A few days ago, a boycott campaign of foreign goods was launched in mainland China, including H&M, Nike, Adidas and other international brands were affected. A foreign media agency specializing in fake information about China has revealed that the boycott of foreign goods in China is a pre-arranged “script” by the Chinese Communist Party.
A few days ago, the European Union, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom made a rare coordinated move to impose sanctions on Beijing over the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations in Xinjiang. The Communist Youth League Central Committee then launched a campaign against the Swedish company H&M, which refused to use Xinjiang cotton, and the boycott of foreign goods quickly spread to Nike, UNIQLO, LV and many other international brands.
Many question that this is the result of a carefully orchestrated campaign by the Chinese Communist government. The Doublethink Lab, a Taipei-based nonprofit organization that researches official Chinese disinformation on the Internet, seems to have the answer.
On March 31, the Wall Street Journal quoted Doublethink Lab’s analysis as saying that the boycott of foreign goods was the result of the CCP’s so-called “successful experience” in suppressing Hong Kong and that it had planned at least two schemes.
According to sources, the Foreign Ministry and the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) met in late February to discuss the international situation, citing the Hong Kong incident and the need to “fight back” when international attention turned to the human rights of the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
The Communist Party’s so-called “victory experience” in suppressing the Hong Kong counter-defection began with its efforts to block and delete images of the Hong Kong people’s protests. Later, it spread censored and fake images of Hong Kong people’s protests and slandered them as evidence of Western countries’ “attempts to destabilize China”.
A source at the meeting revealed that Communist Party officials discussed applying this “victory experience” to the Xinjiang issue, using similar tactics to hype up the topic of Xinjiang cotton. Communist officials at the meeting also discussed the possibility of putting pressure on foreign companies that depend on the Chinese market.
The first approach discussed was for Beijing to refute any “fake news” or statements about Xinjiang (accusations of human rights violations, genocide, and other related news).
Other experts and political advisers at the conference said that when foreign companies make so-called “inappropriate statements” about Xinjiang, the Chinese Communist Party should respond “reasonably” and provide evidence, but that the counterattack should come from the people, not from the government itself.
The China Daily reports that China’s recent boycott of foreign goods seems to be following a second script.
The Chinese Communist Party has denied that Beijing is oppressing the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, and has frequently tweeted and Facebooked that its policy of governing the region is beneficial to local development.
Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League launched a boycott campaign of foreign goods from the 23rd. And said, H&M “while creating rumors to boycott Xinjiang cotton, and at the same time want to make money in China? Delusions of grandeur!”
Official media for the boycott of foreign goods to cool down, said “mixed in with the bad guys”
But China’s boycott of foreign goods campaign, within 3 days that is bizarrely cooled down.
The Global Times, the Communist Party’s major foreign propaganda, and Nanfang Daily, the mainland media, issued an article on the 26th, saying that the bad guys were mixed in with the H&M boycott team! “We have to be wary of the less sensible moves and the forces that are trying to muddy the waters, senior black, and engage in accelerationism.”
Renowned self-publisher Wen Zhao analyzed that what the Global Times really meant was to tell the Chinese people that your boycott of foreign goods is actually sending shells to the so-called Western anti-China forces, and the more cheerful you perform, the more widely it spreads abroad and the worse the impact. This is a roundabout way of pouring cold water on the boycott of foreign goods.
Zhou Lei, a veteran media person, told Voice of Hope that the Communist Party initially took the H & M knife, is trying to find a soft persimmon pinch, did not expect it to be uncontrollable. Because the sanctions against Xinjiang cotton from the United States, it is said to hit back, it should first take the U.S. companies to sacrifice the flag, but it first retaliate against Sweden.
Zhou Lei said, but China’s little pink people, in the so-called patriotism education, made with the little war wolves, the Swiss Good Cotton Association under the brand all dug out, this siege on the big. How to carry on it? The latter immediately involved Nike.
She said, Nike is the leading sports world, many sports shoes and sportswear technology, the national team are using, how to ban it? But this fire burned up. This is more interesting to continue to observe, it is below how to control, if Nike withdrew, affecting hundreds of thousands of workers in China it.
Currently, Nike and Adidas have thousands of stores in China, while H&M works with over 350 Chinese manufacturers, and H&M has nearly 500 physical stores in China. Behind these brands are the jobs and taxes of countless Chinese people.
Central News Agency said, China’s boycott of foreign goods in the storm, compared to artists have taken a stand to boycott, the Chinese sports world has been quiet, because Nike is the largest sponsor, if the rash termination of the contract against their own serious injury.
Free Asia analysis said that if foreign companies boycott Xinjiang cotton, will hit the Chinese Communist Party highly dependent on exports of the textile industry, which will cause annual losses of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange.
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