“Spring has come and the flowers are in bloom,” the embassy wrote in a Chinese-language social media post on Wednesday that included a video of a dog trying to jump over a fence. Some Weibo users wrote that the US State Department had deliberately tried to insult Chinese students by likening them to dogs. “In this case, it’s amplifying a misstep,” he added, referring to the embassy’s social media post. The Weibo post on Wednesday by the US Embassy’s consular section announced that student applications had resumed under President Joe Biden’s administration. Some Weibo users said that they were more disappointed than angry, adding that the post was tone deaf rather than deliberately malicious.

Source: bd News24 May 07, 2021 06:45 UTC