Angela Merkel Condemns Charlottesville Violence as ‘Racist’ and ‘Evil’<br />United States said that Of course that country is torn,<br />Another article showed pictures of people holding torches under the words "Is this still America?" With relations between the United States<br />and China growing increasingly tense over issues like North Korea and trade, several commentators portrayed the Charlottesville episode as a sign of American chaos, contrasting it with the relative stability of China’s tightly controlled society.<br />14, 2017<br />BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany denounced the deadly violence<br />that erupted around a demonstration by white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend as "racist," "horrifying" and "evil," and called for far-right violence to be condemned worldwide.<br />In China, where the government often highlights social tensions in the United States as a way of undermining<br />democratic ideals, state-run news outlets prominently featured the violence in Charlottesville.<br />Merkel said that It is racist, far-right violence and clear, forceful action must be taken against it, regardless of where in the world it happens,<br />Unlike in the United States, where far-right extremists are free to brandish the emblematic red flags emblazoned with the black swastika<br />against a white circle, all Nazi symbols, including the stiff-armed "Hitler salute," are banned in Germany and Austria.<br />The chancellor declined to criticize the United States, noting that her own country still struggles with anti-Semitism and far-right extremists.
