Some Chinese internet users have criticized the pictures of children with small, drooping, wide-set eyes and big foreheads as ugly, offensive and racist. One drawing that showed an inaccurate rendering of the stars on the Chinese flag was accused of being "anti-China." Outrage over the illustrations has dominated Chinese social media discussions since Thursday, when photos of the drawings first circulated online. Some Chinese internet users have criticized the pictures of children with small, drooping, wide-set eyes and big foreheads as ugly, offensive and racist. "Toxic textbooks sound ideological security alarm from infiltration," screamed a headline in the Global Times , a state-run nationalist tabloid, on Monday.

Source: CNN May 31, 2022 09:59 UTC