BEIJING - Chinese officials are not known to air their views publicly on social media, so when diplomat Zhao Lijian launched a "tweetstorm" this week (July 14-15) on social and political issues in the United States, China watchers took notice.
Mr Zhao, the second-ranking Chinese diplomat in Pakistan, was defending China's treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang, when he criticised the US, pointing to what he called "racial segregation" in the country.
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