Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has called out the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency regarding an impending closed-door trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun who has been detained in China since January 2019. She indicated that Beijing has failed to conform to the basic standards of international norms of transparency and implored the communist regime to allow legal and consular access to Yang prior to his trial on May 27. “Since his detention, Dr Yang has had no access to his family, and limited, delayed access to his legal representation,” Payne said in a statement on May 21. “We have conveyed to Chinese authorities, in clear terms, the concerns we have about Dr Yang’s treatment and the lack of procedural fairness in how his case has been managed. “Consistent with basic standards of justice and China’s international legal obligations, we expect Dr Yang to be granted access to his lawyer and …