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BERLIN — Judging by the propaganda, this really is war.
And China is winning.
As Europe struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus and China begins to
show signs that it has put the worst of the outbreak behind it, Beijing is
engaging in a not-so-subtle PR campaign.
China’s main strategy is to show that the country that gave birth to the
virus (and then covered it up for weeks, allowing it to spread across the
globe unhindered) is on the front lines trying to save humanity, while the
EU can’t get its act together and the world’s other superpower is busy
pointing fingers.
Over the past few days, China has sent planeloads of masks, teams of doctors
and even ventilators around the world to help battle the crisis. Chinese
billionaire Jack Ma donated one million masks and hundreds of thousands of
testing kits to the U.S., with the first load arriving in Seattle on Monday.
“We'll do whatever we can to help other countries in fighting the COVID-19
” — Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to the U.N.
"We are doing instead of talking. We are the friends not enemy. Could the
American do the same to Chinese?" China's ambassador to South Africa, Lin
Songtian, tweeted on Monday.
A shipment of 300,000 masks, sent by Chinese charities founded by Ma and his
Alibaba empire, arrived in Belgium this week. Chinese state news agency
Xinhua published a photograph of one of the containers draped with the
slogan “Unity makes strength” in French, Flemish and Chinese.
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Though the saying serves as the national motto of both Haiti and Bulgaria,
it would appear the Chinese were taking a swipe at a lack of solidarity on
display in Europe in recent weeks.
Italy, by far the hardest hit country in Europe so far, has struggled to get
supplies and assistance from its EU partners, for example. Maurizio Massari
, Italy’s ambassador to the EU, expressed frustration last week over member
countries’ failure to heed a European Commission call to send equipment
and supplies.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio posted a video on Facebook of Chinese
supplies arriving in Italy | Ettore Ferrari/EPA
“Unfortunately, not a single EU country responded to the Commission’s call
,” he wrote in an op-ed for POLITICO last week. “Only China responded
bilaterally. Certainly, this is not a good sign of European solidarity.”
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio rammed home the point by posting a
video on Facebook that showed live coverage of a Chinese plane loaded with
medical equipment and doctors arriving to help fight the coronavirus.
China’s willingness to help has won Beijing praise from the highest levels.
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called
the Chinese-Italian cooperation a “heartwarming example of solidarity” on
Twitter.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed,” Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to
the United Nations, responded. “We'll do whatever we can to help other
countries in fighting the COVID-19.”
Unlike, say, China’s No. 1 rival.
As China has polished its global image by dispatching supplies to the
countries hit hard by coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump has faced
questions over his reported attempt to secure exclusive American rights to a
vaccine under development in Germany.
Though U.S. officials disputed the story, German government representatives
insisted it was true and vowed to make any vaccine developed in Germany
available to the world.
“European solidarity does not exist. That was a fairy tale” — Aleksandar
Vučić, Serbian president
“Viruses don’t have a nationality and neither will the antidote,” German
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said during a national address on Monday
in a thinly veiled rebuke of Trump, who has begun referring to coronavirus
as "the Chinese Virus."
Trump’s decision last week to seal U.S. borders to Europeans without first
informing the EU also did little to burnish his image. While such moves have
become commonplace in recent days, the aggressive manner in which Trump
justified the decision (“When they raise taxes on us, they don’t consult
us”) confirmed to many Europeans that he has little interest in helping
allies.
More surprising is that European countries don’t seem that interested
either.
Italy isn’t the only country not feeling the Europe’s love.
Serbia, which is in the midst of the circuitous process to join the EU,
complained on Monday that the bloc's ban on the export of critical medical
supplies had left the country in the lurch. President Aleksandar Vuči&#
263;, a politician not known for hiding his emotions at the best of times,
unleashed a torrent of criticism on Brussels.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić lashed out at Brussels | Andrej
Cukič/EPA
“By now you all understood that great international solidarity actually
does not exist,” he told a news conference. “European solidarity does not
exist. That was a fairy tale.”
Melodrama aside, China long ago identified Serbia as an important partner in
southeastern Europe and has cultivated Vučić for years by making
substantial investments in the country.
Vučić often berates the EU for not moving faster on Serbia’s
membership application. His critics argue his real goal is to turn his
population against the EU because he worries joining the club would threaten
his iron grip on power in the country, something authoritarian China
welcomes.
Whatever the case, Vučić's appearance — which went viral on
social media — offered a huge win for China’s propaganda machine.
China's false narrative threatens to spread as quickly as the coronavirus |
Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
Vučić, his voice dropping into a dramatic semi-whisper, explained
that had sent a special appeal to President Xi Jinping, addressing the
Chinese leader as his “brother,” because the Chinese “are the only ones
who can help us.”
Likely sensing the shift in the PR tide, China has become bolder in recent
days in trying to rewrite history, claiming without any evidence that the
virus originated not in China, but in the U.S.
"More evidence suggests that the virus was not originated at the seafood
market in Wuhan at all, not to mention the so called 'made in China,'" Lin,
the Chinese ambassador, tweeted on Monday, as if to prove the maxim that
truth is the first casualty of war.
Trouble is, with the U.S. facing its own credibility issues in recent years,
China's false narrative threatens to spread as quickly as the coronavirus. | u***r
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: https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-china-winning-propaganda-war/
: BERLIN — Judging by the propaganda, this really is war.
: And China is winning.
: As Europe struggles to slow the spread of coronavirus and China begins to
: show signs that it has put the worst of the outbreak behind it, Beijing is
: engaging in a not-so-subtle PR campaign.
: China’s main strategy is to show that the country that gave birth to the
: virus (and then covered it up for weeks, allowing it to spread across the
: globe unhindered) is on the front lines trying to save humanity, while the
: EU can’t get its act together and the world’s other superpower is busy
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发帖数: 4825 | 4 China’s main strategy is to show that the country that gave birth to the
virus (and then covered it up for weeks, allowing it to spread across the
globe unhindered) is on the front lines trying to save humanity, while the
EU can’t get its act together and the world’s other superpower is busy
pointing fingers.
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