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SYDNEY: Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used Chinese social media platform WeChat to criticise a "false image" of an Australian soldier posted on Twitter by the Chinese government. China has rebuffed Morrison's calls for an apology after its foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted the digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child on Monday (Dec 30). Advertisement Advertisement China's embassy said the "rage and roar" from Australian politicians and media over the image was an overreaction. In a WeChat message on Tuesday night, Morrison wrote that the diplomatic...