BEIJING ¨C Tweets from Chinese diplomats abroad, including seasoned Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai, have opened a fresh front in Beijing¡¯s increasingly assertive approach to diplomacy and propaganda and may be a sign of things to come.
Cui sent his first tweets just last week from his newly opened Twitter account, including one about Taiwan, the self-ruled and democratic island China claims as its own, garnering thousands of comments.
¡°#Taiwan is part of #China. No attempts to split China will ever succeed. Those who play with fire will only get themselves burned. Period,¡± Cui tweeted, after China threatened sanctions on U.S. firms selling weapons to Taiwan.
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