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On October 28 users of the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo were surprised About a very suggestive post made by the German embassy in Beijing What did they write that caused so much reaction This is what we will tell you shortly But to provide context we will first quote the comment that was posted at the beginning of In October German Ambassador Patricia Flohr Flohr is the first woman to lead Germany's diplomatic mission in China since Both nations established diplomatic relations in 1972 According to the BOA agency this is what the ambassador wrote on her Twitter account on October 11 From today we will remember 50 events from these 50 years on the official Weibo channel of the embassy And indeed from there the embassy published on the Chinese platform a series of strips about relevant events Among them was the one in 1983 when the first Volkswagen plant was established in Shanghai Another post commemorates the opening in Beijing of the Guzze Institute in 1988 which promotes cultural activities in the Chinese capital in Shanghai and in Hong Kong But the commemorative note from 1989 had a completely different imprint Let's see why The post's text has the hashtag 50 years of diplomatic relations between China and Germany And the text was accompanied by an image with two photos one next to the other But as we will see below one of these photos is very suggestive The left side showed a crowd gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on the day the wall fell According to Watsan Weibo a portal that reports on news from Chinese social networks the photo caption said In East Germany the German Democratic Republic under the socialist regime more and more people protested for democracy and civil rights This led to the November 1989 peace project and the fall of the Berlin Wall at the border between the two German states And the rest of the text was struck through while the right box was completely black But as they may recall it was precisely in June 1989 that the student protest took place in the square From Tiananmen where thousands of young people died That day was etched into the minds of the Westerners by the iconic man in The tank which tried to stop the communist regime's advance on the protesters stood in front of one of them Now according to the BOA agency when they inquired with the embassy about this In particular the spokesperson gave no details but suggested it was done so people could find their own interpretation and try to make sense of it This is what he said literally everything is in the eyes of the one who looks while the ambassador Patricia Flor spoke precisely in an interview last month about the subtleties of linguistic diplomacy This is what he said to China Table a German digital media outlet specializing in China Remember that the Chinese Communist Party categorically censors all references to the Tiananmen Square massacre Regarding this the German media wrote To this end it strictly censors direct and indirect references to the tragedy and punishes any form of commemoration But obviously many Chinese Weibo readers clearly understood the point since the message received a large number of followers with almost 4 000 likes in fro o the 200 or 300 of the majority of the other posts in the event series that the embassy published The ambassador in the interview also committed to increasing the presence of the embassy on social media to communicate honestly with the Chinese public about German policies towards their country and to meet with Chinese officials but also to engage in dialogue with various other stakeholders Expressing concern for Chinese human rights defenders Yane Leino who lived and worked in China between 2015 and 2021 for a European think tank e said the ambassador's message had been a smart move as it avoided The censorship of Chinese networks could reveal what happened that day in China in a version very different from the one imposed by the regime