China US, Media wars?

[Genesis]

I keep reading articles on how some Chinese commentators are anti American and their claims are ridicules, which is sort of true, but then they don't mention the smears that they themselves, some by the same author, on China.

If what we are saying is anti America, what's America doing? Racial discrimination?

I'm writing this thread, as a response to these articles, because they make it seem like Chinese people, are stupid for having these. Well ain't that the pot calling the kettle, nonsensical.


Now, I'm all for hypocrisy, why should I treat others the same as I treat myself. I'm myself and I like me a lot better than you. But I always know what I am and what I do. I don't hesitate to mention it nor do I present myself as fair or anything of the sort.

I got nothing against hypocrites, in fact, I like them better than most, what I don't like is someone who pretends to be something they are not.


Now let's get to the point at hand.

BEIJING — Even as his government was making red-carpet plans to host President Obama this week, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, praised a young blogger whose writing is best known here for its anti-American vitriol.

In one widely circulated essay published by state news outlets titled “Nine Knockout Blows in America’s Cold War Against China,” the blogger, Zhou Xiaoping, argued that American culture was “eroding the moral foundation and self-confidence of the Chinese people.” He compared unfavorable American news coverage of China to Hitler’s treatment of the Jews. In another essay, he said the West had “slaughtered and robbed” China and other civilizations since the 17th century, and was now “brainwashing” it.

Mr. Xi, at a forum last month aimed at tightening political control of the arts, said the blogger exhibited “positive energy."

The surge in anti-Americanism extends beyond speeches. Over the summer, for example, the Chinese government began a security review of foreign nongovernmental agencies operating in China, as well as Chinese nongovernmental agencies that receive foreign support, scrutinizing their finances and freezing bank accounts. A 100-minute anti-American propaganda film made by the People’s Liberation Army last year laid out the case that American nongovernmental agencies were out to undermine the party. (It used the martial theme music from the HBO series “Game of Thrones.”)

In Guangdong, the province adjacent to Hong Kong that has long been more open to foreign influence and investment, officials have considered shutting down Chinese nongovernmental agencies that depend on foreign funds, the state-run newspaper Global Timesreported last week.

Wang Jiangsong, a professor of labor relations at the China Institute of Industrial Relations, was quoted in the newspaper as saying that the authorities had secretly tracked transfers of overseas money to the Chinese organizations and were worried that “some NGOs would be manipulated by overseas forces and conduct activities that may endanger national security and undermine social stability.”

The campaign has reached into academia as well. An employee of an American organization that promotes dialogue among scholars said some Chinese professors who work on international relations were no longer writing or saying anything in public that cast the United States in a positive light, for fear of being accused of spying. The employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to antagonize Chinese partners, added that one Chinese university had barred visiting American scholars from lecturing if their research did not conform to the party line.

Casting blame on the “black hand” of foreign forces has become more common in the state news media as well. The People’s Daily has published 42 articles this year blaming “Western,” “foreign” or “overseas” forces for China’s domestic problems. That total is nearly triple the number of similar pieces from the first 10 months of last year, according to a count by The Christian Science Monitor.

The pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong have been a favorite target. Last Friday, Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper close to the party, ran a front-page article under a headline that said the newspaper had found “ironclad evidence” that the United States had been secretly plotting the local Occupy movement since 2006.

The government has also targeted major Western companies withhigh-profile investigations and imposed record fines for what officials call monopolistic practices. Some foreign businesspeople and officials say the investigations are a form of protectionism. At the same time, the Chinese government has maintained restrictions on foreign investment, ownership and market access in many industries.

As a result, American executives have tempered their optimism about doing business here, said John Frisbie, president of the U.S.-China Business Council, a trade group in Washington. “It should be more than a $350 billion market in China for U.S. companies,” he said. “Many sectors are still closed. There has generally been a lack of movement forward on further openings.”

Some have questioned the sincerity, or pointed out the hypocrisy, of the party’s tirades against the West, noting that many party officials have children or other family members living and even applying for citizenship overseas. Mr. Xi’s daughter, Xi Mingze, attended Harvard University under a pseudonym.

“How can Chinese officials really be anti-American?” asked Zhan Jiang, a media studies professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

“Antiforeign sentiments will always be present in China because of China’s unique history,” he said. “However, the public’s opinion of the West will not change because of what the party says.”

Now some claims are unconfirmed, could CIA be behind certain things? Maybe, maybe not, but the thing is, it's a two way street, while China has no credibility in terms of the news to you, America has no credibility when it says it did nothing.

American reputation doesn't say do nothing, training monks, sending spy planes, and inciting revolutions around the world, in fact ISIS, Taliban and all these have American ties.

This doesn't mean America is behind Hong Kong or any of the other things that the Chinese media and blogger is saying, but base on track record it's also not crazy.


Now, we Chinese knows exactly what we are known for and how we are seen, but I think Americans have no idea how people see them.

And if we are honest, who's got the crazier personality? Bill O Riley, or whatever clown this Chinese blogger is. As far as I can tell, Bill has made more money from toeing the party line than this clown ever will.

 

[Galad]

Politicians,Hollywood and USA media(over 90% owned by 6 corporations and getting their marching orders from CIA) constantly brainwashed USA people to believe in their own superioty over you name it-China,Russia,Iran,muslims...Look at comments in USA based media under articles full with lies for above mentioned countries or muslim people and will see it.They truly believe in their own propaganda of being indispensable and exceptional nation.Americans have no idea what others(more than 6 billion people)think about them-they live in their own alternative reality in which USA is always the best/great/right/democratic etc.They simply dont care what others think about them at all - level of stupidity,ignorance and delusion shown in comments by citizens of "Land Of The Free"(another joke invented by USA propoganda) is simply mindblowing.Truth or reality simply cannot reach such people.One cannot reason with such truly brainwashed persons at all.And if think current USA or EU media outlets are biased and always lie about China-just wait and see future articles coming out in next few years.They will be much worse-the more West lose its importance and relevance(and in next years it will lose them) the more West propaganda machine(with its long history) will keep spewing its biased one-sided articles.
P.S. In short - dont mind neither "truth"coming from articles by West based media outlets nor comments under them.
China is doing the right things.