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Australia Condemns Lurid Tweet by Chinese Official as ‘Disgusting Slur’. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday that the Twitter post by China was a "slur" to anyone who has served in the Australian armed forces. Australia and China are caught in a fresh diplomatic row over an inflammatory social media post that has sent tensions with Beijing to a new front. It is deeply offensive to every Australian, every Australian who has served in that uniform. "I would hope this rather awful event hopefully may lead to the type of reset where this type of dialogue can be restarted," he said, adding, "You don't engage in in disinformation and the ugliness that we've seen in this post of the Chinese government Twitter account today.". Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded an apology from the Chinese government. His latest Twitter post, though, set a new bar for China’s long-running flouting of diplomatic niceties, foreign policy experts said. March 6 (UPI) -- Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, joined other world leaders in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine Saturday. The tweet remains live despite requests from the Australian Government for Twitter to remove the image. The post had a warning tag on it on Tuesday but could still be viewed. The repugnant post made today of an image, a falsified image, of an Australian soldier threatening a young child with a knife. China has reacted particularly sharply to cartoons and other images that distort national symbols such as its flag, though the image in Mr. Zhao’s tweet shows the Australian flag being used to restrain the child. This month, Chinese officials responded by leaking a document to the news media in Australia that accused the country of “poisoning bilateral relations.” It listed a set of grievances that included Australia’s decision to fund what it called “anti-China” research, as well as to ban the technology company Huawei. Photo by Lukas Coch/EPA-EFE, Google celebrates International Women's Day with new Doodle. It diminishes them in the world’s eyes. "It is utterly outrageous and it cannot be justified on any basis whatsoever.". “The Australian side is reacting so strongly to my colleague’s tweet. Does this mean they think the cruel killing of Afghan lives is justified?” Ms. Hua said. Morrison said the government had reached out to the Chinese government and contacted Twitter to have the post removed. Relations between the two countries have been fraying as Canberra has repeatedly sided against Beijing in the last year concerning its human rights abuses, the widely condemned national security law it imposed on Hong Kong and the coronavirus pandemic. The picture, with the caption “peaceful troops” and an emoticon of a skeptical face, received 20,000 likes. China, on the other hand, has long stopped inquiries into the crackdown on the Tiananmen protest movement in 1989, when hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators were killed by Chinese troops in Beijing. The image, which depicts a soldier holding a bloody knife to the throat of a hooded child clutching a lamb, was apparently first posted on Nov. 23 by a user of the Chinese social media platform Weibo. Australia has protested to the Chinese embassy in Canberra, and a protest is also being made by Australia’s embassy in Beijing. March 7 (UPI) -- The pandemic is diminishing in Britain, including an increase of 82 deaths Sunday, after a peak of more than 1,800 two months ago with restrictions to be reduced and vaccinations ramped up, much like elsewhere in Europe. “Afghan lives matter,” she added. WARNING: This story contains graphic content that some readers may find upsetting. Australia demands China apology over ‘repugnant’ Twitter post A post made on an official Chinese government Twitter account posted by the deputy director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Lijian Zhao, is truly repugnant.