Chen Weihua
| Chen Weihua | |
|---|---|
_02.png) Chen Weihua (2023-10-04) 02.png Chen in 2023 | |
| Born | November 1963 (age 62)[1] Shanghai, China[2] |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Chinese |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Fudan University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👔 Employer | China Daily |
| 🏛️ Political party | Chinese Communist Party[3] |
Chen Weihua (Chinese: 陈卫华) is a Chinese journalist who served as the EU bureau chief of China Daily, an English-language newspaper owned by the Chinese Communist Party.[4][5][6][7] Chen previously served as a columnist, chief Washington correspondent, and deputy editor of the U.S. edition of China Daily.[8][9][10]
Education
Chen is a graduate of Fudan University, where he studied international journalism and microbiology.[9] 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.[9][11][12]
Career
Chen began his journalism career at China Daily in 1987.[9] His writing focuses on U.S. politics and U.S.-China relations.[13][14]
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[15][12] and the deputy editor for China Daily USA.[9] He has appeared on China Central Television, ABC News, NPR and KQED.[12] As of 2020, Chen serves as the EU bureau chief of China Daily.[5][6][16] According to the editorial board of The Jerusalem Post, he has remained a popular columnist at China Daily.[17]
Chen has used Twitter to criticize politicians and public figures who are critical of the Chinese government.[18][19][20][21][22][23] Chen has written that the US political system was "dysfunctional" and described then-US president Donald Trump as a "racist". The Globe and Mail said that Chen's tweets are consistent with the tone of wolf warrior diplomacy.[24] Chen wrote that the term wolf warrior was used by people who "either don't know or pretend to not know the reckless diplomatic style of politicians such as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo".[25]
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.[24] 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 initially responded with a single-word tweet stating "Bitch" and then described Blackburn as "the most racist and ignorant US Senator I have seen. A lifetime bitch".[26][27]
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chen retweeted a twitter post that said there was no evidence of a massacre in Bucha and that the West was "staging atrocities to jack up emotions, demonize adversaries and extend wars".[28]
Chen stepped down as China Daily's EU bureau chief in 2025 and on the same year, he announced his retirement from the newspaper.[29]
References
- ↑ "陈卫华事迹材料". 中国记协网. Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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.
- ↑ "陈卫华". zgjx.cn. Retrieved 2025-08-31.
- ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Meyers, Jessica (23 August 2020). "China denounces U.S. sanctions on North Korea trade". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 "Chen Weihua: China Daily and Global Communication". Shanghai International Studies University. 2017. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Class of 2005". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Chen Weihua". ChinaFile. 5 April 2021. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Chen Weihua". China Daily. 2021. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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 2021-05-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Chinese state media compares pro-Trump rioters to Hong Kong: "Learning from you guys"". Newsweek. 2021-01-06. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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 2021-05-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Beach, Sophie (2019-12-07). "Chinese Diplomats Take Their "Fighting Spirit" to Twitter, with Mixed Results". China Digital Times. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "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 2021-05-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kwan, Rhoda (19 October 2020). "Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins campaign to release Hong Kong fugitives detained in China". Hong Kong Free Press.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 宋婧祎. "If China's diplomats are 'wolf warriors', what is Pompeo?". China Daily. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "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. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mozur, Paul; Myers, Steven Lee; Liu, John (2022-04-11). "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 2022-05-17.
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."
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Chen, Weihua [@chenweihua] (31 August 2025). "I'm officially "retiring" from China Daily today after nearly 38 years at the paper. It's a great time to be a journalist to witness first-hand China's great transformation and also to be a foreign correspondent based in the U.S. and then Belgium. While I will enjoy more time traveling/exploring my own country and the rest of the world, I will certainly not stop speaking out here on X and may very likely continue to contribute to my weekly column on China Daily, which I have been doing nonstop for the last 16 years. They were never on my JD but I love them both" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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