: India-China tensions: PM Modi’s Weibo account goes blank, efforts on to deactivate it, say reports #IndiaNEWS Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s account on Chinese microblogging website Weibo went

India-China tensions: PM Modi’s Weibo account goes blank, efforts on to deactivate it, say reports #IndiaNEWS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s account on Chinese microblogging website Weibo went blank on Wednesday after his photograph, posts and comments were removed from the handle, the Hindustan Times reported. While the newspaper said it could not be ascertained as to when the data was taken down, the disclosure came two days after India blocked 59 apps linked to China.Modi’s Weibo account was set up in 2015, before he visited China for the first time as prime minister. The account had over 2.44 lakh followers, many of them Chinese. Modi’s posts on Weibo were in Mandarin. He used the account to post about China-India relations following meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Indian prime minister also wished Xi on his birthday every year on June 15 via Weibo, except this year.The Indian prime minister had 115 posts on Weibo, NDTV reported quoting unidentified officials. These had to be taken down manually because Weibo uses a complex procedure to delete posts by VIPs. It also does not allow deleting posts with pictures of Xi, which made the task of removing Modi’s posts more difficult.A unidentified official told NDTV that the process to deactivate Modi’s account has been initiated. “For reasons best known to the Chinese, there was a great delay in granting...Read more

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