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China has intensified an international propaganda campaign against the American trade war, releasing a series of smooth videos describing itself as smuggling against American “intimidation” in the name of the rest of the world, in particular “weak” in developing countries.
Published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Social Networks, videos represent a spectacular hardening of the diplomatic position of Beijing in the trade war And are part of a charm offensive designed to portray China as defending free trade while Washington “slaps its allies on the face”.
Propaganda videos contrast dark scenes from Wall Street chaos and angry American demonstrators with a brilliant and futuristic China, illustrated by high -tech humanoid robots and rockets that shoot in space.
In the images chosen to highlight China's positive relations with other countries, the director general of Mercedes-Benz, Ola Källenius, is seen to speak during a recent conference in Beijing and a traditional African tribe is apparently illustrated to conclude an agreement with a Chinese businessman.
The latest video, entitled “Never Kneeld Down”, was published on Tuesday and warns the countries not to conclude agreements with the United States, reflecting concerns in Beijing that US President Donald Trump uses prices to force other countries to join America to isolate China.
“To intimidate a tyrant is like drinking poison to quench a thirst,” said the video.
“China does not back down, the voices of the weak will be heard,” he added, showing images of African children. “Intimidation will be stopped …
Rhetoric in videos, which directly quotes the United States and even Maga, Trump's “Make America Great Again” political movement presents itself while the two parties attack the growing spinoff of what is equivalent to a bilateral trade embargo, with the United States and China to collect tariffs of 145% and 125% respectively.
The two reported that they were open to talks and granted exemptions to certain essential products. But there is still no sign of serious negotiations despite the allegations of Trump that President Xi Jinping called him.
XI has toured Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia this month to strengthen ties as part of what analysts have described as a charming trade charm of China which also includes Europe and Latin America.
On Monday, Wang Yi, on Monday, Wang Yi told his counterparts at a meeting of the Brics group in emerging countries that appeasement would only strengthen the United States “intimidate” and urged them to retaliate.
China wants to “try to consolidate its support in Western and non-Western capitals to prevent Trump from forming an anti-Chinese commercial block,” said Neil Thomas, member of the Center for China of the Political Institute of the Society Asia Society.
In the video “Never Kneel Down”, Beijing also tries to warn the traditional allies of the United States that Washington is not a reliable partner, highlighting its past treatment of Japan with the agreement of the 1985 place which led to the appreciation of the yen and the “decades of anemic growth”.
Videos, as well as increasingly energetic comments in the state media, show that China is committed to a long dead end with the United States.
Beijing Daily, belonging to the State, published a comment on Monday declaring that it was necessary to see the trade war through the objective of the objective of President Mao Zedong in 1938 “on prolonged war” and assembly for a prolonged struggle.
“Facing the Boucher knife, many countries previously wandered” feeding on wolves “in exchange for fragile security,” said the comment. “For China, hoping to get a stay thanks to a unilateral compromise is fundamentally impossible.”
The commentary indicates that the force of China lies in the remaining patient and the premature resistance of compromise calls. The decline or the precipitation to negotiate would weaken not only the position of China, but also in the long term the nature of the conflict, wrote the anonymous author.
The more difficult rhetoric in Chinese propaganda recalls the dive in relations between the two countries during the first mandate of Trump, when Beijing sparked a new impetuous combative approach to international relations called Diplomacy “Wolf Warrior” – Appointed according to a set of films in which Chinese fighters of special operations beat the mercenaries led by the West.
