China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Urges Biden to ‘Clear Mines’

National Guard troops are shown near the U.S. Capitol following the inauguration of President Joe Biden in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

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China’s state-run media Xinhua published an article on Jan. 21, titled “Farewell, Trump,” which was ranked first as top news. This one-paragraph article with less than 200 Chinese characters stated: “Trump steps down ... in the past four years, the world has not seen America become ‘great again’... the ‘beacon’ is collapsing, and ‘a city upon a hill’ myth is being shattered.”