Chinese post mocking India’s COVID-19 deaths pulled


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Facebook The Chinese Communist Party’s law enforcement body pulled a posting mocking India’s COVID-19 death crisis following fierce backlash online in China, according to a report. The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on Saturday posted on its official Sina Weibo account — the Chinese equivalent of Twitter — sharing side-by-side images of a Chinese missile launch next to cremation fires in India. It was captioned: “China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire.” An accompanying hashtag noted that coronavirus cases in hard-hit India have exceeded 400,000 a day, Bloomberg News reported. The image on the account, which has...