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America Has Fallen
As the result of its racial reckoning and coronavirus mishandling, the global standing of the United States has reached new lows.
On Saturday, May 30th, 2020, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department tweeted “This is a pivotal moment for the world. It will go down in history. Freedom loving people around the world must stand with the rule of law and hold to account the Chinese Communist Party, which has flagrantly broken its promises to the people of Hong Kong.”
A spokeswoman for the Chinese government responded, in a Twitter clap-back of international proportions, with a screenshot of the tweet and “I can’t breathe”, the final words of both Eric Garner and George Floyd before they were killed by police.
A few days prior to that, the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tweeted “The racist and fascist approach that led to the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis as a result of torture has not only deeply saddened all of us, but it has also become one of the most painful manifestations of…
