China’s Doctored Image of an Aussie Soldier Touches a Nerve in Australia
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 2020-12-01

Here’s the tweet by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on 30 November that outraged Australia. “Shocked by murder of Afghan civilians & prisoners by Australian soldiers. We strongly condemn such acts, & call for holding them accountable”. The image shown alongside the tweet shows a doctored image of a smiling Australian soldier doing something terrible to an Afghani child holding a lamb standing over an Australian flag. The caption reads, “Don’t be afraid, we are coming to bring you peace!”. Cue outrage. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described the image as “repugnant” and demanded the Chinese government apologise for posting it. Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong joined the chorus of condemnation calling the post “gratuitous, inflammatory and deeply offensive”, and “not the behaviour of a responsible, mature international power”. Of course, this all comes after the release of the Brereton Report earlier this month which found evidence of 39 murders of civilians and prisoners by (or at the instruction of) members of the Australian special forces between 2005 and 2016, which were subsequently covered up by ADF personnel. The photo is an obvious troll. The goal of a troll is to bait you — to antagonise you — and the Australian Government have fallen for it hook, line and sinker. They have played right into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party by getting upset and demanding an apology. But I think we all know the result. China will never apologise. If anything, they’ll double down in attacking Australia’s self-proclaimed moral superiority. It’s in their best interests to show the Chinese citizenry that Australia is just as broken as everywhere else. This propaganda is simply there to show the Chinese people that Australian democracy is a sham.

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