Background
Wang was born in Nanjing, China, where he studied civil engineering at Southeast University.
王振亚
Wang was born in Nanjing, China, where he studied civil engineering at Southeast University.
He studied at the University of Melbourne, where he earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Planning and Design (Urban Planning) and Master of Engineering Structures.
He was the Chief Executive Officer of Australasian Resources from July 2010 until 20 June 2014, when he resigned in preparation for his role as Senator for Western Australia. Wang migrated to Australia in 2003 and has been an Australian citizen since 2009. Wang was employed by Australasian Resources from 2006.
Wang resigned as managing director of Australasian Resources before he assumed his Senate seat.
Wang was the lead Senate candidate for the Palmer United Party in Western Australia as a Senator for Western Australia at the 2013 federal election. Wang was initially announced as successfully elected to the Senate, but after a subsequent recount he was unsuccessful.
Wang joined the Senate on 1 July 2014. = Controversy.
Political career
Wang"s party disputed the result of the recount, citing the loss of over 1,300 ballot papers between the original count and the recount.
Wang courted controversy in 2015 when, shortly after the 26th anniversary of the massacre, he defended the violent suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests by the government of the People"s Republic of China. A few days later Wang spoke again to defend China over territorial claims in the South China Sea.
However Wang"s two Senate colleagues deputy Senate leader Jacqui Lambie and Senate leader Glen Lazarus have since resigned from the party to sit as independents leaving Wang the only PUP Senator and one of two PUP members of the Federal Parliament, the other being party leader Clive Palmer in the House of Representatives.