Feng Chongyi said he ran to the airport in Guangzhou on Saturday as soon as he received the message from Chinese officials: Go. He had been barred from leaving China for just over a week, submitting to questioning whenever Chinese officials felt the need, he said, waiting for a chance to return to Australia. Here, he has long been a respected academic at the University of Technology Sydney, an expert on China’s repression of political dissent and its growing influence in Australia. His daughter and wife are Australian citizens. There, in China, where Professor Feng was born, and where he still often travels, he was questioned as a threat to national security. Read more
