U.S. President Barack Obama's Democratic Party lost in the recent midterm elections and China criticizedhis regime and office as uninteresting, China's state-run media Global Times said.

According to the article, Obama is someone who dares to do nothing and that the U.S. society has already grown tired of the president's predictability. The result of the mid-term elections will further cripple "the lame-duck president," the report said.

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The story also criticized the domestic record of Obama talking about foreign policy achievements, such as that of pulling out U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, noting that this move has not left the country peaceful.

The Democratic Party was also attacked in the report, with the party's interests described as more important than the interests of the U.S. citizens. This, the writer/s said, is an "inherent shortcoming of Western political systems."

The article also took pride in China's rise and lauded the Asian nation for its ability to clearly understand that the U.S. is too lazy to improve. The American citizens used to speak highly of Obama but now they have reversed opinions, the Global Times added.

Critics who read the article called it an "unchallenged source of news" about an event from outside the country, pointing out that the Chinese are frequently critical of the Western media. The article has taken delight in the blind and idle chatter they did not witness themselves, they added.

The critics also pressed that although the article was masked with insulting the president, it might want to tackle a more extensive point about the limits of democracy and its capability of actually making drastic changes.

The Chinese state-run media has already blocked mainstream news outlets such as BBC, New York Times, and Bloomberg but it has started to publish and distribute its U.S. counterpart since last year. However, it is not as popular as the established papers in the U.S. so it does not have a very wide audience base.

The article comes a week before China hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

TagsChina-U.S., Chinese media, Obama, U.S. midterm elections, Insults, APEC