Moan about Liberal receiving admiration from the East (6)
I believe the answer is:
bewail
'moan' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'liberal receiving admiration from the east' is the wordplay.
'liberal' becomes 'lib'.
'receiving' indicates putting letters inside.
'admiration' becomes 'awe' (awe is a kind of admiration).
'from the east' is a reversal indicator.
'lib' going around 'awe' is 'liaweb'.
'liaweb' reversed gives 'BEWAIL'.
'about' is the link.
(Other definitions for bewail that I've seen before include "Moan" , "Express grief" , "Goose-liver pate" , "Greatly lament" , "Loudly regret" .)