She is married to politician Liu Haixing, who is currently serving as the executive deputy director of the office of the National Security Commission of the Chinese Communist Party.
[5] According to the online statistics collected by the German Marshall Fund, Zhang had engaged in extensive forwarding of pro-Russian and anti-Western messages in Twitter since the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
[7] On 14 August 2022, following Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan on 2 August 2022, CGTN published an opinion piece by Zhang where she stated that "the one-China principle was violated by a foolish action of a desperate nation, desperate to distract its own people from troubles at home" and the "Taiwan region is not a pawn to be played in some deviant global chess game.
"[8] On 23 August, Zhang shared a post on Twitter listing the wars participated by the United States as "the history of American aggression in a snapshot!"
[9][10] On 4 February 2023, following the shootdown of a suspected Chinese spy balloon which flew across Canada and the United States by the United States Air Force, Zhang joked about it on Twitter stating that “perhaps China was simply giving the US a balloon, much like one would give a child to make them feel better” and if anyone else "finds this balloon fiasco to be nothing more than a bunch of hot air?”[11] On 13 February, in the aftermath of the devastating Turkey–Syria earthquake on 6 February, Zhang uploaded a video to Twitter that inaccurately claimed that the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge withstood the earthquake thanks to Chinese technology.