COMMENTS FOR US BECAUSE THEY WERE A FEW COMMENTS MADE ABOUT CHINA ABSOLUTELY CHRISTINA KAMALA HARRIS SLAMMED HER POLITICAL RIVAL DONALD TRUMP FOR HIS HANDLING OF TRADE WITH CHINA AND HIS PRAISE FOR THE CHINESE LEADER XI JING PING. THIS WAS THEIR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. AND SHE SAID TRUMP, QUOTE, SOLD US OUT TO CHINA TO QUOTE, IMPROVE AND MODERNIZE THEIR MILITARY OKAY. LET'S DIG INTO THIS. NOW. TRUMP, WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT, HE LAUNCHED THE TICK BORNE, THE TRADE WAR WITH CHINA IN 2020. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ADDED CHINA'S TOP CHIPMAKER, SMIC, AND DOZENS OF OTHER CHINESE TECH COMPANIES LIKE DJI AND HALLWAY ONTO AN ENTITY LIST EFFECTIVELY CUTTING THEM OFF FROM YOUR SUPPLIERS IT'S IN TECH, A LOOK CONDEMNING CHINA HAS BECOME AN EXERCISE IN BIRTRTISAN UNITY IN WASHINGTON WITH BOTH SIDES OUT TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE TOUGH ON CHINA, WHICH IS OF COURSE THE WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST ECONOMY. DESPITE STARTING A TRADE WAR WITH CHINA TRUMP, HE HAS SHOWED AN APPRECIATION FOR CHINESE LEADER XI JINPING AFTER HE WAS A FEW YEARS AGO SO GIVEN THIS RED CARPET TREATMENT DURING A VISIT TO BEIJING, TRUMP CALLED SHE'D THE QUOTE, KING OF CHINA. HE ALSO PRAISED CHINA FOR BECOMING PRESIDENT FOR LIFE AND CONSOLIDATING POWER AND DURING THIS DEBATE, HARRIS TOOK ISSUE WITH THAT SLAMMING TRUMP FOR HIS AFFINITY FOR XI. WATCH THIS LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS WITH COVID IS HE ACTUALLY THANKED PRESIDENT XI FOR WHAT HE DID DURING COVID. LOOK AT HIS TWEET. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT XI EXCLAMATION POINT. WHEN WE KNOW THAT SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR LACKING AND NOT GIVING US TRANSPARENCY ABOUT THE ORDER VERSIONS OF COVID AND IT'S TRUE IN JANUARY 2020, TRUMP WROTE THIS IN A TWEET. >> LET'S BRING IT UP FOR YOU, QUOTE, CHINA HAS BEEN WORKING VERY HARD TO CONTAIN THE CORONAVIRUS. UNITED STATES GREATLY APPRECIATES THEIR EFFORTS AND TRANSPARENCY. IT WILL ALL WORK OUT WELL IN PARTICULAR, ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, I WANT TO THANK PRESIDENT XI OF THE DEBATE WAS A POWERFUL PLATFORM FOR BOTH CANDIDATES TO SHOWCASE THEIR POLICIES ESPECIALLY FOR HARRIS, WHO ONLY RECENTLY STEP FORWARD AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. BACK TO YOU AND CHRYSTIA, DO WE KNOW HOW CLOSELY PEOPLE IN CHINA WERE FOLLOWING THIS DEBATE AND WHETHER THERE HAS BEEN ANY SORT OF REACTION TO IT? ABSOLUTELY. CHINA IS WATCHING AND WATCHING VERY CLOSELY. IN FACT, ON CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA, THE DEBATE WENT VIRAL AND IT GENERATED A HOST OF COMMENTS LIKE THIS ONE WE'VE COLLECTED THEM FOR OUR VIEWERS LIKE THIS ONE, QUOTE TRUMP AND HARRIS'S FIRST BATCH IS FULL OF GUNPOWDER AND THEN THERE WAS THAT MOMENT IN THE DEBATE WHEN DONALD TRUMP CALLED KAMALA HARRIS, A MARXIST. AND THAT WAS THE PRECISE MOMENT WHEN CHINA'S SOCIALS JUST LIT UP WITH MEMES AND HOT TAKES LIKE THIS 11 THAT ISN'T SAYING QUOTE, IS THIS A COMPETITION OF WHO IS MORE LOYAL TO THE PARTY LAW? THE HARRIS TRUMP DEBATES WAS THE LEADING. IT WAS IN FACT, THE NUMBER ONE TRENDING TOPIC ON THE CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WEIBO THIS MORNING, CHRISTINA,