Each day Australian journalist Cheng Lei wakes up inside a Chinese cell still unaware of the crime she is alleged to have committed, in a country that she had devoted her professional life to, that now only gives her two hours a day of fresh air.
For almost 1000 days Australian journalist Cheng Lei has woken up inside a Chinese cell, cut off from her two young children in Melbourne and her friends in Beijing. Each day she wakes up still unaware of the crime she is alleged to have committed, in a country that she had devoted her professional life to, that now only gives her two hours a day of fresh air.
That mark will be reached on Tuesday. It will inevitably be the same as each of the 999 before; a daily, exhausting grind to manage any expectations that today might be the day she is released, while not losing all hope when those expectations are dashed. “We’re starting to get the relationship back on track to a degree, but we need to see some outcomes,” said Coyle. “This really needs to get solved.”James Brickwood
“The government has to engage,” said Coyle. “Of course, business is going to want to engage, but if you want to bring the Australian public along with you on that journey, then, seeing some fruit for the labour involved in repairing the relationship needs to happen.”Trade Minister Don Farrell said last Monday he was due to go to Beijing “very soon” but did not specify a date.“I don’t want to go to China just for the sake of going to China,” he said.
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