A | CANBERRA, Australia -- 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, Albanese said.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.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.A court in Beijing convicted her of illegally providing state secrets abroad and she was sentenced to two years and 11 months, the statement said. She was deported Wednesday after serving her sentence, presumably because she had already been detained for that long .“Her return brings an end to a very difficult few years for Ms. Cheng and her family," Albanese said. "The government has been seeking this for a long period of time and her return will be warmly welcomed not just by her family and friends but by all Australians.”The FreeChengLei account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted a photo of Cheng with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Australia's ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher.The post included a quote, apparently from Cheng, that read: “Tight hugs, teary screams, holding my kids in the spring sunshine. Trees shimmy from the breeze. I can see the entirety of the sky now! Thank you Aussies.”Albanese’s government has been lobbying for the release of Cheng and another Chinese Australian held in China since 2019, Yang Hengjun.Bilateral relations have improved since Albanese's center-left Labor Party was elected after nine years of conservative rule. Beijing has lifted several official and unofficial trade barriers on Australian exports.Albanese's reference to China's judicial system suggested that Cheng had recently been sentenced after she was convicted in a closed-court trial last year on national security charges.Questioned by a reporter, Albanese said China was not acknowledging through Cheng's release that she posed no threat or had been wrongfully detained.“No, China would have not have said that that's the position. China would say that the judicial processes have been completed in China,” Albanese said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese judicial system tried the case “in accordance with the law, fully safeguarding the rights enjoyed by the person concerned in accordance with the law.”Albanese said he spoke to Cheng in Melbourne, where her children have been living with her mother, and that they discussed a letter she had written to the Australian public in August to mark the third anniversary of her detention. The Chinese-born journalist spoke in her letter about her love for her adopted country.In the letter, she also described her living conditions in detention in China, saying she was allowed to stand in sunlight for just 10 hours a year.“She is a very strong and resilient person ... and when I spoke with her she was delighted to be back in Melbourne,” Albanese said.Albanese did not say whether Yang was also likely to be released.“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests, rights and wellbeing with the Chinese authorities at all levels,” Albanese said.Yang, a 58-year-old writer and democracy blogger, told his family in August he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.Yang has been detained in China since January 2019, when he arrived in Guangzhou from New York with his wife and teenage stepdaughter.Yang received a closed-door trial on an espionage charge in Beijing in May 2021 and is still awaiting a verdict.Yang's friend, University of Technology Sydney academic Feng Chongyi, said on Wednesday a verdict had been postponed for three months 11 times and the next possible ruling was January.He said Cheng’s release was good news for Yang. “I do hope Yang is treated in the same way. Given Yang’s poor health, his release is actually more urgent,” Feng said.___Associated Press writer Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed to this report.___This story corrects the name of the Chinese security agency.。 AI摘要 国台办驳斥民进党“抵御统战”谬论，指其封锁“台青e家”系恶意抹黑。重申对台湾海峡享有主权，台风管制合法，批评民进党出卖利益。 北京8月19日电（记者李寒芳、许晓静）国务院台办发言人朱凤莲19日在例行新闻发布会上应询指出，民进党当局一再歪曲抹黑统战工作，鼓噪所谓“抵御统战”，完全站在了台湾民众的对立面。他们企图加深两岸隔阂对立，阻挠破坏两岸交流合作，为其“台独”分裂服务，行为卑劣、用心险恶。 有记者问：台陆委会近日称，“统战是中共夺取中国大陆政权的三大法宝之一，陆委会的工作从来不是搞统战，而是抵御中共统战”。请问对此有何评论？朱凤莲在答问时作上述回应。 她表示，统一战线简称统战，其本质是大团结大联合，是交朋友、促团结，是求同存异、共谋发展。从抗日战争时期凝聚全民族力量共御外侮，到今天团结海内外同胞共促民族复兴，统战工作始终坚守初心。台湾同胞是我们的亲人、家人，密切交流、加强团结，为他们谋利造福，天经地义、光明正大。 朱凤莲还表示，祖国统一、民族复兴的大势浩浩荡荡、不可阻挡，两岸同胞走亲走近、走到一起的大潮滚滚向前、不可逆转。民进党当局违背历史大势，违逆民心民意，必将遭到越来越多台湾民众的反对和唾弃。 近日，民进党当局封锁大陆推出的公益性综合服务平台“台青e家”。台陆委会声称，“台青e家”实际上是为了达到统战目的，兼带搜集台湾年轻人的个人资料，台湾青年取得就职资源的同时需接受一中原则等条件。
B | 对此，朱凤莲答问表示，“台青e家”是为帮助更多台湾青年便捷获取大陆发展机遇打造的公益性服务平台，是服务台湾青年来大陆求学实习就业的便民窗口，是助力台湾青年在大陆追梦、筑梦、圆梦的务实载体。
C | 目前，已有不少台湾青年通过平台查阅资讯、投递简历，找到心仪工作。 她指出，民进党当局的相关说辞完全颠倒黑白，是彻头彻尾的恶意抹黑。
D | 他们不去思考如何为台湾青年开拓发展空间，反而大搞信息封锁；他们无视两岸青年交流的时代潮流，不断编造谎言刻意阻扰；他们不顾台湾青年寻找发展机遇的现实需求，炮制不实说法恐吓打压台青。究其本质，他们就是惧怕两岸青年走近交心、增进了解，惧怕越来越多台湾青年看清“台独”虚妄，惧怕种种抹黑大陆的谎言被戳穿。 朱凤莲表示，大陆“十五五”规划起步有力、开局良好，经济呈现动能向新、结构向优的发展态势，高质量发展蕴藏广阔机遇，是台湾青年交流、学习、就业、创业的热土。我们对台湾青年的善意是真诚的，对台惠民政策措施是实在的，两岸交流交往的大势不可阻挡，台湾青年选择发展舞台的正当权利不可剥夺。任何人为的封锁都挡不住两岸走亲走近的民心民意。广大台湾青年心中自有一杆秤，会自主作出选择。 日前，大陆海事局发布公告，受台风“白海豚”影响，对经过台湾海峡南口北上船舶实施交通管制。台陆委会却声称此举“违反《联合国海洋法公约》等国际规范”，“中共没有任何权利可以对相关海域做出任何管制或管辖行为”。
E | 对此，朱凤莲答问表示，世界上只有一个中国，台湾是中国的一部分。
F | 中国对台湾海峡享有主权、主权权利和管辖权。根据《联合国海洋法公约》和中国国内法，台湾海峡水域分为中国内水、领海、毗连区和专属经济区，大陆海事管理机构依法履职，在台风期间对台湾海峡实施必要交通管理，旨在保障海上交通安全。
G | 她指出，民进党当局一方面恶意炒作，借机抹黑攻击大陆，另一方面竭力附和外部势力出卖台湾利益，丧失民族立场，包藏“台独”祸心，必将自食恶果。
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