The Foreign Ministry confirms Wong’s silence on Falun Gong during CCP visit.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade could not confirm whether the country’s foreign minister spoke specifically about the brutal persecution of the Falun Gong faith group with Beijing’s top diplomatic envoy during his visit last week.
Beijing’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi completed a whirlwind tour of Canberra and Sydney last week, meeting the Australian prime minister, foreign minister, the federal opposition, and the premier of New South Wales.
Mr. Wang was greeted by human rights rallies trying to raise awareness about systemic human rights abuses against Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Falun Gong practitioners in China.
The foreign minister’s visit comes as the latest step in the ongoing “normalising” of Australia-China ties, which have been fraught since 2018 when the Turnbull Liberal…
