Beijing: The Foreign Ministry of China said on Wednesday that Australian agents raided the home of four journalists working for the Chinese state media in June and Australia’s foreign intervention His electronic equipment was confiscated citing possible violations of the anti-law. However, there has been no media report about this alleged action by Australia before.
Two last Australian journalists working for the Australian media left China a day before Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the accusation. He left China for fear of being detained. At the same time, China’s Foreign Ministry had announced that Australian citizen Cheng Lei (a journalist with Chinese state media) has been taken into custody on suspicion of a national security crime. There is currently no comment from the Australian government on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s charge.
China is Australia’s largest trading partner, but tensions between the two countries have increased after Chinese communications company Huawei banned and banned secret interference in politics. Relations between them became more strained after the Australian government appealed for an independent investigation into the Kovid-19 epidemic. Zhao said the four journalists belonged to Xinhua News Agency, China Central Radio, government broadcasters CCTV and China News Agency. He told a press conference that the computers, mobile phones and even children’s tablets and electronic toys of these four were seized in the raids.
