11-26-2019, 06:23 PM
** 26-Nov-2019 World View: China's nationalist anti-Japan propaganda
Lol!
It's not exactly an unheard of practice for a military leader to
divert forces attacking him to start fighting another enemy.
This is a subject area that I researched a very great deal for my
book, which is not surprising since the book is titled "War between
China and Japan."
Some brief excerpts:
The student pro-democracy protests that led to the Tiananmen Square
massacre in 1989 frightened CCP officials, who realized that being
pro-democracy meant that the young people were becoming increasingly
contemptuous of communist ideology.
That wasn't the only thing that happened around that time. On
December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and all the former
Soviet republics became independent self-governing nations.
Arguably, the collapse of the Soviet Union was more traumatic to the
CCP than even the Tiananmen Square massacre. Suddenly, the leadership
of the CCP were staring death in the face, as they considered the fact
that something like the Tiananmen Square protests could force the
Chinese Communist Party to collapse as well. Ever since the Bolshevik
Revolution, Russian communism had always been the role model for
Chinese communism. If Russian communism could collapse, then so could
Chinese communism.
In the 1990s, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics began to take on
a whole new and far darker and more sinister meaning. The CCP
leadership became increasingly paranoid, and began seeing ghosts.
Centralism was still in play, but democratic centralism was gone. The
"right to make criticisms" was gone, and any criticism of the CCP
leadership could lead to torture, rape and jailing.
Religious persecution surged, as we described in detail in earlier
chapters. The Buddhism-based Falun Gong movement was and is
particularly targeted, after millions of people became practitioners
of their form of meditation. The CCP has increasingly cracked down on
Christianity and even Daoism, for fear their practice could lead to
overthrow of the CCP.
When any country is preparing for war, it's necessary to educate and
motivate the public to prepare them for war. China has been
conducting a vitriolic anti-Japan propaganda campaign since 1989, the
time of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The student pro-democracy protests that led to the Tiananmen Square
massacre in 1989 frightened CCP officials, who realized that being
pro-democracy meant that the young people were becoming increasingly
contemptuous of communist ideology. The CCP decided to replace
indoctrination of communist ideology with indoctrination of Chinese
nationalism.
The CCP launched the Patriotic Education Campaign, a propaganda
campaign designed to restore the legitimacy of the CCP government,
according to University of Victoria (Canada) sociology professor Min
Zhou:
This anti-Japan propaganda campaign is continuing, and is pursued
vigorously today as part of China's preparation for war with Japan.
John Xenakis is author of: "World View: War Between China and Japan:
Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book
2) Paperback: 331 pages, over 200 source references, $13.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732738637/
(11-24-2019, 10:08 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > In one sense it's only a symbolic victory. The district councils
> only control such things as parks and taxicabs. They are not as
> powerful as the city's Legislative Council, which controls the
> citywide government.
(11-26-2019, 05:11 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > Which is why, as you point out, the Chinese government will try to
> stay out of things unless the unrest threatens to spill over into
> the mainland, or, I would add, unless Carrie Lam's goverment
> starts entertaining thoughts of independence.
Lol!
(11-24-2019, 10:08 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > However, any sort of internal rebellion on the mainland would
> change the CCP calculation, and lead to diversionary invasions of
> Japan and Taiwan.
(11-26-2019, 05:11 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: > What would this be diverting from? If there were actually an
> internal rebellion, the rebels wouldn't be diverted because of an
> external war, and the government wouldn't want to divert loyalists
> from staying loyal. An external war with Japan or Taiwan would be
> far more likely to start because Japan or Taiwan intervened to
> extract their nationals or protect their interests.
It's not exactly an unheard of practice for a military leader to
divert forces attacking him to start fighting another enemy.
This is a subject area that I researched a very great deal for my
book, which is not surprising since the book is titled "War between
China and Japan."
Some brief excerpts:
The student pro-democracy protests that led to the Tiananmen Square
massacre in 1989 frightened CCP officials, who realized that being
pro-democracy meant that the young people were becoming increasingly
contemptuous of communist ideology.
That wasn't the only thing that happened around that time. On
December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and all the former
Soviet republics became independent self-governing nations.
Arguably, the collapse of the Soviet Union was more traumatic to the
CCP than even the Tiananmen Square massacre. Suddenly, the leadership
of the CCP were staring death in the face, as they considered the fact
that something like the Tiananmen Square protests could force the
Chinese Communist Party to collapse as well. Ever since the Bolshevik
Revolution, Russian communism had always been the role model for
Chinese communism. If Russian communism could collapse, then so could
Chinese communism.
In the 1990s, Socialism with Chinese Characteristics began to take on
a whole new and far darker and more sinister meaning. The CCP
leadership became increasingly paranoid, and began seeing ghosts.
Centralism was still in play, but democratic centralism was gone. The
"right to make criticisms" was gone, and any criticism of the CCP
leadership could lead to torture, rape and jailing.
Religious persecution surged, as we described in detail in earlier
chapters. The Buddhism-based Falun Gong movement was and is
particularly targeted, after millions of people became practitioners
of their form of meditation. The CCP has increasingly cracked down on
Christianity and even Daoism, for fear their practice could lead to
overthrow of the CCP.
When any country is preparing for war, it's necessary to educate and
motivate the public to prepare them for war. China has been
conducting a vitriolic anti-Japan propaganda campaign since 1989, the
time of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The student pro-democracy protests that led to the Tiananmen Square
massacre in 1989 frightened CCP officials, who realized that being
pro-democracy meant that the young people were becoming increasingly
contemptuous of communist ideology. The CCP decided to replace
indoctrination of communist ideology with indoctrination of Chinese
nationalism.
The CCP launched the Patriotic Education Campaign, a propaganda
campaign designed to restore the legitimacy of the CCP government,
according to University of Victoria (Canada) sociology professor Min
Zhou:
Quote:> "The propaganda has been carried out through both the
> educational system and the mass media. It is promulgated not only
> in the form of school curricula (especially officially-sanctioned
> history textbooks), but also in the form of broadcast media,
> films, museums and memorials. ...
> Although everyone in China can be subject to nationalist
> propaganda, the Chinese youth have been singled out as the main
> target group. Accounting for a large part of this nationalist
> propaganda, patriotic education is incorporated into the entire
> process of education from "kindergartens all the way through the
> universities" .... Nationalist propaganda focuses on restoring
> national pride and eliminating national humiliation. China’s
> official media and its education system propagate nationalism
> through repeated emphasis on China’s humiliation and victimhood
> caused by foreign powers over the past two centuries.
> Within this discourse, a particular emphasis is placed upon
> China’s suffering at the hands of aggressive Japanese
> imperialists.... Japan figures prominently in China’s nationalist
> propaganda. One essential component of this propaganda is the
> historical memory of Japan’s wartime atrocities and its apparent
> lack of sincerity in coming to terms with this
> history."
This anti-Japan propaganda campaign is continuing, and is pursued
vigorously today as part of China's preparation for war with Japan.
John Xenakis is author of: "World View: War Between China and Japan:
Why America Must Be Prepared" (Generational Theory Book Series, Book
2) Paperback: 331 pages, over 200 source references, $13.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732738637/
