China’s state-run Global Times propaganda outlet celebrated reports from South Korea on Sunday indicating that police had opened an investigation into an anti-China conservative group for “insulting the Chinese embassy.”

The Times , citing pro-regime “experts,” praised leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-myung for having “sent positive signals of friendliness toward China” and the alleged police investigation as a vote of confidence from the Lee government towards the Communist Party. The South Korean reports do not indicate that Lee is directly involved in the investigation in any way, though he recently called for government measures to silence alleged “fake news” on YouTube, which some polls indicate as many as half of South Koreans use to gather news.

The South Korean news o

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