Wang Guan, the chief reporter of CCTV in the United States, once asked the American host speechless in an American program, and hesitated for a long time before he said: "I can't answer your question for the time being." ”
This is not the first time he has done this, and in almost every interview, an American academic, even the US secretary of state, has fallen into a "war of words".
So, how did Wang Guan become a CCTV correspondent in the United States, and how much effort did he put in behind his "brilliant achievements"?
The path of struggle of the chief reporter
In previous interviews, almost every time someone praised Wang Guan's English is very good, and even some accents can be perfectly avoided, if it were not for the advance knowledge that he is a Chinese, I am afraid that many people think that Wang Guan is a Chinese who grew up in the United States.
Wang Guan was born in 1984 in Jinan, Shandong Province, to a very ordinary family, at that time, English was not a compulsory course for most people in the mainland, and it was not until junior high school that he began to learn English.
In 1997, Wang Guan also participated in some English cram classes outside of school, and even went to the Black Tiger Spring English Corner every Sunday to practice spoken English.
At first, he couldn't even understand what the other party was saying, but then he realized that the English textbook was fundamentally different from the foreigners he actually met, and the English of these foreigners seemed to be another world.
However, Wang Guan was not discouraged by this, he learned English to converse with foreigners, and if he couldn't do this, then English would just become a tool for preparing for exams?
In 2000, Wang Guan went abroad for the first time and came to Australia, where he personally felt how one-sided foreign perceptions of China are, and many things about China have changed their flavor in the Australian news, which is completely deliberately smeared.
Wang Guan was here, and he made up his mind that he wanted to become a bridge between the East and the West, promote exchanges between the two sides, and tell the truest story of China.
In 2003, Wang Guan was admitted to the International Journalism major of Communication University of China, and with his own efforts and long-term English accumulation, he won the first prize of the "21st Century Cup" National English Speech Contest in his junior year, which was the best result in the history of Communication University of China at that time.
With such excellent results, Wang Guan received an olive branch from the Beijing bureau of the Associated Press in his senior year for an internship, which is an American company after all, and their coverage of China is not objective, full of all kinds of prejudice and arrogance.
He naturally didn't want his country to be so humiliated, and often came forward to reason with his foreign colleagues, but at this time, after all, he was just an intern, and his experience was too bad for those old guys, so he was often speechless by the other party, and could only sulk secretly.
After a long time, the crown also began to think, why was the other party able to cut into it from a special angle and come to a conclusion that was completely opposite to ordinary people, and why could this obviously biased conclusion penetrate into the hearts of the audience? and even influence people's judgment?
With this in mind, Wang Guan spent a year as an intern at the Associated Press, and after graduating from college, he turned down a formal invitation from the Associated Press to join CCTV.
He has already come up with the answer that the reason why the Western media can influence people's hearts is entirely because they have a very good control over public opinion, and they are very good at fanning the flames, causing rhythm, and then throwing out opinions to hype up, and subtly influencing the judgment of others.
The Secretary of State has to bow to me, too
No matter what you do, starting from the grassroots level is the most basic, and the same is true after Wang Guan entered CCTV, from the beginning of ordinary employees and a large number of complicated copywriting rose step by step, three years later, he finally became an official reporter and got the opportunity to speak out.
From domestic reports to foreign countries, from land reports to island countries, from developed modern cities to primitive jungle tribes, from human geography reports to natural and man-made disasters, and even held the dangerous position of war correspondent, Wang Guan has traveled to many places in the world step by step.
In 2011, Wang was elected as a CCTV correspondent in the United States with his rich experience, and since then, he has been in a world full of foreigners for nine years, and countless famous Western journalists have bowed to the crown in front of him.
If you want to talk about the "battle for fame" of the crown, you have to mention the interview in which he made the US Secretary of State voluntarily bow his head and admit his mistake.
In 2014, Wang Guan interviewed then-US Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob, and at the beginning of the interview, he went straight to the point, asking a rather poignant question: "Do you think the U.S. war against Iraq is wrong?"
Kerry didn't expect the Chinese journalist to start the conversation in this way, so he hesitated for a moment and responded positively to the question: "I can't say that this is correct, this war has brought a lot of losses to the United States, and it has also left many complicated problems." ”
Seeing that Kerry did not evade a positive response, the crown continued to pursue, and asked a lot of questions that were more acute for the American high-level, such as the opinion on the US theft incident, Kerry and Jacob obviously realized that the other party was prepared, so they both wanted to avoid a positive answer.
However, the crown did not give up, and continued to use various techniques and means to interrogate, and finally forced Kerry to reveal only a little about something, and chose to admit defeat, admitting that the United States had difficulty grasping the situation in some decisions, which was their mistake.
After that, many Western reporters expressed surprise at the style of the crown, you know, the top level of the United States is basically an old fox, not to mention the secretary of state, it is difficult to make Kerry bow his head and admit his mistake.
And that's just the beginning.
In 2015, in the US branch of Russia Today, Wang started a debate about the South China Sea with Erin Ade, a beautiful American anchor, and when the anchor asked Wang if the situation in the South China Sea was China's trouble, Wang responded perfectly.
Later, a reporter asked Wang Guan whether he thought that the United States was conniving at Vietnam, the Philippines and other countries to confront China?
Wang Guan shook his head, saying that the United States has no position or qualification to ask China to do anything, and refuted the "China threat theory" propagated by the United States, saying that China has fought several wars in the past 40 years? What about the United States? Therefore, there is no need to worry about China's affairs, and there will be no military conflict in the South China Sea.
The chief journalist's way to win
In 2016, some in the United States engaged in a debate over the absurd "South China Sea Arbitration" and the crown, and China could not admit that there was no justice in it.
However, in the eyes of the United States and other countries, this is China's deliberate provocation of a conflict in the South China Sea and public criticism of China, and in this case, the pressure on the crown can be imagined.
Sure enough, the host of the show set a completely unfair tone from the beginning: "The responsibility should be borne by China".
If the crown were to debate with the other side in this tone, all the premises would be based on the idea that "China is wrong", and the debate would obviously become very passive, and no matter how good he could be in his words, it would be difficult to reverse the situation.
From the very beginning, the crown saw the other party's purpose, directly denied the tone of the host, and then used facts and arguments to explain his own views, and in the end, he beat the United States to the wrong side.
Obviously, the other side did not give up, claiming that the "nine-dash line in the South China Sea" was only one side of China's words and had not been internationally recognized, and Wang Guan took out a list of countries that recognized the "nine-dash line in the South China Sea" and slapped the other side in the face.
While the other party was speechless, Wang Guan struck while the iron was hot and threw out a new question: "How free do you think the so-called media freedom in the United States is?"
He said that the news sources of these people are all various Western media, and most of the Western media are a raccoon dog, and the freedom in this environment is just the freedom of being controlled by others.
To present a preconceived view without considering whether it is an unfair view is bound to give the impression that Americans are arrogant and that anyone who disagrees with them will be beaten to death with a stick, which is obviously not something to be praised.
Under the cannons of the crown, the other party was obviously confused, and in the end even said that "Scarborough Shoal is closer to the Philippines, that is the territory of the Philippines." When Wang Guan heard the other party say this, he couldn't help laughing, and asked rhetorically: "Is Guam the closest to the United States?"
The other side has obviously begun to talk nonsense, and in this case, the crown has given the other side the final blow: "Why does the United States want to return to the Asia-Pacific region? What do you think is the purpose of the United States?"
At this point, the outcome of the debate has obviously appeared, and the other party can't say a word, so the host can only come forward to relieve the embarrassment: "We can't answer your question for the time being." ”
This debate caused netizens to express their anger at that time, with careful logic and a calm attitude, and forced the other party to a situation where they had nothing to say step by step.
Epilogue:
In the West, denigrating China is obviously a form of political correctness, and all journalists working in the West will inevitably be attacked by the other side as if they distorted the facts, and the crown can not only protect the dignity of the country, but also fight back against it, worthy of the name of China's "most speculative journalist".
Reference: Tongue War South China Sea Chinese journalist crown named "Young Asian Leader" by the Asia Society in the United States. Observer.com