Chinese Video Urges War With U.S.: State-controlled media urges fight ’til end,’ calls for sanctions on U.S. companies

Chinese Video Urges War With U.S.

State-controlled media urges fight ’til end,’ calls for sanctions on U.S. companies

 

BY: Bill Gertz

China’s Communist Party-controlled media stepped up a war of words with the United States recently urging an escalation of the ongoing trade dispute into a full-scale conflict.

“China must be prepared to fight a protracted war,” states a four-minute, anti-American video posted five days ago on a Chinese video-sharing service.

“Trump’s ‘outrageous and selfish’ strategy might work for smaller countries, but it will never work for China,” the video warns. “To quote a well-written article in the Global Times: If the Americans want to fight, we will fight them until the end! And we will fight until the Pacific Ocean splits into two!” Global Times is the Communist Party of China’s nationalistic and anti-U.S. news outlet.

During the voiceover, images of cargo ships, trucks and shipping containers in China, along with high-technology facilities in China, is shown. An Apple store and a Boeing jetliner also appears in the video and American fast-food companies in China. Criticism of the United States is illustrated with images of the U.S. Capitol.

The video was posted on Watermelon Video, a short-video sharing platform that is under control of Beijing’s State Administration of Radio and Television, the propaganda control office that regulates all online and broadcast content. Anything broadcast or published to the estimated 300 million Watermelon users is therefore considered approved by senior leaders of the ruling Communist Party of China.

Broadcasts or online reports that violate official rules can result in the closing down of the outlet and the imprisonment of its editors or reporters.

The inflammatory video was produced by a militant online propaganda group called Mars Phalanx, which is known for producing radical videos.

Analysts of Chinese propaganda said the posting of the video urging conflict with the United States represents a shift in official Communist Party policy in favor of more hardline anti-U.S. policies.

The report said President Trump’s announcement of increased tariffs on Chinese goods earlier this month was an escalation of the trade dispute.

“This is an undisguised threat from a modern imperialistic country,” the video said. “Now that they can’t scare us with military forces, they resort to economic measures.”

The video said compromises and concessions “cannot win pity from the enemy, just look at the case of ZTE.”

The U.S. government imposed sanctions on the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE in 2018 for violating U.S. laws by exporting goods to Iran and North Korea…...more here

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