Chinese sonar incident leaves Albanese all at sea

"There is a conversation around is it intentional or is it incompetency?" she says. 'Badly handled' Nevertheless, the government's handling of the incident has been bewildering. While confrontations between Australian (and Western) militaries with Chinese forces in the South China Sea and East China Sea are commonplace, this was the first time Australian personnel had been injured (the diver has since recovered). It was hard not to think back to Scott Morrison's angry reaction when a Chinese bureaucrat circulated a doctored image of an Australian soldier slitting an Afghan child's throat. Morrison arguably handed the Chinese a "PR win" by…