While the unrest in US cities has been widely reported by international media, China’s interest comes at a time when relations between the two are particularly strained. For some analysts, the Chinese media coverage of the protests echoed their reporting on the coronavirus situation in the United States. “That’s the main message: the US is not doing good.”Some Chinese media have made comparisons between the US protests and those in Hong Kong, the latest flashpoint in US-China tensions. Trump has begun the process of eliminating special US treatment for Hong Kong to punish Beijing’s decision to impose new national security laws on the territory. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying wrote on Twitter on Saturday “I can’t breathe” in response to a tweet from US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus criticising China’s actions in Hong Kong.

Source: bd News24 June 01, 2020 10:18 UTC