To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . On the morning of Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison was working from his official residence when an aide alerted him to a tweet by a Chinese foreign-ministry spokesman. Morrison was about to finish a two-week quarantine after returning from a brief diplomatic visit to Japan, and he had spent most of the morning on the phone with Australian wine exporters, discussing Chinese tariffs that had just taken effect — some as high as 212 percent — the latest in an escalating string of punitive economic measures imposed on Australia by Beijing. But the tweet, posted by a diplomat named Zhao Lijian, represented a different kind of aggression. "Shocked by murder of Afghan civilians & prisoners by Australian soldiers," he wrote. "We strongly condemn such acts, & call for holding them accountable." Attached was a digital illustration of an Australian soldier restraining an Afghan child with a large Australian flag while preparing to slit the boy's throat. "Don't be afraid," the caption read, "we are coming to bring you peace!" When the tweet appeared online that morning,… Read full this story
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