Republican lawmakers
fired back after the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-owned
media mocked the wave of violence America experienced over Independence Day
weekend.
Xinhua
News Service, a Chinese state media outlet, attacked the surge of violence over
the Fourth of July weekend in a crass political cartoon of a man firing guns
over a grave marked "Death From Firearm" as what appears to be two
politicians celebrate the holiday.
"How
a gun-happy nation spends its #FourthofJuly weekend," the state media
outlet captioned the picture.
In a
Tuesday email to Fox News, House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member
Michael McCaul, R-Texas, eviscerated the post as showing everyone "just
how crass and violent the Chinese Communist Party is that they have their
propaganda outlets celebrating the deaths of 450 Americans over the July 4th
holiday."
"The
CCP is currently committing genocide against ethnic and religious minorities in
their country and are brutally cracking down on peaceful protesters in Hong
Kong who are simply crying out for freedom," McCaul said.
"Until
they stop murdering and imprisoning their own people, I don’t believe anyone in
the world should look to them for moral advice," he added.
Sen. Marco
Rubio, R-Fla., who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also torched
the CCP, saying there was no way the Chinese government could lie their way to
changing the facts about their regime.
"No
amount of propaganda can change the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is a
murderous, genocidal regime that fears freedom, undermines democracy, destroys
cultures, and betrays its people," Rubio told Fox News in a Tuesday email.
Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told Fox News in a Tuesday statement that it is
"increasingly difficult to distinguish Chinese Communist Party propaganda
from the progressive left’s anti-American incitement."
The state
media outlet was not the only Chinese government mouthpiece to mock the tragedies
that have befallen the U.S. in the past weeks.
Li Yang, a
consul general for the Chinese government in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, openly mocked the victims of the condo collapse in Surfside,
Florida, in multiple tweets as the tragedy unfolded.
"American-style
rescue: very layman in saving people, but too expert in blasting!!!"
Li wrote on Monday, including pictures of the condo
collapse.
"‘America
is coming back!’" the CCP diplomat wrote in a tweet from July 2. "But
none of the people buried in the ruins has come back!!!"
The
bloody Fourth of July weekend ended with at least 150
people killed in more than 400 shootings that
occurred across the country, according to data compiled throughout the weekend.
In New
York City, at least 35 people were shot in 29 shooting incidents from Friday
through Monday, with at least two of the incidents resulting in deaths, the
NYPD said. Overall, at least four murders occurred in the city.
During the
same period last year, the NYPD recorded 55 shooting incidents, 78 shooting
victims and 16 homicides.
In
Chicago, 100 people were struck by gunfire resulting in 18 deaths since Friday
night, according to Chicago police. In nearly all of the cases, no suspects
were taken into custody as detectives continue to investigate the incidents.
Sixty-nine of the more than 400 nationwide shootings occurred in Chicago
alone.
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