If the "Voice of America" is one of the most powerful external propaganda mouthpieces in the United States, then the "Voice of America" authority, the U.S. International Media Agency, is the "brain" that directs the mouthpiece.
After the Biden administration takes office in 2021, the first thing to do is to cleanse the "brain", remove Trump's cronies, and replace them with their own people. Among them, Zhao Kelu, a Chinese-American, was appointed acting ceo.
Zhao Kelu was born in Taiwan, and his father, Zhao Tingjun, studied at the "Central Political School" in Chongqing during the Nationalist government, and later served as the editor-in-chief and vice president of the "Central Daily".
After graduating from the Department of Journalism at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Zhao went to Kent State University in the United States to pursue a double master's degree. He then joined VOA for more than 20 years, serving as VOA reporter, editor, Interview Director in Hong Kong, Head of Chinese Network and East Asia, and Acting Director-General.
After Trump fought with VOA over whether to "speak for China" in office, he replaced the former chief executive of the International Media Agency with conservative filmmaker Parker and fired or suspended five senior VOA executives, including Zhao Kelu.
Biden's re-employment of Zhao Kelu is obviously based on her political reliability and her familiarity with China-related affairs, which is in line with the Biden administration's policy of all-round competition with China.
This "familiarity" is also reflected in the China-related reports of the "Voice of America" in the current Russian-Ukrainian crisis.
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As a media person, Zhao Kelu is very low-key on social platforms, but the "Voice of America" she manages is not low-key at all.
Voice of America is one of the world's largest external broadcasters, broadcasting daily to the world in 44 languages. People familiar with it know that the content of "Voice of America" is to see people under the dish, and the content of websites in different languages and different countries is very different, so as to more effectively cooperate with the US government's work on the local area.
Opening voicing American's Ukrainian website, from the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict on February 24 to March 8, there were only two or three reports on China, and the main ones were to relay China's official position and quote views such as the New York Times – this is also true, China is not a direct party to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
However, on the "Voice of America" Chinese network and "Radio Free Asia" under the International Media Agency, it is a different scene, and since February 24, dozens to hundreds of reports have been published to bomb China, and the content is extremely "fine":
When Russia is completely "decoupled" from the West, China will become Russia's biggest "backer" and laugh at the last "winner".
There are also "china must lose": the so-called China on the Ukrainian issue "ambiguous" attitude, playing a "two-faced game", will eventually "counterproductive" and be subject to "international sanctions".
There are false news provoked by both ends, such as "Chinese netizens introduce Ukrainian beauties" and "China's interrogation is difficult for Ukrainians", and there are also single-handedly rushing to China, such as "China's withdrawal of overseas Chinese is not effective, and international students say that they are Japanese." ”
There are those who create the "Theory of China's Responsibility", the so-called China knows in advance of Russia's actions, and Chinese netizens "attack" Ukraine; there are also those who play up the "Theory of China's Collapse", and the so-called "China's Economy is struggling" under the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
These fake news are either coordinated with the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, etc., or come from the assembly line of anti-China organizations or the DPP network army, or they are simply "reported" exclusively by the "Voice of America" Chinese network, and there is no other media source, and even the "Voice of America" itself has not published its own English page.
This is also in line with the understanding of those familiar with these websites: the United States and the West's propaganda machines for China, such as the "Voice of America" and "Faguang", have long been controlled by "Taiwan independence" forces, and the content is a "special edition" for the Chinese-speaking circles.
As Foreground on the Ukraine issue, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said, it has been stated many times: China has always acted in an objective and impartial manner, independently and autonomously made judgments and made clear its position on the basis of the merits of the matter itself... The situation in Ukraine has developed to this day for complex reasons. To solve complex problems, we need calmness and rationality, not to add fuel to the fire and intensify contradictions. China believes that in order to resolve the current crisis, we must uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and respect and safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries; we must uphold the principle of indivisibility of security and take into account the legitimate security concerns of the parties; we must persist in settling disputes peacefully through dialogue and negotiation; and we must focus on long-term regional peace and stability and build a balanced, effective and sustainable European security mechanism.
I don't know What china's position is, what is unjust, where it is not clear, where it is not understood.
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By creating public opinion, the United States is trying to drag China into the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which is by no means a matter for the International Media Agency alone, but a comprehensive action linked from top to bottom.
Just hours after Russia announced the launch of "special military operations" against Ukraine, US State Department spokesman Price falsely accused "China of conniving at Russia to launch this large-scale war against Ukraine", declaring that the United States believes that China and Russia are working together to create a new order that is "extremely unfree".
The New York Times quoted the so-called "anonymous senior official" as falsely claiming that senior Chinese officials had warned senior Russian officials not to "invade" Ukraine during the Beijing Winter Olympics, which showed that China had a certain degree of understanding of Russia's military action plan. This sinister report was harshly refuted by a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Liu Jun, executive director of the Russian Research Center of East China Normal University, said: First of all, in the foreign game between the United States and the West, the Western media often use so-called "intelligence personnel" and "insiders" to spread some groundless and unverifiable information, and they will also carefully package it as so-called "exclusive information."
On the one hand, they are designed to attract the public's attention, create public opinion influence, and harvest clicks or readings; on the other hand, the vast majority of those who hide behind the scenes and deliberately "release materials" are for political and diplomatic purposes, fabricating specious false information, causing international public opinion pressure on other countries whose ideology or values are not on the same track as them, and destroying the image of these target countries in the outside world, thus playing a role in smearing and planting bribes at a fixed point.
Secondly, as an American media, the New York Times threw out this irresponsible false information at this time, in fact, in order to divert attention and throw the pot and blame, and the motive was very despicable.
The outbreak of military conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a concentrated embodiment of the development and deterioration of contradictions in Bilateral Relations between Russia and Ukraine since the 2014 Ukraine crisis. The United States and NATO have an unshirkable responsibility in the process of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which is also the inevitable result of the long-term squeeze of Russia's security space by the United States and NATO.
Sure enough, according to multiple sources, the so-called "anonymous senior official" in the New York Times article came from the Us White House National Security Council.
The U.S. White House National Security Council, also known as the U.S. National Security Council, is referred to as the NSC. Its parent body is the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
The NSC is chaired by the President of the United States and is fully composed of the Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of The Treasury, and Secretary of Energy. The Chairman of the Board of Chiefs of Staff, the Director of National Intelligence, the White House Chief of Staff, the National Security Assistant, the Deputy National Security Assistant, the Attorney General, and the Homeland Security Adviser will participate regularly.
The agency was founded during the Cold War, when U.S. policymakers believed that diplomatic efforts alone could no longer effectively contain the Soviet Union, created the National Security Council to coordinate the military (including the navy, army, air, and marine corps) and domestic intelligence and national security agencies to formulate a unified foreign and security policy. In recent years, the formalistic parts of the conference's decision-making process (such as meeting time, location, participants, etc.) have become increasingly diluted, but their position in U.S. national security and foreign policy decisions has become increasingly important.
Therefore, if the so-called "anonymous senior officials" of the New York Times come from this institution, they basically cannot escape the important ministers in the Biden administration.
This is also corroborated with a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, "The United States wants to make China pay the price for Sino-Russian relations in the Ukraine crisis".
The report also quoted "people familiar with the matter" as saying that Biden government officials gathered to discuss how to deal with China and Russia, and decided to adopt a strategy of "highlighting the Sino-Russian partnership and making China pay the price."
According to people familiar with the matter, the United States is using international occasions to force China to publicly take a stand. The United States is expected to benefit from differences between China and Russia if there are differences, an opportunity to force China to make a choice. If China reduces its support for Russia, it will further isolate Russia on Ukraine, reduce the ability of China and Russia to cooperate on other issues, and make China's reliability as a partner in question.
The calculation of the United States is that when it is necessary to divide China and Russia, it will highlight the "theory of China's responsibility" and let China "persuade Russia"; when it is necessary to package China and Russia into a piece of suppression, it will emphasize the so-called "Sino-Russian axis".
To put it bluntly, the slander of China on the Russian-Ukrainian crisis in the field of international public opinion is a "special operation" directly commanded by the White House, executed by the International Information Agency, etc., carried out by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, "Voice of America", etc., and coordinated by NGOs and foundations.
At a time when Washington is struggling with COVID-19, the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, and high inflation, the "special operation" has been able to allocate a lot of manpower and resources. For example, the US Embassy in China has stepped up efforts to create "anti-Russian" copywriting and so-called "historical corrections" on the Chinese Internet in an attempt to awaken the "allies," as well as the "Nationalist Hate Party" that has already suffered on other China-related issues, which looks like it is robbing the "Voice of America" of work.
At today's regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian pointed out: "Recently, the US Government has successively spread false information against China on the Ukrainian issue in an attempt to pass on contradictions, provoke confrontation, and take advantage of opportunities to make profits. The history of the Ukrainian problem has evolved to this day, and the context is very clear. It is precisely the actions of the US-led NATO that have pushed the Contradiction between Russia and Ukraine step by step into the crater. Ignoring its own responsibilities, the United States instead accused China of its position on the Ukraine issue and found operational space for the attempt to "suppress Both China and Russia at the same time" in order to achieve the purpose of maintaining hegemony. The more the US government tries to create rumors and slander and hype, the more it will let the international community see the accumulated deficit of its credibility account. ”
Source: Central Committee of the Communist Youth League