The United States Needs to up Its Game
Compared with the ponderous and sanitized material produced by official sources, meme culture (catchy, visual, anonymously generated online content that can be easily copied and distributed) is way ahead in pointing out discrepancies in Chinese communication and narrative concerning COVID-19. Note the interactions on these tweets from the U.S. and Chinese embassies in Poland:
Photo: “US, China and China CDC (CCDC) flags Blue-jing” by the CDC Global under CC BY 2.0.
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