[New Tang Dynasty Beijing time July 27, 2021]Hello friends, today is July 26 (Monday), welcome to “Foresight Quick Review”, my name is Tang Jingyuan.
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Just after the floods in Zhengzhou, when grief was everywhere, the issue of accountability naturally became the focus. Actually, I didn’t expect Zhengzhou officials to be held accountable. As I discussed with you last time, being able to squander people’s lives at will without taking responsibility is the biggest “advantage” of the CCP system.
But when the truth about this tragedy, which was obviously one-third of natural disasters and seven-point man-made disasters, just unraveled, a voice of accountability sounded in the mainland public opinion field, but everyone was astonished by these accountability The voice is not to pursue officials who committed dereliction of duty or even murder, but to besiege and hold the overseas media accountable for how they “smeared” and “spreaded rumors” about the Zhengzhou tragedy.
I have to say that this is far beyond the imagination of many people, and even many mainland media people who have been quite familiar with the public opinion environment in mainland China find it difficult to accept such a major reversal. They continue to publicly issue statements saying they no longer pay attention to any floods in Henan. Related news.
Foreign media reporter was siege incident
Today we will talk about this event that has become the focus of international public opinion and a series of public opinion events triggered by the Tokyo Olympics. We will find that these events seem to be unrelated, but in fact they all have some kind of internal connection.
“Passengers were thrown on the platform waiting to die” foreign media reporters were besieged
The siege of foreign media reporters mainly involved two media, one is the BBC and the other is Deutsche Welle.
On July 22, BBC reporter Robin Brant went to Zhengzhou to report first-hand news of the disaster area and interview local people on the spot. In particular, Robin questioned whether the subway tragedy was a man-made accident in a video report that has received much attention on the Metro Line 5 incident. In the Chinese subtitles at the bottom of the video, it can be seen that this content is displayed: “One of the most The disturbing question is why at a station on this subway line, a subway system that has been built less than 10 years ago, will be flooded with a lot of rain, and passengers will be thrown on the platform and wait to die.”
As a result, the phrase “passengers were thrown on the platform and waited to die” immediately attracted a large number of pink siege, claiming that this was a rumor, and this was discrediting the government and even the great motherland. Some people threatened to “catch and hit Robin” or “should give him a meal”; others yelled, “I really want to put a bowl of spicy soup on his face”, and there are even people on the official Weibo of the “Henan Communist Youth League” Leave a message asking “Is it illegal to catch and kill?”
Is Robin’s remark spreading rumors? Strictly speaking, his sentence is not accurate enough, because the real situation is worse than what he said. The passengers were indeed thrown to death, but the location was not at the platform, but at the two stations of Beach Temple and Shakou Road. Between the subway tunnels. Moreover, originally this train had a safe stop at Beach Temple, but the subway management department did not stop the operation and evacuated passengers in an emergency when the flood had begun to flood, but ordered to continue moving forward.
This is the most direct cause of this train of subway bound for death. It would be okay if the passengers were really thrown on the platform and waited for death. The passengers at least had a chance to save themselves and escape, and would not be trapped in a dark tunnel in a dilemma.
The officials waited for instructions and the passengers waited and died.
These situations are all told by the testimony of the survivors themselves. An anonymous subway employee also posted a message exposing that the management department did not dare to take responsibility and that no one dared to issue an order to stop the operation. For this, we unexpectedly got two powerful circumstantial evidences, which were provided by the Premier Li Keqiang of the Chinese Communist Party and Zheng Zhajie, the governor of Zhejiang Province.
Just today, Li Keqiang hosted a video conference on flood relief and flood prevention work, emphasizing that in emergency situations, except for special industries, work, school, and business should be decisively suspended; for urban subways, tunnels, etc. Seal it.”
The governor of Zhejiang Province, Zheng Zhajie, went to Hangzhou subway station and other places to check the anti-typhoon work on the afternoon of July 24 due to the approaching typhoon “fireworks.” , We must be aware of the first time, clarify the division of responsibilities of subway platforms, lines, and the entire network, etc., and make quick decisions and decisive actions.
Did you see it? A discerning person can tell at a glance that these words are based on the model of Zhengzhou Metro.
People trapped in the subway madly call for help but they can’t get through
The core of the BBC reporter Robin’s report is to question why a very modern new subway has such low-level safety issues, wrong decisions before the accident, and a large number of passengers waiting to die after the accident-please pay attention, saying that letting passengers wait to die is not Who made it up? This is also the survivor’s own account, saying that people trapped in the subway made crazy calls to the government for help, but they couldn’t get through. Finally, I managed to get through one, but I was told that there was no rescue, you could only help yourself.
From this point of view, Robin’s questioning is not a big problem. His only problem is that the location is not accurate enough. He said that waiting for death in the tunnel is a platform. We saw that the BBC also quickly revised this Chinese subtitle.
But with just such a little mistake, if the Henan Communist Youth League and some Weibo accounts such as the red big V were the treasure, they immediately grasped not to enlarge the hype, attacked one point and ignored the rest, and used the typical out of context to infinitely target all foreign media. Even directly equated “foreign media interviews” with “rumoring and smearing.”
Against this background, it is not surprising that Deutsche Welle reporters were besieged or almost beaten by so-called “patriotic masses” on the streets of Zhengzhou.
Do these people accept official instructions?Has caused a public opinion effect
The video about the Deutsche Welle reporter being besieged has been screened on the Internet, and I guess most of my friends have seen it. Judging from the footage, the siege of the wolves were men and women. They either wore masks or were either back or silhouette in the video, so it is difficult to determine their true identities.
On this point, there has been a lot of controversy on the Internet. Many people think that these people are not ordinary people, but plainclothes arranged by the government or Zhengzhou version of the “sunrise masses”. There are two reasons for this: one is the Internet rumor that the official issued a private notice, requiring the district office near the tunnel entrance of Jingguang Road to send people door to door to warn businesses along the street not to accept foreign media interviews. Another reason is that the few warwolves seem to have accurate information and very purposefulness, and they are different from other people who are busy with various post-disaster affairs.
In fact, it does not matter whether these people have accepted the official instructions. What is important is that the actions of these people have successfully led to two consequences in just a few minutes:
1. The siege incident quickly fermented into major media headlines. The suppression of international media in Zhengzhou meant that Zhengzhou officials deliberately concealed the truth of the disaster, and they were instantly frozen.
2. Even many people in the domestic media can’t stand it. They have made public statements and no longer pay attention to or forward any news about the Zhengzhou or Henan disaster, and even formed a trend.
Zhengzhou official huge public relations disaster Hubian is anxious
For Zhengzhou officials, this is actually a huge public relations disaster. It has offended foreign and domestic media. I have never seen such a stupid operation. No matter whether it was interviewed or filmed by foreign media, there was no real fierce material, but after this wave of siege, the exposure of the two tragedies of Zhengzhou Metro and Jingguang Road Tunnel increased exponentially. .
If the CCP’s usual concept of “smearing” is to be applied, the “smearing effect” of the siege of journalists may far exceed the two reports themselves.
Even Hu Xijin, editor of the Global Times, was anxious. He posted a comment stating that “people everywhere are strongly not advised to contain individual Western journalists on the spot”, because this not only “cannot reverse their perspectives and attitudes”, but only The effect of allowing Western media to gain an elevated position because of “repression” is counterproductive.
Of course, Hu Bian always prides himself on his professionalism in all-round “holding”, so he always feels that these street offices in Zhengzhou or the plainclothes of the grassroots public security, including the onlookers to roar the people, etc., are too professional and too technical to deal with overseas media Low, a little contempt for his small intolerance and chaos. But in fact, this wave of operations to incite xenophobia is by no means confined to Zhengzhou officials.
Reuters reported that Hou Zhihui caused an uproar
On July 24, Chinese athlete Hou Zhihui won a gold medal in the women’s 49 kg weightlifting competition at the Tokyo Olympics. This is China’s second gold medal in the Olympic Games. It has no special significance in itself. However, no one expected that this report by Reuters about Hou Zhihui would have caused an uproar, simply because Hou Zhihui’s picture looks “extremely unnatural”.
The CCP embassy in Sri Lanka took the lead and tweeted Reuters, saying, “Among so many sports games photos, Reuters chose this one. This can only show how ugly they are. Don’t add politics and ideology to sports. Above, don’t claim to be an unbiased media organization anymore. Shameless.”
Then the party media “Global Times”, “Guangming Net” and major portal websites also quickly followed up, collectively condemning Reuters for bad intentions and deliberately using photos of Hou Zhihui’s hideous expression when lifting weights to vilify China’s image.
The Chinese Embassy even posted two photos of white athletes with natural expressions published by Reuters, raising the qualitative nature of this issue to a level of racism, and sternly questioning whether it is only “Western whites are more likely to get good things”?
Needless to say, as for the large number of five hair pinks, all kinds of unbearable insults are overwhelming.
“China Daily” reported that Hou Zhihui won the championship. Similar pictures
But what’s very funny is that the party media here has finally launched a wave of public opinion offensive, and it was soon dug out by netizens. The CCP’s own large foreign propaganda media, China Daily, used it when reporting about Hou Zhihui’s victory. The same is the photo of Hou Zhihui exerting force when grasping the barbell, and its expression looks even more unnatural and uglier than the photo used by Reuters.
If the party media’s previous screaming and scolding, large foreign propaganda media such as China Daily are more shameless and gloomy than Reuters, because they actually vilify their compatriots and their sports heroes as unworthy of beauty. The lower race of things, isn’t this a genuine traitorous media?
Some netizens ridiculed that this could be called a double standard that surpassed the Milky Way. The CCP’s Propaganda Department picked bones from the eggs of foreign media, bitten it at one point, and bit on their own ass. They had to let go in embarrassment.
Yang Qian was turned out to expose her shoes and was immediately beaten as a “kneeling girl”
This oolong is of course funny, but if we pay attention to it, we will find that there have been more than one similar oolong, and there have been more than one similar hype about making bones in eggs. In fact, since the beginning of the Olympics, the CCP has created public opinion on both positive and negative sides. Regardless of its purpose, it is likely that it wants to use this to instigate national sentiments again and take the opportunity to divert public opinion at home and abroad against the floods in Henan and Zhengzhou. Attention.
On the positive side, it is the gold medalists who speculate in the Olympics, especially the first Olympic gold medalist Yang Qian, the most prominent. On the negative side, they find fault with the Western media.
Yang Qian is the winner of the first gold medal in the women’s 10m air rifle in the Tokyo Olympics. She won the final shot because of a major error by the Russian opponent.
For the CCP, this gold medal has the effect of a long drought, because it is an excellent hype and happy news to overwhelm the funeral material, so that the CCP Politburo member and Vice Premier Sun Chunlan issued a copy on behalf of the Central Committee. Congratulations, praise Yang Qian for winning glory for the country, how calm and skillful-this is the official reading of the Chinese Communist Party, according to the dictionary, it should be pronounced “excellent”.
But no one would have thought that such a patriotic role model, which the CCP adored, would be dug out by someone who once posted the Nike shoes he bought on Weibo. As a result, the situation suddenly turned into a heated public opinion, Yang Qian was immediately labeled as a “kneeling girl”, and many war wolves shouted that Yang Qian must “leave the gold medal and get out of China”; others sternly asked why she used Germany in the final. Instead of using domestically produced air rifles and so on.
This can be said to be another oolong incident, right? Of course, after all, Yang Qian is the object of official protection, so someone soon came forward to explain that the photos of Yang Qian’s shoes were posted last year, and this year’s boycott Nike’s patriotic behavior is not contradictory and so on.
Sickly ill?The Chinese Communist Party Fully Hype Xenophobia
Whether Hou Zhihui’s facial expression photos or Yang Qian’s shoes exposure photos, the public opinion turmoil caused by them is not accidental, nor isolated, because we see that the party media is also reporting on CNN’s news about Yang Qian’s winning gold. At the same time, it released the news that East Olympics had found more cases of the Chinese Communist Party virus (Wuhan virus, new crown virus), thus claiming that CNN is a sour grape psychology, and deliberately used this method of sending two news together to imply that the virus cases of the Winter Olympics are related The relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and so on.
In addition, Tang Qianjing, a Chinese women’s gymnastics team player, unexpectedly chose the anti-Japanese music “Jiuer” as the background music in the Olympic floor exercise qualification competition. “Jiu’er” is the ending theme of the well-known anti-Japanese film “Red Sorghum”. The film tells the story of a Shandong girl named Jiu’er resisting Japan.
The anti-Japanese music was specially selected as the background music of the competition in the Tokyo Olympic venues that attracted worldwide attention, and then they were reported by the foreign media. I think it is not difficult for everyone to understand the political manipulation.
We have seen all these actions point to the same focus, which is to fully hype xenophobia. This is exactly the same pace as Zhengzhou’s uproarious “foreign media are spreading rumors to smear China”.
From this perspective, whether it is party media and foreign propaganda in the professional field, plainclothes in Zhengzhou in the non-professional field, or the wolves with high political consciousness, they all have only one purpose, which is to repeat the theme of “the West smears China”. Make a fuss in order to divert the attention of the domestic people, hoping to tide over the difficulties.
Not surprisingly, once this barrier is passed, the CCP will immediately enter the next stage, which is to turn Zhengzhou into another example of the superiority of the CCP’s system in fighting floods, and use it as a capital to promote the CCP model internationally. In other words, the CCP may replicate the Wuhan model in Zhengzhou.
This in itself is not new, and the CCP has been tossing over and over the past few years and basically only this one is left. But this also shows us that the CCP has indeed reached the point where it is exhausted. The CCP now is like a dying patient. No other medicine has any effect. It only relies on the repeated stimulation of the tiger-wolf medicine of nationalism to hang on for life and prolong the life. Moreover, the lower the dose, the larger the dose, and the more frequent the use.
Judging from the continuous occurrence of Oolong incidents, the entire CCP’s propaganda department has even lost sight of one another, messed up the rules and regulations, and has entered a certain state of out of control. It cannot be said that it is already a manifestation of drug poisoning. In such a state, the CCP still has to receive a visit from the US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman and continue to demonstrate the CCP’s ability to establish and lead a new international order. What will be the result?
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