Chinese officials have been criticised for their behaviour around the journalist and former prisoner during a ceremony at Parliament House.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described attempts by Chinese officials to block the view of journalist Cheng Lei during the visit of Chinese premier Li Qiang as "clumsy". Albanese said the incident had been raised with the Chinese embassy. Li, China's top-ranked official after President Xi Jinping, is in Australia for a series of talks on Australia-China relations .
"We have different values and different political systems, and we saw some of that ... with the attempt that was pretty ham-fisted to block Cheng Lei," he said. "The Australian officials did the right thing and intervened, but that showed that there are different systems that are there." Opposition foreign affairs spokesperson Simon Birmingham expressed concern with Chinese officials following the incident.
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