China’s foreign ministry mocked the storming of the US Capitol by mobs, comparing the chaos to Hong Kong protesters’ siege of the Legislative Council Complex back in 2019. “US mainstream media used ‘violence’ and ‘rioters’ while reporting on the incident, but glorified protesters in Hong Kong as democracy heroes. “[Pelosi] once referred to the Hong Kong riots as ‘a beautiful sight to behold’,” the Global Times said in the tweet. In Hong Kong, protesters were demanding democracy, while those in the US were subverting democracy,” she said. But the opposite appears to be the case, with Beijing imposing a National Security Law in Hong Kong and recent crackdowns on Hong Kong pro-democracy figures and activists by the police.

Source: The Standard January 07, 2021 09:56 UTC