China bashes Trump’s use of Twitter

China bashed President-elect Donald Trump’s use of Twitter this week in a commentary published by the country’s official news agency, CNN reported Thursday.

“The obsession with ‘Twitter diplomacy’ is undesirable,” the commentary on Xinhua News Agency’s website said.

“It is a commonly accepted that diplomacy is not a child’s game — and even less is it business dealing. As former United States Secretary of State [Madeleine] Albright said, Twitter should not be a tool for foreign policy,” the commentary continued.

{mosads}The agency is the largest and most influential of China’s state-run media organizations.

Earlier this week, Trump hit China on Twitter for not doing more to rein in North Korea.

“China has been taking out massive amounts of money & wealth from the U.S. in totally one-sided trade, but won’t help with North Korea. Nice!” Trump said.

Trump’s relationship with China is off to a rocky start. China criticized Trump for accepting a phone call with Taiwan’s president, which some viewed as jeopardizing the One China policy.

The U.S. has not formally acknowledged Taiwan’s independence as part of the One China policy, a practice begun under President Jimmy Carter in 1979.