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New | ‘She’s just like ‘big mouth’ Donald Trump': Chinese paper slams US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton over her tweet on Xi Jinping

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US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called Chinese President Xi Jinping 'shameless' for presiding over a UN conference on gender inequality. Photo: AFP

A Chinese newspaper has compared US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to her rival candidate Donald Trump for her tweet saying it is “shameless” for China’s president to preside over a UN conference on gender equality.

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Rights activists had criticised China’s co-hosting of Sunday’s UN Women conference because of its detentions of women, including five who spent 37 days in detention this year over their plans to advocate against sexual harassment on public transport.

Clinton tweeted on Sunday: “Xi hosted a meeting on women’s rights at the UN while persecuting feminists? Shameless.”

The Global Times, which often publishes nationalist editorials, wrote on Monday in its Chinese edition that Clinton’s words – which it did not mention – were “vulgar, extremely lacking in manners” and called to mind “big mouth” Trump.

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The Communist Party-run paper suggested Clinton was “alarmed and jealous” at Trump’s continuing excellent showing in polls and so had resorted to using his style of language.

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