December 2, 2020

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison could not have imagined how many messages embedded with a new satirical cartoon to Morrison flooded his Twitter account on Wednesday. With his latest spat with China over a Twitter post regarding Australian soldiers' atrocities in Afghanistan continuing, more shocking details about Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan - the subject of the illustration - came into public view, triggering a tide of criticism and an online backlash on the hypocrisy and double standards of Canberra. 

When some Chinese netizens claimed to be shocked by how Western politicians could play out their hypocrisy by denying their own wrongdoings and blaming others, more Australian people expressed their disappointment over the Australian leader, who instead of taking time to deeply reflect on the war crime scandals, is still entangled in his ill-intentioned playbook of attacking China. This time, it was about hiding Australia's own wrongdoings by diverting public attention toward Beijing. 

Hypocrisy to backfire

The online spat triggered by Morrison started with a satirical cartoon featuring an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child, which was then posted by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian on his Twitter account.

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