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Jun 6 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
🧵 How did foreign embassies/consulates in China & Hong Kong commemorate this year's #June4th #六四 #TiananmenSquareMassacre anniversary on social media?

These are only the examples we've come across. If we've missed any, please @ me.
First up, the Canadian Embassy in Beijing posted a picture of a candle on Weibo.

Helpfully, they cross-posted to Twitter & noted that it had been censored.

The German Embassy in Beijing posted a picture of a candle on WeChat, according to @YaxueCao

It was censored very quickly, apparently.

The British Embassy posted this article: 'Why is the Peterloo Massacre remembered in Britain?'

WeChat stopped users from being able to:

♢ copy the link
♢ send to chat
♢ share on Moments
♢ add to favs
♢ open in WeRead
♢ open in browser
♢ email it

archive.ph/lgRga
In Hong Kong, China's foreign ministry office sent warnings to a list of consulates "not to tweet/retweet or publicly say something about June 4," as one European diplomat told SCMP.

scmp.com/news/hong-kong… scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
Despite the warning, @EUinHKandMO posted this to Twitter & Facebook.



facebook.com/EUOfficeHongKo…
The Australian consulate posted this on Facebook.

facebook.com/AustraliaInHKM…
The Canadian consulate in Hong Kong posted this to Facbeook.

facebook.com/CanadainHKandM…
The US consulate in Hong Kong posted this:

facebook.com/USAinHKMacau/p…
The Polish consulate in Hong Kong posted this brilliant troll to Facebook.

facebook.com/PLinHongkong/p…
June 4th also happens to be a day of celebration for democracy in Poland, so they posted this to Facebook too.

facebook.com/PLinHongkong/p…
& they also forwarded the EU's post.

facebook.com/PLinHongkong/p…
In my 2018 paper on Weibo diplomacy & censorship, I recommended that embassies publish transparency reports about how much they're being censored by Beijing.

Since we're still waiting on that, we still have to do it manually.
If you have more examples, @ me & I'll add them to this thread.
The Swiss embassy posted this to Weibo and was censored according to @martinaldro

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May 27
Can't quite believe I'm saying this but you have to read this article by Tom Fowdy
chollima.org/a-pillar-of-li…
Chinese version: '三年调查，现曝光昏庸无能，欺上瞒下的CGTN编辑对其下属进行监控的行为'

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His Weibo post linking to the article has already been censored.

m.weibo.cn/status/4773678… archive.ph/9C8Zb
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Apr 28
State media outlet The Paper just published an analysis of the #TheGreatTranslationMovement #大翻译运动 Twitter campaign.

Here are some of the top takeaways. 🧵
TLDR: Chinese state media ran an analysis on accounts that have been interacting with @TGTM_Official between March & April.

They conclude that it has failed to break out of an anti-CCP Chinese-speaking echo chamber & has little influence.
They acknowledge that it is a decentralized movement, but through their analysis have identified the most active accounts in the campaign.

This includes jumping into non-official Telegram groups to monitor the conversations taking place in them.
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Dec 14, 2021
Thrilled to launch 'Borrowing mouths to speak on Xinjiang', a new @ASPI_ICPC paper I co-authored with @arielbogle, @Nrg8000, @AlbertYZhang & @DariImpio!

aspi.org.au/report/borrowi… 🎨 by the brilliant @badiucao

Here are some of the key findings 🧵👇
The report explores how the CCP uses foreign social media influencers to shape & push messages domestically & internationally about Xinjiang that are aligned with its own preferred narratives.
This ~seemingly~ new strategy is being deployed on YouTube/FB/Twitter & even in Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefings.

E.g., in March 2021, Hu Chunhua played a video by British vlogger Barrie Jones criticising foreign media coverage of Xinjiang at a MOFA briefing.
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