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US to raise Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu's detention in Shanghai with Beijing, which has warned Canberra against interference.

When Gary Locke, the new US commerce secretary, touched down in Beijing this week to lobby on behalf of American trade interests, he also carried with him a brief representing the interests of a third country.

Mr Locke has promised to raise with Beijing’s leaders the case of Stern Hu, the China-based Australian executive of Rio Tinto, the mining group, in detention in Shanghai awaiting charges for alleged espionage and stealing state secrets.


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