They dwell on the photo of the drowned Syrian toddler — who was not in the process of fleeing from Syria when he died — and the horrid deaths of 70 refugees in a smuggler's truck in Austria.

China is not generally noted for its genial indulgence of lawbreakers, especially when there are national security implications, but it expects the United States to throw caution to the winds. "Even though it has remained relatively 'quiet' on this matter, the United States actually has an inescapable responsibility on what happens today in Europe and the Middle East," Xinhua pontificates.

It is anyone's guess why they decided to put the word "quiet" in scare quotes, or what they are even talking about, given that those Syrian refugees are a major topic of conversation — and a point of contention between both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. Xinhua does, however, lay out what it means by "inescapable responsibility," and it's extremely rough on President Obama's foreign policy: