A senior Chinese diplomat in Canberra has admitted he has almost no information about the secretive trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun. Key points: Mr Wang has conceded the embassy has been given little information about the trial of Australian Yang Hengjun Dr Yang pleaded not guilty to espionage in a closed Beijing court last week The top Chinese diplomat …
Wang Xining is not a fire-breathing ideologue. Wang said he struggled to convey "the intensity of emotion of our people, how much indignation, anger and frustration they expressed" at Australia's "shocking" proposal. But they're also grappling with relentless and pernicious cyber-attacks emanating from China, the Chinese Government's persistent meddling in Australia's Chinese diaspora, and a series of thinly-veiled trade punishments …