By Shirley N Lew

AsAmNews New York Correspondent

The Wall Street Journal used a racial slur in reference to China’s General Secretary of the Communist Party, Xi Jinping, in a tweet sent late Sunday night about 11pm Eastern.

At 11:53 pm, the Wall Street Journal tweeted that their previous tweet about “a chink in his armor” had been removed.

We recently removed a tweet on our Xi Jinping article because a common idiom used might be seen as a slur. No offense was intended. — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 31, 2015

“Might be seen as a slur,” their tweet said. I’m shaking my head at this. What bothers me about the Wall Street Journal, a highly respectable a newspaper (or no longer) is referring “chink” as a common idiom, which is just as insulting because they are not recognizing it as a racial slur.

Many others were just as upset about the Wall Street Journal’s racist tweet:

@WSJ you learned nothing from ESPN’s ordeal re: Jeremy Lin and the implied slur? — Sarah Beth Houser (@cottageofstone) August 31, 2015

@WSJ no offense was intended but no apologies issued??? Are you kidding me??? — Jean Cheng (@jeaniust) August 31, 2015

No apology has been tweeted from the Wall Street Journal at the time of this writing.

(Editor’s note: The lead has been changed from an previous version to clarify how the slur chink was used.)