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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost control of his account on the Chinese-owned social media platform WeChat and a lawmaker on Monday accused China’s leaders of political interference
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has lost control of his account on the Chinese-owned social media platform WeChat and a lawmaker on Monday accused China’s leaders of political interference. Morrison’s 76,000 WeChat followers were notified his page had been renamed “Australian Chinese new life” earlier this month and his photograph had been removed, Sydney’s The…
In an already acrimonious year for Australia–China relations, an ‘utterly outrageous’ tweet from a mid-level official at China’s foreign affairs ministry shows the extent to which the Chinese-language media environment is being shaped by the Chinese Communist Party—including in Australia. On 30 November, a foreign ministry spokesperson posted on Twitter an artist’s impression of an Australian soldier beheading an Afghan child, a reference to the allegations of war crimes detailed in the Brereton inquiry. This led to a statement from a visibly angry Prime Minister Scott Morrison, w...