User:Yekaterina Sima Katayama/2020 China-Thailand Internet Flame War

China-Thailand Internet Flame War, taking place on Twitter in April 2020, is a conflict between China and Thailand netizen s, while other countries' netizens were also participating in.

The flame war started because Chinese netizens consider Weeraya (nnevvy on Twitter) had a post on Twitter supporting Taiwan Independence, who was Thai actor Vachirawit Chivaaree(Bright)'s girlfriend. Also, nnevvy has twitted a internet rumor about the origin of COVID-19 and liked by Bright.

Moreover, Bright also twitted an article concerning 2019-2020 Hong Kong protest. Hence, Chinese netizens considered them anti-Chinese sentiment, and later cursed nnevvy and Bright on social media and ask the couple to apologize to the public.

The act of China netizens annoyed Thai netizens. Conflict broke out almost immediately. During the flame war, more netizens from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, USA, Japan also supported Thai. Later up, both Chinese and Thailand authorities has response to the conflict.