Backing Australia, US says China hit 'new low' with doctored image

The United States has called China's use of a digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier a "new low", weighing in on the dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the tweet.

China has rebuffed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's calls for an apology after its Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian (photo, above) posted the picture of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child on Monday...