CHINA
China’s Australian Extradition BustWALL STREET JOURNAL
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s state visit to Australia didn’t go according to plan. As he talked up economic and cultural ties over the weekend, agents in China detained an Australia-based professor and barred him from leaving the country. That helped turn lawmakers in Canberra against a pending extradition treaty with Beijing. China seeks a treaty (and has threatened to halt counternarcotics cooperation without one) because it wants international respectability and help with “Operation Fox Hunt,” its effort to round up corrupt officials and other fugitives who have absconded overseas. These fugitives include journalists, activists, Falun …read more
Source: Victims of Communism
