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Drew Pavlou, an anti CCP student activist from Queensland had this stunt pulled on him in London, and wound up on the Met's bad books back in July '22. The police seem to think a precautionary principle here is to pull in the swatted individual, one hopes over time their name gets flagged as being targeted, not perpetrating.

He'd previously been in legal strife for organising anti CCP protests at uni. Chinese state funding of tertiary education in Australia and the influx of fee paying Chinese students is a significantly important economic and political/strategic issue in Oz.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/23/austr...

Alternative point of view:

Anti-China propaganda is so strong that some random dude who probably has never been to China nor Hong Kong and probably know very little about Chinese history and culture do all of this. This extremism is dangerous.

Unlikely. I might add I don't particularly like or admire Pavlou, I'm not a supporter and I have been to mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan repeatedly for work. I am not "anti china" nor protesting the authority of the Chinese state.

The likelihood of Pavlou swatting a Chinese embassy having himself been subject to legal action in Australia over his protests seems low to me. It would undermine almost all of his position.

I think your position fails on plausibility.

I didn't say that he threatened to bomb the Chinese embassy. I'm referring to his beliefs.
Way to nitpick. By now, probably 95% of the people in Western countries are China critics. How many of them had fake bomb threats?

Meanwhile, what are the threats made to people who are neutral or pro-China?

So much anti-China propaganda.