China stepped up anti-U.S. propaganda attacks this week, claiming the takeover of the Capitol by supporters of President Trump was a sign of …
China stepped up anti-U.S. propaganda attacks this week, claiming the takeover of the Capitol by supporters of President Trump was a sign of the collapse of the American democratic system. State media outlets flooded Chinese online viewers with unusually harsh stories showing pro-Trump protesters battling police and trashing the inside of the domed seat of legislative American power. The Communist Party-affiliated China Daily published an article with the headline “Capitol Hill down: Produced by U.S. democracy.” The article stated that the assault on democracy began more than 20 years ago “when those in the halls and boardrooms of power decided to govern for the wealthy, corrupting and sucking dry as a bone all the goodness found in Western capitalism’s attributes.” The newspaper said that blaming Mr. Trump for the action missed the larger point that the United States is in “ruinous decline.” The nationalist Global Times, another Party-affiliated media outlet, said the mob inside the Capitol represented the “internal collapse” of the U.
