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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media. Liu Xiaoming (劉曉明), who recently stepped down as China’s ambassador to the UK, is one of the party’s most successful foot soldiers on this evolving online battlefield. He joined Twitter in October 2019, as scores of Chinese diplomats surged onto Twitter and Facebook, which are banned in China. Since then, Liu has deftly elevated his public profile, gaining more than 119,000 followers as he transformed himself into an exemplar of China’s new sharp-edged “wolf warrior” diplomacy, a...
