Alex Joske is an analyst who studies Chinese influence operations and the author of Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World. He now advises clients on geopolitical and foreign interference risks at McGrathNicol. Before that, he was an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a government funded think tank based in Canberra, where his work focused on the Chinese Communist Party’s global influence and technology transfer efforts. Joske won notoriety in late 2018 for “Picking Flowers, Making Honey,” his first report for the ASPI, which detailed an extensive CCP campaign to place thousands of military scientists in foreign universities to covertly secure cutting-edge research and technologies. In 2018, Joske earned his B.A. from the Australian National University. He also studied Chinese at the National Taiwan Normal University. What follows is a lightly edited Q&A.
Alex Joske
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