China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomats Slam Australia, Win Fans at Home
- Foreign Ministry plays to domestic audience with hard rhetoric
- Approach raises questions about Beijing’s hopes for soft power
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded Beijing apologize for a tweet with a fake photo depicting one of his nation’s troops holding a bloody knife to an Afghan child’s throat. Instead, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s top spokeswoman shot back, asking whether Morrison lacks “a sense of right and wrong.”