There are shops selling goods that do not match what is shown on the signboard. As the saying goes, it is “selling dog meat with sheep’s tricks”. This sentence is applied to the “Reporters Without Borders” (RSF) request for the release of Jimmy Lai. It is also quite appropriate and can be renamed “Holding the news to sell politics”. A friend in the political circle passed on some information about this organization to me. There are many clues in it, revealing that it is closely related to the political forces behind it.
“Reporters Without Borders” mobilized US and European media spokespersons to jointly sign, demanding the release of Jimmy Lai. The organization is backed by various political forces, including the CIA and Taiwan’s “green camp” government.
Since the black storm in 2019, RSF has been touting Jimmy Lai as a “hero” who defended press freedom. At the end of 2020, he was awarded a “Special Journalism Award”. Originally, this type of award was just a false title, nothing unusual, but the details of the award revealed ambiguity. First of all, the place where the award was presented was not in Europe, as usual, but in Taiwan; in addition, the “honorary director” who was in charge of awarding the award was exiled during June 4th Wuer Kaixi, the leader of the student movement in Taiwan.
RSF presented Jimmy Lai with a special news award, which was presented by Wuer Kaixi, the leader of the student movement in exile in Taiwan after June 4th. He is a director of its Taiwan branch. The organization is also supported by donations from the Tsai Ing-wen government.
Some Taiwanese media searched the list of board members of RSF Taiwan Branch. Except for Wuer Kaixi, most of them are representatives of institutions closely related to the government, such as Central News Agency, Public Television Culture Foundation, etc. In addition, dark green media such as “Liberty Times” “wait. This reflects that the RSF and the “Green Camp” are inextricably linked, and they have a strong common motivation to sing bad words about “one country, two systems” in Hong Kong.
The data also shows that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tsai Ing-wen government donated US$500,000 to RSF in April last year to set up a “Media Freedom Center” in Ukraine. There are two points worth noting. One is that it received direct donations from the Tsai Ing-wen government, which shows that the two parties have a deep relationship. It is not clear whether there are other funds in secret. The shadow of resistance.
In fact, when Chen Shui-bian was president many years ago, the government also donated to RSF. Later, it even transferred its Asian headquarters to Taiwan, which can explain the success of the fund.
Recently, a group of anti-China politicians in the UK put pressure on Xin Weicheng’s government to rescue Li Zhiying. One of them was Gallagher, the Queen’s barrister who represented Li. United States, testified before the Congressional-Executive Committee on China. It turns out that this political figurehead is also a member of the British Advisory Committee of RSF. We all belong to the same front. “Rescue Lebanon” is essentially a political action. The reason why Jimmy Lai is advertised as a fighter for press freedom is to create a sacred halo and increase support. It’s just sound.
The background of the RSF has never been pure. As early as 20 years ago, an independent American reporter broke the news that it received funding from the official “National Endowment for Democracy” (NED). It’s an open secret. In addition, there is also news that it is also supported by right-wing forces in the United States, so it often attacks left-wing governments in Latin America in the name of freedom of the press. The political intentions behind it are clearly revealed.
RSF has been using this method for many years, so it has been criticized for “only caring about countries that the United States hates.” The WorldNews Index it publishes every year is naturally full of prejudice and is not objective and fair. In its latest world ranking this year, Hong Kong ranks 140th out of 180 countries and regions, only higher than Somalia and lower than Colombia, where drug lords are rampant.
This time RSF mobilized international media representatives to jointly sign “Save Lebanon”, which is also under the guise of press freedom, completely ignoring whether Lai Zhiying violated the law, and those participating American and British media have long had established positions on China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Just take a good reason and step on it more.
Such trickery will continue to come one after another in the future, everyone should keep their eyes open to see clearly.
Tokihito Monogatari
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