A large crowd gathers near Washington, D.C. and the White House to show support for Trump on January 6, 2021.
A number of Chinese media outlets recently reported in a high profile manner that Trump supporters flooded the U.S. capital and caused clashes, thereby gaining national support for the Chinese Communist regime. Some commentators say that China’s social system is incomparable to that of the United States, while others say that if the U.S. protests had taken place in China, the Chinese Communist Party’s military would have fired a full-scale crackdown.
After the “Save America” rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol carrying signs that said “stop vote-stealing” and called on lawmakers attending the meeting that day to stop the certification of electoral votes in the six swing states. That afternoon, police and civilians clashed, and Capitol police shot and killed a woman. Later, President Trump called on people at the rally to “keep the peace and go home in peace.” The incident quickly subsided.
But the incident drew heavy coverage from official Chinese media Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily, CCTV and the Global Times, and even the Chinese Foreign Ministry came out to mock the incident.
Xinhua News Agency reported that the international community was disturbed by the violent impact on the U.S. Congress; People’s Daily declared that “the protest marches, gunfire and bloodshed…the scene of Capitol Hill turning into a battlefield shocked the world, and the American-style democracy, which is already riddled with holes, has lost its dignity”; CCTV said that the U.S. “mob smashed Capitol Hill, and American-style democracy has been ruined.
The Global Times tweeted a number of pictures of the U.S. congressional protests in July 2019, comparing them with the occupation of the Legislative Council building by protesters in Hong Kong, and sarcastically wondering whether Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would use the term “beautiful scenery” to describe the situation in Hong Kong on Jan. 6.
China’s Communist Youth League also posted a series of photos of the U.S. congressional protests on its official Weibo account, accompanied by the graphic “U.S. Congress, the most beautiful landscape in real life,” also sarcastically referring to Pelosi’s comments in support of the Hong Kong protests in 2019.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying criticized the U.S. and the media on the 7th for holding double standards on the events that took place in the U.S. and Hong Kong legislatures; mainland pinkos also took the opportunity to promote the superiority of the “Chinese social system” in a high-profile manner, and sang the praises of the U.S. democratic system.
According to Radio Free Asia, the Communist Party’s official media reported the “conflict scenes” in the U.S. in a high-profile manner in order to “gain public support for the authorities.
The newspaper also quoted Beijing-based independent scholar Cha Jianguo as saying, “The United States and China are completely different political systems. In China, it’s a question of whether there is democracy, whether the people have the right to demonstrate, and in China there is no such right.” In the United States, it is a question of how to do better with democracy. The two are simply not comparable.
Beijing teacher Li Xiangqun also pointed out that the Chinese system under the Communist Party is far behind that of the United States, and that if this were to happen in mainland China, the consequences would be very serious because “the country is centralized,” and that “if you do storm these important departments, you will definitely have to shoot them down. “
Hebei independent scholar Ding Jie believes that the U.S. political system has a strong ability to repair, so in this presidential election, the U.S. society has divergent ideas, but “both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, they are in the game, and did not break through the U.S. separation of powers structure, the judiciary is still independent, democracy is still effective, the presidential power still received checks and balances.” So the people believe that through their social movements, “these problems can be exposed early and resolved through democratic consultation.”
But some centralized states just don’t have the capacity to repair themselves, Dinget says, “They are unity under pressure, masked by tremendous internal pressures. For example, the Ceausescu regime, the former Soviet Union, the Gaddafi regime, they all collapsed overnight.”
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