Zhao Lijian talks about the U.S. declaration of the Capitol Hill riots as an "attempted coup": the U.S. should deeply reflect on its "democratic deficit"

　　China News Service, Beijing, June 10 (Reporter Huang Yuqin) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on the 10th.

　　A reporter's question: According to reports, on June 9, local time, the US House of Representatives Special Investigation Committee on the riots on Capitol Hill held a hearing and declared the riots on Capitol Hill an "attempted coup".

What is China's comment?

　　Zhao Lijian: The attack on the US Capitol more than a year ago shocked the world and caused widespread concern and strong doubts about American-style democracy among the American people and the international community.

Such an incident in the United States is an "attempted coup d'état", and in other countries it is a "beautiful landscape" and a "color revolution", which once again exposes the essence of the United States' use of double-standard democracy to engage in political manipulation.

　　I want to stress that there is no democracy that is superior to others in the world. Labeling, politicizing, and weaponizing democracy will only harm others in the end.

The United States should deeply reflect on its own "democratic deficit" and effectively stop its wrong words and deeds that create turmoil and division in the world under the guise of democracy.

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