http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/ ... a1548af5acHILLARY Clinton has sounded the alarm over foreign interference by China.
Speaking on a tour in Auckland, the Democratic presidential candidate urged us to take the rising superpower more seriously.
“In Australia and here in New Zealand experts are sounding the alarm about Chinese efforts to gain political power and influence policy decisions,” she said.
She also praised Anne-Marie Brady, a New Zealand academic who has conducted extensive work on China’s global influence campaign.
“Anne-Marie Brady of the University of Canterbury has rightly called this a new global battle, and it’s just getting started. We need to take it seriously.”
Earlier this year, Ms Brady said her home was broken into, and three laptops, two mobile phones and an encrypted memory stick from her last trip to China were taken.
“I had a break-in in my office last December. I received a warning letter, this week, that I was about to be attacked. And yesterday I had a break-in at my house,” she told Canberra officials, according to the New Zealand Herald.
She also said people she’s recently associated with in China were questioned about their association with her.
Ms Clinton herself was the target of an influence campaign spearheaded by Russian operatives in the 2016 election, which she lost to Donald Trump.
New Zealand’s leader Jacinda Ardern echoed the remarks, telling reporters Ms Clinton’s statements about China were not new.
“There are a number of world powers that have an interest in our region and, of course, New Zealand needs to maintain our role in building our relationships because there is that greater presence here,” she said.
The warning comes a week after Australian academic Professor Clive Hamilton warned China was waging a “campaign of psychological warfare” against us.
The Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia author told US Congress the rising superpower has “scaled up its threats of economic harm” and will continue to do so unless Australia “changes its ‘anti-China’ path”.
“This psychological warfare is only stage one, with real punishment to follow if needed.”
China has consistently denied engaging in foreign interference, with the state-run Global Times newspaper describing Australia’s behaviour in recent years as “baffling” and “repugnant” over the issue.
Last month Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull conceded there were tensions with China over the foreign interference laws.
“There’s clearly been some tension in the relationship following the introduction of our legislation about foreign interference,” he told radio 3AW.
“But I am very confident that any misunderstandings will be resolved.”
Ms Clinton will speak in Melbourne on Thursday and Sydney on Friday.
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Ms Clinton herself was the target of an influence campaign spearheaded by Russian operatives in the 2016 election, which she lost to Donald Trump.
She is irrelevant but will never be put out to pasture whilst countries are prepared to pay her to speak. What a massive waste of taxpayer money.
Obama was in Sydney a few weeks ago for less than 24 hours and received $460,000. Unbelievable!
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Black Orchid wrote:Ms Clinton herself was the target of an influence campaign spearheaded by Russian operatives in the 2016 election, which she lost to Donald Trump.
She is irrelevant but will never be put out to pasture whilst countries are prepared to pay her to speak. What a massive waste of taxpayer money.
Obama was in Sydney a few weeks ago for less than 24 hours and received $460,000. Unbelievable!
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Who pays for it
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Clinton was charging over $400 as a guest speaker here in australia,...
they had to drop the price down to $99 to get rid of the tickets and fill up the hall... lol
the woman is a lunatic as is Obama...
while they are so called "touring" around the Globe they are getting in the ears of our politicians..
she met up with the Horse Lady in NZ... Q anon made mention of it so he is suspicious.. .
and so you have seen many of these "Globalists" running a "Shadow" government against trumps administration and others around the world...
they are still trying to push through their own Agenda... an agenda which would destroy most western societies...
Global Warming Lie being one of those initiatives ... To redistribute western wealth into despot countries ...
only a complete brainless idiot would fall for that Bullshit...
take Monk for instance...
they had to drop the price down to $99 to get rid of the tickets and fill up the hall... lol
the woman is a lunatic as is Obama...
while they are so called "touring" around the Globe they are getting in the ears of our politicians..
she met up with the Horse Lady in NZ... Q anon made mention of it so he is suspicious.. .
and so you have seen many of these "Globalists" running a "Shadow" government against trumps administration and others around the world...
they are still trying to push through their own Agenda... an agenda which would destroy most western societies...
Global Warming Lie being one of those initiatives ... To redistribute western wealth into despot countries ...
only a complete brainless idiot would fall for that Bullshit...
take Monk for instance...
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The endless Clinton campaign
James Freeman
The Wall Street Journal
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2018 global grievance tour touched down in Australia this week. The Democratic nominee for President in 2016 has been selling tickets to provocative events in which she explores the alleged shortcomings of her compatriots. Meanwhile back home, her team is once again tapping some of the very wealthiest of her compatriots to support the family enterprise.
Mrs. Clinton’s remarks to foreign audiences are not limited to gripes about the most recent U.S. presidential campaign. She’s also willing to offer unkind words about current U.S. policies.
According to the Australian Associated Press:
The United States’ abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal will make negotiations with North Korea more difficult and leaves America’s credibility “shot”, Hillary Clinton says.
The former US secretary of state and failed 2016 presidential candidate also said there must be concrete concessions from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid the current efforts at diplomacy.
Ms Clinton used a talk in Melbourne to again criticise US President Donald Trump’s Iran decision, after tweeting that it was a big mistake.
“Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal will make it harder to negotiate successfully with North Korea or anyone else,” she said on Thursday night.
“I think pulling out of that agreement makes America less safe and less trusted and Iran more dangerous.
Well-heeled Australians eager to hear what’s wrong with America, its elections and its political leadership were unlikely to be disappointed by this leg of the tour. According to Australia’s Daily Telegraph:
“Free from the constraints of running, Secretary Clinton will share the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules,” the speaking tour’s website claims.
Meanwhile back in the United States, it’s Clinton fundraising season. This has been true of every season of every year since the late 1970s. But this is a particularly important moment because of a major event that is now less than two weeks away. Last month Axios reported:
Longtime Clinton supporters last week received an invitation offering access to the family (the green invitation features photos of Bill, Hillary and Chelsea) at a Clinton Foundation benefit on May 24 in New York, at prices ranging from $2,500 (”Friend”) for cocktail party and dinner, up to $100,000 (”Chair”) for “Leadership Reception for two, a premium table of ten, program recognition as Gala Chair and invitations to the Clinton Foundation Annual Briefing.”
As ever, Bill and Hillary Clinton are no doubt aiming to raise substantial sums from their vaunted network of high-dollar donors. But it’s still not clear whether their daughter understands the point of all this. Bloomberg reports:
Chelsea Clinton has been asked hundreds of times if she’s going to run for office. The first was when she was 3.
“That says something pretty powerful to me,” Clinton, 38, told an audience at the Bloomberg’s Business of Equality Summit in New York on Tuesday. “We expect you to at least consider to do something important and powerful.”
Clinton, the only child of former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, says she now turns the question around.
“Have you ever asked anyone whose last name isn’t Clinton that question?” she said she tells the inquisitor. “Did anyone ever ask you that question?”
Speaking of Clinton questions, campaign trivia buffs may recall that as a candidate Hillary Clinton claimed to have diagnosed a problem with capitalism. She argued that publicly traded companies were too focused on short-term results and therefore didn’t invest enough for future growth. Even if one agreed with her diagnosis, it wasn’t clear that her plan to make capital gains taxes more complicated and costly would provide a solution.
But today brings more evidence that the problem she aimed to solve does not even exist. The Journal’s James Mackintosh notes that capital expenditures at big public companies are rising faster than for business as a whole and reports that large corporations are funding research and development at a historic pace:
R&D spending by S&P 500 companies is at the highest proportion of sales since at least 1990, according to Goldman Sachs. Business R&D is the highest proportion of GDP since the government started tracking it in 1959. If short-termism is a problem, it isn’t obviously hurting overall R&D spending.
Americans rankled to hear Mrs. Clinton criticise the U.S. from overseas can appreciate that she’s not issuing such pronouncements from the White House.
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So why is the ice melting?The Mechanic wrote:Clinton was charging over $400 as a guest speaker here in australia,...
they had to drop the price down to $99 to get rid of the tickets and fill up the hall... lol
the woman is a lunatic as is Obama...
while they are so called "touring" around the Globe they are getting in the ears of our politicians..
she met up with the Horse Lady in NZ... Q anon made mention of it so he is suspicious.. .
and so you have seen many of these "Globalists" running a "Shadow" government against trumps administration and others around the world...
they are still trying to push through their own Agenda... an agenda which would destroy most western societies...
Global Warming Lie being one of those initiatives ... To redistribute western wealth into despot countries ...
only a complete brainless idiot would fall for that Bullshit...
take Monk for instance...
Stop making things worse!
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