Colin Powell claims China "supports US war on terrorism"?!
The truth is just the opposite. They are producing propaganda hate videos about 9/11. Our only real allies are Britain, Canada the Aussies and Israel.
Forget the State Dept spin about a worldwide coalition. IMHO it's total bull crap!!
Isopatch
<Beijing produces videos glorifying
terrorist attacks on 'arrogant' US
By Damien McElroy
(Filed: 04/11/2001)
THE Chinese state-run propaganda machine is
cashing in on the terror attacks in New York and
Washington, producing books, films and video
games glorifying the strikes as a humbling blow
against an arrogant nation.
Video discs filled with lurid images along with
dramatic opera music and even the theme from Jaws
have flooded the nation's markets in the wake of
the attacks.
Disc after disc bear the imprimatur of the Communist
Party-controlled media. The most popular DVDs have
been produced by the Xinhua information agency,
Beijing Television and China Central Television.
Communist Party officials say President Jiang Zemin
has obsessively watched and re-watched pictures of
the aircraft crashing into the World Trade Centre. In
the immediate aftermath of the attacks, workers at
Beijing Television worked round-the-clock to produce
a documentary they called Attack America.
Scenes from Hollywood films have been spliced
between shots of the events of September 11,
including footage from the 1998 remake of Godzilla,
in which a monster destroys New York buildings.
As rescue workers pick through the rubble of the
twin towers, the commentator proclaims that the city
had reaped the consequences of decades of
American bullying of weaker nations.
He said: "This is the America the whole world has
wanted to see. Blood debts have been repaid in
blood. America has bombed other countries and
used its hegemony to deny the natural rights of
others without paying the price. Who until now has
dared to avenge the hurts inflicted by unaccountable
Americans."
Officials at Beijing Television defended the video as
an educational film that will meet market demand. A
producer said: "There's this need for more
information on world terrorism in the market, so
we've got to meet it."
At the country's most respected bookstore, Xinhua
Book Shop on Beijing's busiest shopping street,
Wanfujing, crowds jockeyed around a table to buy
discs. According to staff, thousands of copies of the
video have been sold in the past month.
The shop assistant said: "Before people were
interested in the movies but this is more compelling.
What happened in New York could have happened
in a movie but this is real life. It's better."
The many shops that stock pirated DVDs compiled in
China and Hong Kong report that their most popular
products are similar productions that use video
graphics to show the United States suffering other
damaging attacks on its tallest buildings and military
installations.
On the unofficial films the commentary is even more
callous: "Look at the panic in their faces as they
wipe off the dust and crawl out of their strong
buildings - now just a heap of rubble. We will never
fear these people again, they have been shown to
be soft-bellied paper tigers."
Elsewhere music shops are selling out of a bootleg
version of the summer's top pop hit. The amended
song implies that America deserves to suffer for its
disregard for the point of view of countries weaker
than itself.
The refrain says: "We guys are all Americans, our
government is used to bullying people. We guys
always have our hands on too much, this time our
own people got hurt.>
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