Chinese-state media attacks Scott Morrison as a 'clown' in insulting article mocking Australia with new cartoon - and Anthony Albanese doesn't get off lightly either By Peter Vincent For Daily Mail Australia 15 Feb 2022 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...tml?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 Former Australian diplomat ridiculed Australian leaders in a Chinese column Bruce Haigh, 76, continued The Global Times' attacks on PM Scott Morrison He predicted Anthony Albanese to win the election but wasn't complimentary A former Australian diplomat writing for a Chinese government-controlled tabloid has attacked Scott Morrison and said Anthony Albanese 'shines' in comparison. Writing for the Global Times, which has consistently bashed Australia in recent editorials, Bruce Haigh unloaded on the Prime Minister in an extraordinary column that also damned Anthony Albanese with faint praise. The article's main point appeared to be that Australia's leadership was too 'weak' to resist American political pressure and 'reset' its worsening relationship with China. The Global Times, widely understood to be a mouthpiece for the ruling Chinese Communist Party, has run a series of articles in recent years mocking, threatening and raging at Australia and Mr Morrison. A former Australian diplomat writing for a Chinese government-controlled news agency has attacked Scott Morrison as 'a clown' and said Anthony Albanese 'shines' in comparison (pictured, the PM at Morrison at a meeting of Australian, US, India and Japan foreign ministers in February 2022) The Global Times regularly draws inflammatory anti-Australia cartoons and its latest effort was a sleeping Kangaroo being dragged along by an American ship (pictured, the cartoon accompanying Bruce Haigh's column) It consistently berates the Prime Minister as a 'lackey' for the United States and slammed him over the recent AUKUS deal to build nuclear Australian submarines in the US. One of its favoured strategies is using inflammatory, anti-Australian cartoons and images in its latest broadside, with the column including what looked like a sleeping Kangaroo in a rowing boat being towed by an American ship. Mr Haigh described Albanese as 'likely to win the election' but only because Morrison's Liberal-National coalition is 'imploding through corruption' and mismanagement of the pandemic, The Global Times reported. Writing for the Global Times, Bruce Haigh unloaded on the Prime Minister in an extraordinary column that also damned Anthony Albanese with faint praise (pictured, Albanese during question time in February 2022) The columnist said the Federal Labor leader lacks creativity and charisma, and is someone who wouldn't be trusted with planning if he was an army officer. He also said the Labor leader believes the American view of the world 'without analysis', who 'is not a lateral thinker, he is not creative, he will not be a charismatic leader'. 'Nonetheless, in comparison to Morrison, he positively shines, such is the abysmal state of Australian politics,' wrote Mr Haigh, who was posted to South Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in various diplomatic roles between 1972 and 1994.