Chinese media mocked the laxity of the American response to the pandemic with an animated film that ended with the Statue of Liberty on an intravenous drip. Later, China’s Global Times wrote that Chinese people were calling the January 6 insurrection “karma” and “retribution”: “Seeing such scenarios, many Chinese will naturally recall that Nancy Pelosi once praised the violence of Hong Kong protesters as a ‘beautiful sight to behold.’ ” (Pelosi, of course, had praised peaceful demonstrations, not violence.)
