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Weibo, China’s biggest social media network, on Tuesday saw an outpouring of anti-US vitriol ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan.
Users sent a trending topic regarding Pelosi skyrocketing to the top of the platform’s search charts on Tuesday morning.
The topic hashtag, labeled “Blinken says Pelosi could visit Taiwan,” hit the top of Weibo’s hot search chart at around 10 a.m. local time, garnering over 600 million views within six hours.
Found under that hashtag and others related to Pelosi were tens of thousands of comments attacking the lawmaker or alluding to the possibility of a devastating war between the US and China.
“America and the West have looted, plundered, and colonized, and there is no concept of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith in their culture,” read one viral Weibo comment on the topic that got over 17,000 likes.
Other comments alluded to the start of a hot war over Taiwan, with one Weibo user even speculating about China’s occupation of Washington, DC, following a war between America and China.
“This is obviously a provocation by the US,” read another comment that was liked close to 5,000 times.
The commenter went on to state that the “eastern theater is ready for battle,” adding that Chinese fighter jets would “fly directly in Taiwan” if the visit took place.
