The Chinese government newspaper Global Times proclaimed the coronavirus potentially “the U.S. and China’s Chernobyl” in a column Wednesday accusing the world of “stigmatizing China” for lying about the origin and severity of the Wuhan outbreak, leading it to become a global pandemic.
The Chinese Communist Party announced on Wednesday Beijing time that it would ban American citizen journalists from several mainstream publications from working in China, claiming it a “reciprocal” measure to the U.S. State Department limiting Chinese state media staff to 100 Chinese nationals per media outlet.
The Communist Party of China, through its foreign ministry and propaganda arms, vocally objected on Tuesday to President Donald Trump referring to the Chinese coronavirus, originating in the central city of Wuhan, as “the Chinese Virus,” claiming that doing so was “racist.”
China’s Global Times propaganda newspaper repeatedly attacked Western democracies on Sunday for its measures to control the Chinese coronavirus, the spread of which the Chinese government facilitated for months before alerting the world to the new pathogen.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Information Department spokesman Lijan Zhao on Thursday pushed the most aggressive form to date of the Chinese Communist Party’s coronavirus conspiracy theories, openly suggesting the virus was a weapon devised by the U.S. military and deployed in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the epidemic began.
Chinese state media continued their efforts this week to mitigate political damage from the coronavirus epidemic by claiming Western concerns about the spread of the disease, and complaints about China’s lack of transparency, are founded in “xenophobia” and “white supremacist racism” reminiscent of the “Yellow Peril” hysteria of the late 19th Century.
Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times declared on Thursday that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the majority of which does not have any scientific backing whatsoever, is showing promise as an effective treatment for the country’s ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Chinese state media revealed Sunday that four local Communist Party officials in Wuhan, China, had been “punished” after a suspected coronavirus patient hanged himself.
The hedge fund manager is the most prominent American so far to speak up against China’s claims that U.S. aid on virus was lacking.
China’s state-run Global Times ran an editorial on Wednesday calling for the Chinese people to unite against the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic, which of course means “trust and obey the Communist Party” in practice.
On Thursday, the Global Times announced the death of doctor Li Wenliang from the virus, a development widely taken as evidence the coronavirus is more dangerous than the Chinese government is willing to admit
The Global Times, a Chinese government media outlet, urged the Communist Party on Tuesday to “take countermeasures if necessary” against governments that have imposed travel bans on China to prevent the outbreak of a new form of coronavirus originating there from spreading further.
China’s Global Times government newspaper published a column Monday celebrating the virtues of the Communist Party, applauding the “Party system” for Beijing’s response to the growing coronavirus outbreak within its borders.
Chinese government media outlets published a barrage of articles on Monday accusing the West generally of racism against Chinese people in response to a growing viral outbreak in the heart of the country. It also claimed that various “Western” sources were peddling conspiracies about the virus being a biological weapon.
China’s Global Times government newspaper disparaged “our local and national negligence” in a column Thursday regarding the secrecy applied to key facts about the growing coronavirus epidemic in the country, but focused all its ire on officials in Wuhan, the city at the center of the viral outbreak.
China’s Communist Party propaganda outlets made clear on Monday that Beijing’s intent to blame local officials in Wuhan for the growing viral epidemic consuming the country, calling it “regrettable” that municipal leaders let 5 million people leave the city during the outbreak.
Chinese state media claimed in several effusive pieces on Thursday that residents of Wuhan, the origin city of a deadly new coronavirus, remain full of “caution and optimism” that local health authorities will successfully prevent it from spreading.
China has effectively pledged military action against Taiwan should its newly re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) push for secession, stating they will stop at nothing to stop the country seceding from the mainland altogether.
Chinese state media blamed Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s re-election on her party’s effective use of “mongering fear” against the Communist Party this weekend.
China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper took a hard line Monday against the Iranian Islamic regime, asserting there was “no excuse” for Iran’s military to shoot down a commercial airliner and that the incident underscored the “incompetent personnel” running Iran’s armed forces.
China’s Global Times government propaganda outlet dismissed the use of elections as a viable form to express the will of the people Tuesday in a column penned by a former vice president of the Communist Party’s (CPC) indoctrination school.
An infuriated Global Times, the flagship English-language propaganda outlet of the government of China, claimed in a column Thursday that the House of Representatives voting to impeach President Donald Trump should cast doubt over all criticism of China’s human rights atrocities.
Chinese state media unloaded on the German-Turkish soccer Star Mesut Ozil on Monday, accusing him of “hate speech” after he criticized Beijing’s policy of the detention and imprisonment of millions of Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang.
China’s Global Times propaganda outlet declared on Wednesday that all of America is “shrouded in sorrow and hopelessness” as a result of citizens’ constitutional right to own firearms, using as its evidence the terrorist attack in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
China’s media blitz against the world’s disgust at its use of concentration camps to eradicate ethnic minorities continued on Tuesday with a Global Times column complaining critics are too beholden to “morals” and that it is “unrealistic” to expect the Communist Party to respect human rights.
A top Vatican bishop has confirmed Pope Francis’ wish to visit Beijing and establish formal diplomatic ties with the country, as reported Monday in China’s state-run Global Times.
Chinese state media promoted a video game on Wednesday where users are tasked with hunting down the “traitors” leading Hong Kong’s ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations.
China’s use of facial recognition technology is an effort to protect people’s human rights, the country’s state media declared on Tuesday.
The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times published an interview with a communist official in Xinjiang, home to most of the nation’s ethnic Uyghur Muslims, on Wednesday asserting that the concentration camps there are “schools” and all escaped prisoners are lying.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam confirmed in remarks Tuesday that her government, appointed by Beijing, would follow Chinese sanctions on the U.S. Navy and American human rights groups following the passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.
Chinese state media declared on Monday that the success of pro-democracy candidates in the Hong Kong District Council elections Sunday should end the city’s mass demonstrations against Beijing’s interference.
Chinese state media published a graphic video on Monday showing a man doused in liquid and set on fire in Hong Kong, claiming — citing the Hong Kong police force — that protesters set him on fire for defending the Communist Party.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could one day get an “iron man” suit that will provide soldiers with “heavy firepower, special armor, and flying capability,” according to a report by the state propaganda outlet Global Times on Wednesday.
China and its state propaganda outlets praised Hong Kong on Wednesday for banning youth protest leader Joshua Wong from running for local office for being an immoral “rogue” out to “destroy Hong Kong society.”
The government-run China Daily newspaper dismissed America as a “disruptive force” in the Middle East Monday, shortly after President Donald Trump announced U.S. forces had killed the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group.
Following the recent criticism of the Chinese-owned app TikTok, China’s state-run newspaper Global Times has claimed that the app should be praised for “preventing cyber terrorism.”
China’s foreign ministry called the nomination of the Hong Kong protest movement to the Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian lawmaker “foreign interference” and glorification of violence on Friday.
A confusing morning of mixed signals coming out of China about the trade deal struck with the U.S. last week.
China’s state-run propaganda outlet Global Times condemned Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday for traveling to Hong Kong and dressing in black, the color of pro-democracy protesters which, according to the outlet, made him “synonymous with a thug.”
China’s English-language propaganda outlets abruptly ceased publishing outlandish invective against the NBA on Friday, their front pages dominated instead by vitriol against Taiwan and pro-Xi Jinping stories.
