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While it is questionable whether the Chinese government genuinely cares about universal human rights and racial equality, its propaganda apparatus has seemingly become an active ¡°supporter¡± of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement ¡ª mostly in the form of lambasting the U.S. government and system.
As Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian , ¡°Racism against ethnic minorities in the U.S. is a chronic disease of American society.¡± In a tweet, another Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, ¡°I can¡¯t breathe,¡± which has become a rallying cry for BLM, to U.S. State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus¡¯ of Beijing¡¯s Hong Kong policies.
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