Allies in solidarity against fake Twitter post

China has refused to back down after its foreign ministry posted a fake image to Twitter of an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child, in reference to the Brereton Report into alleged war crimes. Prime Minister Scott Morrison reached out to Chinese-Australians with a message in Mandarin posted to WeChat, to pre-emptively ease any tensions with the local community.

US State Department deputy spokesman Cale Brown said the image as “a new…



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