Official media, including the Communist Party’s Global Network and Xinhua News Agency, reported high-profile clashes such as the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters this Thursday (7). Official media are reporting on the clashes in the United States to gain public support for the authorities, but some scholars argue that China’s social system is not comparable to that of the United States. Some even argue that if this had happened in China, it would have been suppressed by military and police fire.
In a rare move, Chinese official media reported the clashes at the U.S. Capitol in a high-profile manner, sparking concern among Chinese netizens. Since the evening of June 6, many official media have been reporting in real time on the clashes in Washington, D.C., and have repeatedly linked to reports of protesters breaking into and storming the Capitol. The so-called think-tanks in Zhongnanhai believe that the chaos in the United States is an opportunity for the Chinese Communist Party. Internet writers, commonly known as “Wu Cao,” have used this to promote the superiority of China’s social system and to denigrate the U.S. democratic system.
The headline of a short commentary on CCTV.com reads, “Mobs smash Capitol Hill, U.S. style democracy is in shambles!” The commentary noted, “An all-out march performed by Trump supporters has ripped off the last piece of shame from the American-style democracy touted by American politicians.”
In an interview with Radio Free Asia this Thursday (7), Beijing-based independent scholar Cha Jianguo said he had noticed the demonstrations in the United States: “Some Chinese people took the opportunity to attack the social order, the democratic process in the United States. I think the United States and China are completely different political systems. In China, it’s a question of whether or not there is democracy, whether or not the people have the right to demonstrate, and in China there is no such right. And the United States is the question of how to get better after having democracy.”
According to disclosures by unnamed netizens, the Chinese Communist Party has finally caught on to criticism of the U.S. system and has turned on its public opinion machine to report or criticize the social chaos in the United States. Propaganda officials have even asked media at all levels to comment on the chaos caused by the U.S. presidential election.
If it happens in China, they will shoot to suppress it
Li Xiangqun, a teacher at a Beijing high school, told the station that China’s system lags far behind that of the United States, and that if this were to happen in China, the consequences would be severe: “The country is centralized, and behavior is still relatively tightly controlled, so it’s unlikely that something like this would happen. If they do storm these important departments, they must be shot and killed. I have also read reports from different angles on the American side, but of course from a political point of view, just like the House of Cards episode, these can be calculated to be used, according to U.S. law, the police were attacked, they are entitled to shoot.”
GlobeNewswire has been updating live news from the U.S. Capitol moment by moment since early this Thursday, such as Trump supporters taking Congress, protesters storming U.S. House Speaker Pelosi’s office and posing on chairs, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden giving a speech calling for an end to the violence, U.S. protesters breaching Congress, one shot dead, leaders of many countries expressing concern, etc. By a rough count, GlobeNewswire sent out between 13 and 20 breaking news items about the U.S. conflict in the U.S. hour, including diplomatic officials from many countries condemning the violence.
Hebei independent scholar Ding Jie said in an interview with the station that the U.S. political system has a strong ability to repair itself, so in this presidential election, the U.S. society appears to have divergent ideas, but: “Whether it is the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, they have not broken through the U.S. separation of powers structure in this game, the judiciary is still independent, democracy is still effective, and the president The judiciary is still independent, democracy is still effective, and presidential power still receives checks and balances. We believe that the strong self-healing capacity of American society relies on the fact that they do not hide their contradictions, that they expose these problems early through social movements, and that they are solved through democratic consultation.”
Centralized states lack the ability to repair themselves
Ding Jie said that some centralized states do not have the ability to repair themselves and therefore collapse when they say they will: “They are a unity under high pressure, a huge internal pressure that is covered up. For example, the Zioses regime, the former Soviet Union, the Gaddafi regime, they all collapsed overnight.”
Xinhua’s report, published the same day, a comprehensive news that the international community is disturbed by the violent impact of the U.S. Congress, the report quoted UN Secretary-General Guterres spokesman Dijarric, said Guterres expressed his condolences for the riots that occurred on Capitol Hill in Washington, and quoted the European Council President Michel, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement on the incident.
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