Pathetic response
Last week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison requested, in an assertive, firm and professional manner (as befitting a prime minister), an apology from China for a doctored image that had been tweeted by a Chinese government spokesperson on social media and which cruelly depicted an Australian soldier holding a knife to the head of an Afghani child.
China’s response was to retort that Australia should apologise for the killings of Afghan citizens and prisoners that some Australian soldiers committed.
It was a terrible crime and I am sure that most Australians were shocked, ashamed and wished that such dreadful acts never happened.