The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) said on Friday it is closely monitoring interference to its radio signals into China. It follows a statement by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) last week that worldwide broadcasts into China were being, quote, "deliberately interfered with by the jamming of a number of frequencies". This included programs from Australia’s ABC, the UK’s BBC World Service and Voice of America in the US.

A growing electronic blitzkrieg by Beijing - blasted by Barack Obama as ''state sponsored'' hacking and now extending to the jamming of Australia's radio news broadcasts in Asia - threatens to derail delicate negotiations for the ABC to win television rights in China.