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--FILE--Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun attends a lecture at Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China, 18 November 2010. China has detained a Chinese-Australian writer who had flown in from New York last week, the Australian government said, adding it was trying to find out why he was being held. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Chinese authorities on Wednesday had informed the Australian embassy in Beijing that they had detained Yang Hengjun. "The department is seeking to clarify the nature of this detention and to obtain consular access to him ... as a matter of priority," the department said in a statement issued late on Wednesday. (Imaginechina via AP Images)

Lawyer still has no access to client

Lawyers for detained Australian-Chinese writer Yang Henjun are still trying to visit their client following last Friday’s consular visit.

Glenda Korporaal

The Weekend Australian Magazine

TWAM20190126 EMBARGO FOR TWAM 26 JAN 2019 NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSIONFEE MAY APPLYCHARLEVOIX, CANADA - JUNE 9: In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberates with US president Donald Trump on the sidelines of the official agenda on the second day of the G7 summit on June 9, 2018 in Charlevoix, Canada. Also pictured are (L-R) Larry Kudlow, director of the US National Economic Council, Theresa May, UK prime minister, Emmanuel Macron, French president, Angela Merkel, Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japanese deputy chief cabinet secretary, Shinzo Abe, Japan prime minister, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Japanese senior deputy minister for foreign affairs, John Bolton, US national security adviser, and Donald Trump. Canada are hosting the leaders of the UK, Italy, the US, France, Germany and Japan for the two day summit.(Photo by Jesco Denzel /Bundesregierung via Getty Images)

Blue steel

I first felt the wrath of Angela Merkel in a Berlin sushi bar a decade ago. From that moment I was reduced to stalking her.

Roger Boyes

Inquirer

West at risk as U.S. loses military edge West at risk as the US loses its military edge

China and Russia pose a growing challenge to American dominance.

Alan Dupont

Foreign Affairs

‘Peddler of democracy’ blogger silenced

It has been one week since Australian citizen and peddler of democracy’ blogger Yang Hengjun last tweeted.

Rosie Lewis

Foreign Affairs

24-01-19 - Christopher Pyne is meeting his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, at PLA headquarter in Beijing. Photo: Li Xiaonan

Aussie a ‘threat to China’s security’ Aussie writer a ‘threat to China’s security’

China has accused an Australian Chinese citizen of endangering its national security and is holding him at an unknown location.

PRIMROSE RIORDAN and Glenda Korporaal

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Trade Minister Simon Birmingham at Parliament House in Canberra.

Data deal hits Chinese hurdle

A new multilateral trade deal with China will address the security of vital data and intellectual property.

PRIMROSE RIORDAN

Foreign Affairs

Australian Yang Hengjun detained in Beijing

Author accused of espionage

An Australian-Chinese author is facing one of the most serious charges in China’s Communist Party regime.

Glenda Korporaal and Primrose Riordan

National Affairs

Writer ‘charged with espionage’

Australian Yang Hengjun has been charged with espionage, his friends say, as his family hire a prominent Beijing lawyer.

Primrose Riordan and Glenda Korporaal

Foreign Affairs

Yang Hengjun, a pro-democracy Australian-Chinese internet blogger in an undated photo. Canberra has been kept in the dark on his whereabouts, after he was caught up in the biggest crackdown against democracy activists by Chinese authorities since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Yang disappeared in Guangzhou on 27/03/2011.

Australian feared held in China

Friends of a Chinese-Australian writer and former diplomat fear he may be been detained by authorities in China.

Primrose Riordan

Foreign Affairs

Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir waves to photographers during his trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 9, 2011. Prosecutors on Monday demanded life in prison for the fiery 72-year-old cleric, saying he helped plan and fund terrorist activities in the world's most populous Muslim nation. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Bashir’s release likely postponed

Indonesia will likely postpone the early release of notorious extremist Abu Bakar Bashir following widespread backlash.

Amanda Hodge and Nivell Rayda

exclusiveDefence

A Chinese Chengdu J-20 fighter jet. Picture: Supplied

China backs its fighters over ours

China wants the world to believe it has nothing to fear from Australia’s recently acquired F-35 stealth strike fighters.

Rory Callinan

Foreign Affairs

Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans seen onstage ahead of delivering the annual Tom Uren AC Lecture at Petersham Town Hall in Sydney, Sunday, December 2, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Evans joins call to free Canadians

Gareth Evans is among 140 former diplomats and academics signing an open letter to Xi Jinping over jailed Canadians.

Glenda Korporaal

Foreign Affairs

21-01-19 - Dr Bill McNeil in FOrster NSW. Dr McNeil suffering from PTSD after the Bali Bombings. Pic: Lindsay Moller

PM’s plea for terrorist Bashir to stay locked up PM’s plea for terrorist Bashir to stay in jail

Scott Morrison has urged Joko Widodo to ‘show great respect to Australia’ in dealing with terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir.

Greg Brown and AMANDA HODGE

Defence

Pyne to visit China amid tensions

Christopher Pyne will make his first visit to China as tensions with the West continue to simmer.

PAUL MALEY

brexitNational Affairs

Minister for Trade Simon Birmingham arrive for the G'Day USA Sponsorship announcement at Penfolds Winery, Magill South Australia. Tuesday 8th January, 2019.Pic. AAP/ROY VANDERVEGT

Canberra wants UK free-trade deal ASAP

The Trade Minister has told Britain that Australia will begin post-Brexit negotiations on a free-trade deal “the second Britain is ready”.

Rosie Lewis

National Affairs

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir smiles as he speaks to reporters from inside a holding cell while waiting for the start of his trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, March 14, 2011. Bashir who was allegedly helped fund and recruit foot-soldiers for a new al-Qaida-styled terror cell, faces a maximum penalty of death if found guilty. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)

PM’s plea on terror mastermind

Scott Morrison wants Indonesia to “respect Australia” as it considers the release of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Greg Brown

US politics

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 12, 2018 US President Donald Trump (R) gestures as he meets with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore. - Call Donald Trump an egomaniac, call him a showoff. Accuse him of getting kicks from insulting and humiliating people. The thing is, he might just agree. The uniqueness of the 45th US president among world leaders extends to the pride he takes in his brazenly unconventional persona. Trump doesn't just admit to a litany of character flaws and actions that would sink an ordinary politician. He revels in them. "The show is 'Trump' and it is sold-out performances everywhere. I've had fun doing it and will continue to have fun." On January 20, 2019, 72-year-old Trump reaches the halfway mark of his presidency's first term. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump to meet Kim in weeks

US President Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the White House announced this morning.

Climate

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison greets officers during a visit to the Blackrock Camp Project in Nadi, Fiji, Friday, January 18, 2019. Scott Morrison is in Fiji to announce significant economic and security partnership with the island nation. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

PM on defensive after Fijian climate lecture

Scott Morrison was forced to defend his stand on clean energy as he left Fiji, after receiving a lecture on climate change.

Richard Ferguson

Inquirer

TOPSHOT - This photograph taken and released by the Intermediate Peoples' Court of Dalian on January 14, 2019 shows Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg (C) during his retrial on drug trafficking charges in the court in Dalian in China's northeast Liaoning province. - The court sentenced Schellenberg to death on drug trafficking charges on January 14, 2019 after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too lenient, a ruling that has deepened a diplomatic rift between Ottawa and Beijing. (Photo by HANDOUT / HO / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Intermediate Peoples' Court of Dalian" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES

Birmingham strays into China-Canada crossfire

A Huawei executive arrested in Vancouver at Washington’s request has become our problem.

Glenda Korporaal

Foreign Affairs

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Croatia to hunt ‘war criminal’

Croatia is ‘unequivocally committed’ to bringing to justice an alleged Serb war criminal who has lived in Sydney for 25 years.

Ean Higgins and JACQUELIN MAGNAY

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