China 'confused' About Twitter Locking Embassy's Account

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it was "confused" about Twitter's decision to lock the account of Chinese Embassy in the U.S after it posted content about the situation in China's far western region of Xinjiang.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said she hoped the company could "avoid double standards" and "strengthen the screening" of information on related issues. The Chinese Embassy in Washington posted a tweet earlier this month claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being "baby-making machines."

Twitter took down the tweet following protests by groups that accuse Beijing of seeking to eradicate Uighur culture, saying it violates the company's dehumanization policy. The last tweet of the embassy account was dated on January 9.At her daily news conference, Hua also defended China's construction work in the disputed border area of Arunachal Pradesh with India, saying it was entirely a matter for China to decide.