A cartoon published by Xinhua News Service, a media outlet owned by the Chinese Communist Party, satirized the violence American cities faced that left 142 dead over the Fourth of July weekend.
The cartoon depicts two men in business suits clinking glasses of wine and chanting ‘to freedom,’ while a crazed-looking man next to them finishes their sentence with ‘of shooting.’
The depicted gunman is wearing a shirt adorned with a skull and surrounded by a spray of blood as he blasts off a long gun and pistol. He’s standing over a gravestone that reads, ‘death from firearm.’
China Xinhua News posted the cartoon on Twitter with the caption, ‘How a gun-happy nation spends its #FourthofJuly weekend.’
US streets were bathed in blood over Independence Day weekend with 142 killed in 379 separate shootings, with Chicago and Philadelphia among the locations worst-hit.
A cartoon published by Xinhua News Service, a media outlet owned by the Chinese Communist Party, satirized the violence American cities faced over the Fourth of July weekend
Many Twitter users responded to the cartoon with their own digs against the Chinese Communist Party and how it treats its citizens. Many posted the iconic 1989 photo of a man protesting in front of tanks in Tiananmen Square.
Twitter user Jay T wrote, 'How CCP spends theirs,' with two photos: one a cartoon depicting a Chinese solider attacking a citizen while both of them wear party hats to celebrate the party's 100th anniversary. The other shows a someone with a sign that reads, 'Up to 1.5million people killed in China for their organs.'
User Moon13 was one of several Twitter users to comment with a famed 2017 photo showing detainees in a political education camp in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang. He added the caption, 'How a camp-happy nation celebrates it's party's 100th anniversary.'
And Jessica O'Donnell, a social media editor for conservative outlet The Blaze, commented on the tweet, 'When you stop holding thousands in concentration camps, complete with forced sterilization, then you can chime in.'
Republican lawmakers were also quick to slam the media outlet and its cartoon for poking fun at American tragedies. In a Tuesday email to Fox News, House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas, said that the cartoon shows "just how crass and violent the Chinese Communist Party is that they have their propaganda outlets celebrating the deaths of 450 Americans over the July 4th holiday."
He added, "The CCP is currently committing genocide against ethnic and religious minorities in their country and are brutally cracking down on peaceful protesters in Hong Kong who are simply crying out for freedom. Until they stop murdering and imprisoning their own people, I don’t believe anyone in the world should look to them for moral advice.
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also branded Chinese media as hypocrites and told Fox News that "No amount of propaganda can change the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is a murderous, genocidal regime that fears freedom, undermines democracy, destroys cultures and betrays its people.”
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