Chen Weihua

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Chen Weihua
Chen in 2023
BornNovember 1963 (age 61)[1]
Shanghai, China[2]
NationalityChinese
Alma materFudan University
EmployerChina Daily
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese陈卫华
Traditional Chinese陳衛華
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChén Wèihuá

Chen Weihua (Chinese: 陈卫华) is a Chinese journalist, currently serving as EU bureau chief of China Daily, an English-language newspaper owned by the Chinese Communist Party.[3][4][5][6] Chen has previously served as a columnist, chief Washington correspondent, and deputy editor of the U.S. edition of China Daily.[7][8][9]

Education

Chen is a graduate of Fudan University, where he studied international journalism and microbiology.[8] After graduating, Chen has held fellowships at the University of Hawai'i and Macalester College, as well as a John S. Knight journalism fellowship at Stanford University from 2004 until 2005.[8][10][11]

Career

Chen began his journalism career at China Daily in 1987.[8] His writing focuses on U.S. politics and U.S.-China relations.[12][13]

In 2005, while a journalism fellow at Stanford University, Chen served as the deputy editor-in-chief of the Shanghai Star and the deputy Shanghai bureau chief of China Daily. Since then, Chen has served as a columnist and chief Washington correspondent for China Daily[14][11] and the deputy editor for China Daily USA.[8] He has appeared on China Central Television, ABC News, NPR and KQED.[11] As of 2020, Chen serves as the EU bureau chief of China Daily.[4][5][15] According to the editorial board of The Jerusalem Post, he has remained a popular columnist at China Daily.[16]

Chen Weihua （陈卫华）
@chenweihua
 Twitter logo, a stylized blue bird

Replying to @MarshaBlackburn

Bitch

3 December 2020

Chen has used Twitter to criticize politicians and public figures who are critical of the Chinese government.[17][18][19][20][21][22] The Globe and Mail reports that Chen's tweets are consistent with the tone of wolf warrior diplomacy.[23] Chen has defended his tweets publicly, writing in China Daily that: "[i]f ... despicable words, deeds and conspiracies do not trigger the strongest response from Chinese diplomats, then they are not doing their job."[24]

Chen's Twitter account was briefly suspended in 2019 for what Twitter described as "inciting violence" towards protestors in Hong Kong, after writing that the protestors would have been shot by police if they were in the United States.[23] In December 2020, Chen engaged in a Twitter argument with American politician Marsha Blackburn after she labeled China as a nation with a "5,000 year history of cheating and stealing." Chen responded with several tweets, including one solely stating "Bitch" and another labeling Blackburn as the "most racist and ignorant US Senator" he has seen and a "lifetime bitch".[25][26]

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chen repeated Russian claims disputing the veracity of the Bucha massacre.[27]

References

  1. ^ "陈卫华事迹材料". 中国记协网. Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. ^ Chen, Weihua [@chenweihua] (10 July 2023). "Indeed, just this simple topic shows China's rich culture and history. And most foreigners are not aware of. For example, the concept of ancestral hometown, 祖籍。I was born and raised in Shanghai but my ancestral hometown from Fujian. Complicated and confusing sometime😂" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ Weihua, Chen (19 November 2020). "Acting tough on China will get US nowhere". China Daily. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b Vanderklippe, Nathan (22 June 2020). "Huawei's Meng far more valuable than Canada's Kovrig and Spavor, Chinese journalist says". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b Baker, Luke; Emmott, Robin (14 May 2020). "As China pushes back on virus, Europe wakes to 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy". Reuters. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  6. ^ Everington, Keoni (11 November 2020). "China Daily EU chief drops F-bomb in Twitter exchange with German minister". Taiwan News. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  7. ^ Meyers, Jessica (23 August 2020). "China denounces U.S. sanctions on North Korea trade". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Chen Weihua: China Daily and Global Communication". Shanghai International Studies University. 2017. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  9. ^ Polus, Sarah (3 December 2020). "GOP senator gets into nasty Twitter spat with Chinese journalist". The Hill. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Class of 2005". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  11. ^ a b c "Chen Weihua". ChinaFile. 5 April 2021. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  12. ^ "Commentaries by Chen Weihua". China US Focus. China–United States Exchange Foundation. 2021. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Chen Weihua". China Daily. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  14. ^ Peralta, Eyder (17 August 2011). "Ambassador Locke Picks Up His Own Coffee, Gains 'Hero' Status Among Chinese". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  15. ^ Jiangtao, Shi (5 December 2020). "2020 in a nutshell? Chinese state media journalist responds to US senator's racist tweet with sexist insult". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  16. ^ "China has proven to be a bad actor. We owe them nothing". The Jerusalem Post. 19 August 2020. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  17. ^ Chappell, Bill (19 January 2021). "Pompeo Accuses China Of Genocide Against Muslim Uighurs In Xinjiang". NPR. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Chinese state media compares pro-Trump rioters to Hong Kong: "Learning from you guys"". Newsweek. 6 January 2021. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  19. ^ Nakamura, David. "As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic values". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 1 August 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  20. ^ Beach, Sophie (7 December 2019). "Chinese Diplomats Take Their "Fighting Spirit" to Twitter, with Mixed Results". China Digital Times. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  21. ^ "China Daily EU chief drops F-bomb in Twitter exchange with German minister". Taiwan News. 11 November 2020. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  22. ^ Kwan, Rhoda (19 October 2020). "Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins campaign to release Hong Kong fugitives detained in China". Hong Kong Free Press.
  23. ^ a b Vanderklippe, Nathan (22 July 2020). "Huawei's Meng far more valuable than Canada's Kovrig and Spavor, Chinese journalist says". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  24. ^ 宋婧祎. "If China's diplomats are 'wolf warriors', what is Pompeo?". China Daily. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  25. ^ Polus, Sarah (3 December 2020). "GOP senator gets into nasty Twitter spat with Chinese journalist". The Hill. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  26. ^ "Tennessee senator slurs China for cheating and stealing, and top Chinese journalist calls her a 'lifetime b----'". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  27. ^ Mozur, Paul; Myers, Steven Lee; Liu, John (11 April 2022). "China's Echoes of Russia's Alternate Reality Intensify Around the World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2022. Only the day before, Chen Weihua, a vocal and prolific editor at China Daily, which is owned by the Chinese government, seemed to do just that. He retweeted a widely shared post that said there was not "one iota" of proof of massacre in Bucha and accused the West of "staging atrocities to jack up emotions, demonize adversaries and extend wars."