Chinese were clearly reffering to those killings in Afghanistan.
That doesn't even make any sense. No one denies what they were referring to. It is questioned why they felt a need to talk about it, particularly in so absurd a manner.
Appropriate response? The official investigation was launched in May 2020 only after ABC report was released in March 2020 featuring actual footage and witness testimonies and when it became absolutely clear its impossible to sweep it under the rug.
1. That doesn't explain
at all why it was an appropriate response for Beijing to post badly photoshopped pictures full of weird and inappropriate symbology.
2. "They wouldn't have exposed it if it hadn't been exposed", is that your argument?
"Have you heard of the drug bust? A crown witness tipped off police and they seized a ton of Cocaine!"
– "Well, why hadn't they seized it before the witness told them it was there? Clearly the police is in cahoots with the drug dealers!"
Height of Western hypocricy maybe. PRC human rights record didnt stop Nixon and Kissinger from coming to China to exploit Sino-Soviet split and cooperating with them for more thatn 40 years.
That's the most embarassing retort I've read in ages. Heck, feminists have sharper comebacks than
this. Do you really want to equate what you call "coming to China to exploit Sino-Soviet split and cooperating with them for more thatn 40 years" with
genocide?
I beg you, refrain from trying to lecture "the West" on hypocrisy in the future. Your thinking that there even is such a thing as "the West" as a uniform entity shows how ill-prepared you are for that task.
This is the problem with our relationship (or our relationship with China for that matter). Your societies are collectivist, ours are not. We make a distinction between governments and their people, you don't. If our governments criticise Beijing or Moscow, you believe it to be an attack on your people and your national honour. Well, it isn't.
And that's also why the CCP believes that those war crimes reflect on Australia as a whole. Even if they're merely cases of criminal conduct by service members which Australia hasn't ordered, hasn't condoned and is now prosecuting. A task which Australia's courts are more than capable of.
Still they have to try much harder to outdo you Germans.
I don't remember having killed anybody as of late. Have you killed anybody as of late, or do you want me to make a distinction between Stalin's crimes and you? Q.e.d.
That aside, I've always been terrible at maths but it seems to me that 20 million is a higher number than 6 to 9 million – especially when the upper estimate for the CCP's oopsies is a staggering 100 million. That's the number of people killed by Chinese communism if the victims of the "Cultural Revolution" and planned economy are to be included. But it doesn't matter.
What matters (and has angered many Australians) is that China's state apparatus has tens of thousands of Uyghurs interned in concentration camps under appalling conditions
right now, at the orders of the government. And when getting called out for running actual concentration camps, the aforesaid government insults the Australians implying they have no right to condemn Beijing because a few Australian soldiers committed unsanctioned killings against Australia's explicit orders and laws?
The sass to defend that kind of behaviour …
