{"id":257690,"date":"2022-08-22T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257690"},"modified":"2022-08-24T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T07:20:00","slug":"prominent-chinese-diplomat-suggests-us-carried-out-9-11-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257690","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Chinese diplomat suggests US carried out 9\/11 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brady Knox \u2013 Washington Examiner Aug 17, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\">Chinese<\/a> diplomat appeared to suggest that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-states\">United States<\/a> carried out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/9-11\">9\/11<\/a> terrorist attacks in a tweet on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian shared a &#8220;What people think I do&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/what-people-think-i-do-what-i-really-do\">meme<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> featuring various scenes of destruction from U.S. wars in Japan, Korea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vietnam-war\">Vietnam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iraq-war\">Iraq<\/a>, Pakistan, the former Yugoslavia, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war-in-afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>. A corresponding caption alleges that the scene is what each country thinks the U.S. does. However, in the slot for &#8220;What I actually do,&#8221; an image of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers is shown, suggesting that the U.S. itself carried out the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone needs a clear understanding of himself. So does a nation,&#8221; Zhao captioned the image.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Everyone needs a clear understanding of himself.<br \/>So does a nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDrur19hhg\">pic.twitter.com\/mDrur19hhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lijian Zhao \u8d75\u7acb\u575a (@zlj517) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zlj517\/status\/1559530185686675457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Embassy did not respond to requests asking what the Chinese position is toward possible U.S. government involvement in the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao is one of the main proponents of what is known as &#8220;wolf warrior diplomacy,&#8221; referring to a &#8220;jingoistic Chinese film franchise,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/techstream\/how-chinas-wolf-warrior-diplomats-use-and-abuse-twitter\/\">according to<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/brookings-institute\">Brookings Institution<\/a>. This style of diplomacy features aggressive and controversial rhetoric from Chinese diplomats, frequently utilizing conspiracy theories to place blame on and troll Western governments.<\/p>\n<p>These diplomats make especially effective use of Twitter, Zhao&#8217;s main outlet. The Brookings Institution documented this sudden shift as starting in 2020. Previously, China&#8217;s use of the social media platform was limited to a few isolated embassies. By the end of 2020, however, the Chinese presence on Twitter had quadrupled, with 170 different Chinese diplomats frequently bickering with Western governments, particularly regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/coronavirus\">COVID-19<\/a>, foreign policy, and race relations.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao&#8217;s Twitter feed is filled with accusations of U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zlj517\/status\/1559195340829442048?s=20&amp;t=cfIjXFnmEU9f7SpO-o4R3A\">war crimes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zlj517\/status\/1559530276077707264?s=20&amp;t=cfIjXFnmEU9f7SpO-o4R3A\">abuses<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1333376918675202048?s=20&amp;t=cfIjXFnmEU9f7SpO-o4R3A\">conspiracy theories<\/a> revolving around Western governments and allies, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zlj517\/status\/1559530418105245696?s=20&amp;t=cfIjXFnmEU9f7SpO-o4R3A\">support<\/a> for Russia, frequent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/globaltimesnews\/status\/1558989365082091520?s=20&amp;t=cfIjXFnmEU9f7SpO-o4R3A\">criticism<\/a> of Japan, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zlj517\/status\/1559194746291392512?s=20&amp;t=cfIjXFnmEU9f7SpO-o4R3A\">denunciations<\/a> of Taiwanese sovereignty. The top diplomat has gotten into several previous high-profile squabbles with U.S. officials, such as an incident in 2019 in which former national security adviser Susan Rice called him a &#8220;racist disgrace&#8221; in response to tweets talking about race relations in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/15\/politics\/susan-rice-chinese-diplomat-tweets\">according to<\/a> CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Chinese diplomats&#8217; proficient use of Twitter, the social media outlet is banned in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/prominent-chinese-diplomat-suggest-united-states-9-11-attacks\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Chinese diplomat says what many have long thought <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":257692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-September_11"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257693,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257690\/revisions\/257693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}