China Frees Detained Australian in Sign of Improving Ties

  • Cheng Lei has been reunited with children, Australian PM says
  • China spy agency says journalist gave secrets to foreigners
WATCH: Australian journalist Cheng Lei has flown back to Melbourne. Emma O’Brien reports.Source: Bloomberg
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Journalist Cheng Lei has returned to Australia after her release from about three years of detention in China, in a major sign of diplomatic warming after years of tensions between the nations.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday he had spoken to Cheng in Melbourne, and she had been reunited with her two children.