China Mocks India COVID-19 Crisis On Social Media, Receives Backlash
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A social media post on Weibo compared China s space module launch to India s mass cremations
The post earned backlash from social media users
Xi Jinping had recently expressed his condolences to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese government has received backlash after it appeared to mock India’s COVID-19 crisis.
The Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on Saturday afternoon posted photos of the Tianhe module launch on its official Sina Weibo account. The social media post compared the module’s fuel burn-off to the fire from a mass cremation site in India. It also used a hashtag that referred to India’s new COVID-19 cases, which has surpassed 400,000 a day.
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image captionThe image was posted by an account linked to an official Chinese law enforcement agency
A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese Communist Party has sparked controversy for appearing to mock India over its coronavirus crisis.
The post on Chinese site Weibo showed an image of a rocket launch in China alongside a photo of the bodies of Covid victims being cremated in India.
Text with it read: Lighting a fire in China VS lighting a fire in India.
The post, which appeared on Saturday afternoon, has since been deleted.
It was reportedly published by an account belonging to an official Chinese law enforcement agency - the Communist Party s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - which has millions of followers on Weibo, a popular microblogging site in the country.
China social media post mocks India Covid crisis
A social media post from an account linked to the Chinese Communist party has sparked controversy for appearing to mock India over its coronavirus crisis.
The post on Chinese site Weibo showed an image of a rocket launch in China alongside a photo of the bodies of Covid victims being cremated in India.
Text with it read: Lighting a fire in China VS lighting a fire in India.
The post, which appeared on Saturday afternoon, has since been deleted.
It was reportedly published by an account belonging to an official Chinese law enforcement agency - the Communist Party s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission - which has millions of followers on Weibo, a popular microblogging site in the country.
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) - A social media post by China s top law enforcement body juxtaposing the country s successful launch of a module into space with grim cremation pyres in India was deleted after it sparked online criticism in China.
Photos of the Tianhe module launch and its fuel burn-off were compared with what appeared to be a mass outdoor cremation in India, and captioned China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire .
The post on Saturday (May 1) by the Communist Party s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on its official Sina Weibo account was accompanied by a hashtag noting that new Covid-19 cases in India had surpassed 400,000 a day.
Communist Party of China social media account faces backlash in China after mocking India’s COVID deaths
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‘This is so inappropriate for an official account, it does not represent people of China’
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Screenshot of the post shared on Weibo, by an account maintained by the CPC’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
‘This is so inappropriate for an official account, it does not represent people of China’
A social media account linked to the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) top law enforcement body came under fire in China over the weekend for mocking India’s COVID-19 deaths in a social media post.