China Criticizes U.S. for Government Shutdown

Daily CallerChinese state media asserted Sunday morning that the ongoing government shutdown highlights “chronic flaws” in the U.S. political system, strongly arguing that Washington is not the “shining city on the hill” it claims to be.

The U.S. government shut down Friday night over irreconcilable differences between Republicans and Democrats on immigration, with democrats unwilling to yield ground to ensure the protection of illegal immigrants. America’s international rivals, as they have done in the past, are taking note.

“Washington loves to brand itself as a ‘shining city on the hill,'” China’s Xinhua News Agency wrote in an editorial Sunday, “yet the latest government shutdown in the heart of Western democracy has once again exposed its chronic flaws.”

“The Trump administration has backtracked on almost every notable policy Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama had put in place, [but] if there was any legacy that has survived the transfer of power, it was the spirit of noncooperation across party lines,” Xinhua said in its report, calling attention to the government shutdown during the Obama administration over healthcare reform.

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