Crisis The assault on the Capitol and the reactions, live
USA Congress ratifies Joe Biden's victory and Donald Trump promises an "orderly transition"
Reactions Europe, dismayed by the assault on the Capitol: "An unacceptable attack on democracy"
Cracks in the American Democratic Model.
A system in decline
.
Washington's bubble of freedoms has burst.
It was a slap of karma
.
An international coalition must intervene to ensure the stability of the country.
It is the end of the United States as the first power ...
Many were the
phrases that both Chinese state media and users on
social
networks shared on Thursday
.
While the rest of the democratic countries watched with amazement and horror the assault on the Washington Capitol, in China the reaction was quite different, a
mixture of sarcasm and mockery
.
Beijing has found in the chaos caused by the supporters of Donald Trump the best excuse to
defend its policies
, which are the antipodes of the democratic ideology of the West, but
whose authoritarianism is effective at stopping any protests
and persecuting dissidents.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman
Hua Chunying
made a brief comment about what happened in Washington at a press conference.
"China hopes that Americans can enjoy peace, stability and security as soon as possible, but they must reflect on why there are people and media in the United States offering such a different narrative when it comes to protests in that country or in Hong Kong. "said Hua.
"What happened on the US Capitol and America's response has burst the bubbles of democracy, freedom, and universal values that the United States has long used to convince others," says
Shen Yi
, a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs from Fudan University, Shanghai.
The assault on the Capitol has provided
fuel for the propaganda channels of the Chinese Communist Party to remember similar episodes
that occurred on their side and that the United States defended so much.
Specifically, when pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong occupied the parliament of the former colony in 2019. It is true that there were violent scenes without justification very similar to those in Washington.
But the context, as much as Beijing strives to put it on the same level, is quite different.
While protesters in Hong Kong demanded democracy, the extremists on Capitol Hill were seeking to
disrupt a transfer of powers to a legitimately elected president
at the polls.
It does not matter, because for many in China, the deaths and arrests in Washington are the result of the chaos of a collapsing system.
Regarding the comparison with Hong Kong, in the Chinese media and networks it has been a famous phrase by
Nancy Pelosi
, president of the US Congress, which they have turned to use in their favor.
"A beautiful view,"
Pelosi tweeted in 2019 attaching photos of a large demonstration in Hong Kong that in China they associated with the seizure of Parliament.
"It now remains to be seen if she will say the same about recent events on Capitol Hill,"
the state tabloid
Global Times reported
.
This newspaper featured the following headline in a big way: "Chinese netizens mock the riots in the US Capitol as karma."
On
, the Chinese Twitter, the hashtag about the assault (#TrumpSupportersStormCapitol) had more than
800 million visits
.
"It was like watching an exciting action movie!" Wrote one user.
"People remember the anguish and anger they felt when they saw the rioters in Hong Kong breaking into the Legislative Council. Instead of condemning the violence, American politicians praised the courage of the rioters. So many of this now see it. as a revenge, "says an article in the state newspaper
People Daily
.
The Central Commission for Disciplinary Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party released a
statement by political columnist Lan Linzong, saying that America's image as a "beacon of democracy and freedom" has been shattered
.
"This beautiful sight [in reference to Pelosi's comment] is just one of many outbreaks resulting from deep-seated internal conflicts in the United States," Lan wrote.
The day Trump copied Maduro
The Bolivarian revolution followed with expectation the assault by the mob of followers of its great enemy, Donald Trump, on the US Capitol and subsequent events.
Even
his Foreign Ministry was concerned
about the acts of violence "which only reflect the profound crisis that the US political and social system is currently experiencing."
"With this unfortunate episode, the United States suffers the same thing that they have generated in other countries with their policies of aggression,"
continued the government note, which even advanced an aspiration: that "the American people can finally open a new path towards stability and social justice".
Nicolás Maduro himself retweeted the comments of his closest collaborators, manipulating the images of January 2020, when military troops prevented the President of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, and a good number of deputies from accessing the Federal Legislative Palace, even forcing them to skip a gate.
The repression deployed that day by the Bolivarian National Guard was only one of the
multiple systematic siege actions deployed during the five-year
parliamentary
term
with an opposition majority.
Several deputies of the democratic unit took advantage of the incidents in the Capitol to disseminate images of the Bolivarian site against the National Assembly (AN), such as the assault on July 5, 2017. That day, blood ran and
10 deputies were injured
, in images that traveled the world.
It was not the only assault or the only beating.
The big difference is that
in all of them there was military and police collusion, even paramilitary
, such as the shooting and stoning a year ago when the AN's board of directors tried to approach the Federal Palace taken over by Chavista forces.
Since 2016, radical groups paid by the Chavista Mayor's Office in Caracas have
relentlessly harassed politicians and journalists
, first with tomatazos and when their price rose due to inflation they began to do so with stones and bags of excrement.
"Shameless. Cynical. Caraduras. The usurping tyranny condemning the violence in the US Congress. Immoral you, with your thugs (criminals) assaulted the AN, almost killed the deputy Americo de Grazia. Now they beat each other on the chest. Fakers! ", underlined the leader
Andrés Velásquez
.
"The cynicism of the dictatorship has no limits: they kidnap deputies, constantly besiege Parliament, assault parliamentarians, snatch powers from the AN, militarize the headquarters, are accused of crimes against humanity and issue a statement," complained
Juan Guaidó
, who remains at the head of the Delegate Commission that has replaced the plenary session of deputies of the AN of 2015 to continue its work during this year.
The privileged relationship maintained for two years with Washington did not prevent
Guaidó himself from expressing his rejection "because the attack on the Capitol is against his democracy
.
"
Venezuelan radicals who are staunch defenders of Trump, both in Venezuela and in the United States, maintain a belligerent attitude against Guaidó for not supporting him in his attempts to hinder the inauguration of Joe Biden.
The opposition leader, who was one of those wounded during the 2017 Chavista mob assault, stressed that the "strength of democracy lies in the solidity and institutional independence, in the vigor of its social fabric and citizen awareness."
Guaidó has received in the last hours the support of the United Kingdom, which
continues to recognize him as interim president
one day after the EU confirmed its doubts about the new political stage that began with the so-called constitutional continuity.
Moscow takes the opportunity to criticize the US
The Kremlin is silent for the moment about the disturbances in the US Capitol but the Russian Government did take the opportunity to criticize the American political panorama.
"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not comply with modern democratic standards, which gives rise to numerous violations,"
said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zajarova.
It was the current system that prevails in the United States that has caused, in his opinion, "the division of society that is now seen in the United States."
The government spokeswoman added that Moscow hopes that "the friendly American people will go through this dramatic moment in their history with dignity."
Moscow views the excesses in the US with a slight feeling of revenge.
"The boomerang has turned against them," said
the leader of the Communist Party of Russia, Gennady Zyuganov.
"It was they who launched color revolutions" in other parts of the world, and "overthrew leaders in North Africa or Yugoslavia and overthrew a government in Ukraine, they even had a chance in Belarus last year."
"Now they are paying for it," he concluded.
The head of the Foreign Committee of the Russian Parliament, the ultra-nationalist Leonid Slutsky also spoke of the boomerang of the 'color revolutions' and certified that the US can no longer present itself as a global "beacon of democracy".
Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachov added that the violent events in Washington on Wednesday showed that US democracy "is limping."
"The events in Washington have several causes that led people to take to the streets (...) The tricks of the vote count on November 3 and now that of Georgia," said Kosachov.
"The losers have enough grounds this time to accuse the winners of fraud, apparently the American democracy is limping," the legislator wrote on his Facebook account.
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