Fake… Pathetic… Losers… Liars… All in a Single Raging Chinese Diplomatic Tweet

The Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe has proved yet again how easy it is to provoke them into a furious froth on Twitter.

The embassy took aim at well-known Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono who re-tweeted a truly mediocre article by the Economic Times in India. The article was so poorly written it largely went unnoticed — until, of course, the embassy drew even more attention to it with its hissy fit.

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