From left, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are introduced before the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Shortly before President Trump swanned off to Mar-A-Lago to spend Thanksgiving tweeting and golfing, he signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. This bill was authored and shepherded through the Senate by Marco Rubio and its aim is to prevent Communist China from actively cracking down on demonstrators in Hong Kong and to keep Hong Kong’s “special status” intact. He signed a second bill banning the export of crowd-control devices and agents, such as teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and stun guns, to Hong Kong.

The ChiComs were not amused.

“This is a pure interference in China’s internal affairs,” China’s ministry of foreign affairs said on Thursday, hours after the bill was signed by Trump. “This bill, which has been denounced by all Chinese people, including Hong Kong compatriots, is full of prejudice and arrogance. It treats Hong Kong with intimidation and threats,” the ministry said in a statement.

“Such an act will make Chinese people, including Hong Kong compatriots, understand the sinister intentions and hegemonic nature of the US,” the ministry added in comments repeated across Chinese state media. “The US plot is doomed to fail.”

Beijing summoned US ambassador Terry Branstad for the second time in a week to demand that Washington stop interfering in China’s internal affairs. China also promised it would retaliate with “firm countermeasures”.

Asked what those countermeasures would be, Geng Shuang, spokesman for the ministry said in a regular press briefing on Thursday: “What is due to come will eventually come”.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry deputy director Lijian Zhao, unleashed a tweet storm telling the United States to, essentially, remove the log from its own eye.

2. The living conditions of African-Americans are worrisome. The median white family has about 10 times as much wealth as the median black family. African Americans are 2.5 times as likely to be in poverty as whites, about twice as likely to be in unemployment as whites.

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) November 28, 2019

3. Systematic racial discrimination has long existed in US. Ethnic minorities faced restrictions in exercising their voting rights. US made little progress in reducing racial discrimination. Hate crimes were common. Minorities were at an extremely disadvantageous position.

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) November 28, 2019

4. Systematic racial discrimination was criticized by UN. According to UN, US contain racist violent events & demonstrations. US politicians, including the President, propagated nationalist & populist remarks, published racist & xenophobic statements on print & social media.

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) November 28, 2019

5. North Dakota's restrictive voter ID law required voters to bring to an ID that displays a current residential street address. As many of Native Americans live on reservations in rural areas & don't have street addresses, the law disenfranchised thousands of Native Americans.

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) November 28, 2019

6. On Thanksgiving night in 2018, after a gunfire happened at an Alabama mall, a 21-year-old black was mistaken for the gunman & shot 3 times from behind by police. His death is the example of a black killed because he was perceived to be a threat due to the color of skin.

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) November 28, 2019

One can agree with most of what this odious toad has tweeted and still see that a nation that has twice elected a black president has far fewer and different race and ethnicity problems than a nation currently engaged in an actual, no-sh**, by-the-book genocide of its Uighur population.

The most striking thing about this incident is that you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to the Twitter version of an Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg speech. For that matter, you could even think you’d been teleported into a freshman American History class at virtually any US university or a civics class at an increasing number of American high schools.

One would think that the American left would recoil from having their talking points regurgitated by a ChiCom spokesman to attack America and maybe reconsider their life’s work. But I doubt it.