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China Trolls Trump Over Riots, Hits U.S. Over Response To Hong Kong

Emily Zanotti
China Trolls Trump Over Riots, Hits U.S. Over Response To Hong Kong
Photo credit: Xinhua/Ju Peng via Getty Images

Chinese officials tried to use violence, which spread across the United States over the weekend, to troll President Donald Trump, whose administration, just last week, took a strong stand against China’s decision to exert political control over Hong Kong.

In a series of social media posts over the weekend, Chinese information ministers and media loyalists tried desperately to connect the unrest in cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., to anti-Chinese, pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which China is now trying to extinguish with a series of draconian legislative measures.

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