China’s Globe and Xinhua News Agency and other official media reported high-profile clashes such as the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters this Thursday (7). Chinese 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, China’s official media reported the clashes at the U.S. Capitol in a high-profile manner, sparking concern among Chinese netizens. Since the evening of the 6th, 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 China. Internet writers, commonly known as “fifty cents,” used the opportunity to promote the superiority of China’s social system and decry the U.S. democratic system.
The headline of a short commentary on CCTV.com reads, “Mobs smash Capitol Hill, American-style democracy is in shambles!” The commentary noted, “An all-out mob show by Trump advocates 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 noticed the demonstrations in the U.S.: “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.”
China 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, according to disclosures by netizens who wish to remain anonymous. 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 had really stormed these important departments, they would have been 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.”
The Globe has been updating live news from the U.S. Capitol from early Thursday morning, such as Trump supporters taking over Congress, protesters storming U.S. House Speaker Nancy 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 person shot dead, and leaders of many countries expressing concern, etc. By a rough count, the Globe sends out between 13 and 20 breaking news stories per hour about the U.S. conflict, 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, hence the divergence of ideas that emerged in U.S. society during this presidential election, but: “Both Democrats and Republicans, they did not break 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 was more cautious in its reporting, publishing a comprehensive message on the same day that the international community was disturbed by the violent onslaught in the U.S. Congress. The report quoted U.N. Secretary-General Guterres spokesman Dijarric as saying that Guterres expressed his condolences for the riots that took place on Capitol Hill in Washington, and quoted European Council President Michel, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statements on the incident.
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