have been supported by the chinese consulate student id like job muhammad there let's bring in alex yassky from the australian capital but on now alex is and i'm most of the australian strategic policy institute and he has done a lot of research on and that chinese interference in australia and it's good to have you on the program can i just ask you of the outside doesn't look like the chinese state is on this treaty supporting students who are protesting on australian university campuses. thank you the very least we know that the chinese government is encouraging these kinds of activities the consulate has really statements encouraging students to show their patriotism and protect china's sovereignty and there's a lot of evidence that groups linked to the chinese government are involved in orchestrating some of these protests the australian government has set up a task force to look at chinese interference in australian university campuses how is the task force going to proceed what are the things they're going to be looking at least to be looking at a whole range of areas including resea