BEIJING: Chinese Internet users have deluged the microblog of the Russian Embassy in Beijing with thousands of abusive comments within days of its opening, just ahead of a visit to Moscow by China’s new President Xi Jinping. The Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 when its forces finally triumphed in the country’s long civil war, and for a time it was closely allied with its ideological counterpart in the Soviet Union. They later split, but since the collapse of the USSR commercial and political ties between China and Russia have grown, and the two countries now cooperate on a range of issues at the United Nations. “Hello everyone! This is the Russian Embassy! Today, we opened a weibo. We welcome your interest,” the embassy said on Monday as it launched a verified account on Tencent Weibo, a Chinese site similar to Twitter. Its cheerful greeting was not returned. By late yesterday, the site had seen more than 27,000 comments and retweets, the vast majority of them negative.
China web users deluge Russia blog with insults
