Now, this one is awkward.
The official Twitter account of China's envoy in the United Kingdom liked a porn clip and other posts that denounced the country's Communist Party earlier this week, BBC reported.
Not only that, but Ambassador Liu Xiaoming's account also liked two tweets that focused on the government's atrocities against the Uighurs, China's biggest Muslim ethnic group.
Now, China's UK consulate has demanded Twitter to conduct "thorough investigations" and handle the issue seriously. The tweets in question were later unliked by whomever had control of the account. Twitter did not immediately comment on the situation.
In a statement on Wednesday, officials said that "anti-Chinese elements had brutally attacked" the official's Twitter account in a "despicable" manner intended to deceive the people.
But other tweets remained liked by the Chinese ambassador's account before they, too, were reversed. One post included allegations that officials had shown an insincere support and non-intervention to avoid accountability in killing members of the Chinese public.
One tweet that was liked showed a drone-captured video of what looks like a Uighur concentration camp in Xinjiang. Crowds of detainees can be seen on their knees and blindfolded while others are being rounded up and moved onto trains.
China has denied holding huge numbers of Uighurs in camps against their will in the western region of Xinjiang.
The Uighurs, who are mostly Muslim-Turkic ethnicity, regard themselves as culturally close to Central Asian nations. A vast number of them live in Xinjiang, where they number around 11 million.
When BBC showed the video to the Chinese envoy earlier this year, he pleaded ignorance of any misconduct happening in his country.
China's embassy in the UK has asserted that a hacker could be the one who liked the porn clip using the ambassador's account.
Twitter is prohibited in the mainland, but Chinese people have a way of getting around the ban by using VPNs, and a number of political officials from the Communist Party use the American social media service to communicate with people from other parts of the world.
