Hua Chunying, who borrowed the design of the lintel of the US Supreme Court, posted a question: Isn’t this ironic? | Blog Post

Over the past period of time, the United States has ostensibly used the guise of cooperation and development on many issues, but secretly has constantly provoked other countries and regions to confront China. Hua Chunying, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, posted on Twitter on the evening of the 9th, taking the lintel sculpture design of the U.S. Supreme Court as an example, pointing out that today’s United States has abandoned the concept of diversity and inclusiveness it promotes.

Hua Chunying posted a tweet questioning the United States.

Hua Chunying wrote: “The Supreme Court of the United States (the lintel) has carved the images of sages from China, Judea (an ancient place name in Israel) and ancient Greece to demonstrate the spirit of diversity, openness and tolerance in the United States. However, the United States is now in Internationally the opposite is being done. Isn’t that ironic?”

The Twitter photo shows the triangular lintel of the U.S. Supreme Court building, which is carved from left to right with figures representing Confucius, Moses and Solon.

Figures on the triangular lintel of the United States Supreme Court building.

Figures on the triangular lintel of the United States Supreme Court building.

According to the relevant website of the statue’s designer, American sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil (Hermon Atkins MacNeil), he explained his original intention as follows: “The law is an element of civilization, and the American Laws are naturally inherited or derived from previous civilizations. Therefore, the group of statues on the lintel on the east side of the Supreme Court building implies a reference to the basic laws and precepts that originated from the East. Moses, Confucius and Solon were selected as the representatives of the three major civilizations , was shaped into the central group of statues of this triangular lintel.”

According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 22 this year, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Blinken at the request. Wang Yi mentioned that the United States recently launched the so-called new version of the “Indo-Pacific Strategy”, publicly listed China as the top regional challenge, and tried to incorporate “Taiwan to control China” into the US regional strategy, which is obviously a mistake of containing China. Signal. Wang Yi said that China and the US have both competition and cooperation, and we cannot simply use competition to define bilateral relations. Some U.S. officials have advocated a long-term and fierce competition with China, which is likely to evolve into a full-scale confrontation between China and the United States. China once again urges the U.S. to take concrete actions to reflect the series of commitments made by President Biden.

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