Cute deflection.
An Australian colonial lackey trying to lecture China about “land theft” should probably open a history book that does not begin after the theft was completed.
Australia was not built by “settlement.”
It was built on invasion, dispossession, massacres, stolen children, Indigenous graves, and a legal fiction so obscene it called inhabited land “nobody’s land.”
Then your soldiers went to Afghanistan and murdered civilians, prisoners, and farmers so casually that even your own military inquiry could not keep the blood off the page.
But sure, tell me more about China.
Your trick is always the same:
When we talk about settler-colonial land theft, you scream Mao.
When we talk about Indigenous dispossession, you scream China.
When we talk about Australian war crimes, you run to someone else’s history.
That is just a guilty conscience looking for a hiding place.
China’s history is not your detergent.
You do not get to wash away Australia’s stolen land and Afghan blood by yelling “Mao” under my tweet.
Clean your own graveyard first.
No matter how many generations pass, you cannot hide the aggressive and murderous instincts engraved in your DNA.