[Epoch Times, July 20, 2021]Hello, friends, today is July 19 (Monday), and welcome to “Foresight Quick Review”. I’m Tang Jingyuan.
In the recent period, under the besieging of the United States and its allies, the CCP has clearly shown a trend of shrinking and defensive politics and economy. However, there is an opposite trend in one aspect, which is the CCP’s large-scale external propaganda system. The recent overseas propaganda and penetration of this system has suddenly intensified. It shows that the tone of the propaganda is much higher. It can be said that there are three more representative parts: one is the abnormal performance of the CCP in the terrorist attack in Pakistan; the second is Foreign Internet celebrities quickly aroused the attention of overseas media; the third comes from the United States, some so-called “progressive groups” began to collectively pressure the White House, asking Biden to restore friendship with the Chinese Communist Party.
Today we will talk about these related topics. In particular, the terrorist attack in Pakistan, as far as the CCP’s performances have been so far, is essentially an external propaganda hype, and it is directly related to Xi Jinping’s layout. Therefore, the CCP’s operations this time are significantly different from previous similar incidents.
CCP’s abnormal performance in Pakistan terrorist attack
The terrorist attack in Pakistan occurred last Wednesday (July 14). On the same day, near Dasu city in northwestern Pakistan, a bus carrying many Chinese engineers to a local hydropower station exploded and plunged into a canyon. . It has caused heavy casualties, especially Chinese citizens, with a total of 9 dead and 28 injured.
On the same day, there were obvious differences between the official statements of China and Pakistan. The spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian, claimed that this was a “bomb attack,” but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan issued a statement saying that it was an explosion caused by a gasoline leak caused by a mechanical failure.
On the 15th of the next day, the Pakistani Minister of Information began to loosen up, saying that the possibility of a terrorist attack was not ruled out. On the same day, the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that this was a serious casualty incident, but “if it was a terrorist attack, the perpetrators must be severely punished”.
Beginning on the 16th, the situation changed suddenly. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang publicly stated that this was a “terrorist attack” and had a phone conversation with the Pakistani Prime Minister. Subsequently, the Chinese Communist Party’s Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi claimed on the 17th that Xi Jinping had given important instructions, and then “emergency call” with Pakistan’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Rashid, and said that he had sent criminal investigation experts to Pakistan to assist in the investigation.
And Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the well-known “Lan Shi”, immediately issued a murderous comment, while keeping pace, claiming that the attacker’s target was not against the CCP, but against the Pakistani government, with the purpose of sabotaging the Pakistani government’s treatment of the CCP. Friendly policy. On the other side, Hu Xijin also claimed that the CCP can send special forces to kill terrorists. Although it is far away, it must prove to the world that the Chinese are unprovoked and unkillable, and that anyone who kills the Chinese will kill themselves, etc. .
As we all know, it is not uncommon for Chinese citizens to experience terrorist attacks, kidnappings or deaths overseas in recent years. These incidents are often related to the CCP’s local political and economic behavior. In April of this year, the hotel where the CCP’s ambassador to Pakistan stayed became the target of a terrorist attack. At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured, but the CCP’s ambassador was not injured.
In the past, the CCP kept a low profile on such incidents. In fact, in the past, the CCP had almost never cared about the situation of overseas Chinese. As far away as Indonesia’s anti-Chinese incident, there was the ongoing riots in South Africa. We saw that the CCP turned a blind eye to incidents of Chinese businesses being robbed and burned. A painless statement is fine.
But why did the CCP suddenly attach so much importance to the bombing in Pakistan this time? Even Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang personally come forward and present a Pose with “a powerful motherland behind you” according to the script of the Wolf Warriors movie?
The huge difference in treatment between South Africa and Pakistan clearly shows that what the CCP really cares about is not the safety of people’s lives and property. They always care about only one goal: the party’s interests. Why did the terrorist attacks in Pakistan suddenly receive more attention, because the CCP found that it was profitable, and they had to make use of it.
How effective is Hu Jipan’s threat to “punish even though it is far away”?
What do you play? It is the image that the CCP has been trying to shape in recent years: the image of a global leader who can have law enforcement powers all over the world.
This point can be said to be fully revealed in the “Global Times” editorial. Hu Xijin publicly claimed in the article that although Pakistan is a sovereign country, if the security situation of the Chinese in Pakistan deteriorates, China cannot “let it go” to the Pakistani side, but should closely assist and participate in it.
The participation mentioned here, of course, includes the investigations assisted by the Ministry of Public Security, the pursuit of military special forces, etc. In fact, the CCP seeks to have disguised law enforcement power in Pakistan. To put it bluntly, the CCP began to copy the work of the United States, using overseas law enforcement to protect its own citizens, to deliberately highlight the CCP’s global governance capabilities, and to promote Xi Jinping’s nagging globalization agenda.
For Xi Jinping, this is a sign of becoming a leader of a global power, and it can even be said to be a beginning. Because everyone knows that the U.S. government puts the protection of its own citizens in the world first, and it has always been one of the important indicators for the public to recognize that the United States is worthy of being a world leader.
Therefore, regardless of whether Hu Ji’s “Although it is far away must be punishable” in his mouth, is it really possible to “punish” several Taliban in the end, but this “wolf war show” must be performed well, and the tune must be sung high enough. ,Definitely.
For the CCP, South Africa is indeed very far away, even a little too far away. The target of “punishment” is still blacks, which is contrary to the party’s policy direction. If it were to be performed in South Africa, it would be difficult to perform the drama “Although it is far away, it would be punishable”. It might not be worth the loss. So the CCP didn’t care about it at all, making the local Chinese only rely on their own guns to organize self-protection.
Although Pakistan is close at hand, it is not “far”, but the cost of acting is very low. Anyway, it is the party media who has the final say. The Pakistani brother is also more cooperative. At any rate, it can be considered that the CCP has gone abroad from the country. It’s the first turning point from pretending to be a pig to eating a tiger, so it’s so much loved by people from all walks of life. It’s not surprising that everyone is clamoring to show up on stage and earn some capital.
The rise of foreign internet celebrities arouses the attention of overseas media
This is why we say that this is the CCP’s large-scale foreign propaganda activity. In fact, the CCP’s actions in the field of large-scale foreign propaganda go far beyond this plan. Recently, the “foreign Internet celebrities” that have attracted more and more attention overseas, that is, the phenomenon of foreigners, are also part of the results of the CCP’s large-scale foreign propaganda adjustment.
Last month, the German media “DIE WELT” (DIE WELT) once published an article titled “Chinas heimliche Propagandisten” (Chinas heimliche Propagandisten), featuring a 21-year-old German girl who is quite active on Twitter For example, Navina Heyden reveals how the CCP uses foreign influencers on Twitter or Youtube to act as the CCP’s network propagandists.
Subsequently, the BBC published a similar report a week ago, naming the British Barrett and his son as special writers for the Chinese Communist Party media CGTN. Although they admitted that they had not been to Xinjiang, they still claimed Xinjiang in the video they produced. There is no racial persecution.
How large is a foreign five cents like this? CGTN itself publicly stated on its website that the party media currently has more than 700 “global contributors” around the world, and CGTN provides them with “international popularity” and “bonus”, and these “contributors” Provide various articles or video programs that meet the standards of the Chinese Communist Party.
There are two important backgrounds for the emergence of “foreign fifty cents”: one is that Xi Jinping made it clear in April this year that he would adjust the way of outreach work, that he should “integrate the Chinese and foreign countries” and tell the “Chinese story” well, and “build a new discourse system for external communication.” “Finally, “hold the right to speak internationally.”
The other is that from the United States to Europe, the foreign propaganda party media represented by CGTN are successively designated as “foreign agents” by the country where they are located, and their propaganda channels and effects are greatly limited. Therefore, spending money to buy a batch of foreign five cents can kill two birds with one stone. It not only builds a new discourse system for external propaganda, but also bypasses the restriction of “foreign agents”, achieving the purpose of curve penetration, changing the soup without changing the medicine, and propaganda The effect seems to be better.
The CCP seeks “Snow of the New Era” all over the world
This is the root cause of the CCP’s publicly proposed search for the “New Era Snow” in the world. This is the manifestation of a major change in the CCP’s strategy of propaganda.
This change has even affected the United States. According to a report on the U.S. “Politics” website, as early as July, more than forty “progressive groups” in the U.S. sent a joint letter to Biden and members of Congress, urging them to avoid confrontation with the CCP and calling on the U.S. to take responsibility for reducing emissions. More historical responsibilities, stop demonizing the CCP’s evasion of climate responsibilities, and so on.
The 98-year-old Kissinger also took the opportunity of the CCP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his secret visit to China at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse at almost the same time, and once again shouted that the United States needs to abandon confrontation and restart the “Nixon Model” to work well with the CCP.
The combination of this information shows that the CCP is launching a large-scale foreign propaganda offensive, and its biggest feature is to make full use of the common mentality of “the moon in foreign countries is more round” among the people inside the wall, and to look for foreign faces to act as “the CCP”. “Agent”, let the big foreign propaganda and internal propaganda, the effect seems to be better than the 50 cents of the CCP’s own cultivation.
From this perspective, the main purpose of the CCP’s so-called strengthening of large-scale external propaganda adjustments is still exporting to domestic sales, and exporting is only incidental. In other words, this is when the CCP has moved into the background of strategic contraction and defense, and has to raise its voice in order to bluff, which is a bit similar to blowing a whistle and walking at night.
U.S. military planes landed in Taiwan for the third time
Okay, let’s talk about the two latest hot news today and their significance. One is the third public landing of a US military plane in Taiwan, and the other is an unprecedented number of names by the United States and its allies, saying that the Ministry of Security of the Communist Party of China is the chief culprit of cyber attacks on the United States and its allies.
Just today, a U.S. C-130 transport aircraft landed again at Taiwan’s Taoyuan Airport. According to media reports, this aircraft is a CIA contractor of the US Central Intelligence Agency. It is a chartered aircraft of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and is responsible for transporting US government goods. The purpose of entering Taiwan this time is to transport “diplomatic pouches.” It is said that the contents of the goods are mainly the personal belongings of Sun Xiaoya, Director of AIT who went to Taiwan to take up a new position.
This is the third time that a US military plane has publicly landed in Taiwan recently, and it has been less than four days since the last time. We all know that when the large US military transport plane landed in Taiwan for the first time, the party media yelled, saying that the Americans were playing with fire and that they would cut their fingers sooner or later when playing with the sausage-cutting tactics.
After the second US military administrative plane landed at Taipei Songshan Airport, the CCP’s Ministry of National Defense immediately issued a severely worded warning statement, claiming that the US plane would face serious consequences if it entered Chinese airspace and landed on Chinese territory without permission. “Global Times” also immediately made a high-profile help, quoting experts in an article warning that if the US military plane trespasses into China’s airspace, China has the right to shoot it down, etc., which is equivalent to another threat of “even if it is far away”.
No one thought that the CCP had just drank a sip of tea to moisturize the throat after the CCP’s roaring. The U.S. military plane immediately demonstrated again to see if it would be driven away by the CCP’s fighter planes or warned by fire if it landed on Taiwan without the CCP’s permission. Or was it the “shoot down on the spot” by Hu Xi’s imported Mo Hengfei?
Everyone has seen what the result is. As of the time I made this program, the Chinese Communist Party has remained silent for the time being. Only “Global Network” came forward to quote Taiwan’s “Lianhe Bao” report on the military aircraft’s entry into Taiwan, and then repeated the report of the Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qianzhen. The content of the speech last time regarding the entry of the US military aircraft into Taiwan was surprisingly low-key because there was no other content.
Even the pink netizens on the mainland couldn’t stand it anymore. They yelled to “set rules” for the United States as soon as possible, and left a message saying that they just want to ask U.S. Wu, how many times are they going to continue the “warning”?
Unprecedented US and its allies named CCP hackers
In stark contrast, the United States is unusually high-profile. Not only is the entry of military aircraft into Taiwan with a high profile, but also today, the United States and its European and Asia-Pacific allies have issued a high-profile joint statement in an unprecedented way, accusing the Chinese Ministry of National Security of conducting malicious cyber attacks against the United States and multiple allies, including the Ministry of National Security. Personnel hire criminals to carry out cyber extortion against private companies and profit from it.
Who is involved in this joint statement? Including the European Union, NATO, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan.
At the same time, the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI also jointly issued a report this morning, detailing the use of more than 50 strategies, techniques, and methods by cyber hackers supported by the CCP. The computer networks of the United States and allies launched attacks, including an attack on Microsoft’s email system in March this year.
Obviously, this is a major action coordinated and coordinated by the United States and its allies, and it means that “if you want to punish its evil, you must first count its crimes.” We have seen that in the recent period, the United States and its allies have been focusing on fighting the CCP in science and technology, especially in areas related to cutting-edge technologies such as chips, supercomputing, and AI, and are constantly imposing sanctions or decoupling.
Not only did the CCP want to buy the top lithography equipment in the Netherlands but was blocked by the United States, but the CCP wanted to turn around and buy the outdated “old technology” of the 200mm wafer fab in Newport, Wales, UK. It was subject to the British government’s security review. This shows that the West has infiltrated the CCP. Vigilance has increased dramatically.
This time the United States and its allies suddenly launched collective accusations against the CCP’s cyberattacks, which probably means that the focus of the CCP in the next stage of the international community will focus on this area.
This brings about a problem, that is, the performance of the United States is obviously unusual.
What does that mean? We discussed with you in the last program that the US Deputy Secretary of State Sherman is seeking to visit China to meet with the high-level CCP. The South China Morning Post also reported exclusively that the CCP was a bit perfunctory about this and was preparing to let Xie Feng, the fifth-ranked Deputy Foreign Minister, come forward to receive it, but the US side disagreed. China and the United States are still discussing many details of Sherman’s visit to China, and whether the trip can be made in the end is still between the two.
Think about it, everyone. Under normal circumstances, if the United States takes the initiative to come to the door to seek the resumption of high-level contacts between the two sides and ease the conflict, then both the United States and China should make a gesture of goodwill and create an atmosphere of relaxation. In the United States in particular, even if it does not want to make a easing move so as not to be seen as weak, it can at least restrain it and refrain from stimulating the other party. This can be said to be the most basic international practice.
The United States has repeatedly stepped on the CCP’s red line
However, the objective facts we see are the opposite. The United States has not only stepped on the CCP’s red line frequently on the Taiwan Strait, the most sensitive core issue of the CCP, and unceremoniously slapped its faces in public. It also initiated class-action accusations against the CCP’s cybercrime with its allies. , Almost treats the CCP as a prisoner awaiting trial.
There is no hint of trying to alleviate conflicts and create an atmosphere here? On the contrary, this is an operation that puts pressure on, intensifies contradictions, and worsens the atmosphere, right?
From this perspective, it further illustrates a point we discussed on the last show, that the United States hopes to resume contact with the CCP’s high-level decision-making circle. The purpose is not to persuade the CCP to “be good”, but to send a letter. The requirement of the CCP is to abide by the rules and abide by international rules.
In the words of the CCP itself, the United States and its allies have officially “set rules” for the CCP. As for whether the CCP will obey, I am not optimistic at all. The CCP may temporarily keep a low profile when it is in a difficult situation, but expecting the CCP to abide by the rules and become a good partner in international cooperation will always be a mirrored dream.
Okay, we are here for today. Thank you for watching. See you next time.
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