Australia's Chinese-language media outlets.

He had travelled to China before without incident.

His apparent ordeal comes as China's Premier Li Keqiang wraps up an unprecedented five-day visit to Australia in which he is promoting closer economic ties between the two countries.

It also comes as the Senate considers ratifying an extradition treaty between Australia and China that has been held up for the best part of a decade due to concerns about China's Communist Party-controlled legal system.Saudi Arabia has repeatedly helped Saudi citizens evade prosecutors and the police in the United States and flee back to their homeland after being accused of serious crimes here.

The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have been aware of the Saudi actions for at least a decade.

But successive American administrations have avoided confronting the Riyadh government out of concern that doing so might jeopardize Saudi cooperation in the fight against Islamist terrorism.

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This story was co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The government of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly helped Saudi citizens evade prosecutors and the police in the United States and flee back to their homeland after being accused of serious crimes here, current and former US officials said.

The FBI, the Department of