{"id":4552,"date":"2021-02-27T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2021-02-27T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:56:55","slug":"how-chinas-wolf-warrior-diplomats-use-twitter-to-troll-beijings-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4552","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomats use Twitter to troll Beijing\u2019s enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;China has a new weapon in its global information warfare arsenal: \u201cwolf warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Named after a popular Chinese nationalistic film franchise, \u201cwolf warriors\u201d are official government diplomats whose duties go beyond the traditional diplomatic functions of closed-door negotiating and hosting fancy embassy soirees \u2014 and into the cutthroat world of Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Armed with 280 characters and access to a platform that has millions of users worldwide but is blocked for most people in China, they fiercely defend China against its foreign critics, ruthlessly taunt countries and leaders who have displeased the Chinese government, and shamelessly spread misinformation that serves Beijing\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, they\u2019re professional diplomatic trolls.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22167626\/china-wolf-warrior-twitter-online-interview\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22167626\/china-wolf-warrior-twitter-online-interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;China has a new weapon in its global information warfare arsenal: \u201cwolf warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Named after a popular Chinese nationalistic film franchise, \u201cwolf warriors\u201d are official government diplomats whose duties go beyond the traditional diplomatic functions of closed-door negotiating and hosting fancy embassy soirees \u2014 and into the cutthroat world of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with 280 characters and access to a platform that has millions of users worldwide but is blocked for most people in China, they fiercely defend China against its foreign critics, ruthlessly taunt countries and leaders who have displeased the Chinese government, and shamelessly spread misinformation that serves Beijing\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, they\u2019re professional diplomatic trolls.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,327],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}