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My role as ambassador from China is to promote understanding, friendship and cooperation between China and Australia. It is not my role to base Xiao Qian in Canberra, while criticizing a third country, it is not my role as a Chinese ambassador to Australia to try to stop Australia from developing a normal relationship with a third country. – Xiao Qian	Found on CNN 1 year ago
( Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File) Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Zhaos tweet was utterly outrageous and a terrible slur against Australias military. It is truly repugnant. It is deeply offensive to every Australian, every Australian who has served in that uniform, he told reporters in Canberra. The Chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post. The Chinese government diminishes them in the worlds eyes. CHINESE STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA FALL VICTIM TO VIRTUAL KIDNAPPING SCAMS : Prime Minister Scott Morrison said The Chinese government had contacted Twitter asking it to take the post down. The post had a warning tag on it by Monday afternoon but could still be viewed. Zhaos account comes with a Twitter label stating that its a Chinese government account. Despite China blocking Twitter and other U.S. social media platforms within the county, Chinese diplomats and state media have established a strong presence on them. Zhao Lijian was criticized by the U.S. in March after tweeting a conspiracy theory that U.S. soldiers may have brought the coronavirus to China. Zhao Lijian is considered a leading representative of Chinas high-pitched new strain of assertive foreign relations. Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged there were tensions between China and Australia. But this is not how you deal with them. – Scott Morrison	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We could have expressed our differences with China without burning the relationship, the current government in Canberra believes it is imperative to get close to Washington and they believe the way to do that is to be the most anti-China of America's allies. – Michael Shoebridge	Found on CNN 3 years ago
So, of course, it's disappointing for us here in Warringah, but what matters is what's best for the country, and what's best for the country is not so much who wins or loses Warringah, but who forms, or does not form, a government in Canberra. – Tony Abbott	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I saw the goat that someone had drawn on Strava in Perth a couple of months ago and thought ‘something needs to be done in Canberra,’ so with a bit of creative stop-starting, I mapped out the Millennium Falcon. – Andrew Collins	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
My people back in Canberra, Australia, they've been very happy for me, a lot of people have been coming out of nowhere and congratulating me and sending me friend requests on Facebook and stuff like this. It's pretty interesting to get that, but I'm very grateful for it. – Chima Moneke	Found on CNN 7 years ago
There was a lot of lobbying. Gina Rinehart's people got on the phone, as I understand it. And I think they were very effective, i'm sure that Canberra's economy was stimulated by the influx of lobbying dollars. – Independent Senator Nick Xenophon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not. – Phil Robertson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If Canberra keeps doing things that displease Indonesia, Jakarta will surely let the illegal immigrants go to Australia, there are more than 10,000 [asylum seekers] in Indonesia today. If they are let go to Australia, it will be like a human tsunami. – Tedjo Edy Purdijatno	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

My role as ambassador from China is to promote understanding, friendship and cooperation between China and Australia. It is not my role to base Xiao Qian in Canberra, while criticizing a third country, it is not my role as a Chinese ambassador to Australia to try to stop Australia from developing a normal relationship with a third country.

– Xiao Qian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

( Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File) Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Zhaos tweet was utterly outrageous and a terrible slur against Australias military. It is truly repugnant. It is deeply offensive to every Australian, every Australian who has served in that uniform, he told reporters in Canberra. The Chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post. The Chinese government diminishes them in the worlds eyes. CHINESE STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA FALL VICTIM TO VIRTUAL KIDNAPPING SCAMS : Prime Minister Scott Morrison said The Chinese government had contacted Twitter asking it to take the post down. The post had a warning tag on it by Monday afternoon but could still be viewed. Zhaos account comes with a Twitter label stating that its a Chinese government account. Despite China blocking Twitter and other U.S. social media platforms within the county, Chinese diplomats and state media have established a strong presence on them. Zhao Lijian was criticized by the U.S. in March after tweeting a conspiracy theory that U.S. soldiers may have brought the coronavirus to China. Zhao Lijian is considered a leading representative of Chinas high-pitched new strain of assertive foreign relations. Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged there were tensions between China and Australia. But this is not how you deal with them.

– Scott Morrison

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We could have expressed our differences with China without burning the relationship, the current government in Canberra believes it is imperative to get close to Washington and they believe the way to do that is to be the most anti-China of America's allies.

– Michael Shoebridge

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So, of course, it's disappointing for us here in Warringah, but what matters is what's best for the country, and what's best for the country is not so much who wins or loses Warringah, but who forms, or does not form, a government in Canberra.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I saw the goat that someone had drawn on Strava in Perth a couple of months ago and thought ‘something needs to be done in Canberra,’ so with a bit of creative stop-starting, I mapped out the Millennium Falcon.

– Andrew Collins

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

My people back in Canberra, Australia, they've been very happy for me, a lot of people have been coming out of nowhere and congratulating me and sending me friend requests on Facebook and stuff like this. It's pretty interesting to get that, but I'm very grateful for it.

– Chima Moneke

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There was a lot of lobbying. Gina Rinehart's people got on the phone, as I understand it. And I think they were very effective, i'm sure that Canberra's economy was stimulated by the influx of lobbying dollars.

– Independent Senator Nick Xenophon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

– Phil Robertson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If Canberra keeps doing things that displease Indonesia, Jakarta will surely let the illegal immigrants go to Australia, there are more than 10,000 [asylum seekers] in Indonesia today. If they are let go to Australia, it will be like a human tsunami.

– Tedjo Edy Purdijatno

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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