‘With slave labor’? Axios’ hot take about ‘how China won 2020’ gets reality checked

China will end this year as the only major country in the world to see its economy grow rather than shrink. https://t.co/Q5ct8Ak2rX

— Axios (@axios) December 29, 2020

Naturally the Lincoln Project used that to take a swipe at President Trump:

China will end 2020 as the only major country to see its economy grow, not shrink. Is this what #MAGA looks like to you @realDonaldTrump …https://t.co/ZdSqNcbQGX

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 29, 2020

But back in the real world, Guy Benson was among those tagging a reality check onto the Axios story:

With slave labor, aggressive lying & total indifference to basic human rights, including life? pic.twitter.com/4G9RAQZpqu

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) December 30, 2020

That and so much more:

You left out “starting a pandemic.”

— Rachael Larimore (@RachaelBL) December 30, 2020

Releasing and dispersing a deadly pathogen across the world maybe

— Just Sayin’ (@JustSayin_Yo) December 30, 2020

The list goes on!

One can’t honestly assess China in 2020 without addressing their concentration camps, crackdown in Hong Kong, and their misinformation in the early stages of the pandemic.

It’s hard to say China “won” this year if you value human rights and life.https://t.co/Fu2OM8E6fI

— Alex Spurrier (@alspur) December 29, 2020

All hail communist China and its concentration camps.

China's economic growth makes it the winner of 2020 – Axios https://t.co/WdXGhUvD0z

— Rev. Ducati? (@Reverend_Ducati) December 30, 2020

Building an economy on slave labor, made up numbers, and prison terms for those that expose the Communist Regime’s lies is not “winning.”https://t.co/hGlXzHAgkw

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) December 29, 2020

Also, it depends on what your definition of “won 2020” means:

“That ratio would suggest that with Wuhan home to about 11 million people, as many as 500,000 residents may have been infected, nearly 10 times more than the 50,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases reported by health authorities in mid-April” https://t.co/LjTYKwRvCQ

— Amesh Adalja (@AmeshAA) December 30, 2020

CNN acknowledged that this week after almost a year’s worth of parroting CCP propaganda, and they’d still probably agree with the Axios headline.