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On July the 3rd 2008, following the defeat at the November 2007 election, Downer announced his retirement from parliament and said he would give his resignation as the Member for Mayo to the Governor-General on the 14th of July.<ref>http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2366</ref> He was made Visiting Professor of International Politics at the University of Adelaide's School of History & Politics<ref>http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/28301/news28381.html</ref> by the Vice Chancellor Professor James McWha. The position entitles him to call himself Professor Downer. He was appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as "Ambassador" in American media, and served from 2014 to 2018.<ref>Technically, the Queen of England is the [[Head of State]] of Australia, so Downer is not really the representative of a "foreign" government, as Americans would know it. Hence Downer's title is High Commissioner, representing the interests of Australia in London. American media know him as "Ambassador," a distinction without a difference.</ref>
On July the 3rd 2008, following the defeat at the November 2007 election, Downer announced his retirement from parliament and said he would give his resignation as the Member for Mayo to the Governor-General on the 14th of July.<ref>http://www.alexanderdowner.com.au/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=2366</ref> He was made Visiting Professor of International Politics at the University of Adelaide's School of History & Politics<ref>http://www.adelaide.edu.au/adelaidean/issues/28301/news28381.html</ref> by the Vice Chancellor Professor James McWha. The position entitles him to call himself Professor Downer. He was appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as "Ambassador" in American media, and served from 2014 to 2018.<ref>Technically, the Queen of England is the [[Head of State]] of Australia, so Downer is not really the representative of a "foreign" government, as Americans would know it. Hence Downer's title is High Commissioner, representing the interests of Australia in London. American media know him as "Ambassador," a distinction without a difference.</ref>
==Huawei==
Alexander Downer was a board member of the [[Chinese]] telecommunications giant Huawei until 2014, when he accepted the position of Australian High Commissioner in London.
On Dec. 1, 2018, Wanzhou Meng, the chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested in [[Canada]] at the request of U.S. authorities on suspicions that she violated U.S. trade sanctions against [[Iran]].
According to Canada’s ''Globe and Mail'', “Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been reviewing Huawei’s alleged shipping of U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws.”
The investigation into Huawei is run out of the U.S. attorney’s office in [[Brooklyn]]. U.S. intelligence experts have deemed Huawei a security threat to the United States and other nations. Huawei has been the subject of concern for a number of years and was the subject of a House Intelligence Committee investigation in 2012.<ref>https://m.theepochtimes.com/string-of-indictments-by-doj-point-to-multiple-global-operations_2758670.html/amp</ref>
==Trump-Russia hoax==
==Trump-Russia hoax==