The News Anchor Caught in the Sino-Australian Crossfire
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Cheng Lei at Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. November 6, 2019. Credit: Web Summit via Flickr
When Cheng Lei didn’t show up to the birthday celebration on August 14, 2020, for her partner, Nick Coyle, he knew something was up. And when the Beijing-based Australian journalist didn’t respond to any of his texts that evening, he grew even more concerned.
The next morning, Coyle went to Cheng’s apartment, where he noticed her passport and laptop were gone. “It was at that point that I knew [she was missing],” says Coyle, who was the executive director of the China-Australi
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