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These interactions, according to the lead prosecutor, Patrick Doyle, meant Duong had “a secret connection to the Chinese Communist Party”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6GAEFUQEREFDM35MD6OSEE6LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1710597661419},"content":"Not that those connections did any good: Duong never managed to get the masks from China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDLN6BAJ6RGH3MXZQQV3WH2D4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1710597661420},"content":"As evidence of Duong’s intentions toward Tudge, prosecutors presented a years-old letter he wrote to a state-level Liberal Party official containing policy suggestions that the judge later described as “vague, impracticable and unlikely to be taken seriously”. His main thrust was that Australia should consider China as its primary strategic partner, not the United States. 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These interactions, according to the lead prosecutor, Patrick Doyle, meant Duong had “a secret connection to the Chinese Communist Party”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6GAEFUQEREFDM35MD6OSEE6LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1710597661419},"content":"Not that those connections did any good: Duong never managed to get the masks from China.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDLN6BAJ6RGH3MXZQQV3WH2D4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1710597661420},"content":"As evidence of Duong’s intentions toward Tudge, prosecutors presented a years-old letter he wrote to a state-level Liberal Party official containing policy suggestions that the judge later described as “vague, impracticable and unlikely to be taken seriously”. His main thrust was that Australia should consider China as its primary strategic partner, not the United States. 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