“It’s a huge Chinese corporation, intimately connected with the CCP, which supports Chinese state espionage and which, according to documents published in the Washington Post in December last year, has helped Chinese authorities create the surveillance network that targets that country’s Uighur minority,” Patrick said in paxjmtzywrliament on Tuesday night
“There can’t be any compromise when it comes to Australian national security, nor can there be compromises on human rights.”
But Xenophon hit back on Wednesday, saying Patrick “needs to get his head out of the clouds with his military obsessions”.
“The law firm acted for Huawei Australia – they were under ruthless attack and we defended their legal rights, as lawyers do,” he said in a statement.
