On Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the United States should reflect on why it adopted different positions on the two events. She said the storming of the Hong Kong legislature was more “severe” than the events in Washington, but there were no fatalities among the protesters.

“In ... 2019, radical demonstrators [in Hong Kong] violently stormed the city’s Legislative Council building, wantonly damaged facilities, used toxic powders and liquids to attack and beat the police, and even [allegedly] bit a police officer’s finger off,” Hua said. “Facing a situation like this, Hong Kong police had kept a high degree of restraint and no demonstrators died.

“Now the US mainstream media had unanimously criticised violent Trump fans in [Washington], saying it’s a violent event and those protesters are mobs, extremists ... But what description did they use on the Hong Kong protest? ‘Beautiful sight’.” Hua was referring to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments about mass demonstrations in June 2019 in Hong Kong as a “beautiful sight to behold”.

  • fash_basher [fae/faer,she/her]
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    4 years ago

    also, decades of oppression and various horrors and capitalist ecological atrocities

    Oh you mean CIA propaganda?

    • existentialspicerack [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      you're right, the CIA existing means china never stopped being communist and everything's okay and the rivers are fine and you can just drink out of them and the air is totally impossible to chew and there are no lakes of black industrial sludge that will give you cancer if you get close enough to look at them and everything's FINE.