Even though the article is old I doubt the official position of the Chinese has changed.
Why is it no surprise that the state controlled press in China and the liberal press in America are comrades in arms, telling the same lies and seeking the same ends?
If the illegal ban on certain guns imported from the People's Republic imposed by HW Bush was lifted I'd say they'd sell us all the AK47s we want to buy, all the while wanting our government to come and take them away from us.
The default setting of a despot seems to be power over the many concentrated in the hands of the few, and arms are a form of power, so the Chinese despots naturally want all subjects (as they see us) of all governments disarmed. Chairman Mao pointed out that political power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and they don't like a free people holding that power. I'm sure they'd like to see our First Amendment rights taken away too.
I could see a situation where President-for-Life Obama or Clinton asked the UN to send in peacekeepers to stop massive engineered violence, and to pacify gun nuts, political dissidents, and thought criminals (i.e., racists, sexist pigs, homophobes, Islamophobes, jingoists, greedy capitalists, Christians, etc.), and countries like China and Cuba would be happy to honor the request. China could send ten million or so and barely make a dent in its army, and they could collect the money we owe them while they're here. They could be using weapons and body armor made in China but paid for by the American taxpayer, with money borrowed from China. What China lacks of course is the ability to project power, but that could be provided by our military, since a lot of patriots seem to be leaving and being replaced by those who like the Obama changes. This doesn't seem likely of course, but unlikely things have happened. Even a remote likelihood of that kind of thing shows the importance in having a loyal American in the White House.
A tyrant with so much blood on its hands demanding that a free people be made unable to defend themselves is a really sick joke. And the sickest part of it is that there are many among us going along with it.