Photographer: Brendan Thorne / Bloomberg
Photographer: Brendan Thorne / Bloomberg
Beijing Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he is apologizing to China for providing a picture of an Australian Australian soldier holding a knife to the neck of an Afghan child by a Beijing diplomat.
The tweet, posted by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, told reporters in Canberra on Monday. The Australian premiere said the image was docked and asked Twitter to remove it.
“The Chinese government should be completely ashamed of this post,” Morrison said. The tweet would tarnish China’s global image, he said.
Tensions between the nations have risen over Morrison’s apology, following China’s decision to impose anti-anchor dumping duties on his wine over the weekend. Diplomatic ties have broken down this year after Australia vowed to allow independent investigators in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the epidemic, leading to a series of trade surges.
Australian Australian Special Forces soldiers serve in Afghanistan A report released by the government earlier this month found that 39 illegal killings of prisoners, farmers and other civilians were allegedly involved. After four years of investigation, the report found credible information that 25 employees could be potential and 36 matters should be sent to the police for criminal investigation.
Zhao, who has more than 175,000 followers on the banned social network in China, has a reputation for stirring up diplomatic controversy through Twitter posts. In March, he U.S. in spreading coronavirus in China Introduced conspiracy theories that could be the role of the Army, raising a guilty game in which President Donald Trump began calling the disease a “Chinese virus.”
In his latest tweet, Zhao was “shocked by the killing of Afghan civilians and prisoners” by Australian troops. “We strongly condemn such acts, and call for them to be held accountable,” he said.
The tweet includes an image of a soldier on the Australian flag and wanting to be seen holding a bloody knife and holding a lamb around the child’s neck. The baby’s face is covered with a blue cloth. The text below the photo reads: “Fear not, we are coming to bring you peace!”
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Gao is closely associated with Zhao “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy, a more contradictory approach to the name of the nationalist Chinese action film series of the same name. Wolf Warriors have come under discussion amid discussions about China’s initial efforts to keep coronaviruses and policies to suppress human rights in places like Hong Kong and the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang.
Australia Australia is the world’s largest dependent economy on China and finalized a free trade agreement with Beijing in 2015. The relationship ended in 2018 when Canberra banned Huawei Technologies Co. from building its 5G network.
Relations went into a free fall earlier this year after Canberra called for a virus investigation, a move that has hurt China’s pride and sparked a barrage of criticism that Australia is a US ally. China has accused Australia of souring bilateral relations by interfering internally. Matters, including criticism of Hong Kong’s national security law and the internment of Uyghur, a Muslim ethnic group living in Xinjiang.
“There is undoubtedly tension between China and Australia that you exist, but this is not the case,” Morrison said in a tweet.
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