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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
在过去的三十年里，中国经历了巨大的变革。 一个巨大的变化，然而，在西方媒体中几乎没有任何空间。 一个即将超越美国成为世界领先经济强国的国家，已经使 8 亿多人摆脱了极端贫困，在十年内将其可再生能源产量增加了五倍，现在正在优先考虑减少由能源造成的社会差异 市场经济。 西方媒体试图抹黑这些成就，因为中国的务实做法有可能为陷入不发达和不平等僵局的国家树立榜样。 它还激起了对中国复兴的恐惧，故意无视这个拥有千年历史的中央王国从未表现出任何扩张主义意愿并且很少发动战争的事实。 只有准确了解今天的中国，我们才能着手确保其不可阻挡的崛起成为新的、更加公正与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
无罪之“罪” 西班牙记者起底西方媒体抹黑中国的套路
2023年2月5日
http://www.news.cn/world/2023-02/05/c_1129338682.htm
新华社北京2月5日电（记者赵晖）“西方主流媒体以及一些政府和政客每天都在恐吓我们：中国崛起对世界构成威胁，对西方尤甚。”西班牙资深记者哈维尔·加西亚在他的新书《中国：威胁还是希望》Lavier Garcia, China America o Espersnza 中写道。
加西亚日前在接受新华社记者专访时表示：“这纯属无中生有。几千年来，中国一直是崇尚和平的国家，从未试图征服谁，也未将自己的想法强加给谁。”
起底美西方“舆论战”套路
“美国充当全球霸主的时日已经不多了，但它拒绝接受这一现实。于是，美国就像章鱼般伸出触手，在经济、贸易、科技、政治、卫生、媒体、情报等多个领域攻击中国，破坏新疆等地区稳定，支持分裂势力，并利用其军事优势恐吓中国。”加西亚分析道。
加西亚曾在西班牙语世界影响力最大的通讯社埃菲社工作了20多年，常驻过巴勒斯坦、委内瑞拉、德国、中国等地。在他看来，所谓的“中国威胁论”无非是美国政府试图遏制中国和平崛起的“鬼把戏”。
在美国发起的多条对华“战线”中，加西亚对美西方“舆论战”套路最为熟悉。他指出，美国政府与媒体利用其强大的议题设置和主导能力，“引领”着其他西方媒体，在全球范围内发起针对中国的“舆论战”，其做法是“好的一律不报”“不好的添油加醋”。
在书中，加西亚历数了西方媒体的“套路”：中国富裕的企业家不是“企业家”而是“寡头”；中国腐败官员不是“被解职”而是“被清洗”；中国对外投资不是“投资”而是“债务陷阱”；中国追踪新冠确诊病例活动轨迹的行为不是“流调”而是“监视”；中国部分城市宣布“封控”不是“防疫需要”而是“侵犯人权”……
当实在找不到“合适”的词汇来诋毁中国时，西方媒体又发明了一种“万能句式”：“中国经济在增长，但代价是……”“中国加大环保力度，但代价是……”“中国城市变得更加智能，但代价是……”“北京冬奥会还算成功，但代价是……”“中国拉动柬埔寨经济增长，但代价是……”
“美国媒体设置议题后，其他西方媒体很难跳出这一既定框架，导致每天都有成百上千的媒体重复着几十条非常类似的涉华新闻。”加西亚说。
亲历多元、迷人的中国
2018年，加西亚被埃菲社派往中国常驻。这给了他近距离观察中国的机会，让他发现了一个真实的中国，一个不同于西方媒体塑造的中国。他对中国在消除贫困、生态保护、节能减排、共同富裕、科技创新等领域取得的成就非常赞赏。
“到中国后，我尝试抛开所有偏见，保持清醒开放的头脑，客观地观察中国。我惊喜地发现，中国并非是西方媒体所描述的中国，它非常多元，非常迷人。”加西亚说。
在交谈中，加西亚提到了他认识的一位采访对象丁艳（音译）。34岁的丁艳家在西安市，是一名英语翻译。她出生在山东农村，小时候与奶奶、父母和5个兄弟姐妹挤在一个破旧老屋里。上学之余，她还要帮家里干繁重的农活。如今，她的兄弟姐妹和父母也都住进了城里，生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。
洋溢在中国普通人脸上的幸福感，让加西亚深受触动。而一些西方媒体罔顾事实、刻意抹黑中国的做法，则令他生厌。2021年9月，他在推特上连发14条推文，宣布将放弃从事30余年的新闻工作，因为“令人厌烦的反华‘信息战’几乎耗光了我的新闻职业理想”。
加西亚说，西方媒体总是宣扬所谓“新闻自由”，但一用到中国报道上，就成了“逢中必反”的套路，他们“只会说一模一样的话”“从不脱离既定剧本”。
在下定决心辞职的同时，加西亚也给自己定了一个目标：写一本关于中国的书。“这并不是一件容易的事。西方媒体痴迷于抹黑中国形象，误导西方民众，让人们看不到中国所取得的非凡成就。”
著书反击西方媒体抹黑
为了写好《中国：威胁还是希望》，加西亚到新疆、深圳等地开展了田野调查和深度访谈。他在书中细数了中国开展精准扶贫脱贫的做法和相应成效，阐明中国为全球减贫事业带来的希望和鼓舞；介绍了中国解决贫富差距、实现可持续发展等方面的有益尝试，探讨中国传统文化在共同富裕等理念上的传承和延拓；澄清了西方媒体在涉及中国民主、人权、防治污染等问题上的错误引导，感叹中国在实践中试错并找到最佳解决方案的智慧和高效。
谈及中国的防疫政策，加西亚认为，中国在病毒致病性减弱后优化调整疫情防控措施，是尊重生命的表现。“任何一个政府都应优先保障国民的生命权。从这个意义上来说，中国的防疫政策无疑是成功的。”
在加西亚眼里，中国不仅不是威胁，反而代表着一种希望，因为“中国崇尚多元发展，从不强人所难”，这意味着“中国势不可挡的崛起将成为构建更加公正、和平的全球新秩序的关键性支柱”。
针对一些国家炮制所谓“中国威胁论”、欲将世界拉入“新冷战”陷阱的图谋，加西亚非常不满。在他所憧憬的世界里，所有人都和平相处，所有商品都自由流通，商品、知识和文化交流取代武器和炸弹横飞，有限的资源被用于增加所有人的福祉，而不是仅让少数人致富。
“这正是中国想要的。”加西亚说道。（参与记者：黄顺达、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.
