Zhao Ting received great honors at the Oscars and can be considered a source of pride not only for Chinese, but also for Asian, women. Her film “Land of the Unwanted” exposes the fact that America has fallen in the last 20 years. In my opinion, the film is not just about the people in “Land of the Unwanted”, but actually represents the huge middle class in America today. It could be argued that this film should have been a powerful tool for the Chinese Communist Party to attack the Western democratic world, but on the contrary, the Chinese Communist Party completely shut down Zhao Ting and the film simply because of a statement Zhao Ting made in an interview eight years ago: China is a country full of lies.
Hollywood’s best screenplay could not have written such an absurd scene! Zhao Ting’s award and the Communist Party’s blocking of the film is an international joke that is more mocking than the emperor’s new clothes. What could be more embarrassing than not winning an award? That is to be blocked after winning an award. This, of course, speaks volumes about the external strength of the Chinese Communist Party system, a seemingly very powerful government that is afraid to accept even the slightest criticism. As an artist who grew up in China, Zhao Ting knows very well the hypocrisy and filth of Chinese society. Winning an Oscar has given her a position of equal dialogue with the European and American mainstream elites, which is obviously what the Chinese Communist Party is most afraid of. This is because the mainstream elites in Europe and America, up to now, still have illusions about the CCP. At the political level, this is reflected in Biden’s so-called “competition but not confrontation”. Politics is a reflection of the culture of a country’s elite. The former Beijing correspondent of the French newspaper Libération, Haskell, who is considered a leading cultural figure in the West, recently published an article saying that instead of censorship, Xi Jinping should have called Zhao Ting himself to congratulate him, which would have added value to the vitality of Chinese culture.
No one is equal to the monarch in Chinese Communist culture
The French newspaper Libération was founded by the famous leftist intellectual great Sartre in the 1960s, and Husky’s political overtones are to be expected. It seems that he is criticizing the CCP’s blocking of Zhao Ting, but on the other hand, he is actually trying to find a way to help the CCP defuse this crisis. While criticizing the CCP, he also praises the “vitality of Chinese culture”. This is the Western left: no matter how perverse the Chinese Communist regime is and how much it disgusts them, it will never deny “Chinese culture”. This is because the so-called pluralism is the origin of the Western left’s values, and it is on this basis that the current politically correct idea of “good money out of bad money” in Western society is derived. Therefore, the economy can be hollowed out by the CCP, the military can be suppressed by the CCP, but the recognition of the superiority of Chinese culture (in fact, the CCP’s culture) cannot be shaken! If Xi Jinping really did what Husky said and took the initiative to call Zhao Ting, the Western left must be relieved to have another excuse to kneel down to the dictator: after all, he still belongs to the same culture as us and knows how to be polite to the Oscar-winners.
Fortunately, these Western leftists, while singing the praises of Chinese culture in a self-serving manner, are in fact completely ignorant of Chinese culture. In Western culture, leaders and artists are equal individuals. But in the hierarchical culture of China, how could Xi Jinping call Zhao Ting? Not to mention Zhao Ting’s treacherous betrayal of China, or Zhang Yimou’s groveling, he is not on a par with the king. Look at all the star directors in the Hong Kong film industry, how many of them have supported the anti-authoritarian movement in Hong Kong in 2019? On the contrary, all of them are silent. But even so, did Xi Jinping reward them again? Xi Jinping is the ruler with the most Chinese cultural tradition since the founding of the Communist Party, a culture that runs counter to what Zhao Ting said at the Oscars: “At the beginning of man, there is goodness in nature”. In this respect, Zhao Ting has also misled the West, making their perception of China seriously biased. Political confrontation is essentially a clash of cultures. When one side releases the war wolves, the other side has to look for the cultural merits of the other side, which is just like asking for death.
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