By Mail Foreign Service David Cameron has been inundated with demands for the return of priceless artefacts looted from Beijing in the 19th century as his visit to China draws to a close. The Prime Minister has to the southwestern city of Chengdu on the largest ever British trade mission to the country. Last Friday, British officials set up a microblogging page on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, attracting more than 260,000 followers by Wednesday evening. Children in Britain should ditch French and German and study Mandarin instead, David Cameron has said He invited Chinese citizens to ask questions, saying he would aim to reply during the visit.
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PM set up account on Chinese social network 'Sina Weibo' to take questions
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Nationalists flooded the page with questions about looted treasure
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British were part of the an alliance which plundered China in 19th century
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The organization posed the question 'When will @placeholder return the illegally plundered artefacts?'
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During this time it is alleged that many priceless @placeholder treasures were looted by the allied nations and taken overseas.
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The ransacking of historic @placeholder sites is seen as a source of national embarrassment to nationalists in the country today.