The Chinese Embassy to Denmark wants newspaper Jyllands-Posten to apologize for a drawing of China’s flag with virus symbols instead of the five stars, Eurasia Diary reports citing Bloomberg.
“We express our strong indignation and demand that Jyllands-Posten and (cartoonist) Niels Bo Bojesen reproach themselves for their mistake and publicly apologize to the Chinese people,” the embassy said in a statement posted on its website.
Denmark’s largest newspaper has faced international backlash over its cartoons in the past. In 2005, the paper printed 12 drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, which angered many Arabic countries and sparked a diplomatic crisis.