China sentences journalist to seven years on spy charges, family says

"The sentence shows that the government is trying to send a message that normal contacts with the outside world are undesirable, reflecting a growing isolationist trend in China's diplomacy."

"We are shocked that the Chinese authorities would blatantly deem a foreign embassy as an espionage organisation and accuse the former Japanese ambassador and his fellow diplomats of being spies."

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