China published a frantic work, “A Battle Against Epidemic” is an overall work to praise its communist party, precisely the president. The book has carefully selected 100,000 Chinese characters and compiled to narrate the strength of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in several languages including English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. It is quite obvious that after facing fierce criticism on The Chinese Communist Party for the way it has handled the situation, anyone will end up writing a book that self-praises in order to bring back the party’s mental peace.
The real question is whether the book has covered the mysterious disappearances of a whistleblower Dr Li Wenliang. Apart from Wenliang, Ren Zhiqiang, Chen Qiushi, Fang Bin, Xu Zhangrun and Li Zehua has disappeared into the thin air without any traces left behind. Can president Xi Jinping address about these disappearances? Probably he will never do that.
On the other hand, In a press briefing at the White House in Washington DC, President Donald Trump played a clip that praises him and his administration for the job they have done so far. Soon a journalist from CNN shot a question and asked him, ”Today we hit the grim milestone of more than 40,000 Americans now having died from the coronavirus. Can you explain then why you come out here and you are reading clips and showing clips of praises for you and for your administration? Is this really the time for self-congratulations?” In retaliation, Trump told: “Well I will tell you this: What I am doing is I’m standing up for the men and women that have done such an incredible job, not for me.” The CNN replied, “What you read earlier was praising you and your administration.” This made the president uncomfortable and so he replied, “Those people have been just absolutely excoriated by some of the fake news like you. You’re CNN, you’re fake news. And let me just tell you, they were excoriated by people like you that don’t know any better because you don’t have the brains you were born with.”
Well, publishing a book on self-praising propaganda is a clear hand of publicity while ignoring the lives of disappeared ones. Where else, instead of playing that praises oneself, a clip of encouraging words from the recovered patient, or the medical workers could have done the job of encouraging the rest of the world in fighting the battle pandemic.
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