Treatment of Aliens

While bribery cases involving transnational corporations in China were reportedly on the rise, a senior Chinese diplomat made some pointed remarks on the industrial spying case against an Australian executive for Rio Tinto. Although he appealed Australian critics to wait for the facts to come to light, saying, "[i]t is not up to me ... to say what the law requires and what the law permits", he was nevertheless quite sure that "[t]he facts of the case would constitute a violation of Australian laws were the facts (to) happen here in Australia."