China scores propaganda boost from US protests and COVID-19 woes

Beijing stokes nationalist fires to divert attention from economic problems

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China is watching as the U.S. is hit by race protests and the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world. (Nikkei Montage/Source photo by AP)

ANDREW SHARP, Nikkei Asian Review deputy politics and economy editor

TOKYO -- The U.S. is being torn apart by race protests and has the most coronavirus deaths in the world, and China appears to be reveling in the situation -- despite its own shortcomings. 

Hu Xijin, the editor of the Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party tabloid, has been trolling the U.S. on a daily basis.

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