‘LOL!’: China’s informal, confrontational Twitter diplomacy

by Jing Xuan Teng Chinese diplomacy has found a new voice on Twitter β€” and it’s not entirely diplomatic. The communist government has recently embraced the social media platform β€” despite blocking it within China β€” deploying its foreign ministry and a growing army of diplomats to tout or defend its policies to a global … Continue reading ‘LOL!’: China’s informal, confrontational Twitter diplomacy