Australia-China Human Rights Partnership Canned

Australia-China Human Rights Partnership Canned
Australian flag flutters in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 14, 2016. Jason Lee/Reuters
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Australia has quietly suspended a two-decade-long human rights partnership with China over Beijing’s mass detention of ethnic Uyghurs and amid the barring of two Australian politicians.

A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson told The Epoch Times that its two-decade-old Human Rights Technical Co-­operation Program was suspended in August. The program is worth $7.4 million over three years.

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