The U.S. media has exposed the fact that Xinhua News Agency has cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party from the beginning of the epidemic to the present, deceiving the public and concealing the epidemic, among many other facts.
The epidemic, which originated in Wuhan, has been raging around the world for more than a year, causing more than 76 million cases and more than 1.7 million deaths. Recently, a U.S. media outlet released thousands of confidential documents from the Chinese Communist Party, revealing how the Communist Party has closely covered up the truth about the epidemic from top to bottom.
The New York Times revealed on December 19 how the Chinese Communist Party suppressed negative news and manipulated public opinion about the epidemic during the epidemic through thousands of confidential documents obtained from inside the Communist Party.
The documents show that the CCP began restricting information about the outbreak in early January, when the virus had not even been identified. A few weeks later, when the outbreak began to spread rapidly, the Communist Party cracked down on anything that portrayed its response to the outbreak as too “negative.
The documents included more than 3,200 instructions, 1,800 memos and other documents from the office of the Communist Party’s Internet regulator, the Internet Information Office, in the eastern city of Hangzhou, the report said.
The documents also include internal documents from China’s Yunrun Big Data Service Co. and computer code that the company developed for software used by local governments to monitor Internet discussions and manage large volumes of online comments.
A hacking group calling itself “C.C.P. Unmasked” shared the documents with the media. Some of the documents were obtained by China Digital Times, a website that tracks China’s Internet control.
In early February, Xi Jinping called for tighter management of digital media at a high-level meeting, and the Communist Party’s Internet Information Office across the country moved to control not only domestic information but also to “actively influence international public opinion,” the report said.
The CCP instructed that “headlines such as ‘incurable’ and ‘deadly’ should not be used to prevent social panic. The term “blockade” was not to be used when reporting on restrictions on movement and travel, and it was stressed that negative news about the virus should not be publicized.
When there was an outbreak in a prison, the Communist Party asked its local Internet information offices to monitor the matter closely to prevent it from attracting attention from outside the country, etc. When overseas donations of medical supplies were made to China, the CCP also instructed the land media to avoid creating the false impression that the CCP relies on foreign donations.
News of whistleblower Li Wenliang’s death from a virus spread quickly on the evening of February 6. Li Wenliang, a front-line doctor in Wuhan who warned of a strange new virus outbreak during his lifetime, was admonished by police and charged with spreading rumors.
After Li Wenliang’s death, grief and anger spread across social media. For people at home and abroad, Li Wenliang’s death demonstrates the terrible cost of the CCP government’s instinct to suppress negative information.
Fearing that social media was getting out of control, the CCP ordered news sites not to send push notifications of Li Wenliang’s death to readers. It also asked social media platforms to gradually remove his name from their hot topics pages.
The CCP also unleashed a large number of fake online commentators to flood social media sites with distracting remarks and stressed the need for caution, asking online commentators to be careful to keep their identities hidden and to reflect the effect of silent warfare.
The CCP virus broke out in Wuhan in December last year. As the CCP concealed the truth about the epidemic from top to bottom, it falsely claimed that it was preventable and controllable and would not be passed from person to person. This led to the rapid spread of the virus worldwide. The pandemic, which lasted for more than a year, is still spreading and has mutated. As of December 21, the number of people infected with the CCP virus worldwide has exceeded 76 million, and the death toll will exceed 1.7 million million.
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