Four posts in three minutes (6:15-6:17) — all aimed at one lowly Coast Guard officer. A government confident in its legal position does not flood social media to answer a single spokesperson.
The Embassy wants credit for “free speech both ways.” So let me ask honestly: name one foreign mission in Beijing that could do what you just did. Could any embassy there fire off four public posts in an afternoon attacking Chinese officials by name? Of course not.
Facebook is banned. X is banned. The only space left is Weibo — state-controlled, where foreign embassies’ posts are throttled and deleted within minutes.
