A video, referring to Trump's use of "Liberation Day" for tariff announcement, was captioned "Track is AI-generated. The debt crisis? 100 percent human-made."

CGTN isn’t the only state media outlet to use AI to slam Trump’s trade policy. New China TV, the English-language social-media-focused brand of China’s official state news service Xinhua, also published on April 3 a three-minute, 18-second sci-fi short called “T.A.R.I.F.F.”

China’s state-run media has used AI-generated videos on the internet, which show dancing robots and agitated customers, to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariff policies, claiming they will cause high inflation and economic hardship for Americans.