February 4 (Wen Tianxia) "Insiders" or "authoritative scholars" broke the news about China, and then ** was responsible for "digging deep", in the process some politicians "echoed from afar" and further supplemented "materials" - as a result, an "anti-China black industry chain" from creating lies to launching attacks is "closed".
From the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to the "Belt and Road" Forum for International Cooperation, when China holds some major events, there will always be voices demonizing China in the West, and even fabricating the so-called "debt crisis" in an attempt to create a negative image of China through language traps.
It is not difficult to find that although there are many tricks and tricks, there is no difference in essence, and the purpose is to try to suppress China. And all kinds of evidence point to the same direction behind the scenes of this black industry chain - Washington.
Routine 1: Set up a special fund to deal with China.
The amount is huge and highly targeted.
In April 2021, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a Strategic Competition Act of 2021, and Article 132 of the report prominently states that it will establish and operate "countering China's influence**".
Specifically, it reads: "Authorizes $300 million for each fiscal year from 2022 to 2026 to "counter Chinese influence**" to counter the Chinese Communist Party's malign influence around the world." ”
Article 132 of the document also contains "approved appropriations," which read: "Authorizes $100 million in funding for the U.S. Global Program in each fiscal year for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 to support local, independent, efforts to combat disinformation inside and outside China, invest in censorship-subverting technologies, and monitor and evaluate ongoing and new projects." ”
In other words, the US Congress has set up a "special fund" to smear China, which is huge and highly targeted, and its intentions are clear at a glance!
Routine 2: Abuse **, train journalists.
Export counterfeiting process.
According to the specific division of labor in the bill, the United States International Agency, which is mainly responsible for the specific work of "smearing China", was formerly known as the US Broadcasting Regulatory Commission, which was established in 1994 and is responsible for managing the international broadcasting activities of the United States to the outside world.
VOA) and Radio Continental Radio (RFA) and other United States**, which act as anti-China "vanguards", all belong to this organization.
In addition, the United States has also used its global hegemony and monetary inducements to export the counterfeiting process to other parts of the world, cultivating local ** to participate in the anti-China propaganda industry chain. It is not difficult to imagine why the "VOAs" have spared no effort to smear China.
Not only that, in Article 136 of the bill, the United States has also specially formulated a smear strategy against the "Belt and Road" initiative, mainly to train a large number of anti-China journalists.
"The [U.S.] Secretary of State, through the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and in coordination with the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides journalists with the investigative technical support and training necessary to ensure public accountability for the Belt and Road Initiative, China's surveillance and digital technology exports, and other overseas influence actions directly or indirectly supported by the CCP or China**," the bill reads. ”
Routine 3: Put on the coat of "academic authority".
It is difficult for the financier behind him to hide the "fox tail".
In addition to the direct export of the United States, many anti-China articles are also cloaked in "academic" and "objective" clothing.
In November 2023, the US-based College of William & Mary-based AidData released a study on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that directly referred to China as "the world's largest official debt collector" and noted that "80% of China's overseas lending portfolio in developing countries has now gone to financially distressed countries."
And this research institute called aiddata is the United States ** behind it.
According to its website, the agency was founded in 2012 and received a total of $25 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the first five years, according to its website.
At USAID**, AidData was also featured as a "partnership" with seven world-class universities. And the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided 1With $3.7 billion, the tentacles extend to academia, civil society, and more than 100 cooperative institutions in 38 countries and regions around the world.
Routine 4: Long-term creation of unwarranted "crisis".
Discourse traps are riddled with loopholes.
The US side has built a series of anti-China industrial chains, and the West has carried out anti-China propaganda all year round, which is essentially for its own selfishness. In order to maintain its international institutional power and monopoly position, it has slandered, smeared and encircled concepts and initiatives such as promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" in multilateral institutions, and prevented relevant concepts and initiatives from being included in the documents of the United Nations and other international organizations.
And in the entire smear industry chain, the card of "debt crisis" seems to have been played particularly smoothly.
Since the United States and the West have always regarded themselves as colonizers in Africa, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is at odds with their traditional policies in promoting local development in Africa. Thus, the discourse trap of "debt crisis" came into being.
According to a report, Hussein Ascari, vice president of the Swedish "Belt and Road" Research Institute, traced the word "debt trap" and found that the term only entered the public eye in May 2018. At that time, the United States distributed a document entitled "Debt Diplomacy" from the Harvard Kennedy School to each one, and one of the authors of the document was none other than the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
According to statistics, since 2018, there has been a significant increase in coverage of the Belt and Road debt problem, which includes a large number of mainstream Western reports**, as well as "academic articles" from institutions such as the College of William and Mary.
Ignoring the facts and ignoring the will of the people.
Smearing and rumor-mongering reflect their own anxieties.
Although the United States has spared no effort to smear through various schemes, according to the article "Fallacies and Truths in the United States' Perception of China" released by China, the research report released by the World Bank has made it clear that the full implementation of the "Belt and Road" initiative can free 32 million people from the average daily living cost of less than 3The moderate poverty level of US$2 shows that the Belt and Road Initiative will effectively improve the level of human rights protection in more countries.
The article pointed out that in October 2021, the WTO conducted its eighth policy review on China. The members fully recognized China's efforts in safeguarding the multilateral system and participating in the work of the WTO, and appreciated China's achievements in promoting investment liberalization and facilitation, expanding opening-up, and jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative.
In response to the debt issue, the article points out that China attaches great importance to the sustainability of project debt, and signed the Guiding Principles for Belt and Road Financing with 26 Belt and Road countries as early as 2017. In 2019, China issued the Belt and Road Debt Sustainability Analysis Framework, based on the debt situation and repayment capacity of debtor countries, adhere to equal consultation, compliance with laws and regulations, openness and transparency, increase supervision and evaluation of the economic, social and livelihood benefits of projects, guide the flow of sovereign debt to high-efficiency areas, and ensure the long-term benefits of projects. At the same time, China has also taken the initiative to "reduce the burden" of debtor countries.
South Asian countries need China in the process of development, because China is synonymous with "development". China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has benefited almost all South Asian countries. On January 17, 2022, Sri Lanka's Daily News published an article titled "Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal Need China for Development", which said, "As far as Sri Lanka is concerned, we are the beneficiaries of China's project, and many people will only hype up the 'Chinese debt trap' in this regard, but no one will mention the development that China's investment in Sri Lanka's seaports, airports, national highways and power distribution centers has brought us." ”
As of October 2023, the Belt and Road Initiative has attracted nearly US$1 trillion in investment, formed more than 3,000 cooperation projects, lifted nearly 40 million people out of poverty, and the total import and export volume between China and the co-construction countries has exceeded US$19 trillion, and the cumulative two-way investment has exceeded US$380 billion.
The United States has co-opted some Western countries to launch all-out smears and attacks against China, essentially reflecting its own anxiety about the decline of its international status and influence. In the face of solid data and the voices of the international community, rumors are self-defeating, which can only highlight the pale and weak nature of the rumor-mongers.
The people of China and the United States have the right to pursue a better life, and the vast earth can fully accommodate the development and common prosperity of China and the United States.
*: China News Network).