On February 1, German Merg Mirror Weekly published a cover article entitled by the new coronary virus in China.At the critical moment of the Chinese people's efforts to fight the crown disease epidemic, this article with a problem that has been used with a problem naturally arouses dissatisfaction in Chinese society.The Chinese Embassy in Germany immediately stated that he despised this kind of panic and racial discrimination.
Those who are familiar with the German media will probably not be surprised by the behavior of Shimir Mirror Weekly.As far as the weekly magazine is concerned, its China -related reports have always been keen to criticize China's internal and external policies; human rights, national issues, and the threat brought by China are the topics of their frequent speculation.In 2007, a yellow spy, which caused the Sino -German diplomatic dispute, published it in the journal.
This situation is actually a microcosm of the German media environment.Since entering the 21st century, while China has become increasingly powerful, it has not changed, such as many Germans' expectations, negative reports to China have increased sharply in this context.Today, German media reports have formed a style of negative news and accusations, criticizing, attacking, and even discrediting China's public opinion orientation, and firmly occupy the mainstream.Not only that, even if China has made difficult progress, it will be ironic and ridiculed by German media.
The global 2019 coronary virus disease epidemic situation has provided new opportunities for German media Black China.In addition to the mirror weekend, other major German media have also reported a lot of negative news in China's crown disease.Taking the daily mirror with great influence as an example, since January 20, the newspaper has published more than ten analytical articles about the domestic epidemic of China.Although these reports are from the hands of different authors, they have unanimously criticized the Chinese government's actions in anti -epidemic incidents.
They believe that the global communication of crown diseases is attributed to China's error information policy, because the deliberate concealment of information has destroyed the authorities' rapid response capabilities.In addition, many authors also used the Li Wenliang incident to speculate, claiming that the epidemic had brought a political crisis to the Chinese government.
Germany has always paid attention to philosophical critical thinking, so the German media looked at China and public health incidents from a critical perspective. Moreover, the analysis of the cause of the proliferation of the epidemic was also recognized to a certain extent in China.
However, it is not necessary to ignore that this type of report does not show the empathy of human beings at all, but just blindly speculating ideological topics, but does not show sympathy for the Chinese people who have troubled diseases.The system should be responsible for the epidemic, China has encountered a political and economic crisis, but completely ignores the efforts of the Chinese government and the people to control the epidemic and save lives.
Even if the facts have achieved a certain effect on China's epidemic prevention work, there are two articles that still discredit China to control citizens and restrict freedom to cope with the epidemic.Popularity and other disasters, but this is achieved by spreading fear and covering the truth.What's more, an author said that the use of drones in the prevention of epidemic prevention is an disturbing and doubtful move.
In addition, there is also a noticeable phenomenon that in addition to the epidemic topic, the newspaper has also published nearly 20 articles criticizing China for more than a month.Among them, both criticized China to destroy Hong Kong's freedom, persecute Uyghur people, and use the use of the Confucius Institute to propagate autocratic and other words. It also accusited Chinese -funded interference in the freedom of screening of the Berlin Film Festival, questioning the road repair projects in China in Nepal, which destroyed the local people's lifestyle.New topic.
Why is German media so enthusiastic about criticizing China?The first reason is that there are differences in the political system of China and Germany.In the Cold War, Germany was at the forefront of two major camps, and naturally formed a vigilance and hostility of the socialist system.In the context of the continuous expansion of the influence of socialist China, this fear and hostility have also been magnified.In addition, Germany has formed a strong sense of human rights in the reflection of Nazi history and is accustomed to preaching to other countries with its own human rights standards.
The second reason is the German market -oriented media ecology.To be based on the market, German media must attract more readers.Affected by the long -term rendering of the media and the cultural superiority caused by nationalism, the German people have formed prejudice against China. Many of them want to see negative reports about China.For example, Wolfgang Franke, a German sinologist in China and Southeast Asian Chinese since the Ming Dynasty, said: In Germany, reports about the image of Chinese image are more for the purpose of pleased the audience, rather than focusing on objectively observing the object itself.Essence
Although Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, recently said, the Chinese are never afraid of others scolding or insulting others, but this does not mean that China can be kept as ugly. After all, a good country image isThat is very necessary.To this end, China still has to do a lot of work.It is particularly important to do well in China in a short period of time in a short period of time.
This requires China to learn the lessons of this crown disease, greaterly play the role of public opinion supervision of news media, objectively and fairly present the truth of emergencies, and handle other issues of national political life with the same spirit.In short, reducing the occurrence of domestic negative incidents, making it more and more difficult for German media to find materials that can make great articles. It is the most effective means to fight back to German media at the moment.
The author is a graduate student at the International University of Political Science and Law of China
