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Source of this article: Global Times https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/WlCkmOux-E4aQiTRePinDQ
Xu Xiuzhong said that she is back.
That's right, Xu Xiuzhong, who once tried his best to use the Xinjiang issue to smear and attack his motherland.
And, this time, it's even more high-profile than her sudden "stealth" in 2021.
"The Australian" titled her "exclusive interview" - "Anti-Beijing activist Xu Xiuzhong returns to face China's attack".
Labeling "anti-Beijing people" and "China attack" is indeed very capable of harvesting traffic and attention in Western public opinion and social media, but why did Xu Xiuzhong choose to "return with a high profile" after a period of silence?
She announced that she was "coming back", what purpose was hidden behind this?
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In the interview published by The Australian on July 4, let's not talk about the content, there is one detail worth pondering.
The English version of this "exclusive interview" with Xu Xiuzhong is available on the website of The Australian for a fee. The Chinese version of the content is free and open to read on the Chinese website of The Australian.
What is the meaning behind this operation?
Obviously, the purpose is to allow these contents to be disseminated on a wider scale in Chinese-language cyberspace, thereby influencing netizens who are interested in China-related issues.
After understanding this purpose, let's take a look at what this "exclusive interview" talks about.
The article declared, “Following unprecedented threats to her life, friends and family, Xu Xiuzhong, a popular anti-Beijing figure, made a strategic retreat. She said this was because her work shed light on Beijing’s She was punished for her wrongdoing. Now, she is back on the battlefield.”
In just three sentences, it can be seen that The Australian is establishing Xu Xiuzhong as a "fighting" figure, or making her a "victim" and a typical example of "resisting Beijing".
And in the "understatement", he poured a pot of dirty water on China, slandering that "her retirement was because her life, friends and family were threatened", and where this threat came from, although it was not stated clearly, But apparently "the object of her revelations".
However, it has been reported by many media before that Xu Xiuzhong's friends and family members in China refused to contact her because she even betrayed her motherland and carried out all kinds of slander and slander without hesitation. Even Xu Xiuzhong himself said, "I was condemned as one of China's biggest traitors in the country, in business and on social media."
For such people, it is normal to be expelled from the "friend circle" and "friends circle" in China. Those who have a sense of justice and honor for their motherland will not be in the company of those who betray their country and seek honor.
Moreover, Xu Xiuzhong is living well in Australia, how could someone threaten her life?
In order to add a "halo" to oneself, deliberately playing tragic cards is too low-level.
As for why he "returned", Xu Xiuzhong also gave the reason.
"Beijing and its supporters tried to silence me, and frankly, I couldn't let them get their way - so I'm back."
She also viciously gave a comment, "China is in a crazy era."
Look how eager Xu Xiuzhong is to dress up as a "female vanguard against China".
Moreover, he added drama to himself and forcibly gave himself ideological meaning.
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"Fix a knife" has previously written an article about Xu Xiuzhong. She was born in Gansu Province in 1994 and is now an Australian citizen. She has multiple identities, such as "column reporter", talk show actor and so on.
In 2012, she went to university, and from her sophomore year, she studied at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Later, he became an Australian citizen and joined the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in 2016. This institute sounds professional, but it is actually an institution supported by US funds, deliberately slandering and smearing China.
Xu Xiuzhong became a so-called "researcher" in this think tank and wrote many distorted articles about Xinjiang.
In particular, in 2020, she published a "report" in ASPI that fabricated the claim that "tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other oppressed ethnic minorities are being used as forced labor in Xinjiang." The men were detained, "re-educated" and sent to work in factories outside Xinjiang.
The factories supply Nike, Apple, Adidas and 80 other well-known apparel, auto and tech brands. Strengthen the existence of so-called "forced labor" to Western public opinion.
During this period, her parents persuaded her many times not to work for foreign countries and to stop deliberately framing her own country. When she fell into a trap, her parents asked her to return to China many times, so she should not be tempted again, but Xu Xiuzhong didn't listen and insisted on making mistakes again and again on the wrong path.
After October 2021, she appears to be invisible.
Then why did Xu Xiuzhong announce his "return" at this time?
Analyzing the article in The Australian and combining some recent events, it can be seen that this time was carefully chosen by Xu Xiuzhong and even the black hand behind her.
First, "The Australian" said in the article, "at an important moment in Australia's geopolitics, she will re-contribute to public life".
What is a "big moment"?
Obviously, this refers to the fall of the Morrison government, and the Albanese government has just come to power. From the current point of view, the Albanese government is not as extreme and irrational as the Morrison government on various issues related to China.
So, for the conservatives and "anti-China factions" in Australia, now is a "big moment" in geopolitics. If the Albanese government repairs its relations with China step by step, the voices of these "anti-China factions" in Australia will naturally decline. The level of attention will also be much less than before.
At this time, they need to introduce a gimmicky character who is also easy for them to hype, to continue to maintain the popularity of the topic of "tough on China" in Australia.
In this way, Xu Xiuzhong is a good choice. Because, during the Morrison government period, tough voices against China in Australia often appeared, especially when the then Australian Defence Officer Dutton was even more outspoken. In this case, Xu Xiuzhong, as a "little pawn", can't play much role at all.
And when Australia's domestic political atmosphere towards China is quietly changing, those who want Australia to maintain a "tough China" public opinion atmosphere, of course, hope that Chinese "anti-China pioneers" like Xu Xiuzhong will appear to affect Australia's public life.
Second, Xu Xiuzhong's high-profile announcement of his "return" this time is also for marketing himself. Sources say she plans to speak at the Sydney Opera House's Antidote festival on September 11 on the topic "What will China do?" and plans to publish a new book next year.
Her so-called memoir is called "You Are Brave".
Earlier this year, Xu Xiuzhong's book was picked by publishers Allen & Unwin and described it as a "geopolitical drama of the coming era".
Obviously, in order to sell his book better, Xu Xiuzhong needs to hype himself. And the business forces behind her are also willing to label her as "anti-China", so that once her book is published, it may attract some extremely conservative and hard-line people to buy it in Australia and even some other Western countries.
Look at the previous Trump adviser Navarro, not relying on the hype of his "anti-China" color, so that his several books, full of various rumors and speculations, became a bestseller. .
Thirdly, "Fix a Sword" wrote an article not long ago, "They have begun to fight "women's boxing" against China...", which exposed the anti-China think tank in Australia - the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy Research and VOA and other anti-China media In cooperation, we used a so-called "report" concocted by ASPI to fabricate China's collective suppression of overseas Chinese female journalists.
Xu Xiuzhong was once a so-called "policy analyst" of the ASPI think tank, and "The Australian" declared in an "exclusive interview", "She is one of the leading authors of the world's most important research on the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghurs. ".
This statement is simply laughable.
Take a look at Xu Xiuzhong's last article on the ASPI website (published on October 19, 2021), as well as her previous "reports" and articles published on the think tank website, you will find that what she writes is first and foremost to satisfy the "political" Require". With the conclusion, go to collect and accumulate the so-called "evidence material".
However, these "evidence materials" cannot stand scrutiny at all, and are full of loopholes.
The Australian also deliberately emphasized that Xu Xiuzhong also worked as a reporter for the New York Times and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). This obviously also wants to connect her to the "overseas Chinese female journalists" in the ASPI "report".
“Her work has made her the object of anger from the Chinese government, its army of social media bots and supporters: she was followed by mysterious people, her family and friends in China were interrogated, she was subjected to industry-level humiliating attacks online, and she Say."
Xu Xiuzhong declared, "I can't go to a Chinese restaurant (in Canberra) without being recognized. The movement is extremely misogynistic in nature, calling me a witch and accusing me of crazy promiscuity."
This description is simply "exclusively provided" to confirm the "report" of ASPI.
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Chen Hong, director of the Australian Studies Center of East China Normal University, told "Making Up One Sword" that Xu Xiuzhong claimed that she "returned", but the fact is that she has never left the anti-China public opinion field, never stopped making anti-China rumors, and has been carrying out anti-China rumors all the time. slander.
The so-called "return" is nothing more than a rhetoric, a gimmick used to attract public attention.
Xu Xiuzhong talked about talk shows in Australia in his early years, and then continued to "appear" in TV programs and other media reports involving China and anti-China. He has a certain degree of social exposure, so it is normal for people to be recognized in public places. There are too many lies made up, and when they show their faces in anti-China occasions, they are naturally spurned by the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.
Where does the state target individuals and the government suppresses individuals? If it is said that those who oppose her have a government background, then which government and which political forces are instigating those who support her and who are liars with her on Twitter?
After all, she is now portraying herself as a "victim", and she has deliberately emphasized her female identity, falsely claiming that she has been subjected to "political persecution" and "state bullying". While aggressively cursing and attacking China, he played a weak role in an attempt to win public sympathy and public opinion approval.
Chen Hong said that in the anti-China circle in Australia, the identities of "scholars" and "researchers" are being abused. Anyone who passes through rough packaging seems to be able to put on the cloak of a scholar and publish China-related issues as an "authority on China issues". Opinion.
Xu Xiuzhong once had a brief working experience in some media, and then suddenly became a so-called "researcher" of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). In fact, this institute has long received funding from the defense, diplomatic agencies and arms dealers of the United States, Australia and other countries, and its essence is self-evident.
For ASPI and its behind-the-scenes anti-China forces, Xu Xiuzhong is indeed a handy tool.
She was born in China and has a Chinese face. She is good at laughing at herself in the way Westerners are used to on talk shows and other occasions. She even jokes about her surname to ridicule Chinese identity, image and China, and win the Australian audience. laugh. Now, whether she is publishing a book or giving an anti-China speech at the opera house, she puts on a Chinese face and adds "personal experience", in fact, she wants to make the series of lies "real".
This time, she announced her return with great fanfare, which was obviously used as a tool to allow her to create anti-China public opinion in the media, and then use public opinion to influence government decision-making.
Chen Hong mentioned that today, anti-China forces have formed a fixed "routine" in Australia:
First, the intelligence department and relevant political forces "feed" the media and create topics; then, some scholars, many of whom are pseudo-scholars playing the role of "authority", jump up and down at the "front desk" to mislead the public; then Through polls and news reports, it was concluded that "the majority of Australians have a worsening view of China". The ultimate goal is to push the government to formulate and implement anti-China policies to serve its anti-China goals.
At present, China-Australia relations are facing an important juncture. Both sides are showing some goodwill. The prospects of bilateral relations are facing the dawn of easing and thawing. At this juncture, anti-China elements like Xu Xiuzhong jumped out to "be a demon", and their motives can be imagined.
However, willingness to act as an anti-China "tool" is neither honorable nor destined to face the fate of "disposable".
A public opinion research scholar analyzed the "Fixing a Sword" and said that in recent years, some so-called "dissidents" have gone overseas to make a living against China. The methods they have adopted are nothing more than cacophony and trouble, and they have tried their best to touch the Chinese government. . In order to make the local people buy it, they also tried their best to rely on Western "political correctness" such as freedom, democracy, and women's rights. But in the end, public opinion incidents based on anti-China can be maintained for three or five days at most, and they are quickly ignored.
Because of their lack of strengths and relying on "anti-China" to make money, these people have long been notorious in the Chinese and overseas Chinese circles. If they are abandoned by Westerners again, it is very likely that they will not even have enough to eat.
This is also the main reason why Xu Xiuzhong is unwilling to be lonely and jumps up and down in the Western public opinion field at every turn.
Source: Bu Yidao written by Hu Yidao & Zanpakutō
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