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Australian-Chinese author’s detention raises important questions about China’s motivations
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Relations with China
International law
Justice
Communism
Freedom of speech
Totalitarian systems
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The arrest of an Australian-Chinese citizen in China for unspecified reasons is the last thing Australia needs at a sensitive moment in the reset of a relationship that has chilled over the past two years.
But whether it likes it or not, Canberra is being drawn into a broader controversy over China’s detention of foreign nationals on grounds that are opaque and at the mercy of an unpredictable Chinese justice system.
The arrest last weekend of author and diplomat Yang Hengjun raises the question of whether he has become part of a pattern of retaliatory measures by a Chinese government that finds itself under stress from within and without.
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The Conversation Media Group 2019
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Post date:
29 Jan 2019