China seeks apology from Danish paper over cartoon

Bloomberg

The Chinese Embassy to Denmark wants the newspaper Jyllands-Posten to apologise for publishing a drawing that depicts China’s flag with virus symbols instead of five stars.
“We express our strong indignation and demand that Jyllands-Posten and [cartoonist] Niels Bo Bojesen reproach themselves for their mistake and publicly apologise to the Chinese people,” the embassy said in a statement on its website.
When asked to comment, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen avoided any direct reference to Jyllands-Posten’s cartoon.
“I have nothing to say on the matter other than [to note that] we have a very strong tradition in Denmark not just for freedom of speech but also for freedom of satire, and we’ll continue to have that in the future,” she said, according to multiple news media including Politiken. “This is a well known Danish position and we’re not going to change it.”