Australian journalist Cheng Lei speaks on her arrest in China | 7.30
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- For a long time, the case of Australian citizen Cheng Lei who was imprisoned in Beijing, was caught up in the intense politics of Australia's relationship with China.
Cheng Lei was recently released after spending three years in detention. She speaks to 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson about her extraordinary and at times terrifying experience.
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Very gutsy of Cheng Lei to do this interview. Her outpouring of emotion made me understand her despair. Good on you Cheng Lei.
FREE ASSANGE! 🫢
I didn’t have the heart to watch this interview at first. Because I felt that could have been me, a naturalized US citizen, single woman and mom working in China, always walking on the thin ice… I’m so so proud of Cheng Lei that the communist didn’t break her. May she be blessed with freedom of speech all her life.
她可以有自由，但她不能拥有违背职业准则的自由。
@@Bob-k3x6w 嗯。 各行各业各色人等每天都犯违背职业准则的自由，就是没有自由。
FREE ASSANGE! 🫢
🤮
@@user-os7ps2bx4n Hahaha, good sense of humor. Relax.
I wish her well. Hope she can forget the past and live a normal life with family.
她在中国的监狱里越吃越肥，体重从照片上来看好像胖了十多斤，这还说明不了问题？
@@user-os7ps2bx4n 3 年太短了
Can a spy criminal lead a normal life in your country？
Thank you, Cheng for your strength to be open and candid. I hope you know how many of us are so happy to see you free and I hope you can recover some life for yourself.
Remarkable woman.
Thank God that she came back to her children and her partner.
A chance to Australia 😂, but I don't think Australia appreciates. It's simple because most of countries are not true independent state, without independence, pro-liberal democracy remains a joke😂
A remarkable woman who was charged and confessed to espionage 🙄
@@uriituw faked one
Not because of any actions attributed to minister Penny Wong.
@@factsmatter6625 Roll your eyes all you want, but you know such confessions are meaningless in China.
Once again the ABC shows its value to Australian people. While being targeted by politicians who feel aggrieved by the ABC’s independence, and feel the ABC should be their own public relations firm. Australia needs an independent media. Away from partisan Murdoch outlets.
All big medias tends to lean onto politicians because license, bright future, career, money, power,..... After all they are still humans.
The Australian Federal Police admit they are training Chinese Communist Party Police, as well as being granted tours of AFP centres in Canberra and Perth and Cyber centres.
- Following an ASIO warning about Chinese digital espionage.
Anthony Albanese announces China trip two days after deciding not to cancel Port of Darwin lease, the only significant port in the northern half of Australia will remain in the hands of China.
ABC IS also heaviely influenced by .....plays selective and ...journalism
unless those calle journalist has already gain financial freedom....otherwise they are alwasy under influences
Outstanding work by Penny Wong and the PM.
Thank you Cheng Lei for having the courage to survive and share your story. I am profoundly sad that I will never get to visit the wonders of China. Half of my family are Chinese and its people and culture are incredibly important to me. To be exiled from your second homeland is a pain deeply held by too many people . Thank you also to the ABC and Sarah Ferguson for sharing this story in such a respectful and gentle manner.
Think about Julian Assange , isn't UK is AUS's good friend? You go to certain country, you follow their law, my father in law is Aussie , he had been to China for many times. If you compare the crime rate worldwide, China is very safe, much safer than AUS and USA. If you don't go to Rome, you would never know how Rome looks. Western media always portraits how terrible China is, but why would I travel freely all the time, by the way I'm a Chinese living in western countries for more than 10 years.
She just advised that she released the embargo information a few minutes earlier and as a Malaysian Chinese, there is more to this than meet the eye. Why don't she actually confess now she is out of the Chinese grasp to tell the truth, come what may.
@@hangtuah888 Courts decide if a crime has commited and the punishment. Ask the court. There is a longer 35min interview that has just been posted so perhaps you will find her answer there
@@tl87-rg9df Those countries have their laws written down for people to learn so they can be aware and abide by them by choice. Julian Assange is a sad situation, so the whataboutism is unnecessary and a distraction from her experience.
@@yehnahthx crime is crime, law is law, you can't deny the fact.
在上海有天住酒店我被公安无辜带走关了5天，5天没有见到黑夜 感觉像过了3个月，我知道这3年会感觉像10年甚至30年那么长，为陈蕾感到高兴和给她最好的祝福，希望所有被监禁的自由勇敢发声的 异见人士和民主战士获得自由。。。上帝与我们同在，邪恶终将受到惩罚。。。
Can a spy criminal lead a normal life in your country？
近30年前，国安找我问话还跟我说如果公安找你，立马打他的手机，因为公安对罪犯比较rough哈哈哈
Let’s please get Julian Assange home now.
Such a strong, brave woman.
GOD HAS ALWAYS LOVED CHINA AND HAS ALWAYS BLESSED CHINA FOREVER.
✝️🇨🇳☯️🙏🙏🙏☯️🇨🇳✝️
✝️ GOD BLESS CHINA ✝️
What about Julian Assange, is he still alive?
Strong brave woman who is guilty of espionage. She’s lucky she only got 3 years.
Julian Assange spent 7 years in Bolivian Embassy, 4 years in Belmarsh Prison and faces 175 years incarceration in United Snakes 🐍 for exposing US war crimes!!!
@@uriituw GOD HAS ALWAYS LOVED CHINA AND HAS ALWAYS BLESSED CHINA FOREVER.
✝️🇨🇳☯️🙏🙏🙏☯️🇨🇳✝️
✝️ GOD BLESS CHINA ✝️
@@uriituw GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️
Free Julian Assange.
There's a lesson here, if you're going to be wrongfully detained, be detained by an adversary nation, not an ally.
@@spermwaterGOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️
@@spermwaterbut she was not wrongfully detained. She was charged and confessed to sharing secrets with foreign governments.
Whereas, Assange has been wrongfully detained for 7 years, been the target of assassination by United Snakes, and faces 175 year sentence in the US
@@uriituw GOD HAS ALWAYS LOVED CHINA AND HAS ALWAYS BLESSED CHINA FOREVER.
✝️🇨🇳☯️🙏🙏🙏☯️🇨🇳✝️
✝️ GOD BLESS CHINA ✝️
@@uriituw GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️
Cheng Lei serve her “sentence” and was released / deported. China would have released her for their own gain, not because of any actions attributed to minister Penny Wong.
Not because of any actions attributed to minister Penny Wong.
The Australian Federal Police admit they are training Chinese Communist Party Police, as well as being granted tours of AFP centres in Canberra and Perth and Cyber centres.
- Following an ASIO warning about Chinese digital espionage.
Anthony Albanese announces China trip two days after deciding not to cancel Port of Darwin lease, the only significant port in the northern half of Australia will remain in the hands of China.
she was detained by the chinese government. her detention was unnecessarily prolonged by scomofo's mishandling of international relationaship. previous government's "my way or the high way" deplomacy is just a lite version of the chinese "wolf warrior" diplomacy. cheng lei is not only the victim of a reclusive regime with an opaque legal system. she, the australian farmers and shipbuilders are also the victims of lnp's ruthless ideology-above-human-suffering foreign policy.
Funny how LNP members can destroy dimplomacy illagally generate debts against innocent australians and make life harder for everyone for the benifit of their rich mates but accountability never seems to follow them.
You must be a CCP agent.
It is a lot more complicated than that.
Agreed the stupidity of Marise Payne going on air to demand an "investigation into Covid" was palpable. The resulting sanctions that destroyed whole industries and put this poor woman in jail could have been avoided. Scotty from marketing wanted a headline instead he got years of grief for Chinese Australians and many industries including wine, beef, barley, coal and lobsters....
@@terrencebushell9588 If that is so then all that happens is that Australians self censor in return for convenience and comfort. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Julian Assange was, and remains arrested by the UK government, following US orders. His detention is unnecessarily prolonged by US's mishandling of international relationship. US's government's "my way or the high way" diplomacy is just a lite version of Hitler's "wolf warrior" diplomacy. Julian Assangei is not only the victim of a terror regime with an opaque legal system. He, Palestinian farmers and Chinese phone builders are also the victims of US's ruthless ideology-above-human-suffering foreign policy.
When will US ever release Assange? Its been over a decade. That's enough torture.
pretty sure there's quite some differences in what they did
@@DaleReeves232Not sure what you mean.
Cheng Li was charged and confessed to leaking secret information to foreign governments.
Assanged exposed US war crimes.
US didn't do well, so North Korea, China, Iran and Russia have the right to do what they want to do?
Assange's case has tons of media reports with enormous details and evidences. What evidence and details do you know about Cheng Lei's case? Oh yeah, for national security reason, I can't tell you. What a BS?
Of cause you can criticise US government as much as you like, it is safe and free to do so anywhere, including in US. But what's is the connection to Cheng's case? Is she a US citizen? Is US government responsible for her suffering? Oh, because US government didn't do well, so CCP can do what they want to any other countries' citizen?
@@DaleReeves232double standard😂
Welcome back!
Great journalism and great work from Penny Wong. Hope she lives a happy life.
Julian Assange is dead in prison, right?
How about Julian Assange?!!
Australia will always be a lapdog to its master, United Snakes 🐍
And you won't get Assange home????? Shame.
Those English speaking countries are so much harder to negotiate with, you see?
@@treefarm3288 No, I would speculate more about sympathies around her obvious Chinese background. No amount of negotiating saved poor Otto Warmbier, for simply taking a poster off a wall. Such is the fragile ego of a dictator, and the nature of racial hatred.
Unrelated point.
@@kuribojim3916 why? Because they're white?
@@bumblebee8653 No, because the point is unrelated to the topic of the video.
She had done well for Australia😢
shame on you
No. She didn't do well for Australia. She was acting as a CCP mouthpiece despite that she knew what they are really like she engaged in genocide denial etc.
@@naguoning no genocide in China,watch Gaza
I reckon it would be even better if ABC could add Chinese subtitles.
Don't worry I can read the English subtitles. Usually Chinese who watch video on UA-cam are capable of using English.
Government should apply the same diplomatic pressure to free one of its own, Julian Assange.
Totally agree
There is always two sides to a story
Depends on who is telling it
Do you have the other side of the story? Do tell!
Thank you cheng lei....looking forward your interview with julian assange.....
Australia didn't do anything for her jail time. She was released because she finished her jail time.
Cheng Lei is so fortunate to have the support of Australia behind her.
Julian has missed much more
Fact is she felt she shouldn't have shared the state secrets with someone working for a different organisation. On a hindsight when asked, she agreed she shouldn't. What matters is also she was not physically abused and had nothing much to bad the interrogators other than the emotional strain. Her plight was made worse by Scomo’s arrogant attitude towards China. At the end of it, importantly, she was deported. Thanks to the efforts of the Albanese administration and Penny Wong, she was subsequently released and deported. Albanese did what that puppy dog Morrison couldn't do.
true
Huawei CEO Meng Wanzhou can't speak about her arrest in Canada. She is being banned from Western Social Media.
Australian journalist Julian Assange can't speak on his arrest. He is still in prison, and not allowed to speak to anyone.
Source for her being banned from western social media?
@@andrewjgrimm Have you seen any comment she has made anywhere in Western Social Media?
Have you seen Julian Assange making comments on western social media, or being interviewed by western MSM,. or any other journalists?
@@hokroegerYes we have. There’s plenty. But nice try at your CCP propaganda. Here’s a Mao badge for you 🔴
Where's Assuage when he's going to be released! And he's been in detained longer than this woman! Anthony in America now he should be ask for released of Julian Assange!!🙄🤷🤦
I am sure Anthony is asking Biden.
Just off the table though. Rightly so.
Spot on.
This woman was charged and confessed to espionage.
Assange published United Snakes 🐍 war crimes, a journalistic right.
assange will face 175 years in prison if found guilty. not coming out alive. now what has he done wrong?
Of cause you can criticise US government as much as you like, it is safe and free to do so anywhere, including in US. But what's is the connection to Cheng's case? Is she a US citizen? Is US government responsible for her suffering? Oh, because US government didn't do well, so CCP can do what they want to any other countries' citizen?
@@samztang953 Both Assange and Cheng are Australian citizens.
Cheng was charge and confessed to espionage and was sentenced for 3 years.
In contrast, Assange published war crimes committed by United Snakes (not a crime) and spent 7 years in the Bolivian Embassy as an asylum seeker, was targeted for assassination by the US government, placed in Belmarsh Prisn for 4 years and is facing a 175 year sentence in the US.
A guilty person gets all the sympathy from the western world because China was involved but an innocent person gets forgotten and left to rot in jail because US is involved.🙄
There is no red line in the eyes of communism and dictatorship. In Hong Kong, singing songs, playing music or talking about democracy will be jailed. Search "Glory to Hong Kong" .
In Australia you get in trouble overseas and the govt dont give a shit about u. Look at Julian or the viet guy hung in singapore. At least let him serve time at home
you act like there is a difference when china does it vs our "ally" america doing it. at least china freed cheng lei. did america drop their case against julian?
hong kong ranks no. 1 in terms of freedom. US ranks 16. look it up. if you are in hong kong feeling unhappy try america or uk. you dont feel safe venturing out after dark. i dont think hong kong will keep you there and you are perfectly free to choose to leave. you will be allowed if you find a country that will accept you.
@@Ballacha So CCP has the right to put any western citizen into jail without releasing any evidence and details because Assange's case? You don't like orange because apple tastes so bad?
Lol... Must be similar with the U.S. , UK, Australia, and Canada too. They must be communists.
Assange, Dan Duggan, Meng Wanzhou... The list is long
Never mind the personal sacrifice Cheng Lei, Aussy gov just wants to do biz with CCP.. u know, selling wines lobsters..
Free China, Free Tibet and Free Hong Kong. ✌️🤘🇦🇺
Free them all! Dictator Xi Jinping step down!
@LW-xm5pr Thank you and Agree ✌️💛🇦🇺
Isn't espionage a crime in your country? Curious
Remember Julian Assange who's still imprisoned. I hope the charges will be disclosed sooner better than later; the people of the world ought to know if the government in China had over-reached or if they really did cut Cheng Lei some slack.
5:08 she grown up & educated in free world, known little about dictatorship's rule. now she waked up.
Free world?
If you think lapdog to its master, United Snakes 🐍, is free, good lick to you.
I’ll bet you’ve never been to China.
Isn't espionage a crime in your country? Curious
Considered lucky for not jailed for life.
My heart breaks for Cheng Lei. Being a journalist shouldn't result in situations like this; it takes enormous courage to be a journalist that is critical of China (or not even critical, but just honest in general). It's a great shame. It's a huge shame for China itself. The country has remarkable history and a beautiful culture and language; the CCP is a cancer on the country.
Anthony Albanese announces China trip two days after deciding not to cancel Port of Darwin lease,
the only significant port in the northern half of Australia will remain in the hands of China.
Can thank the liberals for that. Classic conservatives always selling off their own country
PM, what happen to get JAssange home???
This is a problem when u are charged with espionage. Every country in the world does the same. U are lucky that only jailed for 3 years. In US, many had been more than hellish for decades in jail. Australia treated u well because u are not charged in this place. If u are charged in Australia, same hell for you or perhaps u will feel the hell for decades too. Every country governments and politicians are very scary, almost all civil workers tends to inflict the victims more damages to obtain credits from their bosses.
you think.
Julian Assange was in asylum for 7 years in Bolivian embassy, 4 years in Belmarsh prison and faces 175 years sentence in United Snakes 🐍
What has she done? What is the evidence and details? How many years do you think she is supposed to be in the jail?
@@samztang953 She leaked secrets to the Australian, UK and US governments. She confessed to the charges and was sentenced to 3 years. Simple as that.
Let me give you some examples of differences between Australia and China. In China, Xi’s family business is national secret, what shares his relatives hold are national secret, what companies his family members investing is national secret. If you reveal those ‘secret’, you breach the national security law. Is that the same everywhere?
The government did well obtaining her release.A BIG BUT WHAT ABOUT ASSANGE albo he was born here .
he is kept in a safe deposit box, so no harm can come to him
Very sorry for what happened to Cheng. But honestly, Cheng is not going to get any job in China anymore, why not telling the world what exact information led to the arrest. I have a gut feeling; it will make the criminal charge looks stupid.
这种人不是间谍的料，应该是不小心接触并泄露了保密信息
The Australian Federal Police admit they are training Chinese Communist Party Police, as well as being granted tours of AFP centres in Canberra and Perth and Cyber centres.
- Following an ASIO warning about Chinese digital espionage.
Empathy.
DO remember she is a SPY ! Betray her mother country ! All spies who betrayed their motherland in history will not end well!
Welcome home! ❤
CCP: We're so great, we love human rights, we're so peaceful..
Rest of the world: Meh.. we don't buy it.
Isn't espionage a crime in your country? Curious
@@morrisongao852 Publishing a report a few minutes early isn't espionage. Why would you support governments abusing people. You're disgusting. PERIOD
Many Little Pink Comment Here
Eventually became an Australian spy
obviously she admits she did.
👍
The poor woman is the victim of Scott Morrison.
chen was too naive...
Now do Dan Duggan.
She's Chinese born, so "spy" rings bells.
you are lucky you are not julian assange!
be happy it was the chinese gov, cause i am sure julian assange will be happy to be in chinese custody.
❤
买国女
Yea, betrayer
She could have just remained and work in Australia, then all these would not have happened. What she needs to reflect is why she has to leave her family in Australia and go and work in China. Given the choice, we all want to be with family. Therefore, why she could not find a proper job to work in her adopted country in the first place?
She was also charged and confessing to leaking secret information to foreign governments.
Must be the fame and the spotlight which she would get in China being the bilingual reporter, but here in Australia she wouldn't have stood out
spy,spy,spy
She is on the mission. 😅
I saw her propaganda show a few times when I watched TV in China.
Next time if you wana to be a spy, better learn some skills from your US master. Btw what about Assange ?
What about our Assange?
I can’t sympathize her after watching this interview
Will never set foot in China , I hear they do interigate passengers at the airport ,if you miss connecting flight you are up the creek without a paddle, they don’t and won’t speak English at airport. It’s now one country I will never visit. So good you are back in Australia and reunited with your husband and children❤❤.
Good. CHINA do not want you to visit bogan.
Still hiding in d well!😅
You are not the only one. Apparently foreign tourism is down 99% at the Great Wall since 2021.
@@PxThucydides Great statistics. Perhaps you should consider visit to Maccas being down as an indicator. Yes the figure is plucked from your proverbial ah. Could be foreigners are ignorant of the Great Wall and didn't visit the iconic site. One swallow does not a summer make.
Now, do Assange.o wait, he is still in Belmarsh
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still watching this very informative content cheers Frank as subscriber to this channel 😊
我想问一个很简单的问题，她在中国服刑三年，出狱时比入狱时的体重明显增加，胖了一圈。这是什么情况😅
外国人住的都是特殊监狱，名为监狱实为软禁。
@@user-si7wb8tb2m 省省吧，都是踩缝纫机的。你家没有监狱系统亲戚吗？
@@user-si7wb8tb2m 胡说八道，老百姓和外国人是一样的。党的高层会有所不同。仅此而已。
then what did she do? she should tell the truth.do't be a lier
"She shouldn't have shared the state secrets with someone working for a different organisation. On a hindsight when asked, she agreed she shouldn't."
Assume some released top confidence commercial or security information in US or Australia. He or she will have faced more harsh and severe punishment than 2 and half years sentences. That is double standards.
Hardly. The kind of information she released is on Bloomberg every minute of every day in the ticker along the bottom of the screen.
Pets in the kiss can not become relatives, a yellow face, do help other countries work, traitors face, but also reflects her family's upbringing. The traitor who betrays the motherland will also betray her present master in the future, because in her ideology there is no such thing as loyalty, only eternal personal gain。I hope the relevant parties in Australia will know。
政治左右品而已，还自觉不错呢，不过也是她就是个媒体人，也能轻松驾驭新闻，从中获利，希望她能被真正的接受。
A mediocre spy, but a good mother 😅❤
这些人是不是有病？他们为成蕾女士的所谓自由价值观而感动，他们并没有提两个问题：
1、进过这么多非人的折磨，成蕾似乎比入狱前胖了，营养水平也更好，2、因为她的通风报信不职业的泄密行为，导致曾经的母国因此在商务谈判中损失几千亿，这种行为按照法律服刑，是不是中国这个仁慈大国的优待？
老兄看看就好，西方媒体洗脑的水平可以吧？人都傻傻的。
不是吧 ，有听错吗 ，中共是仁慈的
Bad things wont happen unless you do more stupid things. Arrogance is what it was as she even said
That's all well and good until you realise that "stupid things" is defined by Comrade Xi and whatever mood he is in that day, or worse yet whatever someone who wants to please Comrade Xi imagines that Xi wants. Arbitrary justice is not justice.
Roman Consuls used to have a servant that would walk behind them to remind them "You are but a man"; maybe Comrade Xi should take up the same habit.
By her own admission she gave embargoed government financial information to a foreign representative. This was critical information from the Premier's report ie. no large stimulus package and higher unemployment forecast. In other words time-critical information of value in world financial circles. There are two questions remaining, who requested the information and how much was she offered for it.
Australian hero! Totally deserved a phone call from the PM. Hopefully those intel she got from China help building Australia into a better country. ❤
are you accusing her for spying for the australian government? spying on china in order to build a better australia?🤣 so she was guilty as charged!!
@@paulng2094 must be special enough to get a phone call from PM and a hug from foreign minister 😉
bring julian assange home. i dare him to ask his real boss in washington for his release.@@JohnChenAU
GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️
China's govt don't believe in the existence of a god or gods.
Cheng Lei, sounds so Aussie.
She not aussie, not chinese. She's a traitorist sell out
What’s an Australian sounding name?
He is just a bogan and ignorant. Plenty in the land down under. The Aboriginals cannot be free even though Cheng Lei can be.
@@fr0zenwaffl3s "Johnny the Racist"
@@fr0zenwaffl3s Shane Warne, Don Bradman, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Keith Urban.
I could go on if you are confused.
😅
To Chinese, which was her own country, she may regarded as a traitor, yes traitor
Yep, she was charged and confessed to espionage.
So obvious, she believes that she is an Australian but not a Chinese.
She is a traitor by her own admission
Ive watched this "interview" several times.
Each time,
i believe her Story,
LESS & LESS !
Id love to hear a Body Launguage Experts take on her credibility.
Hey, Aussie, no nation likes a traitor. Aussies should learn to be sensitive and respectful of others, not just selfishly whining like kids. Shame to Cheng Lei!
Cheng Lei serve her “sentence” and was released / deported. China would have released her for their own gain, not because of any actions attributed to minister Penny Wong.
Anthony Albanese announces China trip two days after deciding not to cancel Port of Darwin lease, the only significant port in the northern half of Australia will remain in the hands of China.
Free Julian Assange.