China's tweeting diplomats open fresh front in propaganda fight

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Tweets from Chinese diplomats abroad, including seasoned ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai, have opened a fresh front in Beijing's ...

. No attempts to split China will ever succeed. Those who play with fire will only get themselves burned. Period.And over the weekend, a series of tweets defending China's policies in the far western region of Xinjiang by diplomat Zhao Lijian, the number two at the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, lambasted the United States for its own human rights problems and what he described as hypocrisy.

Twitter is blocked in China and the diplomats' messages were in English and aimed at a foreign audience. He criticised the United States for its poor treatment of Muslims in places like Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay, where al Qaeda fighters are held. He also tweeted a link to a Washington Post story about racial segregation in the capital and then proceeded to write a string of tweets about US gun violence, hate crimes and violence against women.

"I have doubts on how effective it could be to create a better international environment for China either to grow or to lead, as the government has been saying, to peacefully engage with the world," she added. "To label someone who speak the truth that you don't want to hear a racist, is disgraceful & disgusting," he wrote.

 

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