidence of anything not widely reported elsewhere

Are you trying to say the claims are true, since they were independently reported? Or that they mostly lack evidence? Without telling us which claims are confirmed by other sources, which are unsupported, and which are distortions, we can only speculate.

I'm saying that the US State Department-funded ASPI report and a rehashed column from a Hindu nationalist newspaper that barely qualifies as journalism are poor sources on this subject: neither provide any credible information on this subject.