Milk Tea Alliance Twitter

Memes were formed showing flags of the countries in the milk tea alliance with china as a lone outsider.

Milk tea alliance twitter. An online spat began after weeraya shared a twitter message questioning whether the virus originated in a chinese lab. The latest tweets from milkteaalliance. On twitter hong kong democracy. The hashtag milkteaalliance first sprang up on twitter in april to counter attacks by pro beijing trolls and bots on a thai celebrity perceived to have slighted china.

An illustration by a cantonese facebook page showing a milk tea alliance formed by hong kong taiwan and thailand. What is the milk tea alliance. A mobile phone displays an internet meme of a growing online movement called milk tea alliance to show solidarity between thailand taiwan and hong kong in this illustration taken on april 15. Thai netizens co opted the nnevvy meme and wound up inspiring a new citizen led transnational partnership in the milk tea alliance offering an interesting and.

The milk tea alliance is an informal term coined by social media users because in the region tea is consumed in many nations with milk with the exception of china. A recent study showed that the large amounts of water were being held back. In taiwan the milk tea hashtag even popped up on the vice president s twitter feed on national day 10 october although a government spokesman had previously claimed taipei took no position. It originally started as an internet meme created in response to the increased presence of chinese trolls and nationalist commentators on social media and has evolved into a dynamic cross national protest movement pushing for democracy and human rights in southeast asia.