The Chinese embassy in Australia is accusing the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian newspapers of “spreading disinformation” for reporting that local Chinese companies—tied to the Chinese Communist Party—had stockpiled and shipped essential medical supplies to China in February.
On April 6, the embassy issued a press release titled “Aussie Media’s Disinformation,” in which it doesn’t dispute the reporting, but defends the purchases saying, “the procurement by the Chinese business was just to help China overcome difficulties.” It then chastises the media for characterizing the “purely humanitarian move” as a scandal.
