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Xue Jian

Chinese diplomat (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Xue Jian (Chinese: 薛剑; born July 1968) is a Chinese diplomat, currently serving as consul general in Osaka, Japan.

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Xue was born in Lianshui County. He has held several diplomatic positions after graduating from the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Due to his provocative comments on Twitter, Xue has been described as one of China's "wolf warrior" diplomats. He was also listed as one of the diplomats amplifying Russian propaganda narratives in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has also started the 2025 China-Japan diplomatic crisis after making a statement against a comment by Sanae Takaichi.

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Early life and career

Xue was born in 1968 in Lianshui County in Huai'an, Jiangsu.[1] He studied at the Department of Japanese at Beijing Foreign Studies University. According to NEWS Post Seven, Xue participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.[2]

After graduating from the university, Xue joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in 1992. Over the years, he held a series of important diplomatic positions, serving in the Department of Asian Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Japan. In 2006, he was appointed First Secretary at the Chinese Embassy in Japan and was later promoted to Counsellor. He subsequently served as Counsellor and Division Director in the Department of Asian Affairs within the ministry in 2012, and as Minister-Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Japan in 2014. In 2018, he returned to the Department of Asian Affairs as Counsellor and was promoted to Deputy Director-General of the department in 2019.[1]

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Consul General in Osaka

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In November 2021, he was appointed Consul General of China in Osaka.[1][3] During his tenure in Osaka, Xue has been a prolific user of Twitter, where he had more than 110,000 followers as of November 2025.[2] Due to his provocative comments on Twitter, Xue has described as one of China's "wolf warrior" diplomats, including by a 2022 US Department of State report on diplomats amplifying Russian propaganda narratives in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4][5] According to NEWS Post Seven, Xue had a better and more "flexible" reputation in person than on social media. It also reported that Xue once made more liberal statements in private, but became more hawkish in his 40s.[2]

In June 2023, Xue referred to transgender people as "deformed".[6]

2024 endorsement of Reiwa Shinsengumi party

On 25 October 2024, ahead of the 2024 Japanese general elections, Xue endorsed the left-wing party Reiwa Shinsengumi, posting a social media clip featuring the party's leader Taro Yamamoto.[7] On 11 November, Independent National Diet member and former chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Jin Matsubara submitted an official question asking for a response to the claim that Xue's post was a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.[7]

2025 Sanae Takaichi Tweet

Main article: 2025 China–Japan diplomatic crisis

In November 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments about Japanese involvement in a war over Taiwan.[9][10][11] Sharing a news article about her comments on the social media platform X, Xue stated, "the dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off."[12][13][14] The Japanese Foreign Ministry condemned the remarks, with Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara calling the post “extremely inappropriate”.[12][13][14] Xue deleted the post.[15][16] The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs described Xue's post as a personal post “directed at the erroneous and dangerous remarks that attempt to separate Taiwan from China’s territory and advocate military intervention in the Taiwan Strait.”[17]

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