Russians Get Territorial After Chinese Newspaper Tweets Photos of the Remote Altay Region · Global Voices
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On October 2, the English-language state newspaper China Daily tweeted some beautiful photographs of Altay, a remote region in the northwestern part of the country.
Check out some of the autumn scenery in Altay, a remote and sparsely populated part in NW China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. pic.twitter.com/d3frx7h8cx
— China Daily (@ChinaDailyUSA) 2 октября 2017 г.
China Daily regularly tweets promotional photographs from various Chinese regions, but this time it caused an unexpected backlash from Russian Twitter users who thought China was claiming parts of Russia as its own.
This is Russia
— Pasik Plastikbrains (@mrplastikbrains) 2 октября 2017 г.
