Chinese embassy says Australia 'misread' offending social media post

China's embassy in Australia said politicians there had "misread" a tweet showing a digitally altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child and were trying to stoke nationalism.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called the tweet posted by China's foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, "truly repugnant", and called for an apology...