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Topic: Zhang Zhan's
Heavy Sentence and Xi Jinping's Dilemma -- Voice of America report
标题：张展的重判与习近平的困境
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Zhang Zhan's Heavy
Sentence and Xi Jinping's Dilemma
December 31, 2020 19:34
-- Jin Zhe, Voice of
America
Washington —
For truthfully reporting
the Wuhan pneumonia epidemic, Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer and citizen
journalist in Shanghai, was severely sentenced to 4 years in prison by a court
controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on December 28. With the news that Zhang Zhan was sentenced
to severe punishment, some observers pointed out that such cruel treatment of
Zhang Zhan by the Chinese authorities headed by Xi Jinping actually made it
more difficult to reverse the trend of thought that it was Xi Jinping’s
dictatorial actions which led to a worldwide catastrophe.
Zhang Zhan Was So Severely Punished
The Wuhan pneumonia
pandemic is the new type of coronavirus that originated in Wuhan in 2019 and
then spread throughout China and the world, causing a global catastrophe that
has not seen an end.
While public health
researchers and government public health authorities around the world are still
struggling to deal with the pandemic that is still developing to this day, many
countries, including China’s ally Iran and the United States, which Iran hates,
believe that during a long period since the start of the outbreak it was the
CCP authorities trying to conceal and downplay the epidemic which turned what
should have been a local public health crisis in China into a global disaster.
The CCP regime’s
authoritarian blockade of information has led to a worldwide catastrophe. This narrative has become the most popular
narrative about the new coronavirus epidemic in the world today. The CCP regime’s dictatorial actions have
been criticized by many observers and commentators from China and abroad. It is generally believed that it is due to Xi
Jinping’s dictatorship.
Zhang Zhan was sentenced
to 4 years in prison by the CCP headed by Xi Jinping in the name of provocation
just because she went to Wuhan to report the actual situation of the
epidemic. This situation seems to have
further strengthened people’s minds that Xi Jinping’s autocratic dictatorship
in China has caused a worldwide catastrophe.
Hong Kong media person
Jin Zhong said: "With this case of Zhang Zhan we can see the whole
situation about the CCP-led anti-epidemic.
Their so-called success against the epidemic is disgraceful, Illegal,
inhumane, and without adherence to the rule of law. I think that Zhang Zhan’s arrest and sentence
illustrates such a situation. She is
such a person, a female reporter, and a weak person. Yet they dared to commit such cruel
conduct."
Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese
human rights and democracy activist, said: "What did Zhang Zhan do? She just took some live videos and put them
on the Internet. Can this be a crime? No, it’s not even an attack on the
government. She just took some videos of
real situations. Who is most afraid of
telling the truth? That is the person
who did bad things. The person who did
bad things is not only lying, but also doing bad things."
What Does "Personally Deployed and Personally Commanded"
Mean?
In today's China, the
propaganda department of the Communist regime emphasizes that China's hundreds
of millions of people, and all government departments and officials must
absolutely obey the command of the central government, that is Xi Jinping. In addition, Xi Jinping himself also publicly
stated in a meeting with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that
China’s response to the epidemic has always been “personally deployed and
personally directed” by himself.
However, Xi Jinping
himself and Xi Jinping’s propaganda team have always obviously avoided an
important issue that many Chinese public and the international community are
concerned about. The issue is, when the
epidemic first occurred and developed, that is, when it was most promising to
control the epidemic in some parts of China, who specifically ordered the
blockade and downplaying of the epidemic news that led to the spread of the
pandemic.
Many observers in China
and abroad pointed out that Xi Jinping himself claimed that he gave specific
instructions on the prevention and control of the epidemic on January 7,
2020. But for unknown reasons or
concerns, as of now, the Chinese authorities and Xi Jinping himself have not
announced what instructions Xi Jinping gave on that day.
On January 23, 2020,
when the deadly Wuhan pneumonia spread rapidly across China and attracted the
attention of countries around the world, the authorities of Wuhan, with a
population of more than 10 million, announced an unprecedented closure of the
city to stop the spread of the epidemic.
A few hours later, Xi Jinping, as the CCP General Secretary and the
President of China, delivered a speech at the Spring Festival Reunion in
Beijing without mentioning Wuhan, Wuhan’s closure, or the pandemic.
Analysts pointed out
that on New Year's Day 2020, China Central Television, CCTV, which publicly
declared allegiance to Xi Jinping, continuously broadcasted more than a dozen
times the so-called eight people who were reprimanded by public security authorities
for “spreading rumors about the Wuhan pneumonia pandemic”. This threatening so-called press release has
caused every doctor in China to feel the risk, and no one dares to talk about
the pandemic. Those who were so
admonished by the CCP’s public security organs included Wuhan doctor Li
Wenliang. Li Wenliang later died of the
pandemic, the so-called rumor defined by the Communist authorities.
As the state media
controlled by the CCP, such as China Central Television, vigorously broadcasted
the admonitions over so-called rumors and threatened the public, it also
vigorously broadcasted misleading so-called "positive energy" news,
including a large-scale public event "tens-thousand families banquet"
with joy that was held on January 18, 2020, as the pandemic was exploding. At the same time, the CCP’s online public
opinion control department was fully engaged, vigorously deleting
tens-thousands of private posts about the pandemic on the Chinese Internet.
At the beginning of
2020, tens-thousands of Chinese people were contracted the virus without
knowing it during the information blockade and misleading propaganda of the
Chinese Communist regime. This caused
the pandemic to expand rapidly and spread to the whole world.
Why Use Such a Severe Method to Forbid People from Speaking?
When commenting that the
CCP regime headed by Xi Jinping sentenced Zhang Zhan to a heavy sentence just
because Zhang Zhan visited the Wuhan pandemic area and reported the actual
situation of the Wuhan pneumonia pandemic, Wei Jingsheng said: "That the
CCP uses such a severe method to prohibit people from speaking means it is
guilty as a thief, which shows that it is sensitive and that there is a hidden
truth behind it. This problem is very
serious. Thus the whole world reacted very
strongly to Zhang Zhan's sentence."
Critics pointed out that
the Chinese judicial organs under Xi Jinping did not even bother to persecute
Zhang Zhan on unrelated charges. The CCP
controlled prosecutors accused Zhang Zhan of publishing so-called "problematic
remarks" through Weibo, WeChat and Youtube, but neither cited Zhang Zhan’s
articles or text, nor played the Youtube video produced by Zhang Zhan.
At the same time, some
Chinese netizens complained that their social media WeChat accounts were banned
simply because they mentioned Zhang Zhan's name.
While countries in the
world, including China, are still struggling with the new coronavirus pandemic,
news of Zhang Zhan’s sentence for reporting the pandemic truth has become world
news. The United States and the European
Union demanded that the Chinese authorities immediately release Zhang Zhan.
Some analysts think that
if the Xi Jinping authorities respond to the international community’s call for
the release of Zhang Zhan, it will not only to benefit Zhang Zhan and her
family, but also to Xi Jinping himself.
Others say that the only way for Xi Jinping to escape guilt on the
pandemic is to release Zhang Zhan and rehabilitate Zhang Zhan in order to show
the international community that he is not responsible for blocking information
about the pandemic that ultimately lead to a world catastrophe.
Is It Possible for Xi Jinping to Order the Release of Zhang Zhan?
As many people think
that Xi Jinping’s release of Zhang Zhan will benefit Zhang Zhan, China, and Xi
Jinping himself, is it possible for Xi Jinping to order the release of Zhang
Zhan? Wei Jingsheng said that this issue
is not suspenseful. He said: "I
don't think it's possible, because Xi Jinping has indeed done bad things. He has indeed done a lot of shameless bad
things that could not be exposed to light.
In this case, if he releases Zhang Zhan, it is equivalent to encouraging
a lot of people who know the truth to come out to expose it. Then it would be even more difficult for Xi
to escape."
Jin Zhong, a senior Hong
Kong media person, also believes that it is impossible for Xi Jinping to order
the release of Zhang Zhan, and Xi does not care that the CCP’s judicial
authorities under his control that severely sentenced Zhang Zhan only further
confirmed to the Chinese public and the international community that Xi was the
one who ordered the blockade and downplay of the news of the pandemic. Jin said: "He is like a dead pig now,
and he is not afraid of boiling water.
He is completely shameless."
On the other hand, some
commentators pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping
authorities are not really not afraid of boiling water, but are very sensitive
to the public opinion of the Chinese people and the international community. Otherwise, the Chinese Communist Party does
not need to spend such a huge amount of manpower and resources to block
critical voices and news reports from home and abroad.
In addition, some
critics also pointed out the book "The Great Power Fights Against Pandemic
-- 2020 China's ongoing fight against the new crown pneumonia pandemic",
which has been vigorously promoted by the Chinese Communist Party's official
media and praises Xi Jinping's leadership in China's fight against the
pandemic, suddenly was taken off the bookshelves across China amidst
condemnation from China and abroad. This
situation also clearly shows that Xi Jinping and his regime are highly
sensitive to public opinion.
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Topic: Zhang Zhan's
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标题：张展的重判与习近平的困境 -- 美国之音报道
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张展的重判与习近平的困境
2020年12月31日 19:34
-- 美国之音金哲报道
华盛顿
—
因如实报道武汉肺炎疫情状况，上海前律师、公民记者张展12月28日被中国共产党一手操控的法院重判4年有期徒刑。随着张展被判重刑的消息传出，有观察家指出，以习近平为首的中共当局对张展下如此狠手实际上使习近平的独断专行导致世界性大灾难的叙事更加难以扭转。
张展如此遭毒手
武汉肺炎疫情即2019年发源于武汉后来扩散全中国和全世界、造成至今不见尽头的全球性大灾难的新型冠状病毒疫情。
在全球各国公共卫生研究者和政府公共卫生当局仍在奋力应对至今依然在大发展的疫情之际，包括中国的盟国伊朗和伊朗所仇视的美国在内的很多国家认为，中共当局在疫情发生时和发生后相当长的一段时间竭力隐瞒和淡化疫情使原本应当是中国一个地方性的公共健康危机演变为世界性的大灾难。
中共政权的独断专行封锁信息导致世界性的大灾难，这种叙事已经成为当今世界有关新型冠状病毒疫情即武汉肺炎疫情的最流行的叙事，而中共政权的独断专行则被中国国内外的众多观察家和评论家普遍认为就是习近平个人的独断专行。
张展仅仅是因为到武汉去报道了疫情实情便给以习近平为首的中共当局以寻衅滋事的罪名判刑4年的消息，这种局面似乎进一步加强了习近平在中国实行的专制独裁造成世界性大灾难的叙事。
香港媒体人金钟说：“以（张展）这个个案我们就可以看得出来（中共主导的抗疫的）整个的状况。他们现在所谓的抗疫的成功用的是一种不光彩的、非法的、不人道的、没有法治的手段，张展被捕和判刑，我看就是说明了这样的一种情况。她这么一个人，这么一个女记者，这么一个弱者，他们都敢下这样的毒手。”
中国的人权民主活动家魏京生说：“张展做了什么呢？她就是拍了一些现场的视频，然后放在网上。这个能说是什么罪行嘛？根本就谈不上。甚至都不是攻击政府。她只是拍了一些真实的情况。谁最怕说出真实的情况呢？
那就是做了坏事的人。做了坏事的那个人不光是撒谎，而且是做了坏事。”
“亲自部署、亲自指挥”意味着什么
在当今中国，中共政权宣传部门强调中国亿万民众必须定于一尊、一锤定音、所有的政府部门及其官员都要绝对服从中央即习近平指挥。此外，习近平本人也在会见世卫组织总干事谭德塞时公开声言，中国的疫情应对一直是由他本人“亲自部署、亲自指挥”。
但习近平本人以及习近平的宣传班子一直明显回避许多中国公众和国际社会关切的一个重要问题，这就是，在疫情最初发生和发展之际，也就是在最有希望将疫情控制于中国局部地区之际，究竟是谁具体下令封锁和淡化疫情消息从而导致疫情大扩散大爆发。
中国国内外的很多观察家指出，习近平本人声言他在2020年1月7日就疫情防控问题做出了具体的指示，但截至目前，中共当局以及习近平本人不知是出于什么原因或担心迟迟没有公布习近平在那一天究竟做了什么指示。
2020年1月23日，也就是在致命性武汉肺炎在中国各地迅猛扩散并引起世界各国关注之际，在人口一千多万的武汉当局宣布人类历史上规模空前的封城以制止疫情扩散几个小时之后，习近平以中国共产党中央总书记、国家主席的身份在北京举行的春节团拜会上发表讲话，不提武汉，不提封城，不提疫情。
分析人士指出，今年2020年元旦，公开宣示效忠习近平个人的中国中央电视台CCTV连续播发十多次所谓的八人因传播有关武汉肺炎疫情的谣言被公安机关训诫的消息。这种威胁性的所谓新闻发布导致全中国的医生人人自危，无人再敢谈疫情。被中共公安机关如此训诫的包括武汉医生李文亮。李文亮后来死于疫情，也就是死于中共当局所说的谣言。
中共操控的中央电视台等官方媒体在大力播发威胁公众的所谓传谣被训诫的消息的同时，也大力播发误导人的所谓的传播“正能量”的新闻，其中包括在疫情爆炸性发展的2020年1月18日武汉喜气洋洋地举办“万家宴”大型公众活动。与此同时，中共网络舆论管制部门马力全开，大力删除中国网络上成千上万的民间有关疫情消息的帖子。
2020年年初，成千上万的中国人在中共当局的这种信息封锁加误导性宣传中因不知情而中招感染病毒，导致疫情规模飞速扩大并扩散全世界。
何必用如此严厉的方法禁止人说话
在评论以习近平为首的中共政权仅仅是因为张展亲临武汉疫区报道了武汉肺炎疫情实情就将她判重判一事时，魏京生说：“你用这么严厉的方法来禁止人家说话，那就说明你是做贼心虚，说明你敏感了，说明背后有被隐藏的真相。这个问题就是很严重。也就是因此全世界对张展被判刑反应也特别强烈。”
批评者指出，习近平治下的中国司法机关以莫须有的罪名迫害张展时甚至连欲加之罪何患无辞的功夫也懒得下。中共操控的公诉人在庭审中指控张展透过微博、微信和Youtube发表所谓“有问题的言论”，但既没有列举张展的文章或文字、也没有播放张展所制播的Youtube视频。
与此同时，有中国网民抱怨说，他们的社交媒体微信账号仅仅是因为他们提到了张展的名字就被禁言。
在包括中国在内的世界各国依然在跟新型冠状病毒疫情苦斗之际，因如实报道疫情消息的张展被判刑的消息成为世界新闻。美国和欧洲联盟要求中国当局立即释放张展。
有分析家认为，习近平当局现在响应国际社会呼吁释放张展不但对张展及其家人有好处，也对习近平本人也会有好处。还有人说，在疫情问题上，习近平可能逃脱罪责的唯一途径是释放张展，公开给张展平反，以便向国际社会显示封锁有关疫情的信息从而最终导致世界性大灾难的责任不在他习近平。
习近平是否有可能下令释放张展
在许多人认为习近平释放张展，将对张展、对中国、以及对习近平本人都有好处之际，习近平是否有可能下令释放张展？魏京生表示，这个问题其实并没有悬念。他说：“我想不太可能。因为习近平确实是做了坏事，确实是做了很多见不得光、见不得人的坏事。在这种情况下，他要是释放了张展，就等于是鼓励很多看到真相的人出来揭发。那样他就更躲不过去了。”
香港资深媒体人金钟也认为，习近平不可能下令释放张展，也不在乎他操控下的中共司法当局重判张展给进一步向中国公众和国际社会坐实了他下令封锁和淡化疫情消息的猜测。金说：“他现在就是死猪不怕滚水烫，他根本就不要脸了。”
在另外一方面，有评论家指出，中共和习近平当局并不是不怕开水烫，而是对中国公众和国际社会的舆论非常敏感。否则，中共当局就不需要花费如此巨大的人力物力用于封锁来自国内外的批评性的声音和新闻报道。
此外，一些评论家还指出，得到中共官方媒体大力宣传的颂扬习近平领导中国抗疫丰功伟绩的图书《大国战“疫”——2020中国阻击新冠肺炎疫情进行中》在来自中国国内外的谴责声中突然在全中国下架，这一局面也清楚地显示了习近平及其政权对舆论的高度敏感。
美国之音报道的原始链接：
相关录音：http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2020/WeiJSonZhangZsentence201231VOAinterview.mp3
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