China stooge justifies harassment threat against US nationals; gives tit-for-tat logic

A day after US President Donald Trump said that ties with China are 'severely damd', editor of Chinese mouthpiece Global Times has shared a report in which US department has alerted Americans in China that y may be detained and interrogated by  Chinese government. Providing an explanation for aforesaid decision by Chinese government, Chinese frontline response stooge claimed that it was necessary as 'US has persecuted and harassed' many Chinese people studying or working in Trump's America. Moreover, he has slammed Chinese Americans, saying that y too have a guilty conscience.

In what seemed a mockery of McCarthyism - a practice of making accusations of treason without proper evidence - prevalent in America during period of Red Scare, and associated with US senator Joseph McCarthy, Xijin said that he may have come out from his grave, but 'China will never give him a visa.' 

Earlier on Saturday, he had attempted to warn US President. Claiming that 'decoupling from China' won't help in getting him a second term, he said that US should t take more action against China. 

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Friction between  US and China has increased in aftermath of COVID outbreak. Donald Trump has recently said that his administration is mulling over US-China trade deal amid tensed relations with Beijing. He had been blaming China since outbreak of Coronavirus and has pulled out from World Health Organisation (WHO), citing its bias towards China.

US has also anunced visa bans on senior Chinese officials involved in restricting access to foreigners to sensitive region of Tibet and reaffirmed its support for "meaningful automy" for Tibetans. It has also called for an investigation over human rights violations about Uighurs in Xinjiang region of country. Moreover, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that y are considering a ban on TikTok and warned American citizens from using Chinese-origin applications.  US has also backed India after it banned 59 Chinese applications, after violent Galwan valley clash between Indian army and PLA soldiers.

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China to detain Americans?

report referred by editor of Global Times was shared by Fox News - a prominent US-based channel, in which it said that State Department has warned Americans in China to practice “increased caution” as re is a risk of “prolonged interrogations and extended detention”. Quoting an international news ncy, it said that an alert was sent to US citizens in China stating that security personnel may detain and/ or deport U.S. citizens for sending private electronic messs critical of Chinese government.

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