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China demands apology from Danish paper over virus cartoon

2020-01-30 1 Dailymotion

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — As China continues to struggle containing the massive outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, luckily it's still finding time to get its feelings hurt and wasting time asking for apologies. <br />Reuters reports that the Chinese embassy in Denmark has DEMANDED an apology from newspaper Jyllands-Posten after it published a cartoon of the Chinese flag with its five yellow stars replaced with coronavirus particles instead—NAILED IT.<br />In a statement, the embassy said the paper and Danish artist Niels Bo Bojesen should apologize to the Chinese people for publishing the image, captioned "Coronavirus" in their Monday paper edition. <br />The statement whined that "without any sympathy and empathy, it has crossed the bottom line of civilized society and the ethical boundary of free speech and offends human conscience."<br />What exactly does China know about the ethical boundaries of free speech? <br />Anyways, editor-in-chief Jacob Nybroe said the paper had not intended to make fun of the grave situation in China, but refused to apologize. <br />Nybroe told Danish media that, "we cannot apologize for something that we don't believe is wrong." <br />And to be honest...shouldn't the WORLD be one asking for an apology from China for giving us this latest coronavirus epidemic?

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