Wu Lebao is a cyber-dissident from Bengbu, Anhui, People's Republic of China. Wu is an active critic of the Chinese government and its foreign influence, and has expressed concerns about the impact on freedom in Australia and other democratic countries during many of his media interviews. He has claimed that the Chinese Students and Scholars Association is directly controlled by Chinese embassies and Chinese government, and that it has intentionally worked to sabotage academic freedom in campuses of Western universities. In 2019, media revealed that Lebao was among one hundred or so dissidents, including Ai Weiwei, 14th Dalai Lama, and Liu Xiaobo, whose name and works are totally forbidden to print in China even for oversea publications.

Alex W. Joske is a Chinese-Australian author, sinologist, open-source intelligence researcher, and risk consultant who investigates the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), particularly its influence operations. Previously a researcher with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News His first major work influenced legislation in the United States Congress to ban Chinese military (PLA) officials from sensitive U.S. government laboratories. He was publicly banned from entering China by the Chinese government in 2020 due to his work. In 2022, he released his first book, Spies and Lies, about the clandestine operations of the Ministry of State Security and United Front Work Department.