Ms Hua raised issues about alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, White Australia policy, the Stolen Generations and treatment of Indigenous people. Mr Zhao’s colleague Hua Chunying doubled down on the vilification, targeting Foreign Minister Marise Payne for expressing the Morrison government’s “grave concern” about “severe human rights” abuses against ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The concentration camps, as some critics call it, are still in operation,” he tweeted on Wednesday in response to global outrage over China’s appalling treatment of its Uighur minority. “The Australian government built detention centres on the Manus Island, which ‘accommodates’ tens of thousands of people from war-torn countries. Yet in the weird and fanciful world of Mr Zhao’s blatant lies and concocted disinformation targeted against Australia and Australians, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Information Department deputy director would have the world believe “tens of thousands of people from war-torn countries” have been accommodated in concentration camps. The Nauru processing centre does not house any asylum-seekers at present. The Manus Island processing centre was closed in 2017.

Of those asylum-seekers and refugees still on the islands, almost all are living in Port Moresby and Nauru communities. Lying leftist in Beijing teams up with local leftistsĪs of last month the number of refugees and asylum-seekers in Papua New Guinea and Nauru had fallen to 240, with 960 people resettled in the US, Cambodia and other countries since 2015. Nothing could be more absurd or demonstrably further from the truth.

If he had deliberately set out to make a fool of himself and the regime he represented, senior Chinese “wolf warrior” Zhao Lijian could not have done better than claim Australia had been operating concentration camps on Manus Island.

By the Editorial Board of The Australian newspaper. Beijing’s lies and taunts are a challenge the world must confront.

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