{"id":462674,"date":"2021-04-30T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462674"},"modified":"2021-04-30T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:50:42","slug":"chinese-embassy-posts-anti-semitic-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-embassy-posts-anti-semitic-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Embassy Posts Anti-Semitic Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinese-embassy-posts-anti-semitic-picture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.542288557214\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">China deletes picture of Grim Reaper with Star of David scythe<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4215.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Chinese flag \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 April 30, 2021 11:44 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"62.348115299335\">\n<p>The Chinese embassy in Japan tweeted a since-deleted cartoon showing anti-American and anti-Semitic imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The image, which was posted Thursday evening with a Japanese caption that roughly translates to, &#8220;If the United States brought \u2018democracy&#8221; it would be like this,&#8217; depicted a Grim Reaper-like figure wrapped in the American flag carrying a scythe bearing Israel&#8217;s Star of David flag. The scythe is shown leaving a trail of blood as the reaper opens doors with the names of countries such as Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Egypt, in a rebuke of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-98.png\" alt width=\"500\" height=\"810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though the tweet has since been deleted, the Chinese embassy\u2019s social media behavior sparked backlash from the foreign policy community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sad to see Beijing\u2019s \u2018diplomacy&#8217; stoop to this level,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewSErickson\/status\/1387931543797215235?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> Naval War College professor and China scholar Andrew Erickson. &#8220;Perhaps China&#8217;s diplomatic corps, beginning with [Chinese ambassador to Israel]&nbsp;Cai Run would care to explain exactly what is depicted on the \u2018scythe?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time China\u2019s diplomats have used the image to blast the United States and Israel. In May 2020, the Chinese embassy in France posted the same picture to its Twitter account with the caption, &#8220;Who\u2019s next?&#8221; The embassy later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/chinese-embassy-in-france-tweets-anti-us-anti-israel-imagery-in-error-629403\">claimed<\/a> the picture was posted in error but did not say if the account was hacked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security China deletes picture of Grim Reaper with Star of David scythe  The Chinese flag \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 April 30, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893621,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}