Hua Chunying, spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Picture: Retrieved from the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China (data photo)
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In order to strictly control speech, the Chinese government prohibits people from using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. However, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying asked reporters on the 18th: “Why can foreigners use Chinese social media? Platform, and Chinese people can’t use Twitter and Facebook?” It made a joke. The comment attracted a lot of ridicule on the Internet by Chinese netizens and international public opinion. However, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese state media “Global Times” criticized: “Some villains fired cold shots at the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from behind,” and he even more scolded that “professional households who do the job like this are tantamount to cultural traitors.”
Nine months after the Associated Press and Washington think tank Atlantic Council jointly investigated, it said that China is the largest source of fake news about the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic, and since 2019, the number of Chinese diplomatic accounts on Twitter and Facebook has soared. 2 to 3 times, and pointed out that “China has produced and disseminated stories about the US-made novel coronavirus as a biological weapon.” Some foreign media asked about this at a press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 18th. Hua Chunying responded: “Speaking of the number of Twitter accounts, I wonder if they have investigated how many foreign media and diplomats use WeChat and Weibo? Why? Foreigners can use Chinese social media platforms, while Chinese people cannot use Twitter and Facebook? This is just to increase a channel for sharing information and communicating with foreign people.”
However, this remark was particularly ironic in the ears of Chinese netizens, and they were sour: “The laughter is thundering. Hua Chunying asked the United States, why can’t Chinese people use Twitter or Facebook?”, “It sounds like a wall. It was built by others”, “So Hua Chunying, Zhao Lijian, Geng Shuang, all of the fifty cents you see on Twitter and Facebook are not Chinese?!”, “The party and the country are for the good of the people, so they won’t let them suffer. The invasion of Western culture. Why don’t you understand? The wall is repaired for the good of ordinary people.” “I wonder if those crimes of provoking trouble and provoking troubles who have been detained on Twitter for eight months have been released?”, from a Chinese website. The cynicism shows that the Chinese “wolf war” has once again perfectly demonstrated what “people must insult themselves and others will insult.”
In this regard, Hu Xijin issued a document on the 21st: “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is on the front line of the struggle against American public opinion. When they rushed forward, when they blocked bullets for this country, some villains held magnifying glasses against them. Find faults (critically picky), change the context of external and internal discourse, and shoot them cold shots from behind. Among them, professional households who do such a job are no different from cultural traitors. Netizens must not be brought into rhythm by them, but should Resolutely cast aside it. The Sino-US game has become a big issue. Some political elites in the United States just want to put a booming China to death and kidnapped the U.S. policy toward China. China has no choice but to resist those crazy attacks.”
Hu Xijin argued: “Ideological struggle is the most intense field. China needs a group of people to come forward, and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is destined to bear the brunt of this big storm. Look at how the United States and other external forces are biting our speech. People know how our own public opinion field should protect them, and we must not throw poison arrows at them from behind. This is the civilian strategic insight and moral consciousness that we all should have. China is in a strategic defense against the United States, and some of our measures Not necessarily ideal, but some have to be used in defense. The correctness of our strategy must be guided by actual results. Putting the urgent national interests of this era in an important position, we are defending the most external way of personal interests barrier.”
Hu Xijin’s remarks also “not accidentally” again “indulged himself”, and a large number of Chinese netizens commented: “Do we mean we will be on the Internet soon? What age do I think, why do we have to build a wall? Hundreds of billions of dollars a year are used by telecommunications companies to buy accelerated services over the wall. It’s really irritating to whom the money will go to.” “When can China go to the Internet”, “Aunt Hua’s own soul is tortured, how can I return it? Blame others”, “Just a few people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dare to let go of the firewall and let 1.4 billion people fight on the front line of public opinion wars against the United States?”, “Remove the firewall software from the people of the country and make a sound. It will be deafening! Frighten them to death”, “Can the wall be demolished in stages? We also want to stand on the front line.”
Some netizens said, “When has the Sino-US game become a “big right and wrong”? What is called a “big right and wrong”? We must resolutely maintain “there are a thousand reasons for a good Sino-US relationship” and insist on the tenth “building a community with a shared future for mankind.” Nine major decisions. Diplomatic work is different from internal propaganda. Only by doing both soft and hard and tolerant of dissent can you make friends, protect national interests, and be able to “advance and retreat.”” “A official media editor can speak positively if something happens. What’s the difference?”, “Be fair and free, netizens naturally know the truth and falsehood, don’t think of others as you”, “You don’t speak inconsistently, so how can others pick?”
In order to strictly control speech, the Chinese government prohibits people from using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. However, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hua Chunying asked reporters on the 18th: “Why can foreigners use Chinese social media? Platform, and Chinese people can’t use Twitter and Facebook?” It made a joke, and the comment attracted a lot of ridicule on the Internet by Chinese netizens and international public opinion. Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese state media “Global Times,” issued an article on the 21st criticizing: “Some villains shot the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs coldly from behind,” and he even scolded “Professional households who take the lead are no different from cultural traitors.”
When answering a reporter’s question on the 18th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying asked: “Why can foreigners use Chinese social media platforms, but Chinese people can’t use Twitter and Facebook?” The remarks drew a lot of ridicule from Chinese netizens and international public opinion on the Internet. However, Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese state media “Global Times” criticized: “Some villains shot the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from behind,” and he even more scolded “the top one.” Such professional households are no different from cultural traitors.” However, Chinese netizens are sour: “An official media editor will say positively when something happens. What is the difference between yin and yang and those people”, “just and free, netizens naturally know the truth and falsehood, don’t treat others as you”, “you If your speech is not inconsistent, how can others provoke?”
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