Nobody should condone the selling of state secrets but this business-deal-turned-bad is disturbing not to mention flat out creepy. This is a business deal with a foreign company that did not progress and now China is using the power of the state to punish others including an Australian national. The company in question is not even a high tech business related to national security but rather a mining company. The West helped build this monster and now there's little that can be done without offending the regime and becoming the next target. For what purpose?
Chinese investigators have questioned executives at several steel mills in a widening probe of alleged leaks of state secrets to Australian iron ore supplier Rio Tinto, Chinese media said on Tuesday.
The news comes as Australian officials urged China to move quickly in dealing with the detention of a senior Australian Rio executive on spying charges, a case that has cast a shadow over bilateral trade worth $53 billion in 2008.
"Our first concern is that their case has to be dealt with expeditiously and fairly," Australia's former China ambassador, Ross Garnaut, said on Tuesday.
"My experience is that difficult cases of this kind ... are best handled away from the megaphones."
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