Australian fury at China foreign ministry tweet of doctored war crime


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Controversial spokesman Zhao Lijian draws furious response from Canberra over ‘falsified and outrageous’ Twitter post Exchange follows Brereton report findings of 39 unlawful killings by Australia’s troops in Afghanistan Controversial spokesman Zhao Lijian draws furious response from Canberra over ‘falsified and outrageous’ Twitter post. Australia on Monday demanded the Chinese Foreign Ministry remove a tweet showing an altered image purporting to show an Australian soldier murdering a child in an intensified feud between the two countries. In a press conference shortly after the tweet was posted by Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison...