Two Australian journalists in China were barred from leaving until they answered questions about a third Australian journalist who is in some sort of jail and being investigated for charges of journalism.

Governments that are highly repressive and secretive tend to be quick to equate asking nosy questions with spying. Of course, asking nosy questions is the job of a good journalist,

The US government has been becoming more repressive and secretive in recent decades, and we see the effects of that in the prosecution of Julian Assange.