China’s Global Television Network publishes article by fake journalist (Photo credit: Internet)
In an attempt to promote its position abroad, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) went so far as to publish an article on the overseas version of its official media website, posing as a French journalist, which was unexpectedly exposed by the French media.
On March 28, an article by a French journalist named Laurène Beaumond was published on the French website of CCTV’s overseas edition of Global TV Network under the headline “My Xinjiang, Stop Fake News from Rampaging!”, the French broadcaster reported today (April 1), citing the French newspaper Le Monde.
The author, who describes herself as an independent French journalist who has lived in China for seven years, along with her Family living in Urumqi, had visited Xinjiang several times between 2014 and 2019. She claims that the Xinjiang described by the French media is completely at odds with what she herself has seen and heard.
She describes herself as a graduate of the journalism school and the art department of the Sorbonne, and worked for several media outlets in Paris before moving to Beijing.
Le Monde checked the database of the French Professional Press Council, which issues press cards to journalists, and found that the journalist’s name was nowhere to be found. And if her claims of experience are true, this is impossible.
On March 31, China Radio International published another article by the “French journalist” in its Forum section, calling on the French senator to abandon his plans to visit Taiwan.
Here, she claims to be an expert on China, with a passion for Asian literature and folk art.
The French newspaper Le Monde revealed that the so-called independent journalist’s name appeared late last year, and that Antoine Bondaz, a researcher at the French Foundation for Strategic Studies, first spotted her suspicious. I can’t imagine that the website of China International Television, which has just received permission from the French High Council of Audiovisual Regulation to broadcast in French, would dare to publish an article under a false name,” he mocked on Twitter. “
He also invited the journalist, who appears only on the official Communist Party website, to speak with him.
Both the Taiwan issue and the Xinjiang issue are sore points for the Chinese Communist Party and have caused many diplomatic storms.
Earlier, the CCP ambassador to France, Lu Shano, sent a letter to Senator Alain Richard of France’s ruling Republican Forward party on February 18, preventing him from organizing a congressional delegation to Taiwan in harsh and vitriolic terms, sparking strong discontent in French society. French scholar Antoine Bondaz tweeted to criticize that Chinese diplomats have no right to direct French elected officials. The Chinese Embassy in France even left a message under his tweet, “petite frappe” (little rogue), which triggered criticism of the CCP’s “War Wolf diplomacy” from the French government and the public.
On March 21, the website of the Chinese embassy in France posted another message saying, “If there are really war wolves, it is because there are too many mad dogs and too fierce”, which further angered the French government. The French Foreign Ministry on March 22 severely condemned the Chinese embassy and requested to summon Lu Shano to express his dissatisfaction.
In Xinjiang, the European Union on March 22, a rare coordinated with the United States, Britain and Canada, sanctions in Xinjiang, human rights violations of Chinese Communist Party officials. 24, the Communist Youth League Central Committee launched a boycott of the Swedish company H&M against the statement refused to use Xinjiang cotton, and then quickly extended to Nike, Adidas and many other international brands. But this Time the major companies refused to budge, in China, Nike and H&M also appeared hot rush scene, so that the Chinese Communist authorities riding the tiger, the Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin successive articles to put out the fire.
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