Chinese Embassy’s Twitter account suspended

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The Twitter account of the Chinese Embassy in Colombo, @ChinaEmbSL, has been suspended by the social media platform.

The account which was created not so long ago, notably tweeted about the donation of COVID-19 test kits to Sri Lanka by the Alibaba Foundation as well as the lighting of the Lotus Tower in tribute to COVID-19 frontline workers, among others. It was also reported that the embassy has responded to some criticisms made by twitterati on some of its posts and the reply of the embassy has been termed as somewhat harsh.

When contacted over the suspension of the Twitter handle, a spokesperson of the Embassy said they have not yet been informed of the reason to suspend the account. The spokesperson said Twitter has resorted to double standards when suspending their account and that they have already applied to have its suspension lifted.

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Zahir Moulana Monday, 13 April 2020 08:05 PM

Please American Technology suspend China from all sort of platform. Google, YouTube, and Ect. Forgot and from $ Trade.

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Anmanpan Monday, 13 April 2020 08:10 PM

No nonsense.

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harsha sk Monday, 13 April 2020 08:47 PM

Chinese have their Xinhua and The People's Daily!

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Tuan Monday, 13 April 2020 09:13 PM

Dont lend any loans to these bankrupt Politicians.

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Truth Monday, 13 April 2020 09:16 PM

Good move

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Tharaka Monday, 13 April 2020 09:20 PM

Glad to see the back of the Chinese, poor countries like Srilanka are being exploited by Chinese, we should not allow these scum to come to Srilanka. China is not a friend, but a communist opportunist.

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Ahamed Rikaz Monday, 13 April 2020 10:19 PM

Lol Moulana already the chinese blocked the americans long time ago

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George Harry Tuesday, 14 April 2020 12:19 PM

Chinese were right to surfing the web using their own WEB BROWSER rejecting GOOGLE. The US always on China practices BIAS.

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Sando Tuesday, 14 April 2020 12:33 PM

China must be made to write off all loans given to Sri Lanka and the World.

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MSD Tuesday, 14 April 2020 12:44 PM

This is good news. The days are going to be numbered for the Chinese Communist Party.

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Aquarius Tuesday, 14 April 2020 12:58 PM

We, in Sri Lanka are very quick to have a go at the British for exploiting Sri Lanka, but the Chinese have done and are continuing to do a far worse situation by keeping the country in debt forever.

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L de Silva Tuesday, 14 April 2020 02:11 PM

@ Tharaka, that's rubbish! Blaming another nation for one's own corrupt politicos? Where's the logic in that? Firstly, take a good look at the politicos you help to elect and then point fingers at others. If it weren't for the ingrained immorality and corruption of the said politicos, we would not be in this mess right now. I suppose people like you on the other hand would rather be exploited by the West instead is it? Opportunist Maggots of Imperialism that continue to pray at the alter of the White Invaders.

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Markibm Wednesday, 15 April 2020 08:37 PM

This looks like a systematic modern colonization saga where China is in the lead and the Super powers and our neighbors are upset and trying to use the social media and other global issues as their weapon to penetrate in to.

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