China 'confused' about Twitter locking embassy's account

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it was "confused" about Twitter's decision to lock the account of Chinese Embassy in the U.S after it posted content about the situation in China's far western region of Xinjiang.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said she hoped the company could "avoid double standards" and "strengthen the screening" of information on related issues. The Chinese Embassy in Washington posted a tweet earlier this month claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being "baby-making machines."

Twitter took down the tweet following protests by groups that accuse Beijing of seeking to eradicate Uighur culture, saying it violates the company's dehumanization policy. The last tweet of the embassy account was dated on January 9.At her daily news conference, Hua also defended China's construction work in the disputed border area of Arunachal Pradesh with India, saying it was entirely a matter for China to decide.

"We have never recognized the so-called Arunachal Pradesh, which was illegally established on Chinese territory," said Hua. China has built a village in Arunachal Pradesh consisting of about 101 homes, four and a half kilometers within Indian territory, NDTV reported on Monday citing satellite images.

The disputed and undemarcated 3,500-kilometer (2,175-mile) border between India and China, referred to as the Line of Actual Control, stretches from the Ladakh region in the west to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh in the east.China also claims all of Arunachal Pradesh as its territory.

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