Chinese State Media Use AOC Quote To Bash America

[Ubiquitous]

Chinese Communist Party-controlled Xinhua News Agency trumpeted a quote from
congresswoman and self-proclaimed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.,
N.Y.) in an effort to characterize "the rate of school shootings in the
United States as a mark of global shame."

"We can't even keep our kids safe from their school being turned into a war
zone," Ocasio-Cortez said in a push for increased gun control at a Wednesday
House hearing.

Xinhua's article showcases the Ocasio-Cortez quote in bold underneath the
congresswoman's official portrait.

Ocasio-Cortez has a long relationship with Chinese state-controlled media,
the Washington Free Beacon reported last year. She thanked the newspaper Sing
Tao, whose owners are members of a Chinese Communist Party advisory group,
for covering a June 2020 roundtable discussion. She also paid the paper that
month and in April 2021 to run ads.

Ocasio-Cortez is not the only left-wing American whom China has used in its
propaganda. The Chinese state-controlled Global Times in May prominently
featured an interview with liberal activist Ryan Deitsch in which he called
the United States a "white supremacist country."

China's efforts to shame the United States may be an attempt to distract from
the Communist regime's contemptible human rights record. China is carrying
out a genocide against its ethnic Uyghur minority.

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