A CNN reporter was accused Thursday of pushing China’s propaganda over a tweet linking the pro-Trump crowd that invaded the Capitol to Hong Kong protesters acting in defiance of the Chinese Communist Party regime.
After the violence that interrupted the election victory of President-elect Joe Biden, CNN International correspondent Will Ripley juxtaposed an image of protesters scaling the outer walls of the Capitol building with an image of protesters who overthrew the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Kong in 2019.
“Hong Kong, 2019 – Protesters invade the Legislative Council in Washington, 2021 – Protesters invade the US Capitol,” said Ripley as a caption to the tweet.
Ripley then explained, “The top image shows HK’s pro-democracy movement and the bottom image shows America’s pro-Trump movement. Two very different groups, but both feeling marginalized / persecuted and destroying a government they don’t trust. “
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Ripley’s comparison was strongly condemned by critics.
“Morally repulsive,” reacted former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss. “This is the CCP’s propaganda being carried out by a CNN reporter.”
“This is a COMPLETELY WRONG comparison,” exclaimed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law. “Protesters in Hong Kong are fighting for legitimate demands for democracy and freedom. They have become a symbol of autocracy and political persecution. I don’t think so. that you want to equate the Hong Kong congress with the United States. “
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“An embarrassingly bad tweet from a top journalist,” wrote reporter Melissa Chan. “One group is a conspiring white nationalist Q mob wanting to usurp the results of a democratic election, the other group WANTS free and fair elections while opposing authoritarian Communist China.”
“This comparison with is very wrong on many levels. If you don’t know what you’re saying, just don’t say it, ”wrote journalist Vivienne Chow.
“I really believe that someone who speaks Mandarin or Cantonese and has a good grasp of the political climate in Hong Kong would not make that comparison,” tweeted Korean Herald business reporter Hyunsu Yim.
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“The media is moving from ‘Yesterday’s events were bad’ to ‘Comrades, bow down to President Xi’ in surprising haste,” joked Grabien’s founder and news editor Tom Elliott.
“This is a very bad tweet,” said The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg.
CNN did not immediately respond to Fox News’s request for comment.
In recent months, CNN has been repeatedly accused by critics of promoting Chinese government propaganda during the coronavirus pandemic.
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In April, Donald Trump Jr. scoffed at the star of CNN anti-Trump reporter Jim Acosta, who accused his father of “using the scapegoat” in China during the height of the outbreak.
“Perhaps it is time to change the name from CNN to Xi NN. It is much more appropriate ”, joked Trump Jr ..
On the same day, CNN.com was criticized for publishing an article that critics said “literally published Chinese propaganda”, citing a Chinese government-controlled media that boasted of the regime’s supposed control over dissemination within one of its branches military.
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CNN subsequently updated its article, changing the headline and editing the story to make it appear somewhat skeptical of China’s claims.
CNN was further ridiculed in November for a report that finally linked the origins of the coronavirus to China, something that critics said was “10 months” late.