Australian minister: no explanation writer’s apprehension in China associated to Canada, Australia policies

SINGAPORE, Jan 28 – Australian Defence Minister Christopher Pyne pronounced on Monday there was no explanation a apprehension of a Chinese-born Australian author by authorities in Beijing was associated to a apprehension of Canadians in China.

Pyne also pronounced a apprehension of a Australian, Yang Hengjun, was not related to new Australian policies though he did not elaborate.

Yang was incarcerated in southern China progressing this month and taken to Beijing where China has pronounced he was hold underneath “coercive measures”, a substitution for detention, as he is being investigated on guess of “endangering state security”.

Tensions have risen in new weeks between China and some Western countries after dual Canadians, a diplomat on delinquent leave and a consultant, were arrested in China on guess of endangering state security.

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