A few days ago, U.S. President Joe Biden gave a speech calling the confrontation between the U.S. and China a battle between autocracy and democracy. The Chinese embassy in Japan then tweeted a “copycat” version of the Grim Reaper cartoon, mocking American democracy. However, the image was later deleted.
On April 29, the Chinese Embassy in Japan tweeted an illustration of the Grim Reaper wearing the American flag knocking on the door of “Egypt. The embassy also tweeted, “If the U.S. had come with ‘democracy,’ this would have been the result.
The tweet was later deleted.
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reported that the tweet from the Chinese embassy in Japan was influenced by Biden’s joint speech to Congress. In the speech, Biden referred to Xi as an authoritarian and emphasized the superiority of the democratic system.
Some Japanese netizens criticized the tweet, saying, “Is this a tweet from the embassy?
Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian tweeted an adapted cartoon ridiculing Japan’s nuclear waste water discharge, and topped the tweet after the Japanese side protested. This is in stark contrast to the Chinese Embassy in Japan, which ridiculed the U.S. and then deleted the picture.
After the Chinese embassy in Japan deleted the picture, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a Communist Party media outlet, posted the screenshot on China’s Weibo account, claiming that there was “really no need to delete it.
Screenshot of the website.
In fact, the above cartoon was allegedly copied and adapted from the original cartoon, which ridiculed the Chinese Communist Party’s tyranny and massacre that endangered the world. A similar image was circulated on overseas social media as late as 2019 during Hong Kong’s anti-Send China campaign, but with the Grim Reaper wearing a bloody CCP flag and the bleeding room door behind him with Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, etc. written on it, and the room door in front with the name of Taiwan or Japan, etc.
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