Reuters (May 6)
As criticism mounts, both domestically and overseas, the Chinese Communist Party has come out forcefully to “fight any comment or action that distorted, doubted or repudiated its COVID policy.” It stresses that “relaxing COVID controls… would lead to large-scale infections.” The People’s Daily newspaper even used an editorial to dispute “accusations China’s COVID policy was disrupting global economy and trade.”
Tags: Accusations, CCP, Controls, COVID policy, Criticism, Disrupting, Distorted, Economy, Fight, Global, Infections, People's Daily, Repudiated, Trade
Korea Times (September 15)
South Koreans were not pleased by an editorial in the English version of the state-run People’s Daily, which stated “”Korean conservatives have become stupid after eating too much kimchi.” In response, the Korea Times noted that “being a state mouthpiece, the paper is deceitful as well,” before taking a shot at Chinese journalists. “People do not become stupid only because they eat specific foods. They become so because they are unable to think logically due to blind emotion or obedience (to government authorities).”
Tags: China, Conservatives, Deceitful, Journalists, Kimchi, Mouthpiece, Obedience, People's Daily, South Korea, Stupid
