Chinese state media has launched its latest attack on Australia with a cartoon depicting Scott Morrison as America's 'yes man'.  

interior.pngThe cartoon, shared on social media by the Communist Party-owned China Daily newspaper on Monday, depicted Australia as a donkey riding into battle under the orders of the United States.

Accompanied by the caption 'yes man to one, liar to all', the cartoon references the 17th century story of Don Quixote.

In the book, Quixote orders his servant Sancho Panza to charge towards a windmill thinking it is his enemy despite it being an imaginary foe.

Cartoonist Luo Jie, who created the cartoon last week, depicts Quixote as the US and Panza as his loyal Australian steed attacking a windmill which represents China.  

It comes as Mr Morrison prepares to champion free trade in getting thousands of Australians back to work after the coronavirus crisis amid mounting tensions with China.

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Chinese state-owned media publication China Daily has depicted Australia blindly following US orders in Beijing's latest attack on Scott Morrison's government







US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with wife Jenny on September 20 last year 


While he will not name China - Australia's largest export partner - in Tuesday's speech, he will say Australia needs to search for new markets for its products.

Mr Morrison will insist that the country will continue to be an 'outward-looking', trading nation that 'will not retreat into the downward spiral of protectionism'. 

'To the contrary, we will continue to be part of global supply chains that can deliver the prosperity we rely on to create jobs, support incomes and build our businesses,' he will say at the National Press Club in Canberra. 






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The US meanwhile on Friday announced it would blacklist 33 Chinese companies for helping Beijing spy on its minority Uighur population.

Political leaders in both the US and Australia have also already condemned China's effort to take over national security legislation in Hong Kong.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called it 'a death knell for the high degree of autonomy' that Beijing had promised the territory.






Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews troops from a car during a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing last October


Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne has also said her government is 'deeply concerned' at the proposals.

The contentious measure, submitted on Friday on the opening day of China´s national legislative session, is strongly opposed by pro-democracy lawmakers in semi-autonomous Hong Kong. 

It follows an article in the Global Times, another Chinese state-owned publication, threatening to cripple Australia if it continued supporting US President Donald Trump amid growing tensions with Beijing. 

The story published on Sunday said China will punish Australia more harshly than the US because it is less economically dependent on Australia. 






A haulage truck and an autonomous drilling rig at the Rio Tinto West Angelas iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of West Australia. About a third of Australia's total exports go to China


The US is China's number one export market whereas Australia is 14th. 

The article said: 'China will enjoy more room to fight back against Australia with countermeasures if Canberra supports Washington in a possible "new Cold War". 

'It means Australia may feel more pain than the US.' 

The editorial said President Trump was targeting China to distract from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic which has killed 97,000 Americans. 

'The Trump administration is fomenting trouble to deflect its woes over its mishandling of the coronavirus onto China,' it said.

'There is no need for other countries, 만화 사이트 such as Australia, to involve themselves in this ridiculous political play.






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/>The Global Times believes Australia is merely a 'lap dog' being used to further American interests and last week claimed the US coerced Canberra into calling for an inquiry into the origins and spread of coronavirus

/>Last month Beijing became infuriated by Australia's calls for an independent inquiry into the origins of the virus, believing that it was a 'malicious' attempt to blame and 'stigmatize' Chi

/>Mr Morrison had demanded a ban on wildlife wet markets, where the virus may have originated, and said inspectors should be able to enter a country suffering from a pandemic without the government's consent. 
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