China Partly Censors U.S. Embassy Statement on Trade Truce

Screenshots of WeChat posts by the U.S. Embassy in China with sharing buttons disabled on one post.Photographer: James Mayger/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

A social media post by the U.S. embassy in Beijing about the trade agreement between the two nations was being partially censored on Monday, with the WeChat article visible but blocked from forwarding or sharing.

Separate posts on the death of former President George H. W. Bush weren’t similarly affected and could be shared. The embassy WeChat posts about the outcome of the talks, which postponed the imposition of higher tariffs on Chinese goods by at least 90 days, were in English and Chinese.