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Rising xenophobia is being tolerated on the Chinese internet.

In this comic strip cartoon, foreigners are depicted being dragged across the ground, thrown into garbage bins, attacked with a disinfectant spray and kicked around. (1/8)

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The comic is entitled "Foreign Trash Classification: An Illustrated Handbook".

The worker says, "Epidemic prevention work still isn't finished. I never expected I'd have to classify foreign trash!" (2/8)
The comic depicts foreigners being dragged along the ground to be sorted into garbage bins according to alleged misdeeds.

"Tell me, what kind of trash is this?" says the worker. (3/8)
For example:

"In order to avoid the epidemic, he smuggled himself into China. But fortunately he was discovered." (4/8)
The "foreign trash" is then thrown into the garbage bin. (5/8)
The comic and accompanying text support the narrative that the domestic epidemic is stabilized, but that "some foreign trash aren't grateful, and instead don't follow rules and ask for special privileges." (6/8)

Here a foreigner is depicted barking like a dog in a trash bin.
The foreigners, a white man and a black man, are criticized for such actions as "not wearing a surgical face mask", "causing a lot of trouble while under hotel quarantine" and "trying to get their hands on Chinese girls". They are all thrown in the trash. (7/8)
The text concludes:

"To those peaceful and friendly foreigners, we warmly welcome you! But to those foreign trash who think themselves special and behave wildly, please get out of China!!" (end/8)
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