A well-meaning Lunar New Year greeting from the U.S. Embassy in China was inadvertently turned into an opportunity for Chinese netizens to pour out their grievances against the state of the Chinese economy.
On Friday, Feb. 9, the American Embassy posted onto Sina Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter, a New Year’s greeting video for the upcoming Year of the Dog, which falls on Feb. 16. In China, festivities begin about a week earlier.
