“The U.S. has become addicted to quitting groups and scrapping treaties,” Zhao said, according to a Reuters report.
Since his inauguration in January of 2017, Trump has espoused the need for his administration to take an “America First” approach to foreign policy.
The U.S. president has now pulled out of an international pact to tackle the climate emergency, the Iran nuclear deal, the cultural agency UNESCO, the UN Human Rights Council, the Open Skies Treaty and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty with Russia.
It's a message that won't have much trouble taking hold.
We were catching up with a friend who retired recently from his job as part of the LHC team at CERN in Geneva. The team is made up of scientists from all around the world.
He said that the US has become the laughingstock of world. People can't believe how quickly and how far we've fallen.
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Chinese state media has mocked President Donald Trump over the ongoing George Floyd protests, with one newspaper editor telling the commander-in-chief not to "hide behind" law enforcement.
As demonstrations against police brutality have spread to cities across the U.S. in the wake of Floyd's death, Chinese propaganda outlets have called instances of rioting "retribution" for American support of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters.
The state mouthpieces have also called on U.S. politicians to solve problems in America before "trying to create new problems" in other countries.
"Mr. President, don't hide behind the Secret Service," Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin tweeted on Saturday. "Negotiate with them, just like you urged Beijing to talk to Hong Kong rioters."
Xijin later peddled an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that "Hong Kong rioters" had infiltrated the U.S. and were the "mastermind of violent protests" impacting cities across the country.
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