Chinese stock investors vent ire on US Embassy Weibo account

The embassy said Monday its Sina Weibo account received more than 10,000 comments about the Chinese stock market

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Last Updated : Feb 13 2018 | 12:23 AM IST

Chinese investors flooded a social media account of the US embassy in Beijing with complaints about stock losses after the country’s equities suffered their steepest weekly plunge in two years.

The embassy said Monday its Sina Weibo account received more than 10,000 comments about the Chinese stock market. It deleted several comments that violated its terms of use, but didn’t turn off the comments section for any post, the embassy said in a statement.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission had prevented people from remarking on its own Weibo account last week. Some of the most popular comments contained expletives directed at Liu

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