The Chinese embassy in the UK has called on Twitter to investigate after its ambassador's official account appeared to 'like' a pornographic post. 9News
"The Embassy has reported this to [Twitter] and urged the latter to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously. The Embassy reserves the right to take further actions and hope that the public will not believe or spread such a rumour."Liu himself retweeted the statement from the Chinese embassy, adding cryptically that "a good anvil does not fear the hammer."
A spokeswoman for Twitter told CNN Business that there was nothing for them to comment on at present.Twitter is one of several US-based social media platforms that are blocked in China, along with Facebook and Instagram. Despite this, Chinese diplomats have increasingly been using Twitter to promote Beijing's interests around the world.
Liu was appointed China's ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2009. An outspoken defender of China in the media and online, he has been a keen adopter of Beijing's new breed of "wolf warrior" diplomacy, which encourages a rapid and aggressive response to any perceived slights against the Chinese government.ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G network
, for example, Liu said at a news conference that "the way you are treating Huawei will be followed very closely by other Chinese businesses." And while speaking to the BBC that month, Liu denied accusations of human rights abuses in China's far western Xinjiang region, including the mass incarceration of minority Muslim citizens, saying that the Chinese government treated "every ethnic group as equal."
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