BEIJING (Reuters) - Many Chinese are venting their frustration at the slowing economy and the weak stock market in an unconventional place: the social media account of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

A post on Friday on protecting wild giraffes by the U.S. embassy on Weibo, a Chinese platform similar to X, has attracted 130,000 comments and 15,000 reposts as of Sunday, many of them unrelated to wildlife conservation.

“Could you spare us some missiles to bomb away the Shanghai Stock Exchange?” one user wrote in an repost of the article.

The Weibo account of the U.S. embassy in China “has become the Wailing Wall of Chinese retail equity investors”, another user wrote.

The U.S. embassy did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

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    10 months ago

    Don’t forget, the US has implemented some strong sanctions against China including restrictions on trade.

    Imagine competing in a race but you have your friends holding back your competitor.

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      10 months ago

      Sure, and China certainly has no restrictions on businesses from other other countries. No sirree. None. They’re also renowned for their non-interventionist, market-based solutions that certainly don’t favor Chinese interests.

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      10 months ago

      America may be one of major assholes for trade wars, sanctions etc, but China are on whole different level. They have godlike amount of hypocrisy and being complete ass to everyone with their protectionism policies.

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      10 months ago

      More like imagine competing in counterstrike and complaining about hacks because you got sniped. China does the same shit, they’re just not as good at it. All hat, no cattle.

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      10 months ago

      It’s almost like if you respect basic human rights has a positive economic benefit…

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          10 months ago

          Ironically both. Palestinians don’t believe their neighbors should be allowed to continue living, so they engage in constant warfare. Now their neighbors don’t want to give them free stuff anymore.