Tiktok is like fentanyl, the CCP is fighting the global cultural opium war

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Scholar: TikTok is like fentanyl, the CCP is fighting the global cultural opium war

Reporters : Huang Liangjian and Zhang Dongxu / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/12/17/a103600726.html

U.S. lawmakers from both parties are discussing a nationwide ban on Tiktok operations; Taiwan is discussing whether the public sector ban should be fully extended to the private sector. Scholars believe that Tiktok is like "digital fentanyl", which not only affects national security, but also has a great impact on teenagers and children. The CCP is waging a cultural opium war against the world.

Song Guocheng, a senior researcher at the International Relations Research Center of Chengchi University: "TikTok is a kind of red cognition war carried out by the CCP against the whole world, and I define it as a kind of cultural opium war against the whole world."

The U.S. Congress is pushing for a ban on Tiktok. Scholar Song Guocheng (on 16 December 2022) was interviewed and said that TikTok could not refuse the CCP’s so-called “Intelligence Law” to submit data and intelligence. After becoming a shareholder of the CCP’s CCTV, TikTok became more like the CCP’s mouthpiece official media. It is actually a digital weapon. Through entertainment, variety shows, entertainment, fashion and other means, it single-handedly makes up narratives about the CCP and China-related issues. Plastic production; single-handedly carry out a negative and hidden united front against Taiwan, gradually subverting the national image of the Republic of China.

Song Guocheng: "The hegemony of exporting CCP (Party) culture overseas is also a revolutionary export of the CCP's ideology after beautification and packaging."

Ming Juzheng, Honorary Professor of Politics Department of National Taiwan University: "The CCP pays great attention to power and struggle. For it, anything can be weaponized. It (the CCP on the Internet) is indeed a war. Don't think that you can just look at it now. It’s nothing to do with small and short videos. The CCP is using real brainwashing to erode our most fundamental values. On this issue, I remind (Taiwan) the blue, green and white parties not to fall into party disputes.”

U.S. Senator Rubio (2022.12.14): "TikTok allows the CCP to obtain all private data in the United States, any device that uses TikTok, including our children, and other mobile phones that are connected to the children's mobile phones. This is a national security threat, and a direct threat to our way of life, our economy."

Ming Juzheng said that the CCP has "weaponized the cyber world" and divided it into defense and offense. Defensive aspect: Prohibition of freedom of speech, strict control and filtering of internal and external speech and opinions, there are firewalls, the Great Wall of the Internet, and even built-in software filters in computers. Offensive aspect: The scope of intelligence collection is very wide, such as political, diplomatic, military, economic, commercial secrets, information on Falun Gong and dissidents overseas, etc. The CCP uses intelligence to attack, release false information, fight information warfare, and brainwash, such as Taiwan. Provoking the issue of unification and independence, partisan struggle, and suspicion of the United States to provoke Taiwan-US relations; not only TikTok, but Chinese software such as QQ and WeChat will also be used.

Song Guocheng: "Cultural penetration means encoding the audience's thoughts. There is also a reshaping of the value of these teenagers, to rewrite our Taiwanese teenagers, their own identity and tendency. It is a Cultural espionage system, it will interfere in your internal affairs, it will interfere with your elections, it will even destroy Taiwan’s democratic system.”

Song Guocheng believes that Taiwan should completely ban TikTok. TikTok is called "digital fentanyl" drug by American lawmakers, which is an apt analogy. It is not only possible to steal sensitive information of foreign citizens, but also push pornographic and violent content to teenagers, and even lead to the death of children through dangerous instigation of game activities.

Ming Juzheng said that TikTok and other software issues involve cyber warfare and national security; he suggested that Taiwan conduct independent research on this, communicate the results with the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Israel, establish consensus, and discuss joint or parallel actions.

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