When massive protests over the killing of George Floyd – and countless other Black people –  at the hands of police began breaking out across the United States, the glee among Chinese propagandists was practically palpable. Chinese state-linked media are drawing a strong narrative connecting the protests with broader failures of the US democratic systems. But this narrative isn’t exactly new. According to Mike Zi Yang, a Senior Analyst at RSIS, America’s shortcomings on race have long been a salient theme in China’s denunciation of the US on the international stage.