Twitter account of Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party’s Global Times. (Twitter screenshot)
Recently, the official microblog of the CCP’s Central Committee of Political Science and Law published a collage of images mocking the severity of the epidemic in India, sparking a strong public backlash. In a rare turn of events, Fudan University professor Shen Yi and Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin, both of whom are originally CCP “grips,” have been engaged in a war of words with each other, and Hu has been “besieged” by the CCP’s ultra-leftist 50 cents and pinkos.
The war of words between Hu Xijin and Shen Yi began with a collage posted on May 1 on the official microblog account of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s Political and Legal Affairs Commission, China Chang’an.com. At a time when the Indian epidemic tsunami was raging, the CCP’s Political and Legal Affairs Commission put together a picture of a Chinese rocket launch with a picture of a burning corpse in India, and posted it on Weibo with the theme “China lighting a fire vs. India lighting a fire”, causing a huge backlash from public opinion at home and abroad. Many netizens left messages angrily denouncing the poster as “cold-blooded”, “cruel” and “inhuman”.
(Screenshot from Weibo)
The picture was quickly removed, but Shen Yi posted a post to cleanse the ground for the Political and Legal Committee, praising the picture as “quite good”. The post claimed: “Don’t get me wrong, humanitarianism, community of destiny are to be, the same, India this kind of siren bitch do cause temper is also to have. As for the Virgin Bitch, please go to India to burn firewood if you want to brush up on your sentiments.” In another Weibo post, Shen Yi wrote even more arrogantly, “Let India die more at ease.”
Shen Yi’s shocking remarks were so shocking that even Hu Xijin, who has always taken the initiative to clean up the official Chinese Communist Party, could not stand it anymore and posted on Weibo to “discuss” with Shen.
Hu Xijin said, of course, ordinary people do not need to be “mother of God”, such graphics “personal publication is not a problem”, but the official institutions of the account must be restrained. Hu argued that official institutions should “raise the humanitarian flag” at this time and put Chinese society “firmly on the moral high ground” by expressing sympathy for India.
Hu’s rhetoric was unexpectedly attacked by a group of ultra-leftist fifty cents and CCP pinkos, who called him a “wall-pusher,” a “wallflower” and a “foreign licking dog,” or “He has been called a “publicist” disguised as a patriot, and even claimed that people like him are “more harmful than the enemy.
In Chinese Internet parlance, “wall pushers” refers to people who oppose the one-party dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party and advocate democracy, freedom and human rights, while “publicists” is often used as a generic term for those who criticize the Chinese Communist Party system.
In response to this anomaly, Deutsche Welle reported, “Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, is probably one of the most despised, ridiculed and berated people on the Chinese Internet, but he probably did not expect these despises, ridicule and berating to come from the ‘patriotic camp’. “
In fact, Shen Yi, a former writer for the Global Times, and Hu Xijin have always shared the same stance, which is why netizens often see them as “one and the same”.
(Twitter screenshot)
In the view of many overseas Chinese, the argument between Shen and Hu is merely a “50 steps laughing at 100 steps”. It is only because he has not been “left” enough that he has become a target in his own camp.
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