In the coming days, an Australian-Chinese former mining executive is expected to quietly make his way back to Sydney after spending nine years in jail in China.
Mr Stern Hu's return will mark a symbolic homecoming and end a dramatic episode in Australia's occasionally fraught relationship with China, its largest trading partner.
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