Current affairs: Hastie's name Chau Chak Wing as CC3 heightens already tense relations with Australia and China

Andrew Hastie, Chau Chak Wing, Malcolm Turnbull.

L-R: Andrew Hastie, Chau Chak Wing, Malcolm Turnbull. Source: AAP/kingold.com

The fallout from a Liberal MP's explosive decision to name billionaire political donor Chau Chak Wing as funding the bribery of a senior United Nations official is threatening to derail progress on the Turnbull government's foreign interference laws and heighten already tense relationship between Australia and China. Ivan and Waiyee report.



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