Canberra: A senior Chinese diplomat in Australia has said that the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morison has given undue importance to the post of alleged war crimes on social media. Given Morrison had last Monday asked the Chinese government to apologize for tweeting a controversial photo showing an Australian soldier allegedly killing a child. Tensions between China and Australia erupted after the tweet.
Wang Xining, China’s deputy ambassador, said on Friday, “It is unfortunate that the case escalated in such a way that it deviated from the issue and now the Brereton Report has become a bit more popular in China.” “Most people know what happened in Afghanistan,” he said. People are amazed that the leader of a nation has given such a response to the work of an ordinary young Chinese artist. “
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian recently tweeted a graphic picture of an Australian soldier holding a knife to a child’s throat. There was also a lamb on the baby’s lap. “Everyone is shocked by the killing of Afghan civilians and prisoners by Australian troops,” Zhao wrote in the photo. We condemn this act and demand that we take responsibility for it. “
Morrison said the photo tweeted by Zhao was “false”, “insulting” and “out of context”. “The Chinese government should be ashamed of this post,” he said. It has dropped him in the eyes of the world. “
Officials from the United States, New Zealand and Canada have also criticized China’s tweet. The whole affair is linked to a military report on war crimes, which claimed “credible information” that at least 19 current and retired Australian Special Forces soldiers were involved in the alleged illegal conduct of 39 Afghans. Was murdered by.
