Australia isn't avoiding prodding the Chinese bear
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
It was a revealing line. Yang Hengjun, the Australian citizen arrested on suspicion of espionage, says an investigation officer from the Chinese Ministry of State Security told him that “Australia was dependent on China for its trade and economy, and Canberra wouldn’t help me, let alone rescue me”.
It was, one supposes, part of an...