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Russian opposition leader Navalny’s sudden death sparked polarized reactions from Chinese netizens
Reporters : Ning Haizhong and Yi Ru / Editor : Li Renhe / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/2/19/n14184286.htm / Image : On 16 February 2024, Russian opposition leader Navalny died in an Arctic exile. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)
On 16 February 2024, the 47-year-old Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly in prison. The United States and other Western countries generally point the finger at Putin. The CCP China Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this was "Russia's internal affairs," sparking criticism. Netizens on Chinese social media reacted in polarized ways, with some people suspected of mentioning the death of former Prime Minister Li Keqiang in disguise.
Navalny has long been considered one of Putin's biggest political opponents. In August 2020, Navalny fell into a coma due to poisoning in Russia and was sent to Berlin for emergency treatment. German tests found that Navalny was attacked with the Novichok nerve agent. Navalny has accused Putin of trying to murder him but the Kremlin denies involvement. On 17 January 2021, Navalny returned to Russia and continued to promote the opposition movement. However, he was arrested as soon as the plane landed at the Moscow airport, and was imprisoned in a penal colony in the Arctic Circle in northern Siberia until his death recently.
This time Navalny’s sudden death triggered a strong response. European and American leaders have called for Putin's government to be held accountable. When answering a question from AFP on the 17th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China refused to comment on Navalny’s death, saying that it was “Russia’s internal affairs.” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg severely condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s response, saying, “This is not an internal Russian problem, because we all know that it is caused by the authoritarian regime in Moscow.”
Lai Jianping, former Beijing lawyer and Canadian chairman of the Democratic Front, told The Epoch Times on 19 February 2024 that the CCP’s response to the incident shows that it is the same in nature as the Russian dictatorship, and that the CCP dictator will take similar measures and practice against his political opponents.
Li Yuanhua, a historian living in Australia, also told The Epoch Times that when the Western world was condemning Russia's Putin, the CCP used internal affairs as an excuse to refrain from commenting, reflecting the CCP's belief that authoritarian totalitarians have the right to deal with those who oppose it. Through the CCP’s repeated statements on international events, the world has become increasingly clear about its nature.
There was little follow-up coverage of Navalny’s death in state media on China’s heavily censored internet. On Weibo, some netizens forwarded a live video of people mourning Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia. According to a report by Voice of America on the 19th, Russia has arrested more than 400 people who went to mourn.
Some Chinese netizens are complaining about Putin, believing that the West is making things difficult for Russia.
Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party's Global Times, wrote on Weibo: "Russian opposition leader Navalny suddenly died in prison. This unexpected incident will definitely make Russia more passive in the international public opinion dominated by the West. A big country It’s not easy, and it’s especially easy to have too much right and wrong in the world of international public opinion.”
A Chinese netizen named "Hexi Zhaolang" commented: "Russia doesn't care at all. Anyway, people are throwing dirty water every day. It's not a big deal if you throw another bucket."
A Weibo account named "Classmate Tang Zhe" directly claimed that the CIA was behind the scenes: "Anyone who has watched "Mission: Impossible" knows that Western agents disguise themselves or bribe Russian guards, and then carry out assassinations. Let Russia fall into the whirlpool of public opinion."
Regarding the above-mentioned opinions of Hu Xijin and some netizens, Lai Jianping believes that they are basically helping the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian regime to lead the trend, rather than the normal opinions of netizens, and are not worth mentioning.
There are also people who publicly praise Navalny and disparage Putin.
"Falling Yellow Maple Leaf": "To be able to return to Russia despite being poisoned and assassinated before, knowing that it is extremely dangerous to go back, is a kind of religious martyrdom. I thought that this kind of courage has become extinct in the 21st century, but Navalny proved wuth his life that this rare courage still exists in the world. Regardless of his political philosophy, he was a true martyr. May this fearless warrior rest in peace."
"Xia Xingfan": "Knowing that you can't do something but doing it, a hero lives to die. Alexei Navalny had long expected his fate, but he resolutely returned to his motherland. Compared with him, Putin is not only A coward on the battlefield and a moral dwarf. Light a candle and say goodbye to the hero Alexei Navalny.”
Some Chinese netizens thought of the political persecution under the CCP, saying that Navalny "must have died of a heart attack" and "this happened in the south too" and "several people were surprised like this last year... including a retiree. Don't be nervous. I’m talking about Prigozhin.” Netizens suspected that Li Keqiang, the former Prime Minister of the Communist Party of China, was contacted.
On27 October 2023, it was officially announced that Li Keqiang died of a heart attack while "resting" in Shanghai. The suspicion of abnormal death remains unresolved. Many analyzes point to the power struggle between Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang.
Lai Jianping said that China's political environment is more cruel than Russia's. In the past, there were great doubts about the causes of death of many dissidents such as Peng Ming and Li Wangyang. Li Keqiang, the former Prime Minister of the Communist Party of China, is essentially a political victim and a victim. Li Keqiang probably died of a political murder.
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Navalny’s widow inherits her husband’s legacy to fight against Putin
Reporter : Chen Ting / Editor : Li Muen / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/2/20/n14184812.htm / Image : On 16 February 2024, in Munich, Germany, Yulia, the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attended the Munich Security Conference (MSC). (Kai Pfaffenbach/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
On Monday (19 February 2024), the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that she is inheriting her husband's legacy to fight for "free Russia".
Yulia Navalnaya, 47, accused Putin of killing her husband in a nine-minute, angry video message (link). She said Putin had destroyed half her heart and soul and left her two children without a father.
"I want to live in a free Russia, I want to build a free Russia," Yulia said in a video message titled "I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny."
"I implore you to stand with me," she said. "I implore you to join me in my anger. Anger, anger, hatred at those who dare to stifle our future."
It is unclear where she recorded the video but she is not in Russia. Yulia attended a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, as the EU is considering imposing further sanctions on Russia over Navalny's death. Britain has also threatened to take action.
Yulia accused Russian authorities of hiding Navalny's body and waiting for traces of the nerve agent to disappear from his body. She provided no evidence but said her team would release details of her husband's killers.
“Putin killed my husband,” Yulia said. “Putin killed Alexei and he killed half of me—destroyed half of my heart and half of my soul.”
"But I have another half that tells me that I have no right to give up. I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny and continue to fight for our country," she said.
On Monday, Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh posted on social platform X: “Investigators told lawyers and Alexei’s mother that they will not hand over the body. The body will be collected Some form of 'chemical testing' for 14 days."
An hour later, she posted again to emphasize: "I say it again: Navalny's body was hidden to cover up traces of murder. The 14-day 'chemical test' is an obvious lie and a mockery."
Navalny was serving his sentence at the Polar Wolf prison north of the Arctic Circle when he suddenly lost consciousness and died after a walk on Friday, prison officials said.
Western countries and Navalny's supporters say Putin is responsible for Navalny's death. The Kremlin denied involvement and said it was unacceptable to suggest Putin was responsible.
Putin has not publicly commented on Navalny's death, but it has further deepened the rift between Moscow and the West after the Russia-Ukraine war.
Yulia graduated from the prestigious Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Russia and supported her husband in his fight against the Russian authorities.
"I know it no longer seems possible," she said in the video, "but we need to continue the fight. Bring everyone together and fight this crazy regime with a strong fist."
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False news spreads: Messi makes video to respond to Hong Kong's absence
Reporter : Li Jing / Editor : Zheng Yucheng / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/2/19/n14184612.htm / Image : Lionel Messi plays in a friendly match between Inter Miami and Vissel Kobe, Japan, in Tokyo, Japan on 7 February 2024. (Kenta Harada/Getty Images)
The incident of Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi’s absence from the Hong Kong football match continues to escalate. In the evening of 19 February, Messi posted a video on his personal Weibo, revealing the reasons for his absence from the Hong Kong game.
Messi said in the video, "I have read and heard a lot of things that were said after the game in Hong Kong, China. I want to record this video to give the true situation. I hope everyone will not continue to spreade false news. ”
"I've heard people say that I don't want to compete for political reasons or many other reasons, but none of that is true, and if that were true I wouldn't even go to Japan, or visit China as many times as I did before."
Messi said, as he said at the press conference, the real situation is, "I have adductor inflammation and I felt it before the first friendly match in Saudi Arabia, so I was unable to participate in the game. In the second I tried to play for a while during the game [in Saudi Arabia], but it got worse. Then the day before (the Hong Kong game), I tried to play and train for all the fans who came to watch the training. "
He also mentioned, "I tried my best and participated in football interaction sessions with the children after training, but I really couldn't play. I felt uncomfortable and risked aggravating the injury. A few days later, The injury is feeling a little better, which is why I played for a while in Japan. I hope to regain some fitness for the league that starts soon. I have said all this (in the press conference), but I think In the face of all this misinformation, it’s important to retell this now.”
Finally, Messi sends his best wishes to all fans in China and hopes to see them again soon.
After Messi released this video, many related topics appeared on Weibo's hot search list, among which the topic "Messi's response" topped the hot search list.
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In response to Messi's statement, Hu Xijin, the former editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party's official media "Global Times" posted on Weibo that the video Messi posted was 140 seconds long and was shot very seriously. Messi did not apologize in the video, but he told the inside story in detail, excluding political and other reasons, and his attitude was quite sincere.
Hu Xijin posted many derogatory posts about Messi after the incident. Hu Xijin's above remarks attracted ridicule, with netizens saying, "It is Hu Xijin who scolded Messi for his lack of quality, and it is Hu Xijin who accepted Messi's praise of Messi's sincerity in the 140-second video."
Messi avoids shaking hands with Hong Kong chief executive, CCP official media condemns
In fact, just before Messi missed the Hong Kong match, Inter Miami had already played three friendly matches on this tour, including in El Salvador, Dallas in the United States and Saudi Arabia. Hong Kong was the fourth stop, and the last stop was Japan.
On the eve of the Hong Kong match, Messi, Busquets and Alba participated in a charity event there on 3 February 2024. Two seriously ill patients - 5-year-old Ethan and 19-year-old Mintai - got the chance to meet Messi. Messi took photos with them and even signed an autograph for Ethan, a 5-year-old fan. He was smiling the whole time.
In the evening of the same day, Inter Miami conducted acclimatization and warm-up training at the Hong Kong Stadium in China, and 40,000 fans came to watch. Messi only participated in the lap and jogging sessions, and did not join the group competition. However, he interacted with local young players and taught them how to play football. Some fans rushed into the stadium and got an autograph from Messi himself.
At 4 pm on 4 February 2024, the game between Inter Miami and Hong Kong All-Stars started. 40,000 fans and celebrities from all walks of life in Hong Kong came to watch the game. After entering the stadium, Messi smiled and waved to the fans. In the end, Inter Miami defeated the Hong Kong All-Stars 4:1. Messi sat on the bench for the entire game, not playing for the first and only time in the entire pre-season.
After the game, TV cameras captured that Messi seemed to deliberately "avoid" shaking hands with Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao at the award ceremony, and did not receive the trophy as captain. He stood in the last row during the group photo.
After Messi failed to appear, a spokesman for the Hong Kong SAR government asked the organizer to explain. Hong Kong Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau Director Yang Yunxiong said that he had contacted the organizers three times to ask Messi to appear but to no avail. He also proposed that Messi personally explain and accept the award, but this has not been realized.
After the incident, Messi responded three times in two weeks without apologizing
Messi's absence from the Hong Kong event caused huge concern, and he explained the reason for his absence more than once.
On 6 February 2024, Messi attended the press conference before the match between Inter Miami and Vissel Kobe in Japan. He explained: "The fact is that I was not able to play on the day of the Hong Kong game. It can only be said to be bad luck. In Saudi Arabia In the first game, I felt muscle discomfort; in the second game, I tried to test it and see how it felt, and I did an MRI and found muscle edema, a little overload symptom, but no injury."
At night of 7 February 2024, before the start of Inter Miami's match against Vissel Kobe, Messi's Chinese official Weibo posted: "As I said at the press conference earlier, it is a pity that I was unable to participate in the friendly match in Hong Kong due to a groin injury. When I came out, my injury was swollen and painful." "I hope that one day we will have the opportunity to come back and give our best to the fans and friends in Hong Kong."
Messi's response was not apologetic, which dissatisfied the CCP. Multiple reports from the Chinese Communist Party’s official media suggested that Messi’s absence from the Hong Kong event could not be ruled out for political reasons.
The Chinese Communist Party's overseas official media "Global Times" published an article on 7 February 2024, saying that Messi's absence from the Hong Kong competition does not rule out "political motives" behind it. "Hong Kong intends to build a grand event economy, and some external forces deliberately use this to embarrass Hong Kong."
"Global People", a magazine of the "People's Daily", published an article on the 8th titled "Messi's owner is related to the CIA." The article stated that the owner of the Miami International team is related to the CIA.
In addition, the Chinese Communist Party’s official suppression of Messi has gradually escalated. On 9 and 10 February 2024, the Hangzhou Sports Bureau and the Beijing Football Association announced that they had no plans to hold relevant competitions involving Messi, and Argentina’s trip to China in March was officially cancelled. Later, attentive fans discovered that CCTV's "World Football" program had changed the title, and the clip about Messi winning the cup was replaced, and the "Weather Forecast" program also changed Messi's advertising photos.
On 15 February 2024, Michel Lamunière, chairman and CEO of Tatler Asia, the organizer of Inter Miami's Hong Kong tour, said in an interview with the media that he had learned "15 minutes before the start of the game" that Messi would not play. However, this statement is inconsistent with the previous organizer's statement that "it was not known until halftime."
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Zhongnanhai forced to back down to Messi
Since the start of the Sino-US trade war in 2018, Chinese netizens have discovered that the CCP has a characteristic: "when it strangles its neck, it rolls its eyes, and when it lets go, it brags." This incident also happened with the Messi incident around the Chinese New Year. Moreover, Zhongnanhai quietly gave in.
Zhongnanhai did not appear directly, but it is obvious that there is a shadow behind it. If you don’t believe it, let’s first review how the CCP’s agents in Hong Kong took turns bombarding Messi before the New Year:
Among them, the red media Daguwen reported that it quoted so-called "exclusive information" and accused the incident of being unusual. It said that Messi faked his injury and "was involved in fraud." It also issued a press release stating that the father of the Mas brothers, the owners of the Miami International team, was a businessman who fled to the United States from Cuba and was "extremely hateful and committed to overthrowing the Cuban regime." He fled to Miami in 1960 and worked extensively in the United States. Mention of "CI" obviously is a hint that the United States instigated Messi to cause chaos.
As you all know, "Ta Kung Pao" and "Wen Wei Po" are Hong Kong party newspapers that were incorporated by the CCP before 1949. They were officially merged a few years ago and publicly declared that their main purpose is to let Hong Kong people understand the policies of the CCP Central Committee and "be united with the motherland." ”, “Convey the voice of China (Communist Party)”.
As for the well-known Hong Kong red representative figure, Legislative Council member Ho Kwan-yao, who colluded with the underworld during the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill in 2019 to create the Yuen Long subway stabbing incident that shocked the world, this time he brought out the Basic Law to characterize the Messi incident. As a "conflict between ourselves and the enemy", he severely criticized Messi for "insulting China", saying that he deliberately took a detour to avoid Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao, "obviously insulting the chief executive and insulting the SAR government", and threatened that "if you have a grudge, you are not a gentleman." .
This speech can be described as murderous.
Another Hong Kong red representative is also on the front line of criticizing Messi. She is Ip Lau Suk-yee. She was forced to resign because of the forced implementation of Article 23 legislation in Hong Kong, which triggered a demonstration of 500,000 Hong Kong people in 2003. In recent years, she has made a comeback with support from the Chinese Communist Party. She is now the convener of the Executive Council. She also angrily accused Messi of having a black hand behind the scenes. Messi and these black hands were working together to "calculate the cold treatment of Hong Kong" and said that Messi should never be allowed to return to Hong Kong.
In mainland China, officials used the Messi incident to deflect the serious stock market crash and economic recession a year ago. Not only did they indulge the party media and 50-cent influencers to attack Messi and publish 50 pages of black material about Messi, but the Hangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau also announced the cancellation of the friendly match of the Argentina national team.
However, no matter how hard the scolding was at the beginning, the slap in the face would be more severe later. The biggest side effect of the CCP's efforts in performing so hard is that the world has seen that Hong Kong under the CCP not only no longer acts in accordance with the law and contracts, but also there is no room for an ordinary player on either side. In this case, how can they still have the nerve to talk about attracting investment and continuing to prosper?
What’s even more ridiculous is that the Chinese Communist Party’s CCTV “World Football” deleted the scene of Messi in the title of the program and replaced it with the German star Lahm. However, netizens discovered that Lahm is the football star who really humiliated the CCP!
After getting burned, the CCP had to find a way to get down. Therefore, under the arrangement of Zhongnanhai, the relevant parties began to change their tone.
On 17 February 2024, Wenhui.com reported that "the organizer Tatler Asia changed its tone: it was known that Messi (Messi) would be absent 15 minutes before the game." As soon as the news came out, Chinese public opinion was in an uproar.
The day before, Sandra Yee also changed her tune, saying that she had previously advocated banning Messi from coming to Hong Kong, just to vent her personal anger, "I was so mad at the time." As for the subsequent suggestion that the authorities could not ban players from coming to Hong Kong, Ip Lau Suk-yee believed that it was a legal error, because legally only the Director of Immigration has the authority to make decisions.
Regarding the foreign forces and the masterminds behind the scenes that she had previously vigorously criticized, Sandra Yee also changed her tune, saying, "No matter whether there is a mastermind or not, taking money but not participating has shocked the sports world." She also helped the Hong Kong government step down, saying that the Hong Kong government " "It's easy to do it with knowledge", "Don't mention the evil hand, as long as he returns the favor".
Well, this face slapped loudly.
After enough foreplay, it was finally the mainland's turn for the big show to make its grand debut. On February 19, Messi’s Chinese Weibo was approved to publish Messi’s Chinese video. In the video, Messi wished mainland netizens "good luck in the Year of the Dragon, fans! I want to clarify some facts through this video, and thank again all the fans who came to Hong Kong, China, to support me and the team. Thank you for your shouts, Cheers tifo and love. Big hug to everyone.”
Netizens discovered, "Messi is not apologizing. He has not violated the contract and has no political position. He just responded to the fans who love him!" Before that, the Hong Kong Communist Party authorities and the mainland had also used many small conspiracies. "Messi's original Spanish text was 'discomfort in the adductor muscles, and then MRI showed edema. After many attempts, the discomfort still exists'. When translated from English to Chinese, it became 'no injury in MRI examination', which is really outrageous. Inside It is normal for adductor muscle inflammation to rest for 3-7 days, and many sports superstars face this situation."
At this time, many photos of Messi's cordial interactions with fans in Hong Kong can finally be released.
Moreover, this time, Messi’s statement also officially topped the Weibo hot search rankings. Friends who are familiar with the CCP’s Internet censorship know very well that with such a neutral wording of the “Messi Statement”, there is no large-scale party media and 50 cents to come out to lead the trend, which means that the CCP officials shyly vindicate Messi.
Of course, what I am curious about is: Although this absurd farce has come to an end, what is the mentality of the Huo brothers who previously held high the patriotic flag? What do those little pinkiess who were filled with righteous indignation think?
There is news that needs to be clarified: Some netizens said that Huo Qigang’s wife, the famous female diving player Guo Jingjing, has just been appointed deputy director of the General Administration of Sports. However, I checked the official website of the Sports Federation and found that Guo Jingjing’s name was not there.
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Sensitive moment: Mao leftist mocked Deng Xiaoping as a "dwarf"
After the traditional Chinese New Year, another major event in mainland China was that the Hunan Provincial Party Committee fired the first shot, launching a "big discussion on emancipating the mind" and organizing cadres at the division level and above to study and continue the discussion for a month. I believe that this matter was also the mastermind behind Zhongnanhai, or at least planned by Shen Xiaoming, Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, and it was approved by the authorities in advance before it was officially implemented after the New Year.
Why do I think Xi Jinping is behind this incident? It can be seen from three aspects:
1. We noticed that core party media outlets such as the People's Daily Online quickly followed up and endorsed. This shows that Hunan Province’s approach is considered by the propaganda department to be in line with the requirements of the Central Committee of Xi Jinping.
2. Uniquely, "Heilongjiang Daily" reported that on 18 February, Xu Qin, Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, also organized a meeting for key officials to deepen the province's ability and style building, and emphasized the need to "further emancipate the mind and improve capabilities, change work style and strengthen implementation.” After reading this speech, Xi Jinping’s shadow is clearly revealed.
Moreover, "Top News", a mainstream media directly under the Henan Provincial Party Committee, also asked and answered "Will the 'big discussion on emancipating the mind' in Hunan be a prelude to major changes?" "Expert Interpretation", the article borrowed the words of Zhang Xixian, a professor at the Central Party School, to suggest that "the central government encourages the innovation of local party committees. At present, all parts of the country need an ideological emancipation, and Hunan has actually fired the first shot." "The central government encourages the innovation of local party committees. It is normal for the provinces to take the first shot in the party's work. Then, depending on the extent of the impact, it may be timely to guide the overall advancement."
3. CCP officials are currently extremely sensitive. They are well aware of Xi Jinping’s taboos and will not take the initiative to shoot him. On 25 December 2016, Caixin’s editorial on emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts was deleted. It has been less than two months, but the lesson is still there. If Shen Xiaoming and Xu Qin had not figured out that Xi Jinping wanted to create his own version of emancipating the mind, they would never have been willing to stand out.
Therefore, there is no doubt that Hunan Province and Heilongjiang fired first, which is in line with Xi Jinping's ideas.
What is Xi Jinping’s purpose in acquiescing to this? I think it is very simple. First of all, due to the current economic recession, Xi Jinping’s prestige has been greatly reduced. I hope that in the name of emancipating the mind, we can unify the thoughts of officials to Xi Jinping Thought and promote the implementation of a new term coined by Xi Jinping: “Develop new qualitative productive forces.” The so-called "three new and four high" is also the reason why a large number of officials in Hunan Province put GDP first and want officials to change their thinking. It means that the economy is not unable to develop, but that the times have changed and the requirements of the Central Committee of Xi have changed. Secondly, at present, CCP officials have generally lost confidence and are lying down on a large scale, falsifying data, and making messy pictures. The authorities hope to use "liberating their minds" to mobilize officials' enthusiasm and get them to help the party. In this regard, we can see this from the 10 changes mentioned in Hunan Province’s official documents, and from Heilongjiang Province’s talk about changing the “style” of officials.
So, can this movement to emancipate the mind achieve its goal? Let me give them two words - "dream". Because everyone knows that the root cause of the current economic recession and the failure of private entrepreneurs and officials is precisely Xi Jinping's contradictory policies: he wants the market but wants to turn left, and he also wants to be an enemy of the world. ; It wants both economic development and political security, but it is still unwilling to create more jobs for the people or pay them money; it wants to promote the advancement of the country and the retreat of the people, but it also wants private enterprises to actively contribute to "common prosperity", but it still refuses to provide them with jobs from time to time. Play around with various industries; he not only wants international investment, but also wants national "security laws" to catch spies and scare away investors...
Therefore, under such a background, there will only be one result: officials will continue to lie flat, do not work hard, shout slogans loudly, move like a snail, cope with the problem, or simply follow Chairman Xi to the left.
Another very interesting thing that shows Xi Jinping's ambivalence about both wanting is that at this sensitive moment, the authorities continued to indulge Mao Zuo in criticizing Deng Xiaoping, the representative figure of the CCP in promoting emancipation of the mind and reform and opening up.
On Sunday evening, the Maoist leftist website "Red China" published a short article "Congratulations on the 27th Anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's Death" signed by "Li Fangzhou", attacking Deng Xiaoping. The article wrote: "Tomorrow is the day for the great chief architect of reform and opening up. On the 27th anniversary of the death of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, the revolutionary and proletarian revolutionary, in order to commemorate the achievements of this great man of the century, I decided to use Luo Dayou's "Song of the Dwarf" in 1989 as the theme song..."
Luo Dayou's "Song of the Dwarf" was written after the CCP's bloodbath in Tiananmen Square in 1989. If you look at the lyrics, you will know that it is a mockery of Deng Xiaoping, who appeared to be friendly and became a man of the hour in "Time Magazine". He claimed to be for the people, but in fact he was not. He is a butcher who kills people with a gun. Communist leaders including him are giants in the CCP’s propaganda, but they are political dwarfs and cowards.
Therefore, it is very clear what the intention of Mao Zuo, Li Fangzhou, was to quote such a song. He also deliberately described Marx as Lux, and the proletarian revolutionaries as revolutionaries who revolutionized the proletariat. He replaced greatness with the word "commissioner" and said that he wanted to appreciate Deng Xiaoping. "That makes people angry and angry", "laughing Quotes" and full of sarcasm.
This article still exists today. Moreover, there is a large amount of content on the Chinese Internet that opposes Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up. This undoubtedly reflects the fact that Xi Jinping continues to belittle Deng Xiaoping. In the past two years, more and more international mainstream media and academic circles have realized that Xi Jinping has brought the CCP's reform and opening up to an end.
It is really ironic to say that on the one hand, the CCP dignitaries are all extremely wealthy and still hold the banner of reform and opening up, saying that everything is for the people. However, they have lost interest in economic development and only care about whether their rule can be maintained; On the other hand, nearly 1 billion Chinese people have an average monthly income of less than 2,000 yuan. More and more people are feeling desperate, but they are unable to make their voices heard. Those who resist are often silenced or imprisoned. At the same time, such CCP leaders are still respected as great leaders and giants of the times by CCP mouthpieces, as they were during the Deng Xiaoping period. This also makes me feel that Luo Dayou's song has a strong sense of realistic irony. So, let’s listen to the song in its entirety.
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