In China, the message of former President Trump’s assassination attempt was clear: Just another sign of its biggest rival’s inevitable decline.

The Global Times, a Communist Party-run tabloid, wrote that the shooting Saturday in Pennsylvania was a symptom of an increasingly divided and disorderly nation.

A cartoon from the publication titled “Democracy in Danger” depicted a wave of water labeled “political violence” rising to overtake the Statue of Liberty.

“Such violence is likely to become more frequent as the country is further polarized,” the paper wrote. “The shooting also exposed the high degree of…