A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who warned that if the US banned China's flagship social app, WeChat (similar to Korea's KakaoTalk), warned that China would not use the Apple iPhone, the warning was posted on the iPhone and was criticized by Chinese public opinion.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijen, nicknamed'fighting chicken', said in a regular briefing on the 27th, "If the United States really bans WeChat, we can stop using Apple smartphones." I have."

Spokesman Zhao posted the remarks on his Twitter account at 1 am on the 28th.

However, at the end of this tweet it was marked'Twitter for iPhone'.

It turns out that Zhao is using an iPhone.

Taiwan's central news agency said that Chinese netizens are paying attention to Zhao's use of iPhone.

In fact, spokeswoman Zhao has posted various posts, photos, and videos on Twitter using the iPhone for a long time.

But unfortunately, this time he warned that a boycott of Apple could take place, and his use of Apple's products came to the public's attention anew.

Some Chinese netizens are responding that it is inappropriate for a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to talk about boycotts while using iPhones on their own amid sharp US-China conflict.

One Chinese netizen said, "While asking Chinese people not to use iPhones with their mouths, do they tweet with Apple smartphones?"

This is not the first time that a Chinese public official, who was shouting a hard-line response to the United States, has received public attention for using an iPhone.

In December 2018, when Huawei Vice Chairman Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada at the request of the United States, anti-American sentiment was infested, said Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, on the iPhone, who serves as the ``unofficial spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party''. ), it has been severely criticized by the public.

He had been using an iPhone for nearly 10 years, and after a few months, he eventually switched to a Huawei smartphone that symbolizes'patriotic consumption'.

(Photo = Twitter capture, Yonhap News)