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The Chinese Communist Party's latest piece in the Global Times "smacks of desperation" because they are "realising" they have no more "leverage" over democratic countries in the Indo-Pacific, according to Director of the Epoch Times Daniel Teng.

"From our perspective there is a lot of sabre-rattling and that's because the Chinese Communist Party is, I mean, this latest editorial from the Global Times does smack of desperation to be honest," he told Sky News host Paul Murray.

"I think it's because they're realising now that they can't control or they have no more levers against democratic countries - particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.

"And Australia this last two or three years has pursued a very independent foreign policy that isn't tied in closely with the Chinese Communist Party - and the CCP leadership really doesn't like that."