Australian Vote on Extradition Treaty With China Is Canceled

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He added that the Chinese government also wanted the extradition treaty to extend its anticorruption campaign to Chinese businesspeople in Australia.
PhotoSYDNEY, Australia ? Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull canceled a parliamentary vote to ratify an extradition treaty with China on Tuesday after opposition lawmakers said they would not support it, and after some members of Mr.
Turnbull?s own Liberal Party expressed concern about moving forward.
?There is a kind of a comprehensive reality check going on.
?China has been waiting a decade since the extradition treaty was signed for it to be passed, and the decision not to put it to a ratification vote may have surprised the country?s leaders.
?Any extradition treaty is a very sensitive issue, because it involves human beings in our custody, and you have to have confidence in the other country?s rule of law,? Mr.
Fullilove said.
She added that officials would continue to try to work with opposition lawmakers to bring the treaty back for a vote.