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Sep 2, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Another Australian, Cheng Lei ('journalist' for CCP propaganda channel CGTN and former partner of Nick Coyle, the chief executive of the China-Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing) taken hostage by the #CCP theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
The Australian government is openly desperate to pretend this has nothing to do with bilateral relations and could be related to social media posts or internal power struggles.

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The CCP's Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin has criticised the secrecy of the arrest as a propaganda failure.

"It is necessary to race against time to send news, spread the Chin­ese perspective and attitude to the world as soon as possible." theaustralian.com.au/business/media…
'I feared being disappeared': Inside @FinancialReview's China correspondent Michael Smith's escape from #China

CCP is hunting Australian journalists and citizens to collect more hostages in their political pressure campaign
afr.com/world/asia/ins…
The #CCP simultaneously attempted to detain @abcnews's China correspondent @billbirtles, who thankfully also escaped abc.net.au/news/2020-09-0…
This looks more like an intimidation exercise than an outright attempt to secure hostages, unless Australia secretly conceded something politically to get them back, which is entirely possible.

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