Propaganda

The Chinese probably intended this to look bad. The only weak thing in the video is the Chinese singing, though. 

UPDATE: While there, I saw this clip about Greenland. (A bit of profanity, for those concerned.) An audience member claims about the prior sale of the American Virgin Islands that “there was a Trump back then too” who “used the same tactics.” That would be Woodrow Wilson. 

Wilson was incredibly powerful during his tenure, having both Congress and the Supreme Court reliably on his side. This enabled numerous real abuses like the Sedition Act and the Espionage Act. However, I understand the sale of the Virgin Islands to have been something that the Danes themselves wanted to do. They wanted to unload them because they couldn’t afford them, and they were motivated to do it quickly, before America joined the war, to protect Danish neutrality. Motivated sellers often don’t get the best price.