The Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom has alleged that Ambassador Liu Xiaoming’s Twitter account has been hacked, and has called for an investigation of the American social media Twitter account.
The Chinese Embassy said in a statement on its official website on Sept. 9, “Recently, some anti-Chinese elements have maliciously attacked Ambassador Liu Xiaoming’s Twitter account through the Internet, spoofing it and using despicable methods.”
Chinese Embassy in UK asks Twitter to investigate yellow video incident
The statement called for a “serious investigation and serious handling” by Twitter and “reserved the right to take further action.
The statement refers to the hacking attack that planted a pornographic video in the “Like” section of Liu Xiaoming’s Twitter account on Wednesday, a screenshot of which went viral on Twitter and was retweeted with the message “Ambassador Liu Xiaoming also likes pornography. Words. The pornographic video remained on Liu Xiaoming’s account for about an hour before it was deleted.
A statement from the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom called it a “malicious” act by “anti-Chinese elements”.
Although the Chinese Embassy has reported the incident to Twitter, it has not yet heard or seen any comment from Twitter on the matter.
Diplomats Called “War Wolf” by Netizens
Liu Xiaoming is a very active Chinese Communist Party diplomat, giving frequent interviews to the British media and often publishing articles in the British press. Netizens classify him as a “war wolf” diplomat because of his bold and brutal remarks.
In July this year, a video of Liu Xiaoming’s interview with the British BBC went viral on Twitter. In the video, when the host showed him a video of a prisoner transfer in a concentration camp in Xinjiang, Liu was reluctant to confirm the authenticity of the video, and asked the host, “Have you ever been to Xinjiang?” as a matter of course. He then goes on to talk about how beautiful Xinjiang is. The moderator cut him off and said, “What this video shows is not beautiful at all.”
Liu’s response was reminiscent of the part where Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi rebutted a Canadian journalist’s question about the human rights situation in China.
Wang Yi said, “Do you know China? Have you ever been to China? Did you know that China has lifted more than 600 million people out of poverty from the face of one poor man to another? Did you know that China is now the second largest economy in the world with $8,000 per capita? Would China have been able to develop so much if we had not protected human rights so well? Did you know that China has included the protection of human rights in our constitution? The one who knows the most about the human rights situation in China is not you, but the Chinese themselves. You don’t have the right to speak, but China does.” Wang Yi’s statement is considered a classic question-and-answer session by the “Wolf” diplomat.
Wang Yi’s statement is considered a classic question-and-answer model of the “Wolf” diplomat. It is characterized by its illogical and rude attitude.
Twitter is the new battlefield where “War Wolf” is active.
Founded in 2006, Twitter is one of the most popular social media in the world with 330 million daily active users worldwide.
The Chinese government has banned Twitter from entering China, but has encouraged Chinese diplomats to open accounts on Twitter to carry out major outreach missions. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, Zhao Lijian, and Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin are among the “daily active users” of Twitter. They tweet almost every day, sometimes several times a day, either praising the Chinese government or criticizing U.S. hegemony and making negative comments about U.S. domestic affairs.
In June of this year, Twitter canceled 170,000 accounts, most of which were official Chinese propaganda accounts. More recently, Twitter required all accounts of Chinese government agencies, government officials, and Chinese media to be marked with the words “government-affiliated organizations” to distinguish them from regular users.
Liu Xiaoming has 85,000 followers on Twitter. His account is dominated by messages from Chinese official media praising China’s achievements in fighting epidemics and, in part, refuting reports from Chinese human rights organizations about human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
Liu’s account shows that he only follows 14 Twitter accounts, mainly those of the Chinese official media or the Chinese and British governments, as well as the British royal family.
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