Action speaks louder-Manila Standard

Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China needs to improve the way it tells its stories to the world and convince people that the ruling Communist Party is fighting for the happiness of all Chinese people.

The background of Xi Jinping’s comments at a Communist Party meeting earlier this month was that Beijing’s increasing isolation in the international community, its aggressive actions in the South China Sea, its suppression of democracy, and Hong Kong’s dissent, exacerbated the isolation of the region. The threat to Taiwan and last year’s attempt to cover up the early spread of the coronavirus. According to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, Xi Jinping stated that China must enhance its “international discourse power” that matches its national strength and international status, and show the world a “real, three-dimensional and comprehensive China”. “We must strengthen the propaganda and interpretation of the Communist Party of China, and help foreign people to realize the [CCP] Really fight for the happiness of the Chinese people,” the report quoted Xi Jinping as saying. The British “Guardian” pointed out that the official English translation of Xinhua News Agency changed “propaganda” to “propaganda.” The Guardian added that the deterioration of relations with the West has led to Tit-for-tat trade sanctions, expulsion or intimidation of foreign journalists, and increasingly belligerent comments by Chinese “wolf war” diplomats who use their platforms to actively defend China’s policies and demean opponents. We experienced here in Manila. These attacks by Chinese officials took the liberty to condemn Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana as “unprofessional” because he yelled for China’s invasion of Philippine waters in April. This week, the Chinese authorities once again told us. Shows that no amount of propaganda—and more propaganda if you want—can’t eliminate the stench of an authoritarian regime that does not tolerate dissent and ignores individual human rights. Just a few weeks after Xi Jinping talked about telling a better story to the world, China Cheered the arrest of a senior editor of a democratic newspaper by the Hong Kong police and warned reporters not to write articles challenging Beijing. In the Special Administrative Region, about 500 police officers came to the headquarters of the popular Apple Daily and arrested three senior editors and two Senior executives on the grounds that they violated the national security law that prohibits criticism of China implemented last year. During the raid, the police barred journalists from accessing their desks and declared the right to seize the computers and newspapers of the newspapers owned by democracy activist Lai Zhiwen For other devices, he is a fierce critic of Beijing and is currently serving more than a year in prison. Unauthorized protests. “Freedom of the press is not a’shield’ for illegal activities,” the Liaison Office of the Chinese government said in a statement. What kind of professional status and background they have, no matter what kind of support they have behind them, anyone who violates Hong Kong’s National Security Law and related laws will be severely punished by the law. “Is this telling a better story? From the right perspective, we are dealing with a ruling party that banned Winnie the Pooh movies in 2018 because the memes circulating on the Internet combined the image of Xi Jinping with the AA Milne order. Compare the pleasant chubby images of fictional bears. Indeed, actions speak louder than words.