Hello and welcome to the details of China’s Weibo blocks hashtag of new Taiwan president’s name and now with the details
Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Chinese social media platform Weibo has blocked a hashtag featuring the name of Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te, a notice on the website showed today. — AFP pic
BEIJING, May 20 — Chinese social media platform Weibo has blocked a hashtag featuring the name of Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te, a notice on the website showed today.
“According to relevant laws, regulations, and policies, the content of this topic has not been displayed,” a search for the hashtag #LaiChing-te on the X-like Weibo showed around 10.40am.
It wasn’t immediately clear when the hashtag was blocked, and search results for Lai’s name still yielded results.
A hashtag bearing the name of outgoing Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen was also blocked.
Advertisement
And another, “Taiwan 520 new authorities take office”, was removed.
Weibo often blocks hashtags deemed politically sensitive to prevent them from trending on the platform, used by hundreds of millions in China.
During Taiwan’s presidential election in January, the platform blocked a hashtag on the poll after it became one of the site’s top-trending topics.
Advertisement
Lai — denounced by Beijing as a “dangerous separatist” — was sworn in today as president of the democratic island.
But there has been scant mention of his inauguration in China’s state-run media, with neither state broadcaster CCTV nor ruling party organ People’s Daily featuring coverage on their home pages as of 11am Monday. — AFP
These were the details of the news China’s Weibo blocks hashtag of new Taiwan president’s name for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
