Australian academics Clive Hamilton and Alex Joske banned from entering China

Hamilton says ban is retaliation' after Australia revoked visas of Chinese academics Chen Hong and Li Jianjun

China has banned Australian academic Clive Hamilton and researcher Alex Joske from entering the country, with state media dubbing the pair anti-China scholars".

On Thursday, the Global Times, a hawkish state media mouthpiece, reported Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University and author on the Chinese Communist party, and Joske, a researcher for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, had been banned from entering the country. Neither Hamilton nor Joske had plans or visas to travel to China.