Australian journalist Cheng Lei has written a “love letter” to Australia as she marks three years in a Chinese prison.

Neil Mitchell says the Australian government has “effectively turned its back” on her, and that response suggests “that this can be a racist country”.

Press PLAY below to hear Neil Mitchell’s blistering criticism of Australia’s response to Cheng Lei’s imprisonment

“If she was white I suggest all hell would have broken loose by now,” the 3AW Mornings host said.

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