US Ambassador declares war on Chinese harrassment

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At the New Daily at least the Americans want to defend Australian freedom:

The United States has suggested China is harassing members of the minority Uighur community in Australia.

American ambassador to Australia Arthur Culvahouse said he was outraged by the levels of intimidation and argued there should be serious consequences.

“What is happening, and it’s unacceptable, is that Uighur who are lawfully in Australia, who are raised in Australia, working, paying taxes in Australia are being harassed by agents of a foreign power,” he told ABC News on Thursday.

“They’re being monitored. There’s police cars, fake police cars, that are with Chinese police logos parked outside their residences.

“They’re being profiled in Xinjiang back in China; are being punished for any time they express their concerns about how their community is being treated, and as a freedom-loving democracy, we are outraged.”

Asked if the Chinese government was responsible, Mr Culvahouse replied: “Yes, indeed.”

The ambassador said people would be rightly outraged if the US monitored the activities of Americans abroad.

“They would want my head on a stick,” he said.

“There should be serious consequences.”

Can’t have that when the Government’s majority is in the hands of CCP cash stooge Gladys Liu.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.