China fires back at Morrison, doubles down on war crimes accusation

By Eryk Bagshaw and Anthony Galloway

Updated November 30, 2020 — 6.53pm

China's Foreign Ministry has said Australia should be ashamed of its war crimes in Afghanistan, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison demanded an apology over an inflammatory social media post from an official Chinese account.

Twitter was on Monday scrambling to assess whether a doctored image shared by a deputy director in China's Foreign Ministry had violated its terms of service after Mr Morrison called a press conference to demand the post be taken down, labelling it "repugnant" and "trulyy offensive".

The image purported to show a special forces soldier slitting the throat of an Afghan child with its head wrapped in an Australian flag as it cradled a lamb.

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