On Tuesday, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times tabloid, accused the US of failing to address its own issues, calling the Boulder shooting a "slaughter."
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"How ridiculous that Washington condemns [the] human rights situation in Xinjiang, a region that has regained peace and harmony from terror attacks when people in the US are massacred by COVID-19 and firearms," he wrote.
The post was retweeted by Zhao Lijian, a top spokesman at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, who in a tweet Tuesday said the US has made "lies of the century" about Xinjiang.
"They do not have qualifications to lecture on #China when so many lives are lost from #COVID19 & people like #GeorgeFloyd cannot even breathe," he said.
Hua Chunying, another senior foreign ministry spokesman, also hit out at the US on Tuesday regarding the rising number of attacks on Asians in the US. Six of the eight people killed in the Atlanta-area shootings were Asian women.
"End the #DOUBLESTANDARD," Hua tweeted. "Stop ganging up to point fingers at others while staying aloof from solving one's own problems."
The remarks are classic examples of China's "wolf warrior" diplomacy.
As Insider has previously reported, top Chinese officials like Zhao have with increasing regularity made aggressive statements about world powers outside of diplomatic settings.
On Wednesday, China also published a 15,000-word report on the human rights situation in the US, the Global Times reported.
Among the seven headings in the report were "Washington's incompetent pandemic control results in tragedies" and "Ethnic minorities suffer racial discrimination."
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