Xiao Qian says there is no reason for China and Australia to be enemies as his address is interrupted by protests
Laurenceson, the director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS, noted Cheng had been “cut off entirely from communicating with her family, including her two young children”.
But Xiao defended the secrecy about the specific accusations against Yang and Cheng and urged Australia to respect China’s legal system. The ambassador said national security-related cases were not necessarily heard in open court in other countries, either. Laurenceson also raised the concerns of “folks in Australia’s Uyghur diaspora who have been saying for several years that they cannot reach friends and family members caught up in detention facilities in Xinjiang, or they don’t want to contact them because they are worried they are being surveilled”.
He said respect for each other’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity, political system and development mode” were “just some of the basic principles for sound and healthy relationships between two sovereign states”. He said Australia and China should “properly handle differences” so that they did not affect the overall relationship between the countries.
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