ANALYSIS: This is not 'situation normal': Steady decay of Australia-China relationship was more troubling this week
While the raids on Moselmane and his staffer were all over the news, no one spoke of the Chinese journalists being targeted. Perhaps there were strong grounds to haul them in and good reason to keep the whole thing quiet. We don't know.
And not surprisingly, interrogating these state media representatives deeply angered Beijing, which this week finally went public. It revealed Australia's actions after complaints over its own treatment of Birtles and Smith. "We ask Australia to immediately stop such blatant irrational behaviours, stop harassing and oppressing Chinese personnel in Australia under whatever pretext."Attorney-General Christian Porter, while not confirming what happened, defended Australia's system of executing warrants as "world's best practice".
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