Recently, the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Beijing launched its 2021 “Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program” on its official website, which was criticized by the Global Times as recruiting a “fifth column” in China, and a spokesman for the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry claimed that it was the U.S. side’s way of staging a color revolution in China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman also claimed that the U.S. was staging a color revolution in China. Mainland media sources told the Epoch Times the deeper reasons for the CCP’s official fears and jumps.
The U.S. Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program provides funding to individuals, NGOs, think tanks, academic institutions, and others in China to organize events that promote American society, history, culture, arts, and values. The program offers a single award of up to $30,000 per applicant or organization.
In response to the U.S. program, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on May 19 that he doubted the true intentions of the U.S. program and cited the U.S. “Strategic Competition Act of 2021” as an example, which “proposes to spend $300 million annually to disseminate negative information to discredit China. He cited the U.S. Strategic Competition Act of 2021 as an example, saying the bill “proposes to spend $300 million a year to spread negative information about China.
Zhao also said that the U.S. interferes in the internal affairs of other countries around the world under the guise of democracy and human rights, exerting malicious influence and even creating color revolutions.
Previously, the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times also reported on May 15 that “the U.S. Embassy in China has offered a reward of up to $30,000 for recruiting a “fifth column” in China.
The newspaper quoted Li Haidong, a professor at the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Institute, as saying that this is “a propaganda campaign by the U.S. State Department to infiltrate China, including Hong Kong and Macau, under the guise of ‘public diplomacy,’ to recruit ‘specific individuals’ or ‘organizations’ under the cover of cultural activities. or ‘organizations’ to provide financial support, channel benefits, and even instigate ‘color revolutions’.”
The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China’s “2021 Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program” is described in a Global Times article as the U.S. recruiting a “fifth column” in China. (Web screenshot)
The Chinese Communist Party has long been brainwashing the public through its propaganda system.
In an interview with the Epoch Times, veteran mainland media personality Huang Jinqiu said the Communist Party’s rule is to fool the people, to keep them from knowing the truth. “(The CCP) has been brainwashing the people in one direction for a long time through the propaganda system, so that the people have no independent thinking ability and become a state like a foolish people, a weak people and a slave people.”
He said that now that the U.S. has opened its windows so that the mainland people can learn about the real U.S., those propaganda against the U.S. and the U.S. will be invalidated in the past. This way the people will focus on these national livelihoods at home, the meaning of their own survival up, which makes the Communist Party feel threatened.
“So the authorities do not want the people to know the truth, let alone learn to think independently because they know the truth. Because once the policy of fooling the people fails, after the awakening the people will demand democratic rights, votes and so on, and this is what the authorities call a destabilizing factor.” He said.
Confucius Institute, foreign-based media have another task
The Global Times article also mentioned that since February 2020, the U.S. has included 15 Chinese media outlets in the U.S. as foreign missions; in August 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Confucius Institute’s U.S. center was listed as a “diplomatic mission,” arguing that the U.S. side is double-standard, calling its own infiltration activities in other countries free, and that it will The U.S. side has a double standard, calling its own infiltration activities in other countries free and smearing normal news reporting and cultural exchanges in other countries as “infiltration” and so on.
But if you mix in something other than pure culture, “for example, you may be doing some intelligence gathering in the U.S. through the Confucius Institute or media reporters, or bribing or bribing legislators, or instilling some Marxist or Chinese Communist ideology or consciousness, or setting up a party. s ideology, consciousness, set up party cells, and the nature of the United Front, or even the nature of espionage, the use of a kind of political brainwashing measures on the local population, and so on, so the United States has to keep closing down Confucius Institutes and expelling journalists, and that’s the problem.”
He stressed that it’s certain aspects that violate U.S. statutes and offend the U.S. political bottom line, and that the U.S. government is definitely not willing to do that. They think you’re not doing technical work, you’re doing espionage work, so they take expulsion measures. There is some evidence that you are not mature enough to think that you are acting for the Chinese (Communist) government, and they ask you to register as a foreigner.
He further analyzed, “The mainland media is never a single media, like the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, which is not a media agency at all, but actually represents the Party Central Committee’s foreign agencies, so it also takes into account the functions of united front, espionage, intelligence, etc., which is not allowed for the Western society and will definitely take countermeasures.”
The U.S. Embassy continues the policy of Trump’s reign
According to Jinqiu, this current practice of the U.S. Embassy is a continuation of President Trump’s policy when he was in office, which was to distinguish the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Communist government and ordinary Chinese people. “Former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo also made it clear that China is not the same as the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party is not the same as the Chinese people. So during the Trump era, the U.S. government’s policy suppressed the Chinese Communist government, but it was deeply sympathetic and supportive of the Chinese people, so he was such a cutting standard.”
“So at that time, the U.S. move infuriated the ruling party of China (CCP), claiming that no one can divide and cut us off from the common people. It had to bind the Chinese people together, to die together, and the ruling party would pass this suffering on to the people.”
He also said that the U.S. Embassy has a cultural exchange for the Chinese common people, giving you windows to see the bigger world, to breathe free air and to generate a little independent thinking. “The purpose of the Chinese Communist government, in addition to cultural exchange, will add a lot of cultural propaganda and united war, so that it is difficult to say whether you are a cultural institution or a united war institution or a spy institution, and that is the problem.”
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