US State Dept says China hit ‘new low’ with doctored image of Australian soldier

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The United States has called China’s use of a digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier a “new low,” after Beijing rebuffed Canberra’s calls for an apology. The fabricated image is the latest attack by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Australia and “another example of its unchecked use of disinformation and coercive diplomacy,” the US State Department said on Wednesday. “This is a new low, even for the Chinese Communist Party,” deputy spokesman Cale Brown said, backing Washington’s Australian partners. The CCP’s “hypocrisy is obvious to all,” the State Department’s spokesman said. “While it doctors images on Twitter to...