Hu Xijin, Editor-in-Chief of Global Times, wrote an article critical of the US in the Global Times (February 18) and portrayed it as an incompetent country. He said "The extreme cold weather in the central and southern US has caused at least 31 deaths, leaving a million families to endure days without electricity. Texas, a US state with huge resources, has been severely hit. This is not supposed to be the scenario in the US - the world's most developed country. But what kind of scenarios are supposed to happen there? COVID-19 has taken nearly 500,000 lives in the country. Was that supposed to occur? Yet it is happening. The US has once again fallen down from the altar. The Chinese people care about this because we used to treat the country as a standard of modern governance. Since the 1980s, many Chinese intellectuals idealized the US, and took it for granted that the US-style system could effectively eliminate various drawbacks that the Chinese people hate to see in our own country. But China has developed to a level where we no longer need to look up to the US." In contrast, he said "China is precisely the country that invests in more efforts to improve and adjust itself. Chinese society and government attach great importance to drawing lessons from any mistake or misconduct. In the past, we thought the West had better capabilities of self-correction, but now this is proving to be false. We have overestimated them. China is doing better and better than them in correcting its own problems. This is why China has made rapid progress in recent years."
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