When one looks at Twitter’s top story for the top trend #RacistPresident… the story picked by Twitter is an opinion piece from the SCMP, a news outlet now owned by an organization associated with the Chinese government:
Donald Trump’s racist vitriol appeals to his base. Expect more of it
Now the writer is a regular for the SCMP, though he is a native English speaker not from China.
Still, it’s in the interests of many to highlight problems in the US… and there is no problem bigger than Trump.