[Epoch Times, March 26, 2022](Reported by Epoch Times reporters Ning Haizhong and Luo Ya) The CCP has always refused to condemn Russia when Russia invaded Ukraine. Anti-war voices were blocked, until there were pro-Russian and anti-Russian factions fighting each other, and even fighting. Recently, with regard to the situation in Ukraine, the CCP officials have begun to deploy a unified voice in the education sector.
Some scholars believe that the CCP has been controlling the minds of the people and is now using the existing education system to brainwash the people, but the CCP’s own position is constantly changing.
According to a public report from the mainland, starting from the middle of this month, universities, primary and secondary schools in Shandong, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang and other provinces in the mainland have conducted a “hand-in-hand online collective lesson preparation activity” for ideological and political teachers on the situation in Ukraine through live webcasting. Among them, the notice from the Shandong Provincial Department of Education mentioned that this is “in order to guide teachers of ideological and political courses and accurately grasp the principled position and caliber of the situation in Russia and Ukraine”, and “do a good job in guiding students’ ideological guidance.”
Shaanxi-related activities are organized by the National College Ideological and Political Course “Hand-in-Hand” collective lesson preparation center and the Marxism College of Shaanxi Normal University. At the meeting, teachers asked questions about how to educate primary and secondary school students in international relations, and answered students’ questions about the so-called justice of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Xia Yonglin, a professor at the School of Humanities of Xidian University, claimed that the Russian-Ukrainian crisis cannot simply be judged by “justice and injustice”, adding that in the context of the international order dominated by the United States, “it is meaningless to struggle with justice or not.”
The course preparation activity in Zhejiang Province was hosted by the School of Marxism of Zhejiang University. It was broadcast live on the 24th of this month in major colleges and universities in the province. The topic was “Understanding and Guidance on the Issue of the Ukraine Situation”, and it was lectured by Professor Lu Youzhi of Zhejiang University. Lu Youzhi claimed that when looking at the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the Ukrainian crisis, “Xi Jinping’s diplomatic thinking should be used as a guide”.
In the middle school of Jingshan Experimental School, Jinwan District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong, Yang Jun, secretary of the party branch of the school, gave a speech to all the teachers and staff of the junior middle school on January 15, referring to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, “Today’s Russian-Ukrainian war has sounded the alarm again for us.” , and so on.
Li Yuanhua, a former associate professor at Capital Normal University, told The Epoch Times that the CCP has been controlling people’s thoughts, and this practice is now characteristic of a centralized state. “It does not allow citizens to have their own thinking, and in the name of collective preparation of lessons, it is actually preaching a position of the supreme ruler of the CCP. No matter whether this attitude is correct or not, it must explain its correctness. This is its consistent practice.”
He said that in the name of the so-called collective preparation of ideological and political courses, the CCP has used the existing system to preach in universities, primary and secondary schools across the country, and brainwashed the people. But the CCP itself is unprincipled, and its stance is constantly changing.
For example, Li Yuanhua said that the professor in Xi’an said that justice and injustice are not what we consider, in fact, the interests of the CCP are considered. “Then the CCP’s interest is that I want to be against the United States, and I want to fight against the free society. When there is a conflict between Russia and the free society, then I will naturally support Russia, which is beneficial to me.”
“If this sanctions affects the CCP, the CCP may turn around again. So it is not static. It does not have the concept of universal human value, but only the interests of the CCP ruling group.” He said.
Pro-CCP media rarely exposes pro-Russian and anti-Russian “infighting” involving Russia’s occupation of Chinese territory
The British “Financial Times” reported on March 24 that the Chinese government refused to call Russia’s actions against Ukraine an invasion and leaned toward Russia. While Beijing censors are working to suppress any criticism of the stance, the conflict has already sparked a heated debate among Chinese policy experts and the public.
Three weeks ago, an altercation between two retirees in Shanghai Park over the Ukraine conflict caused pro-Russian Shen Jianguo, a 70-year-old man, to bleed from his ears and become a trending topic on social media.
An article by the pro-CCP overseas media “Duowei” on March 25 said that the Russian-Ukrainian war started a month ago, and Chinese netizens quarreled about it for a month. The pro-Russian faction and the anti-Russian faction attacked and abused each other, called each other “stupid or bad”, and gave each other a bunch of big hats such as traitors, traitors, Russian slaves, and beautiful dogs. Shoot each other without hesitation, like the Red Guards who slaughtered each other during the “Cultural Revolution”.
The article mentions the views of pro-Russian and anti-Russian factions. For example, the pro-Russian faction focuses on the fact that China and Russia are good friends against the United States. If Russia is sanctioned by the United States and Europe, the next target for the United States to deal with is the CCP. The anti-Russian faction believes that aggression is aggression, and no reason can justify aggression.
It is worth noting that the article rarely quoted a sensitive point of view of the anti-Russian faction: Russia has done great harm to China. It is the country that has occupied the most territory in China, and it has also instigated the independence of Outer Mongolia, causing China to lose more than 3 million square kilometers of land. territory. It can be said that Russia is aggressive and unethical. China now allows Russia to invade Ukraine. It cannot be ruled out that in the future, Russia will stab China from the back again, hurting and occupying China’s national interests…
A betrayal treaty signed by former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and Putin in 2001, the “Sino-Russian Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation”, involves the Chinese government giving up at least 1.5 million square kilometers of territory on the Sino-Russian border originally belonging to China, including Tannu Uliang. The sea, Sakhalin, Vladivostok, etc., are all historically occupied by the unequal treaties signed by Tsarist Russia and the Qing government.
Xi Jinping renewed the treaty for five years last year, without officials explaining it to the public.
The CCP claims to be “neutral” and suppresses anti-war and anti-Russian internal
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the CCP has officially maintained its so-called “neutrality”, refusing to condemn Russia, not using words such as invasion, and abstaining or even disapproving votes at United Nations meetings. Internally, the CCP strictly scrutinizes anti-war voices.
After the Russian-Ukrainian war, some Chinese netizens joked that they wanted to “accommodate Ukrainian beauties”. There are even more remarks applauding the war, demeaning Ukraine and supporting Russia, which were translated and spread to Ukraine, posing a lot of threats to the Chinese in Ukraine.
Young netizens known as “little pinks” in China seem to be cooperating with the CCP’s “Wolf Warrior” diplomats and are keen to engage in war of words with opponents who disagree with the CCP. A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry has repeatedly claimed at regular press conferences that the United States is the “culprit” behind the tensions in Ukraine.
But anti-war and anti-Russian voices have always existed.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, and five Chinese historians sent an open letter two days later on a Chinese community platform, bluntly saying that China needs to express its opposition to unjust wars and support the Ukrainian people in defending their homeland and the country. The article was blocked in less than 3 hours. . Some celebrities who criticized Russia and expressed anti-war on Weibo accounts were also banned immediately.
There are also objections within the CCP system. Hu Wei, vice chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council of the Communist Party of China and a professor at the Party School of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, published an article on “Sino-US Impression Network” founded by Liu Yawei, the younger brother of General Liu Yawei, on March 11, calling for Beijing authorities cut themselves off from Russian President Vladimir Putin, or face further isolation from the United States and the West.
Subsequently, the China-US Impression Chinese website was closed, and the article was deleted on the social platform.
“Nihon Keizai Shimbun” has disclosed that with the deterioration of the Russian-Ukrainian war, divisions have emerged within Zhongnanhai, and some members of the Seventh Standing Committee questioned whether Xi Jinping was wise to support Putin.
Due to its ambiguous attitude towards the Russian-Ukrainian war, the CCP has faced international pressure. Recently, the international community, including Ukraine, has continued to urge the CCP to condemn Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden warned in a video call with Xi Jinping on March 18 that any substantial Chinese support for Russia in the Ukraine war will come at a price.
Regarding Ukraine, the recent reports of the CCP’s official media have changed for a while. They have reported some victories of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield; the CCP’s ambassador to Ukraine, Fan Xianrong, claimed to Ukrainian officials that the CCP will support Ukraine economically and politically, while the CCP’s foreign ministry made a statement. The person Zhao Lijian expressed his “support” for this.
However, the Epoch Times reporter found that the CCP’s media reports are still pro-Russian, and the target of the attack is more clearly directed at the United States, and intensive reports indicate that the eastward expansion of NATO is the cause of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Li Yuanhua told The Epoch Times that after the direct call between high-level leaders of China and the United States, the United States showed its trump card. If the CCP supports Russia behind its back, the United States must tell the CCP to bear the consequences and tell it directly. Therefore, the CCP immediately made a fine-tuning on the international stage, but its inclination has not changed in essence. In fact, it seems to be very tough on the surface, stirring up national sentiment at home, and even trying very hard to confuse right and wrong. But once the voice of justice in a free society comes out, it is afraid, afraid of bearing the consequences.
According to a study by Jennifer Pan, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and other researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, among 500,000 comments about Ukraine on Weibo over the past two months, About half blamed Ukraine, the United States or the West for the war, and only about one in 10 blamed Russia.
Commentator Du Zheng pointed out in an article in the Taiwanese media “Shangbao” that during the Russian-Ukrainian war, what the mainstream public opinion in China and the Internet presented must not be the real public opinion. The CCP is known as “governing the country with five hairs”, and the large-scale Internet army is the manipulator of Internet opinions.
According to the report “China’s Public Opinion: The Silent Majority?” shows that most respondents prefer to allow freedom of speech; Chinese citizens still hold their own independent opinions, but are afraid to express them out of fear.
Responsible editor: Lin Congwen