Cameron's Weibo deluged with questions on looted artefacts, ADIZ and Wendi Deng

Visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron is no doubt a popular foreign politician amongst Chinese as his new account with Sina Weibo, China’s biggest microblogging service provider, has gathered more than 220,000 followers since his arrival in the country on Monday.

Although Cameron said he hoped the account in Mandarin would help him reach out to the Chinese public, but got more than he bargained for when the account was deluged with tough questions, such as when the UK would repatriate Chinese artefacts its troops had looted from China more than 150 years ago.

In an entry in his microblog account on Monday, the British Prime Minister expressed his desire for getting to know the Chinese people and asked Chinese internet users to leave their questions that he would respond to before he wrapped up his Chinese trip, his second since he became prime minister in May 2010.

The message was reposted more than 23,400 times and received more than 20,600 comments with questions about politics, the economy, film and TV and even the perceived “baby face” of the British PM.

Addressing Cameron as the “Boss of the UK”, one commentator asked him to persuade his Chinese counterpart, namely president Xi Jinping, to open a microblog account.