Yesterday, we talked about Assange and his WikiLeaks website’s battle with the U.S. Department of Justice. It can be said that in the past 14 years, Assange has become an internationally known figure because of this, attracting the attention of many national media, including the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past 14 years, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made many statements on the Assange case. The initial attitude was mainly gloating, believing that the U.S. soldiers who killed Afghan civilians were not punished, but those who exposed the truth of the incident were held accountable. U.S. military personnel who committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other places were exempt from prosecution, while Assange, the publisher who exposed these crimes, may face life imprisonment. The U.S. cannot attempt to muddle through, but must thoroughly investigate the truth and give the Afghan people and the international community a responsible explanation.
Later, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs mocked that the U.S. said every day that other countries should pay attention to information security, but all of its own information was leaked. Later, it began to say that the Assange incident actually exposed the hypocrisy of American-style freedom and democracy. The Assange case is a mirror, reflecting how hypocritical the U.S. and the U.K. are in claiming to uphold freedom of the press. Exposing other countries is a hero, but exposing themselves and their partners is a criminal. Assange and others are political prisoners who should be indicted and extradited, and other countries should take action to release political prisoners. The hypocrisy and double standards of the U.S. are obvious and ridiculous.
But we know that Assange not only exposed the U.S., but also exposed other countries, including China. When this information was exposed to China, China’s attitude changed. According to some investigations without conclusive evidence, it arbitrarily determined that China participated in relevant cyberattacks, which is completely an irresponsible practice. Therefore, the attitude of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs towards WikiLeaks is that exposing the U.S. is a good thing, and we applaud and encourage Assange to expose the U.S. desperately, but if it exposes China, that’s not okay, it’s all rumors, it’s all fake.
Today we will talk about the information about China in the WikiLeaks website and see if this information is absurd and full of rumors. Especially in the middle of this website, there is also a lot of information about Xi Jinping, and this information is still very valuable even today. WikiLeaks first exposed China’s affairs in 2008. At that time, many Tibetan people took to the streets to hold peaceful demonstrations and parades, but the CCP brutally suppressed them, and the armed police opened fire and injured many lamas. These lamas were carried to the temple, and the lamas in the temple took photos and provided them to the WikiLeaks website. WikiLeaks published all these photos and videos. Of course, we still can’t put these photos and videos in the program, because it will be marked yellow again. You can watch our news feature, we have specially edited a film, which is very tragic, with bullet holes all over the body.
Of course, this information was not available in China at that time, so the Chinese government didn’t pay much attention to it. Immediately after 2008, WikiLeaks also obtained a top-secret document from China. At that time, China was holding the Olympic Games, and the government was manipulating the media. The Cyberspace Administration of China sent instructions to Internet media every day, and these instructions were compiled and handed over to the WikiLeaks website. The document is very interesting and shows the CCP’s methods of manipulating Internet media. For example, someone wrote an article saying where the 73 million CCP members’ party fees were spent, and the Cyberspace Administration immediately instructed to delete the article.
For example, the doping incident discovered in Greece was provided by a Chinese company and is under investigation, and the Cyberspace Administration also quickly deleted the relevant information. On the contrary, China’s response speed to the Wenchuan earthquake was praised, and the Cyberspace Administration promoted this information. There is also a piece of information that particularly reflects the CCP’s Internet operation methods. At that time, Chinese civil society was boycotting Carrefour, and the Cyberspace Administration guided public opinion towards hostile forces outside the country and Western anti-China media CNN, without attacking the patriotic enthusiasm of ordinary people. In the U-shaped lock incident, the traces of the CCP’s manipulation are also very clear. In conjunction with the analysis report on the Carrefour incident at that time, it can be seen that the CCP’s control plan for street movements by the people already existed.
The information about China in WikiLeaks is roughly divided into several categories. The first category is intelligence, that is, the leaked diplomatic documents of the United States, including work reports from China. The second category is event reports, such as the 75 incident, the China-U.S. collision incident, and the bombing of the Yugoslav embassy. The third category is various analysis and prediction reports, such as the impact of China’s economic rise on cross-strait relations, and the impact of Taiwan’s political party rotation on Sino-U.S. relations.
Among them, the intelligence information is true and false, and the quality of the information depends on whether the civilians who provide the information are reliable. For example, the news that Falun Gong media reported that Qian Qichen became a U.S. spy was not found on the Wiki website, which may be because Falun Gong fabricated rumors or the information was too fake to be deleted. But there is also a lot of true intelligence information, such as the information that Xi was appointed as the Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee in 2007 was known to the U.S. on March 21.
In the report-type information of WikiLeaks, many details that the CCP is unwilling to disclose are revealed. For example, in the 2001 China-U.S. plane collision incident, the U.S. side desperately destroyed top-secret documents before the plane made an emergency landing, but the report mentioned that China might restore some documents and study the hardware of the EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft. In the 1999 bombing of the Yugoslav embassy, the Chinese government supported students in besieging the U.S. embassy and consulate, delayed the announcement of the U.S. apology, and aroused public anger. In the end, the U.S. compensated the injured personnel with 4.5 million U.S. dollars and compensated China with 28 million U.S. dollars for the reconstruction of the embassy, and China also compensated the U.S. with 2.47 million U.S. dollars.
The most valuable part of the information about China in WikiLeaks is the intelligence collection and analysis reports on political stars such as Xi, Li Keqiang, and Li Yuanchao. For example, during the two sessions in 2007, the U.S. side’s banquet exchanges with Xi, Li Keqiang, and Li Yuanchao, which recorded their speeches and backgrounds in detail.
The background report on Xi mentioned that he is not interested in money, but is concerned about power, is a pragmatist, has no feelings for the Communist Party’s ideology, and has a strong interest in power and economic development. Li Keqiang frankly admitted that China’s GDP data is false, and taught Americans to judge the real economic growth rate by using electricity consumption, train transportation volume, and bank loan issuance volume. Li Yuanchao emphasized the necessity of political system reform in a conversation with the U.S. ambassador, but pointed out that the process cannot be too fast.
In general, WikiLeaks’ judgments and analyses of CCP political stars are very accurate, and its reports on various political and social events in China are detailed, showing the U.S.’s strong intelligence gathering capabilities in China. This information is not absurd or fabricated, but the facts that the Chinese government is unwilling to admit. China has blocked the WikiLeaks website, preventing the people from seeing this information, and using this to continue to accuse the U.S. of persecuting Assange, portraying him as a victim of the U.S. system. This is the attitude of the Chinese government towards the WikiLeaks website.
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