BEIJING (Reuters) - Many Chinese are venting their frustration at the slowing economy and the weak stock market in an unconventional place: the social media account of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

A post on Friday on protecting wild giraffes by the U.S. embassy on Weibo, a Chinese platform similar to X, has attracted 130,000 comments and 15,000 reposts as of Sunday, many of them unrelated to wildlife conservation.

“Could you spare us some missiles to bomb away the Shanghai Stock Exchange?” one user wrote in an repost of the article.

The Weibo account of the U.S. embassy in China “has become the Wailing Wall of Chinese retail equity investors”, another user wrote.

The U.S. embassy did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

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    10 months ago

    It’s almost like if you respect basic human rights has a positive economic benefit…

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        10 months ago

        we’re talking about the Uyghurs, whom the Chinese have enslaved, but you probably know all about that

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          10 months ago

          Well of course. Just wondering why the double standards when the perpetrators of human rights abuses are white or white passing.

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        10 months ago

        Ironically both. Palestinians don’t believe their neighbors should be allowed to continue living, so they engage in constant warfare. Now their neighbors don’t want to give them free stuff anymore.