The announcement by social media giants Twitter and Facebook to permanently block the account of U.S. President Donald Trump has sparked a global outcry, questioning the act of blocking freedom of expression as “digital totalitarianism”. The Japanese Sankei Shimbun Foreign Information Department Undersecretary Akio Yaban criticized yesterday (13) that the selective media coverage and social media blocking of Trump’s behavior is very improper, the real impeachment should not be Trump, but the mainstream media in the United States.
The U.S. Congress riot occurred on the 6th, resulting in 5 deaths. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on the 7th, condemning the violence of protesters breaking into Congress and calling on them to peacefully abide by the law and leave Congress. However, Twitter and Facebook have announced that they have permanently shut down Trump’s personal account; even though Trump has switched to the social media platform Parler, Google and Apple have taken down Parler’s App on the grounds of preventing incitement to violence.
In the past, he lived in Beijing for 10 years, and faced with the totalitarianism, speech blocking and suppression in Communist China, when the so-called mainstream media, including the New York Times and CNN, had fought side by side to try to get the voices of the people oppressed by the Chinese Communist Party out, “which was our common mission at that time.
He said that at that time, the U.S. media, as well as social media including Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. were banned by the Chinese Communist Party, so many people in China who were seeking democracy would go on social media by going over the wall, and the media was supposed to show all kinds of voices, but this time the means of social media blocking Trump was clearly not in line with their own values of advocating freedom of speech.
He said that the violence in Congress is certainly not right, but in the face of oppression by the powerful, the people through the breakthrough, occupation and other ways to express dissatisfaction, this is not the first time, including the 2011 “Occupy Wall Street” in the United States, the 2014 “Sunflower Occupy the Legislative Yuan” in Taiwan and the “Occupy Central Movement” in Hong Kong, the media at the time were highly praised, saying that these are very small-scale violent events.
Yaban Akio said, in contrast, this protest, the situation was not urgent shooting necessary, so the police should also need to reflect on the violent law enforcement, but the media is overwhelmingly condemned Trump, “this is very, very unjustified”.
He said that many media are known as sunset industries, there is already little room for survival, and now they are reporting in such selective blindness and very unfair way, which will only accelerate people to turn away from these media and make the future of media narrower and narrower, so this American election has produced a huge division in society, and a large reason is caused by the mainstream media.
“So I think the responsibility of the mainstream media is very, very significant for why the United States has come to this point, and it should not be President Trump who is impeached, but these mainstream media in the United States.” He said.
Democratic impeachment if successful Trump’s anti-communist line will be overturned
In addition, Democratic federal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) recently launched the second impeachment of Trump. If the impeachment is really passed, Trump will be defined as a failed president, and the past Trump line will be easily denied.
He said that the Trump line is to set the Chinese Communist Party as the main enemy, and not to compromise with the enemy, and unite all allies to contain the Chinese Communist Party, to suppress the trend of the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign expansion, allies in the Indo-Pacific region, including Japan, Australia, India and Taiwan, so in recent years continue to enhance the status of Taiwan.
He said, Trump diplomacy has a characteristic that everything is open and transparent, no underground deal. Many past U.S. presidents, including Clinton, Obama, George W. Bush, most diplomacy have underground deals, can be secretly through the money, get a lot of benefits and interests, so the Democratic Party by denying the Trump line, then the United States is likely to return to Nixon’s “embrace the panda line.
Recent Comments