Australian PM seeks apology after ‘repugnant’ tweet by Chinese official

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File)

A tweet from a Chinese official with a fake image of an Australian soldier appearing to slit a child’s throat is “truly repugnant”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

The graphic image was posted on Monday by Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry and shows a grinning soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of a veiled child, who is holding a lamb.