Chinese Embassy Says Ambassador’s Twitter Account Hacked After Foot Fetish Porn Retweet

China’s embassy in Britain is urging Twitter to launch an investigation into how ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming’s official Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday. 

An embassy statement said of his verified Twitter account that “anti-China elements” launched a “vicious” hack in order to embarrass the ambassador and the embassy.

Earlier in the morning Ambassador Xiaoming appeared to retweet a bizarre ‘foot fetish’ pornographic video:

The Chinese embassy in Britain issued the following official statement: 

“Recently, some anti-China elements viciously attacked Ambassador Liu Xiaoming’s Twitter account and employed despicable methods to deceive the public,” according to a spokesperson.

The retweet was soon taken down after the Chinese government apparently regained access to the official account.

The ambassador’s next tweet cast the alleged hackers’ actions as “despicable” and “abominable behavior”:

The strange incident is reminiscent of the awkward 2017 case of Ted Cruz’s verified account ‘liking’ a porn video, which Cruz subsequently blamed on a staff member. 

China’s ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming, via AFP.

The like had remained for nearly an hour before being undone by Cruz’s team in the middle of the night, but not before making national news, a “mistake” which Cruz said would be dealt with internally.