T-shirts showing Trump after shooting pulled in China

Listings like these have now been pulled off e-commerce platforms in China.

A Chinese e-commerce site has released T-shirts featuring Donald Trump throwing his hands in the air as he is shot. 

  T-shirts, which sold out within hours of the shooting, can be found on popular e-commerce sites such as Taobao and JD.com. 

 It is not clear why the lists were taken down, but the Chinese internet is heavily controlled, and content deemed "sensitive" is regularly removed. 

 Last Saturday's shooting at a protest in Pennsylvania sparked widespread online discussion, with related hashtags popping up on social media platforms like Weibo. China's 

  retailers began operating, with the first T-shirts being printed and sold online less than three hours after the shooting. 

 This image, uploaded to Taobao, one of China's largest e-commerce sites, shows a shirt for 39 yuan ($9; £7). 

 A 25-year-old Taobao seller told the South China Morning Post that he received more than 2,000 orders for the T-shirts just three hours after they went on sale. Most of them are from China and the United States. 

 Trump has been a source of Chinese internet rage for years - for good and bad reasons. 

 During his administration, his trade war with Beijing angered the government and many Chinese people, but he also found some support - including a group of Chinese immigrants in the United States who translated all of Trump's tweets from the X account @Trump_Chinese. Launched in September 2018, the account has amassed 344,000 followers over the years. 

 There is also a famous online joke that plays on the Chinese translation of Trump - it is Chuan. They are often called Chuan Jianguo, which means "Trump - the builder of our country", to refer to China's role in becoming a superpower.

Chinese investors have shown interest in it for years. 

 Although the list of T-shirts featuring Trump was removed after the shooting in China, the online retailer still sells various products of Trump, including socks and hats with his image in the hat and -red and the slogan "Make America Great Again." 

 retailers also benefited from the attack, and T-shirts were sold on Southeast Asia's 

 Lazada, the Chinese tech giant that owns Taobao. Image online also sells similar t-shirts in the US. Some of them have inscriptions written on them - one says 'Leaders never die', another says 'Bullet Proof'.