Researcher Harassed by China in NZ

I found this article while reading RationalWiki.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia...28-p50u1n.html

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She gave evidence by video link to two committees keen to know about, among other things, her groundbreaking research into the Chinese Communist Party's activities in Antarctica in the course of producing her book China as a Polar Great Power. This is a vital interest for Australia, which has sovereignty over 42 per cent of the continent, as well as a vital area for NZ. And it turns out to be an area of very lively interest to China's military too, as Brady's research had unearthed. Her work uncovered, for instance, that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had built three military facilities on Australian Antarctic territory.

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After a quarter-century of researching China, Anne-Marie Brady is a veteran of Chinese government spying and harassment. "I was prepared for pressure in China," says the 52-year-old New Zealander, a well-regarded professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. "But I always felt safe in New Zealand. So that changed." Last week she wrote to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern seeking police protection. It was her first direct appeal to Ardern, but her third in a series of pleas to escalating levels of officialdom.

It is difficult to get police protection in NZ? Who is it normally afforded to?

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In November, Brady's car was tampered with. The NZ police treated the matter with familiar indifference and told the mechanic not to speak to the media.

This seems wrong unless the police are actively investigating and don't want publicity to affect the case.

Another earlier story seems to contradict the above link regarding NZ police attitudes towards the case.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12125210

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"It was a psychological operation, it was intended to intimidate," she said. Brady was pleased with the police's handling of her case. "They looked seriously into all possibilities - exhaustively. This must surely be one of New Zealand's longest and best-resourced burglary inquiries."

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