On Tuesday, Twitter rejected Australia’s call to remove a Beijing official’s tweet on Australian troops.
On Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao posted a staged image of a man dressed as an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to an Afghan child’s throat.
Twitter said it had marked the tweet as sensitive, but added that comments on topical political issues or foreign policy sabre-rattling by official government accounts were generally not in violation of its rules.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison had called the tweet repugnant, holding a virtual press conference from quarantine to demand Twitter take it down and China apologize.
He said Beijing should be totally ashamed of the outrageous and disgusting slur against the Australian armed forces.
