I used R and Selenium to scrape Twitter accounts that is labeled as China state-affiliated on Twitter. With 401 accounts it is one of the most complete lists of Chinese officials on social media. You are welcome to use it, it’s available on DataHub.

In 2019, Chinese officials joined Twitter on a large scale, making China one of the world’s largest digital public diplomacy players. I used the Twitter API to visualize the network of follower/following relationships among Chinese diplomats, including gender and creation date.