A Chinese Australian journalist detained for 3 years in China returns

A Chinese Australian journalist who was convicted on murky espionage charges and detained in China for three years has returned to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday.
Cheng Lei, 48, worked for the international department of China’s state broadcaster CCTV.
She has reunited with her two children in Melbourne.
Her return comes ahead of Albanese’s planned visit to Beijing this year on a date yet to be announced.
He will become the first Australian prime minister to visit the Chinese capital in seven years.
Albanese said Australia had traded nothing with China for Cheng’s release.
“Her release follows the completion of judicial processes in China,” he said.
Meanwhile, China’s Ministry of State Security said that Cheng had been approached by a foreign organization in May 2020 and provided them with state secrets she had obtained on the job in violation of a confidentiality clause signed with her employer. A police statement did not name the organization or say what the secrets were.