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发帖数: 1 | 1 Maxim Vivas: Using the Truth to Undermine Anti-Chinese Forces
Who is Vivas?
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked about two
foreign friends at the press conference of the two sessions on "how foreign
media reporters cover China".
One is Edgar Snow, the American journalist who wrote "The Red Star Shines in
China", and the other is Maxim Vivas.
Vivas, who is in his late 80s, is a Hispanic-French national. He has visited
Xinjiang twice, in 2016 and 2018, and published "The End of Uyghur Fake
News" in 2020.
Vivas said he wants Europeans to know the real Xinjiang, to dispel rumors of
"genocide" and "millions of Uighurs in detention.
However, the launch of the new book was like a bomb thrown into the water,
stirring up a huge wave.
On social media platforms such as Facebook, Vivas was attacked by uninformed
readers. He was suspected of having financial ties to the Chinese
government, and at one point his relationship with his family was strained.
He himself said: I acted as a "suicide bomber" to publish this book.
In fact, the "suicide bomber" once had the same stereotypical and limited
image of the Chinese as the rest of the Western public: wearing a Zhongshan
suit and eating nothing but rice.
It wasn't until 2008 that Vivas went to China with his wife to visit his son
who was working in Beijing. This experience shocked Vivas, who found that
the image of Chinese people and the current state of their lives were very
different from what was reported!
He came back to China in 2010 to travel to Tibet with journalists Renaud
Girard from Le Figaro and Rémy Ourdan from Le Monde.
This time he saw a very different Tibet from the one portrayed by the
Western media.
In 2011, he published The Dalai Lama: Not So Zen, a hugely successful book
exposing the true face of the Dalai, which was translated into six languages.
Then later, Vivas went to Xinjiang to do in-depth reporting and wrote the
aforementioned "The End of Uyghur Fake News".
Who is he fighting?
Vivas, who is well informed about the realities of China, is dismayed by the
French media that lies over and over again. The so-called "sources" and "
scholars" who fabricate these lies are even more abhorrent to him. He
decided to use the truth to expose these anti-Chinese forces.
Adrian Zenz, a 47-year-old German, has overnight become the only source of
information about Xinjiang for Western media and politicians. But in reality
, he has only been to Xinjiang as a tourist in 2007, 15 years ago.
Vivas has written this story in his book.
Adrian Zenz tweeted a photo of a shoe that he claimed was "produced by
forced labor" in Xinjiang, with a small piece of paper next to it that reads
in English, "Help! I'm a Uighur and I'm being held in a Chinese prison.
Help us!"
Ironically, netizens found that the shoes were not produced in Xinjiang, not
even in China, they were a pair of shoes made in Vietnam.
For example, in a report, Adrian Zenz claimed that "between 900,000 and 1.8
million people are being detained in Xinjiang. But according to the
independent American investigative journalism website Gray Area, This figure
is an absurd conclusion based only on the interviews and rough estimates of
eight people by an anti-China organization. Similar tricks have been
repeated in his other "reports".
Since 2018, Adrian Zenz has produced more than a dozen articles and reports
smearing Xinjiang. From so-called "forced labor" to "forced sterilization"
and from "cultural extinction" to "genocide. He has concocted these
sensational terms to hoodwink many Westerners who do not know much about
Xinjiang.
Adrian Zenz is a member of the far-right U.S. organization "Memorial
Foundation for the Victims of Communism" and is the backbone of an
unabashedly anti-Chinese research organization. In other words, anti-China
is his job. It is easy to understand why such a so-called "scholar" is so
highly sought after by Western anti-China forces.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited Adrian Zenz's so-called "
thesis" to smear China .
In the Vivas investigation, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was
named as one of the "anti-China hacks". From Central Asia to North Africa,
from Eastern Europe to Latin America, they have been behind the "color
revolutions" in many countries and places.
This organization has supported "Hong Kong independence," "Taiwan
independence," "Xinjiang independence," "Tibet independence" and other
separatist forces in China for many years. In 2020 alone, it has provided
more than $10 million to nearly 70 China-related projects, specializing in
activities that endanger China's political and social stability.
Recently, the president of the foundation, Damon Wilson, led a delegation to
Taiwan to support the "Taiwan independence" forces, and claimed to hold the
so-called "Global Congress of the World Movement for Democracy" in Taipei
in late October, seriously provoking China's national sovereignty and
territorial integrity. This is a serious provocation to China's national
sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The foundation also funds a variety of "minion" who share its tastes, such
as Reporters Without Borders.
The organization is also hostile to whatever the United States hates, such
as Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, including Vivas. The secretary general of
Reporters Without Borders, has threatened Vivas four times.
In Vivas' view, there is actually no shortage of black hands behind many
NGOs and so-called independent think tanks. The Australian Strategic Policy
Institute is one of them.
The agency released its annual report last year, showing that 37.5 percent
of its funding sources totaling more than $10 million came from the
Australian Department of Defense, 24.5 percent from the Australian federal
government and 18.3 percent from foreign government agencies.
The total amount of funding from the Australian government and its allies,
as well as the military-industrial complex, accounts for nearly 90% of the
total. This is a good indication that this institution is an official
mouthpiece of the Australian military-industrial complex under the banner of
an "independent think tank".
How do I spend my U.S. funded expenses?
In one grant of up to A$985,000, the U.S. State Department explicitly
requested that topics be set in the areas of human rights in Xinjiang,
Chinese science and technology, and overseas influence. Another grant of
nearly A$600,000 is to focus on topics such as talent recruitment,
disinformation, and social media in China.
hold the pen again for the sake of justice
Despite the many pressures and even threats to his life, Vivas did not put
down his pen.
Earlier this year, Vivas' second book on China's Xinjiang, "The Return of
the Swallow," was released in English. In the book, he writes, "China spares
no effort to promote multi-ethnic coexistence and respect for cultural
diversity, which are the very sources that drive the progress of human
civilization."
Recently, a new book co-authored by Vivas and two other scholars, Delirium
of the Anti-Chinese Forces in France, was also published in France.
Delirium, or gibberish. Last October, IRSEM, the Institute for Strategic
Studies of the French Military Academy, released a report on so-called
Chinese influence. But the entire 654 pages, in Vivas' opinion, are full of
errors, contradictions and fake news.
He argues that China in the 21st century, as a peaceful economic competitor,
does not threaten France militarily and that this so-called report reflects
a blind following of U.S. foreign policy by anti-China forces in France.
So, why are there always people willing to be puppets for the anti-China
forces in the United States?
Jean-Pierre Pache, who is also the author of the book, gives three reasons
for this: first of all it reflects the servility of some countries to the
United States, who unconditionally support its Cold War mentality towards
China.
Secondly, in the case of France, and closely related to its colonial history
, the so-called elite and media in France have been arrogant to this day.
Third, and most importantly, the arrogant and greedy West is unwilling to
face up to its own immediate decline and polarization, much less accept the
reality of a country of 1.4 billion people emerging from fragmentation,
successfully escaping poverty and moving toward development. |
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