About a week into the war, diplomatic compounds along Beijing's embassy row put up banners or lit their buildings in blue and yellow in support of Ukraine.
But just a day after the Canadian embassy erected a billboard outside its perimeter wall showing solidarity with Ukraine, someone came along and scrawled in large letters the words "Fxxx Nato".
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