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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, on November 17, 2020. [Issei Kato, Reuters]
Australia’s prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese official’s Twitter account was “truly repugnant” and Canberra was demanding it be taken down, amid deteriorating relations between the two countries.
Scott Morrison called a media briefing to condemn the posting of the image, which depicted an Australian soldier holding a knife to the throat of an Afghan child, and said Canberra was seeking an apology from Beijing.
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