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Cheng Lei
![How Can Australia Confront ‘Hostage Diplomacy’? How Can Australia Confront ‘Hostage Diplomacy’?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-03-08-131458.jpg)
How Can Australia Confront ‘Hostage Diplomacy’?
By Grant Wyeth
Countries that engage in hostage diplomacy implicitly recognize that the countries they target value the health and safety of their citizens.
![Cheng Lei, Journalist Detained for 3 Years in China, Returns to Australia Cheng Lei, Journalist Detained for 3 Years in China, Returns to Australia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-10-11-173808.jpg)
Cheng Lei, Journalist Detained for 3 Years in China, Returns to Australia
By Rod McGuirk
Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year. Fellow Australian Yang Hengjun remains in detention in China.
![Australia’s Foreign Minister Heads to China in Latest Sign of a Thaw Australia’s Foreign Minister Heads to China in Latest Sign of a Thaw](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-06-29-062519.jpg)
Australia’s Foreign Minister Heads to China in Latest Sign of a Thaw
By Associated Press
Minister Penny Wong's trip is raising hopes for progress on issues ranging from trade restrictions to detained Australians.
![What’s Behind China’s Recent Messaging to Australia? What’s Behind China’s Recent Messaging to Australia?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-08-19-164712.jpg)
What’s Behind China’s Recent Messaging to Australia?
By Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann
Recent remarks by Ambassador Xiao Qian should be read not as pure diplomacy, but rather as “political work” in line with China’s strategic doctrine.
![China-Australia Slump Continues to Deepen China-Australia Slump Continues to Deepen](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-02-11-8.jpg)
China-Australia Slump Continues to Deepen
By Eleanor Albert
The formal arrest of an Australian citizen by Chinese authorities continues the downward trend in bilateral relations.
![Chinese-Australian Reporter Accused of Sharing State Secrets by Beijing Chinese-Australian Reporter Accused of Sharing State Secrets by Beijing](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-prison1.jpg)
Chinese-Australian Reporter Accused of Sharing State Secrets by Beijing
By Associated Press
Six months after she was first detained, Cheng Lei has been formally arrested.
![The Case of Cheng Lei: China Blurring the Lines of Ethnicity and Citizenship The Case of Cheng Lei: China Blurring the Lines of Ethnicity and Citizenship](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-crowd.jpg)
The Case of Cheng Lei: China Blurring the Lines of Ethnicity and Citizenship
By Grant Wyeth
China has effectively created a Schrödinger’s Chinese Australian, where a person’s nationality is simultaneously Australian and Chinese depending on which serves the CCP’s purposes.
![Chinese-born Australian CCTV Journalist Detained in China Chinese-born Australian CCTV Journalist Detained in China](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-prison1.jpg)
Chinese-born Australian CCTV Journalist Detained in China
By Associated Press
Australian officials say Cheng Lei has been detained by Chinese authorities, but the reason has not been made clear.
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