Besides the CCP’s violations of religious minorities’ rights, ridiculing one in distress is certainly not the signature of a cultured and rich civilization. Even the Chinese embassy in France shared the video on Twitter. The Chinese government posted a video on social media to mock America’s deteriorating health situation after the number of COVID-19 patients increased rapidly last year. Moreover, many Chinese jeered at the alarming health situation in the US in 2020. “The unprecedented mob in the Capitol, a symbol of the US system, is the result of the US society’s severe division and the country’s failure to control such division… the US political system has degraded,” it read. Birtles, B 2018, 'China mocks Australia over Indo-Pacific concept it says. China mocks India’s coronavirus crisis on social media, deletes post after backlash The post on Weibo juxtaposed two photographs one showing a rocket launch in China and another showing Covid-19 victims being cremated in India. Besides average Chinese people, state-run media house Global Times also took sadistic pleasure and called the unrest a “beautiful sight.” Some Weibo users even called the development “the plain and true and sincere feelings of the Chinese.” One user wrote, “China fights the virus while America riots-grateful to our motherland!” Commenting on a photo from the riot shared by Chinese news channel CCTV, a Chinese national said, “This photo could be on the cover of Time Magazine-it’s a testament to this era!” The Chinese newspaper People’s Daily even went ahead with calling the Capitol riot a “collapse” of the US system. Bachhawat, A 2018, 'India still wary of the Quad amid its own China reset'. The hyper-nationalistic netizens of China erupted in joy after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in January this year. It is not unusual for the Chinese to mock people, communities, or countries who are in distress. Rather, they enjoyed ridiculing others, it seems.
CCP officials and the Xi Jinping-led government should feel a sense of regret as their failure to contain the viral infection in 2019 has crippled normal life worldwide and killed more than 3.47 million. Editor and Sinologist Manya Koetse notes that the CCP’s Weibo account has 15 million followers, and the “insensitive” post was shared over 9,000 times before its deletion. Yaqiu Wang, who is a China researcher at Human Rights Watch, raised concerns over the “lack of decency” in both the Chinese government and the mindset of CCP officials. The Chinese government’s insensitive behavior created an uproar in India and elsewhere. The caption read, “China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire.” After a global backlash, the CCP deleted the callous post. The post, which has since been deleted, outraged many Chinese citizens as much as it appalled us. The headline read: How China lights fires vs how India lights fires. A second wave of infection has added more than 10 million cases in four months and led to an acute shortage of medical care.On Chinese social media platform Weibo, the CCP Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission posted two images-one showing a rocket launch in China and another of pyres burning at night in India. It mocked the devastating situation in India with side-by-side pictures of a Chinese rocket being launched into space and Indians cremating their dead. However, the callous post by the CCP Commission sparked a massive online furore following which it was removed from the social media website. Around the same time they were posted, Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolences to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and promised to provide support to help India tackle the COVID-19 crisis. Th controversial Weibo post mocking India’s funeral pyres, via Twitter.
The circumstances behind the mean-spirited posts were unclear. With the Chinese Communist leadership taking an assertive stance, combative remarks made by its diplomats have found a receptive audience at home who sees them as a show of national strength. Under global scrutiny over its response to the Coronavirus, a Chinese mouthpiece stooge on Sunday called India the 'new epicentre' of the pandemic. The China-India border disputes, which led to a bloody clash on the Himalayas last year, also fueled nationalistic sentiment against India. National pride has been running high on the tightly-controlled Chinese internet this year, partly thanks to China’s success in containing COVID-19 outbreaks and state-backed campaigns against Western consumer brands. These posts were removed after they came under much criticism at home and abroad, but they have continued to attract support from an increasingly vocal group of nationalists.
In another post last week, an account run by Chinese police compared the cremation scene in India with the construction of a makeshift hospital in the early days of China’s COVID-19 epidemic, which was largely contained in the first half of 2020. The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission mocked Indias funeral pyres.
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