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Death penalty sentence exposes limits of Australia's 'stabilisation' with China

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Feb 05, 2024
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The suspended death sentence China handed to the pro-democracy writer and novelist Yang Hengjun is a chilling reminder that any ‘stabilisation’ in relations with Beijing will always be on the Chinese Communist Party’s terms.

Yang Hengjun’s death sentence came five years after he was first detained at a Chinese airport and later formally arrested and char…

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