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China: Threat or Hope: The Pragmatic Revolution
Overview
China has undergone a colossal transformation in the last thirty years. A gigantic change for which, however, there is hardly any space in the Western media. A state that is close to overtaking the US as the world' s leading economic power, has lifted more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty, has increased its renewable energy production fivefold in ten years and is now prioritising reducing the social differences created by the market economy. The Western press tries to tarnish these achievements, as China' s pragmatic approach risks setting an example for countries trapped in the deadlock of underdevelopment and inequality. It also whips up fears of China' s resurgence, willfully ignoring the fact that the millennia-old Middle Kingdom has never shown any expansionist will and has only rarely waged war. Only with an accurate understanding of what China is today can we tackle the task of ensuring that its unstoppable rise becomes a fundamental pillar of a new, more just and peaceful world order.
概述
在過去的三十年裏，中國經曆了巨大的變革。 一個巨大的變化，然而，在西方媒體中幾乎沒有任何空間。 一個即將超越美國成為世界領先經濟強國的國家，已經使 8 億多人擺脫了極端貧困，在十年內將其可再生能源產量增加了五倍，現在正在優先考慮減少由能源造成的社會差異 市場經濟。 西方媒體試圖抹黑這些成就，因為中國的務實做法有可能為陷入不發達和不平等僵局的國家樹立榜樣。 它還激起了對中國複興的恐懼，故意無視這個擁有千年曆史的中央王國從未表現出任何擴張主義意願並且很少發動戰爭的事實。 隻有準確了解今天的中國，我們才能著手確保其不可阻擋的崛起成為新的、更加公正與和平的世界秩序的根本支柱。
無罪之“罪”——西班牙記者起底西方媒體抹黑中國的套路
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yK399pzqYU
無罪之“罪” 西班牙記者起底西方媒體抹黑中國的套路
2023年2月5日
http://www.news.cn/world/2023-02/05/c_1129338682.htm
新華社北京2月5日電（記者趙暉）“西方主流媒體以及一些政府和政客每天都在恐嚇我們：中國崛起對世界構成威脅，對西方尤甚。”西班牙資深記者哈維爾·加西亞在他的新書《中國：威脅還是希望》Lavier Garcia, China America o Espersnza 中寫道。
加西亞日前在接受新華社記者專訪時表示：“這純屬無中生有。幾千年來，中國一直是崇尚和平的國家，從未試圖征服誰，也未將自己的想法強加給誰。”
起底美西方“輿論戰”套路
“美國充當全球霸主的時日已經不多了，但它拒絕接受這一現實。於是，美國就像章魚般伸出觸手，在經濟、貿易、科技、政治、衛生、媒體、情報等多個領域攻擊中國，破壞新疆等地區穩定，支持分裂勢力，並利用其軍事優勢恐嚇中國。”加西亞分析道。
加西亞曾在西班牙語世界影響力最大的通訊社埃菲社工作了20多年，常駐過巴勒斯坦、委內瑞拉、德國、中國等地。在他看來，所謂的“中國威脅論”無非是美國政府試圖遏製中國和平崛起的“鬼把戲”。
在美國發起的多條對華“戰線”中，加西亞對美西方“輿論戰”套路最為熟悉。他指出，美國政府與媒體利用其強大的議題設置和主導能力，“引領”著其他西方媒體，在全球範圍內發起針對中國的“輿論戰”，其做法是“好的一律不報”“不好的添油加醋”。
在書中，加西亞曆數了西方媒體的“套路”：中國富裕的企業家不是“企業家”而是“寡頭”；中國腐敗官員不是“被解職”而是“被清洗”；中國對外投資不是“投資”而是“債務陷阱”；中國追蹤新冠確診病例活動軌跡的行為不是“流調”而是“監視”；中國部分城市宣布“封控”不是“防疫需要”而是“侵犯人權”……
當實在找不到“合適”的詞匯來詆毀中國時，西方媒體又發明了一種“萬能句式”：“中國經濟在增長，但代價是……”“中國加大環保力度，但代價是……”“中國城市變得更加智能，但代價是……”“北京冬奧會還算成功，但代價是……”“中國拉動柬埔寨經濟增長，但代價是……”
“美國媒體設置議題後，其他西方媒體很難跳出這一既定框架，導致每天都有成百上千的媒體重複著幾十條非常類似的涉華新聞。”加西亞說。
親曆多元、迷人的中國
2018年，加西亞被埃菲社派往中國常駐。這給了他近距離觀察中國的機會，讓他發現了一個真實的中國，一個不同於西方媒體塑造的中國。他對中國在消除貧困、生態保護、節能減排、共同富裕、科技創新等領域取得的成就非常讚賞。
“到中國後，我嚐試拋開所有偏見，保持清醒開放的頭腦，客觀地觀察中國。我驚喜地發現，中國並非是西方媒體所描述的中國，它非常多元，非常迷人。”加西亞說。
在交談中，加西亞提到了他認識的一位采訪對象丁豔（音譯）。34歲的丁豔家在西安市，是一名英語翻譯。她出生在山東農村，小時候與奶奶、父母和5個兄弟姐妹擠在一個破舊老屋裏。上學之餘，她還要幫家裏幹繁重的農活。如今，她的兄弟姐妹和父母也都住進了城裏，生活發生了翻天覆地的變化。
洋溢在中國普通人臉上的幸福感，讓加西亞深受觸動。而一些西方媒體罔顧事實、刻意抹黑中國的做法，則令他生厭。2021年9月，他在推特上連發14條推文，宣布將放棄從事30餘年的新聞工作，因為“令人厭煩的反華‘信息戰’幾乎耗光了我的新聞職業理想”。
加西亞說，西方媒體總是宣揚所謂“新聞自由”，但一用到中國報道上，就成了“逢中必反”的套路，他們“隻會說一模一樣的話”“從不脫離既定劇本”。
在下定決心辭職的同時，加西亞也給自己定了一個目標：寫一本關於中國的書。“這並不是一件容易的事。西方媒體癡迷於抹黑中國形象，誤導西方民眾，讓人們看不到中國所取得的非凡成就。”
著書反擊西方媒體抹黑
為了寫好《中國：威脅還是希望》，加西亞到新疆、深圳等地開展了田野調查和深度訪談。他在書中細數了中國開展精準扶貧脫貧的做法和相應成效，闡明中國為全球減貧事業帶來的希望和鼓舞；介紹了中國解決貧富差距、實現可持續發展等方麵的有益嚐試，探討中國傳統文化在共同富裕等理念上的傳承和延拓；澄清了西方媒體在涉及中國民主、人權、防治汙染等問題上的錯誤引導，感歎中國在實踐中試錯並找到最佳解決方案的智慧和高效。
談及中國的防疫政策，加西亞認為，中國在病毒致病性減弱後優化調整疫情防控措施，是尊重生命的表現。“任何一個政府都應優先保障國民的生命權。從這個意義上來說，中國的防疫政策無疑是成功的。”
在加西亞眼裏，中國不僅不是威脅，反而代表著一種希望，因為“中國崇尚多元發展，從不強人所難”，這意味著“中國勢不可擋的崛起將成為構建更加公正、和平的全球新秩序的關鍵性支柱”。
針對一些國家炮製所謂“中國威脅論”、欲將世界拉入“新冷戰”陷阱的圖謀，加西亞非常不滿。在他所憧憬的世界裏，所有人都和平相處，所有商品都自由流通，商品、知識和文化交流取代武器和炸彈橫飛，有限的資源被用於增加所有人的福祉，而不是僅讓少數人致富。
“這正是中國想要的。”加西亞說道。（參與記者：黃順達、田睿）
China: Threat or Hope -The Pragmatic Revolution English Edition Published
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-threat-hope-pragmatic-revolution-094600513.html
BY Xinguochuan Cultural Communication Co.Ltd. 16 Jan, 2023
BEIJING, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This book, written by Javier García, a Spanish journalist with long international experience, shows the lesser-known aspects of China, of fundamental importance for world evolution, which are intentionally hidden from us.
China has lifted more than 800 million people out of extreme poverty, quintupled its production of renewable energies and electric cars, greatly cleaned up the air in its cities and is now prioritizing the reduction of the social differences created by the market economy.
It has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the world to being close to unseating the USA as the world's leading power. And it has done so without violence, without interfering in foreign countries, through peaceful development and the enormous effort of its people.
We judge China by applying our own values to a completely different civilization. We pretend that our way of seeing human coexistence is not only the correct one but that it should be universally accepted and adopted by all cultures.
But only from a true understanding of what China is today can we tackle the task of making its unstoppable rise a fundamental pillar of a new, more just and peaceful world order.
This book China:Threat or Hope -The Pragmatic Revolution attempts a documented approach to that understanding.
Xinguochuan Cultural Communication Co.Ltd. participated in the production of the relevant video products.
Javier García is a senior international journalist from Spain with more than 30 years experience in many regions of the world. He was leading information bureaus of the Spanish Public News Agency EFE in different countries in Europe, Latinamerica, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Javier García is a senior international journalist from Spain with more than 30 years experience in many regions of the world. He was leading information bureaus of the Spanish Public News Agency EFE in different countries in Europe, Latinamerica, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Mr.García also reported during wars and conflicts in many of the planet's most troubled spots. He was also serving as a multimedia projetc manager for the United Nations in Africa and as an electoral observation coordinator in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Mr.García has a Bachelor's Degree on Information Sciences and Journalism by Madrid Complutense University and received several poetery prizes in Galician language.
SOURCE Xinguochuan Cultural Communication Co.Ltd.
WATCH: Western smear campaign against China exposed
Western smear campaign against China exposed
Feb 10, 2023
"China has no intention of imposing its vision on others" and stands ready to live with all nations in a multipolar world, a more peaceful,more just and better world, Spanish journalist Javier Garcia said.
"The mainstream media and quite a number of politicians and governments intimidate us daily that China's rise poses a threat to the rest of the world and especially to the West," said veteran Spanish journalist Javier Garcia in his new book "China, Threat or Hope. The Reality of a Pragmatic Revolution."
"China is not a threat at all," Garcia said in an interview with Xinhua, noting that the country has become the second world economic power "without practically firing a single shot, without violence, without wars, without colonialism."
Watch the video below to find out more:
Smear campaign
For the former delegate of EFE, the leading news agency in Spanish, in the Middle East, Venezuela, Germany and China, the supposed "China Threat" theory is nothing more than a systematized U.S. trick to contain the peaceful rise of the Asian country, which for Washington means a great challenge to its hegemony.
"The U.S. refuses to accept that its days to maintain the world hegemonic dominance are numbered," Garcia said in the book, which was published by Ediciones Akal.
Washington, he said, has launched a "hybrid war" like "an octopus with multiple tentacles" in the economic, commercial, technological, scientific, political, health and media sectors, combined with intelligence and espionage operations, destabilization campaigns in regions such as Xinjiang, support for separatism in Hong Kong or Taiwan, and military intimidation along China's coast.
Among the multiple battlefronts, Garcia said he is very familiar with the smear campaign against China orchestrated by the Western media that "set the agenda and the tone about China" so that the rest of the Western press follows them "mostly without reservations."
In his work, Garcia listed the "arsenal of words" aimed at instilling fear in anything related to China and reinforcing the negative image installed in the heads of readers, manipulating the terms like "regime," "purge," "propaganda" and "repression" or expressions like "power struggles," "under threat" and "debt trap."
In this sense, the rich in the United States are millionaires or great entrepreneurs, while those in China are oligarchs; China does not fire corrupt or inefficient officials, but rather "purges" them; China does not grant advantageous loans to develop infrastructure in poor countries, but "traps" them in debt; China adopts "vaccine diplomacy," and other countries donate them selflessly; China "monitors and controls" close contacts of COVID cases, and other countries trace them.
According to Garcia, the Western media have even created a universal rhetoric of "at what cost," in order to seek in any case the negative consequence of positive news about China, such as "the Chinese economy grows, but at what cost"; "Chinese cities are getting smart, but at what cost"; "China provides abundant snow for the Olympic Games, but at what cost"; "clean air, at what cost?"; "Wuhan is safe from Covid, but at what cost"; "China invests in Ethiopia, but at what cost"; "China boosts Cambodia's economy, but at what cost"; etc.
One of the most "curious" examples is that Bloomberg reported in December 2019 that "China cures cancer faster and cheaper than anyone else, but some worry it's too fast."
Garcia explained that the U.S. media is those who set the tone, and it is really very difficult for other Western media to get out of that way, since they are very much influenced by the former.
A diverse, fascinating country
The journalist took advantage of his stay of more than four years in China to observe the country closely. With an independent approach, he has found an authentic China which is totally different from the one described by the Western media.
"The truth is that China surprised me. It is a very different country, very diverse, very developed in certain things. It is a fascinating country and has many things that one does not expect what life is like in the country," said the writer. "I tried to arrive in the country freeing myself from all prejudices and with the most open mind possible."
While working as a reporter, Garcia met Ding Yan, 34 years old, who told him how her life had changed, from her childhood years in the countryside without running water or electricity, to studying at the university, receiving a degree in philology and settling into a city with access to top-quality public services.
"When you start talking to people, you realize the changes in China. The change that this generation has experienced in the last 20 or 30 years is impressive," he said.
Ordinary citizens brimming with joy and placidity deeply moved the then EFE delegate in Beijing, who felt, at the same time, tired of the incessant disinformation of the Western media against China.
As a result, Garcia decided in September 2021 to quit journalism after more than 30 years in the profession, because "the embarrassing information war against China has taken away a good dose of my enthusiasm for this profession."
For Garcia, the much-touted Western totem of "free press" boils down to "saying exactly the same thing," "sticking to the script," and "emphasizing over and over again how bad communism is," since anyone who steps off the path set by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. media "will be sidelined."
After submitting his resignation, Garcia began to write a book about an authentic China, because, in his opinion, "many things about China are not known, and some key issues, which are very important to the world, are also not known because the readers are not informed."
Hope for a multipolar world
The author traveled to various regions, provinces and cities in China, such as Xinjiang and Shenzhen, to see firsthand the topics he was curious about. Regarding the alleged genocides in Xinjiang, Garcia said such accusations are solely based on data collected from the Internet and "not based on any real situation or field work."
"In Xinjiang, the Uygur culture is respected. The Uygur language is taught in schools and used in local media. The Uygur population has grown by 16 percent in the last ten years, which is three times more than the national population growth," he said.
When asked about Chinese measures against COVID-19, Garcia said that "there have not been human rights violations at all" and that the recent optimization of its COVID response has come at a time when the virus is less aggressive and the danger of death is significantly reduced.
"If we consider that the priority of any government should be to save the lives of its population, of its inhabitants, Chinese policy has clearly been effective. There have been far fewer deaths in China than in Western countries and, above all, than in the United States," he said.
With regard to the fight against poverty, the author believed that it is the main concern of all citizens of the world. Official data showed China has lifted some 770 million rural residents out of poverty during the past 40 years, accounting for over 70 percent of global poverty reduction.
On the ecological issue, Garcia was aware that the world has "the image of China as a very polluting country," however, in his investigation he concluded that "it is just the opposite."
"China has totally changed its economic development model, it has gone from a development model focused on growth above all else, regardless of the consequences, to a much greener one, to one that has a lot of consideration for the environment," he said.
He said that China "is undergoing an energy transformation and has become a leader in renewable energy, electric mobility, electric cars, reforestation, with sponge city projects as an example."
Garcia attributed the admirable achievements to the "pragmatic revolution" led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and described the way of doing politics as very "characteristic of the Chinese style."
"The CPC experiments with different solutions for any problem that arises, launches pilot projects in different cities on measures that it wants to apply, and experiments with them. Those that work best will be adopted and those that do not go well are rejected," Garcia explained.
In Garcia's opinion, China is not a threat, but rather the hope for a multipolar world in which everyone can live much more peacefully, trading with the rest of the globe, dedicating their energies and resources to improving the lives of their population instead of to the enrichment of a few, and exchanging goods, knowledge and culture, instead of weapons and bombs.
"China has no intention of imposing its vision on others" and stands ready to live with all nations in a multipolar world, a more peaceful, more just and better world, Garcia said.
Spanish reporter's frustration over absurd anti-China drama draws echoes
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202109/30/WS61551dc7a310cdd39bc6c8f9.html
Xinhua | Updated: 2021-09-30 10:15
MADRID - For a while, some in the West have staged an absurd anti-China farce to manipulate public opinion, and "anyone who dares to confront it or try to maintain objectivity and impartial positions will be accused of being on the payroll of the Chinese government or worse."
This is what Javier Garcia, head of the office of the EFE News Agency of Spain in Beijing, said on Tuesday on his Twitter account. He is so depressed for this information war that he wants to leave journalism after 30 years in this profession.
A screenshot from Javier Garcia's Twitter account.
"In a few days I will leave journalism, at least temporarily, after more than 30 years in this profession. The embarrassing information war against China has taken a good dose of my enthusiasm for this profession," he said.
"The information manipulation is flagrant, with dozens of examples every day," he added.
He recalled that he came to China like any other destination, trying to keep an open mind free from prejudices and preconceptions. "I have always believed that curiosity and the capacity for wonder, along with rigor and loyalty to the truth, are the basic elements of journalism."
He described China as "a huge, diverse, and constantly changing country, full of stories to tell," as well as "an innovative, modern and traditional place at the same time, in which the future is glimpsed."
Garcia also noted that stories from some deeply biased foreign press constantly follow the trail of the US media and repeat what the US State Department says.
Javier Garcia's words on Twitter has an echo in the Spanish media.
Jose Antonio Vera, director of publications of the Spanish newspaper La Razon, said "this Anglo-American news line that everything China does is bad and should be criticized is not justified, of course."
Cesar Alcala, chief of the Digital Review of the Maresme, said the reality is that there is this information war against China.
"It is difficult for the West to see that the future is in the East ... That is why the easy thing is to discredit a country like China. And they do it out of fear," he said.
Like Garcia, there are many other Western journalists who report on China objectively and truthfully, showing their professional courage.
Children play at the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on July 14, 2021. [Photo by Wei Xiaohao/chinadaily.com.cn]
French journalist and writer Maxime Vivas once personally visited the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in western China to interview local people and report objectively for western readers.
"Countless lies are being spread by people who have never been to Xinjiang," he said, adding that "over time, we'll win" and the truth will come out.
