Recently, the Chinese Communist Party exposed a number of typical cases of so-called “anti-China” cases handled by security organs. One of the students was accused of listening to “anti-China” broadcasts since he was “8 years old”, which shocked netizens, who said he was an awakened youth and a good journalist.
On April 15, the Global Times, an overseas official media of the Communist Party of China, published an article titled “Deep” State Organs Reveal: The Inside Story of Anti-Chinese Hostile Forces Outside of China to Coopt Mainland Students”. The article cited two cases of mainland Chinese students involved in so-called political security, one accused of writing articles for prominent U.S. media and the other accused of participating in an anti-China campaign in Hong Kong.
In the case of Tian Mou, a student at a university in Hebei, who incited subversion of state power, the article states that Tian has been listening to broadcasts from overseas “anti-China” media since he was 8 years old, and often scales the wall to view a lot of political information from outside China. In January 2016, Tian opened an overseas social media account. After entering university, he became an intern journalist at the Beijing bureau of a well-known Western media outlet and published more than 500 bylined articles ……
“In April 2019, Tian was invited by anti-Chinese media people outside China to secretly go to a Western country and make contact with more than twenty hostile organizations outside China, while receiving direct questioning and specific instructions from more than ten officials of that country ……”
Who is Tian, who was used as a typical critic of the official media? Informants in the United States disclosed some information about himself and his contacts with people overseas. The informant said that the Chinese Communist Party’s ridiculous accusation and arrest of him is a vivid case of human rights violation.
According to Dr. Zhang Jie, a U.S.-based independent scholar, in his “Zhang Jie Review,” Tian’s name is Tian Chuang (also known as Tian Chang), born in 1999, and a student of literature and journalism at Yanshan University in Hebei. He claims to be a third-generation Red. “After the June 4 massacre, his father went to Russia to seek asylum. His mother divorced his father and now works for a state agency.
Zhang Jie said Tian Chuang has a talent for journalism and has written many press releases, so naturally he has worked hard to get results. This is what the Global Times calls “receiving a lot of money for activities”, but in fact these media outlets do not pay much for their articles.
During May 1, 2019, Tian Chuang visited the United States and stayed for half a month. He stayed in New York, except for a visit to the Voice of America headquarters in Washington, D.C., Free Asia and Han Lianchao (a friend of Tian’s father). Apart from shopping, it was a visit to friends by name, many of whom were some people introduced by Zhang Jie who were seeking democracy and freedom.
Tian Chuang once told Zhang Jie that he was followed and bugged when he visited Times Square and Central Park. While working for the Voice of America, Tian Chuang was often followed and interviewed by Chinese Communist Party public security officials. He was hesitant to return to China, fearing he would be arrested. However, he believes that he has done nothing to be anti-China or anti-party, and that his concern for human rights in China is within the scope of legitimate freedom of expression.
Tian Chuang returned to China in early May 2019 and kept in touch with Zhang Jie until October of that year. He told Zhang Jie that after returning to China, he had been arrested by the public security authorities, then released and placed as a journalist for the Beijing-based Dovetail.
Zhang Jie also disclosed a recording of a phone call with Tian Chuang. In the recording, Tian Chuang mentioned a strange situation, Beijing came to him and wanted to place him in Dovi or the overseas edition of People’s Daily. He chose to go to Dovetail, “to be honest, purely to deal with things, really do not want to write for them, feel too disgusting.”
Zhang Jie said that Tian Chuang had the most contact with him while he was in New York. “Tian Chuang is just a twenty-year-old kid, but he’s an outstanding young man in China, an awakened generation.” “The Chinese Communist Party suppresses anyone who pursues democracy and freedom,” he said, “The CCP’s accusation and arrest of Tian Chuang is absurd and is another vivid case of human rights violations.”
Zhang Jie called on the Chinese Communist regime to release Tian Chuang, return Tian Chuang to freedom, and leave a way back for his own redemption.
Lawyer and human rights worker Han Lianchao also tweeted that this was “shameless political persecution,” arguing that Tian Chuang chose to investigate and report on human rights abuses as a career and that “he is neither anti-China nor anti-communist,” and that “I took Tian to meet with U.S. (State Department) human rights officials, and they only asked him about it. I took Tian to meet with U.S. (State Department) human rights officials, and they only asked him about the situation, no one asked him to do anything; the Party bandits must have tortured Tian, shamelessly!
Yi (a pseudonym), a Beijing college student, told reporters he met Tian Chuang in a social media group in late 2018, when he was writing for the blogging news network UBM News under the pseudonym Bot and later changed to Si Tai as his pseudonym. When he was an intern reporter for the Beijing bureau of the Voice of America, he used the pseudonym Bei Feng. He also wrote for the Parliamentary Press.
“At that time, he was covering the follow-up of the Jiashi incident and the situation related to the Beida Horse Club incident, so I gave him some information that I knew, and one way or another, I got familiar with it.” Yi said.
Yi said, “I have read some of his articles, which are also publicly available on the Internet, and feel more objective and down-to-earth, mainly about specific news events, not much anti-communist color, not to mention anti-China. His political attitude was also relatively moderate, but I never thought he would still be arrested and labeled as an anti-China force.”
Yi described, “I last contacted Tian Chuang in late June 2019, around the time of his last posting in BoC. He said he had run into some trouble in China and might be implicated in a case related to foreigners, but he didn’t give any specific details. He told me to notify a reporter from another media outlet if he wasn’t online for two weeks.”
“Later I found that reporter, but that person also did not know what to do, I thought they had discussed before. I didn’t expect the party media to print his case as a typical one recently.”
According to Yi, the bizarre part of the case is that Tian Chuang was arrested in June, which basically coincides with the time he was lost. Zhang Jie says they kept in touch until October, when he was released and placed as a reporter for the CCP-controlled Dovetail News, and then he was arrested anyway. What happened in between?
Yi said he felt that the Chinese Communist Party issued such a report on the so-called “National Security Day” in order to make an example of the monkey. To say that providing articles to the media and participating in supporting the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong is a crime against national security and to convict them is purely “a crime to be inflicted.
“They are afraid that young people will come forward to expose and resist the CCP, so they are making use of the issue to create unjust cases.” Yi said.
According to the China Digital Times (CDT) weekly report on sensitive words, “8 years old + anti-China” has now become a highly ranked sensitive word.
According to the article, Weibo has imposed strict restrictions on the discussion of details of the case, with 24,000 discussions and 190 million reads on two topics, #Inside the anti-China hostile forces outside of China that are hustling mainland students and #Central TV’s exposure of Henry Li’s traitorous acts. However, a search using the official text “8 years old + anti-China” found only 4 results.
Guo Jun, a senior journalist of China Youth Daily who lives in the United States, said that the Chinese Communist regime is anti-human, persecuting people within the system brutally. This 20-year-old youth, he (when he returned to China) thought he had nothing to do. If he were abroad, this would not be a matter for him; if he were at home, he would be a criminal.
“I have to be sentenced even if I want to go back to my country. The Communist Party is not saying that because you do something it does something, but that it lies in what they can do it does.” He said, “When the Communist Party buys people and balances them abroad, they have to be arrested and sentenced at home.”
Guo Jun revealed that the unit had issued threats to him, warning him not to have contact with media outside the country. “What do you mean by crime? According to the Communist Party’s law, I write a ‘Happy New Year from all the people of China to you!’ on the Da Ji Yuan. That’s a crime. Your contact with the media outside of China is a crime in itself. You don’t say anything, you say a good New Year, good morning, that’s a crime.”
Guo Jun, whose father and son have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party for two generations, said the Communist Party was created because it was unreasonable, “The Red Army started the Long March with 300,000 people, and the Soviet purges killed 100,000 people within themselves, it was so brutal from the beginning, killing so many people three to one, and it was not polite to others, it was too ruthless! They are anti-human, more than Hitler.”
(Original title: Inside Tian’s “eight-year-old anti-China”)
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