After the latest round of U.S.-China trade talks ended on May 10 with no agreement, China’s state-run media ramped up its propaganda efforts to portray the United States as an adversary, blaming it for the lack of progress in negotiations, while also warning citizens to brace for hard times ahead.
“Washington tried to bring up terms that either harmed the sovereignty and dignity of China, or that were seriously unequal and unrealistic. Those requests have made the negotiations more difficult,” read one of two editorials published by Global Times, a hawkish newspaper published under the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, People’s Daily, on May 12.
