The Xinhua News Agency on Monday called the American outcry over the made-in-China Olympic blazers ‘hypocritical’ and ‘irresponsible.’

‘The Olympics spirit is all about separating sports from politics, but these U.S. politicians are going too far and trying to force a political tag onto the uniforms,’ it said in the Chinese-language commentary.

Xinhua snarkily suggested that all U.S. lawmakers should perhaps be banned from ‘wearing anything or using any product’ that was made abroad — a near-impossible restriction in today's globalized economy.

The news agency singled out U.S. Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who had called for the uniforms to be piled up and burned.