Australian journalist Cheng Lei was formally arrested in China on Feb. 5 on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, after being detained for six months without charge. Cheng, 49, was a news anchor for CGTN, the international arm of the Chinese regime’s state broadcaster, CCTV, before being detained in Beijing in August 2020 amid testy relations between Canberra and Beijing. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Monday that the government had raised its “serious concerns” with the Chinese regime about Cheng’s detention regularly at senior levels, including about her welfare and her detention conditions. “Australian Embassy officials have visited Cheng six times since her detention, most recently on 27 January 2021, in accordance with our bilateral consular agreement with China,” Payne said. “We expect basic standards of justice, procedural fairness and humane treatment to be met, in accordance with international norms,” she said. “Our thoughts are with Ms. Cheng and her family …