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Demonstrators beyond the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC.
The US mass protests are raising eyebrows worldwide, however China is watching with particular interest.
As anti-racism protests sweep throughout the US, Beijing has actually taken upon them to hit back at Washington for supporting last year’s Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations.
Chinese state media have offered comprehensive protection to the protests, highlighting the disorderly scenes and declared police cruelty in America to claim that China delights in higher social stability.
Speaking with a global audience, Chinese diplomats are attempting to depict Beijing as a responsible global leader, standing in uniformity with other nations in condemning the racial disparity and injustice in the United States.
‘ A stunning sight’
China’s state news agency Xinhua described the US civil unrest as “Pelosi’s lovely landscape” – a referral to US Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remark last summer season that the Hong Kong protests were “a beautiful sight to behold”.
State media Global Times’ chief editor Hu Xijin wrote that American politicians now can “enjoy this sight from their own windows”.
Beijing has actually long condemned American politicians, consisting of Ms Pelosi, for “glorifying violence” originating from the Hong Kong demonstrators, who are categorised by China as “rioters revealing indications of terrorism”.
Protests paralysed Hong Kong for the majority of in 2015, prompting Beijing to enforce a brand-new national security law in the territory in Might, just 2 weeks ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Aynne Kokas, senior faculty fellow with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs, states that both the US and China are contending with a high level of domestic instability activated by the international coronavirus pandemic and political occasions.
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10s of thousands marched in Hong Kong in Janaury.
” Now is a crucial moment through which China is able to take advantage of the absence of stability in the US, in order to more efficiently promote its own nationwide security goals,” she states.
Criticism over US using ‘double standard’
Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have likewise called out the US for using “double standards” in its response to civil unrest.
” You know there are riots in the United States and we see how city governments reacted,” said Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam.
” And After That in Hong Kong, when we had similar riots, we saw what position they embraced then.”
The officials’ view is shared by many Chinese social media users, who dub America “the double basic nation”.
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Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam.
Claims of extreme usage of authorities