At the Academy Awards earlier this week, Beijing-born Zhao Ting’s film “The Wanderlust” was the big winner, not only winning Best Picture, but also Best Director and Best Actress for Zhao Ting herself and her lead actress respectively. Zhao Ting became the second Chinese director to win the Golden Lion, Golden Globe and Academy Awards after Taiwan-born Ang Lee, in other words, the first from mainland China. In other words, she is the first person from mainland China to win an Oscar. Such an honor for “Chinese people to make their mark internationally” should be celebrated with great fanfare according to the normal operation of the Party’s propaganda mouthpiece. However, the reality was just the opposite, as the Oscars were reported in a low profile in mainland China early in the morning, and the news about Zhao Ting’s award was filtered and deleted by Weibo and other social media, only because Zhao Ting was found to have said “China is a place full of lies” in an interview with the US media in 2013, allegedly The news was filtered and deleted by Weibo and other social media because Zhao Ting was found to have said “China is a place full of lies” in a 2013 interview with the U.S. media.
If saying “China is a place full of lies” is a major crime of “insulting China” and should be banned nationwide, then Zhao Ting’s “Wandering World”, which captures the “poverty” in the Midwest, must be an “insult to America”. So Zhao Ting’s “Wandering World” is an “insult to America”, right? How can a Chinese director who uses the poor side of the United States as the subject of his film to tarnish the image of the United States as a wealthy superpower with “evil intentions” win the highest award in the Oscar Hall? Of course, most Americans do not follow the logic of the Chinese Communist Party, and most Americans will agree with those who say that the poor in the United States are living in poverty, and most Americans will agree with those who say that racial discrimination is a serious problem in the United States. Most Americans do not see these criticisms and accusations as “insulting to America”; they are more concerned with whether the problem is real and whether there is a solution. The award is a natural reflection on a phenomenon that exists in American society, and is not an insult.
The more we talk about the “four self-confidence”, the less we have
In contrast, the Party and State, which always emphasizes the “four self-confidence”, seems less and less confident in the face of questions. From Deng Xiaoping’s “We are not afraid of their scolding, the Communist Party cannot be scolded” to the rise of a great nation today, it is surprising that even a person who has not been involved in politics said eight years ago that he is so concerned about this. Or does it only show itself when Yang Jiechi and Zhao Lijian are making speeches to the European and American powers?
Is it worth being silenced for saying that “China is full of lies”? If the accusation is not true at all, those who are confident will not pay attention to it, would Li Ka-shing mind being called “poor”? And if the allegations are true, the “insulters” are not the ones who say “China is full of lies”, but those who make China full of lies. Of course, “people who collapse their mouths do not collapse their bowls”, and those who make China full of lies will accuse those who tell the truth of “insulting China” and block them with all their might because they have been stung and become angry.
It is difficult for ordinary people to understand how a country that always emphasizes “self-confidence” and “greatness” sees this accusation as an insult; just as it is difficult for ordinary people to understand how a country whose President, who is absolutely right, has personally declared that it will “eradicate poverty”, continues to be insulted. It is difficult for ordinary people to understand how a country that has been declared “completely free from poverty” by the absolutely correct President himself, continues to be exposed to the mountain villagers have to spend two hours to buy water across the province such as poverty alleviation falsification. The north wind south, when Hong Kong is increasingly integrated into the system that contributes to the lies everywhere, Hong Kong gradually become full of lies is inevitable. And in this new era of lies everywhere in Hong Kong, for the people who contribute to the lies everywhere, frankly tell the truth, point out the fact that they lie, is “insulting”. Therefore, police officers on the establishment of the “crime of insulting the police”, to combat “fake news” has always been on the mind; therefore, the Immigration Department yesterday suddenly openly gun, accused the Audit Commission’s investigation report against the Department is “indiscriminate criticism “, “seriously undermine the professional image of the Immigration Department”.
Because telling the truth is “insulting”, so a slogan that has been chanted for 32 years, suddenly may break the law; a stormy annual gathering, and most likely no longer “legal” to hold. Lam says that the SAR should respect the constitution and the status of the ruling party of the Communist Party of China, but Chinese citizens are also constitutionally entitled to freedom of speech, publication, assembly and demonstration. Isn’t a port full of lies the biggest insult to one country, two systems by those in power?
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