Six Routines to Get Started from the U.S. and Western Public Opinions

Public opinion warfare and information warfare have become a brand new field of strategic games for great powers.

Some people say that in the age of social media, information flies faster than missiles and stories rush faster than tanks. The U.S. and the West are clearly well versed in this, and have resorted to six tactics on the battlefield of public opinion, pushing the "opposition against China" to a new height, in an attempt to "reproduce" China's image.

Routine 1: Labeling

America VS China = Democracy VS Authoritarianism = Justice VS Evil...

Some forces in the United States and the West have packaged the strategic competition between China and the United States as a confrontation between "democracy and authoritarianism" and "justice and evil".

Former U.S. President Eisenhower once said: "Spending $1 on propaganda is equal to spending $5 on defense." Some media in the United States and the West follow the principle that "good news from China must be bad news, and news coverage of China must be negative." This creed, advertised as "objective and fair", is actually "three-point narrative, seven-point accusation", and constantly "demonizes" China's image. A CNN reporter publicly declared that he would "use all his powers to make China look like a bad guy on the world stage".

"Stigmatizing" Chinese high-tech companies is a major focus. Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE have been labelled "data theft," "human rights violations," and "espionage activities," and they wantonly stigmatized them and encircled them in an all-round way. Recently, in the name of "human rights" and "national security", it has threatened to escalate sanctions against Hikvision.

Source: Network

Routine 2: One-stop

The United States and the West continue to raise "anti-China issues", not simply "groundless", but "assembly line" and "one-stop" operations, generally divided into four steps:

1. Think Tank Production

"Neutral" think tanks funded by the US and the West continue to produce reports on China;

2. Media Communication

American and Western media quoted the "report results" and spread widely, and packaged lies as "truth";

3. Politicians get involved

Anti-China politicians actively speak out and use the influence of media and think tanks to promote the anti-China agenda;

4. Acts of Parliament

The parliament and other institutions formulate policy bills to politicize and legalize anti-China measures.

The so-called "genocide" in Xinjiang is a century-old lie accomplished by the cooperation of American and Western think tanks, media, politicians and parliaments.

Zheng Guoen, a German scholar who has never been to Xinjiang, took the lead in concocting the "genocide theory" in Xinjiang. Think tanks such as the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Zheng Guoen quoted "research results" to each other, and frequently released "research reports" such as "concentration camps" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang. The Voice of America and the New York Times quickly followed up and amplified the hype. Officials such as Pompeo and Blinken falsely accused Xinjiang of "genocide", and the U.S. Congress passed bills such as the "Prevention of Forced Uyghur Labor Law".

Open your mouth to spread rumors, refute rumors and break your legs. Western think tanks, media, politicians, parliaments, etc. have perfectly created an assembly line for the production of lies.

Routine three: pull the gang

On the basis of the "Alliance of Values", the United States and Western countries have formed an invisible media "Onion Ring Alliance" to create a "megaphone" for international public opinion and try to amplify the anti-China voice. There are three circle layers:

The first is the core layer, represented by mainstream media in the UK and the US;

The second is the middle layer, which is dominated by media in various languages of member states such as the "Five Eyes Alliance" and the G7;

The third is the outer layer, which consists of media and personal accounts from pro-American and pro-Western countries.

Source: Network

This "onion ring alliance" is concentric and coherent in the reports of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Shanghai epidemic, etc., and its voice almost monopolizes the international public opinion field.

Mexican scholar Heinz Dietrich believes: Facts have no place in Western propaganda, and Western media have acted as agents in the global offensive against the successful development of Chinese socialism.

Routine 4: Intelligence

Big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies have enabled the US and the West to achieve intelligent upgrades in their public opinion wars against China. New applications such as artificial intelligence announcers, writing robots, and automatic response robots have realized the "5+2" and "white+black" automated work modes. Stir up China-related public opinion at a very low cost.

Source: Network

Research shows that there are many bots on Youtube, Twitter and other platforms that conduct audio and video dissemination of "revelations" and "unveiling" in China. For example, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, foreign forces used robots to concoct a large number of anti-China issues. Among the tweets and accounts on Twitter boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics, robot accounts accounted for 22% and manipulated 25% of related tweets. Some highly active bots average 86 tweets per day.

Routine five: put a long line

In "The Story of the Cooking Class", Lao Gao reminded us with his strong Shandong accent: "Comrades, the fortress is disintegrating from the inside!"

Relying on the so-called "beacon" image, the United States continues to carry out cultural export and public opinion attack. The National Endowment for Democracy and other countries "generous sponsorship" in various countries in the world, and cultivate "pro-American" and "American-loving" people around the world. At home, these people have become "anti-China agents", echoing each other at home and abroad.

Set up an "anti-China flag bearer". Focusing on celebrities, "public knowledge" and "big V", it has stepped up its infiltration and influence. Individuals are influenced by American and Western values, and under the banner of "concerning the country and the people", they sing along with the American and Western media.

Cultivate "anti-China teenagers". A post-90s generation who fabricated and fabricated articles slandering the human rights situation in Xinjiang, and a post-80s internet celebrity who created several anti-China political cartoons, were all former students of first-class universities in China. .

To win over "anti-China agents". It deceives and bribes social personnel, incites the establishment of illegal organizations, and deceives people's hearts.

Source: Visual China

Routine six: engage in double standards

Another routine of the US and the West's public opinion and information warfare is to engage in "double standards".

On the one hand, "only the United States is allowed to set fires, and China is not allowed to light lights." For example, the US and Western media refer to the deployment of US military bases around the world as "maintaining world peace", but exaggerate the normal security agreement between me and the Solomon Islands and other countries as a "threat to Asia-Pacific security".

On the other hand, according to the interests of the United States, "I shall prevail", saying one thing and doing another. For example, in the fields where the United States needs to penetrate or exert influence, it advertises "Sports without borders" and "Art without borders", etc. When it needs to suppress China and Russia, the Beijing Winter Olympics can be boycotted politically, and Russian athletes and artists can Banned and banned. Similar acts are too numerous to enumerate, and their ugly faces are disgusting.