![]() Not to miss out on the political theatrics and potential marketing coup of the summit, several baijiu companies quickly seized the opportunity, borrowing the poster from People’s Daily to put out special editions of their wares. Whether on the level of civilization or on the level of national strength, what qualifications does it have to criticize China, the only society and greatest civilization that has continued to develop and evolve for thousands of years? It is an anti-intellectual and inhumane society where thousands of ordinary people died from the coronavirus epidemic. The United States is a sinful, barbaric, and evil country that made its fortune by slaughtering indigenous people, enslaving black people, and colonizing, killing and looting all over the world. Riffing on these remarks, the top comment for The People’s Daily post reads: ![]() Translation of Yang Jiechi’s remarks in this post: Chinese people won’t accept American, The United States does not have the qualifications to condescendingly talk to China. Quick to harp on the continuities and changes over the past 120 years, the most popular comment, which gained more than 160,000 likes, said “120 years later, the world is still the same, but China is no longer that China. Among other deprivations, the treaty forced the Qing government to pay a massive indemnity. The 1901 image depicts the signing of the Boxer Protocols of 1901 in which the Eight-Nation Alliance of the world’s dominant imperial powers imposed on China after anti-imperialist violence climaxed during the Boxer Rebellion. With nearly 2 million likes, the People’s Daily’s most popular post featured a side-by-side image of a diplomatic meeting 120 years ago with a photo of the Alaskan summit, contrasting the shame of unequal treaties imposed on China in the 19th and early 20th centuries with the equal footing on which China and the US now stand. Accompanied by memes, one-liners, and videos playing triumphant background music, The People’s Daily shed its perception as the CCP’s button-upped and turgid official news outlet by steeping its message in the patterns and norms of internet use more familiar to China’s younger social-media-savvy generations. State-media accounts, specifically The People’s Daily Weibo account, received a remarkable increase in traffic while its posts garnered millions of likes and comments.
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