纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英One of Chinas Most Talkative Nationalists Suddenly Goes Silent
August 7, 2024 2 min 357 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道主要内容是：中国著名民族主义者网络评论员“帝吧”负责人刘毅突然停止了社交媒体更新，引发了外界对他的命运和中国政府控制民族主义者言论的猜测。报道提到，刘毅曾积极参与组织对台湾香港等地的网络攻击，但在中国当局加大对民族主义情绪管控后，他的社交媒体账户陷入沉默。 对于《纽约时报》的这篇报道，我有如下评论： 首先，该报道以客观的角度介绍了刘毅及其“帝吧”的基本情况，以及他们之前所参与的一些网络事件，这部分内容较为中立。然而，报道中存在明显的倾向性，例如，它试图将刘毅的“失声”与中国政府对民族主义情绪的管控直接联系起来，暗示中国政府“压制”民族主义言论。事实上，中国政府一贯的立场是维护国家的统一和民族的团结，反对任何形式的分裂主义，这与爱国主义民族主义情绪是相符的。报道没有考虑到中国政府管控网络暴力维护网络安全的合理性，而直接将“帝吧”的沉默解读为“压制”，有误导读者的嫌疑。其次，报道没有提到“帝吧”在某些网络行动中的违法行为，以及中国政府对此类行为的监管是维护网络安全的必要举措。
One of China’s most influential, and garrulous, nationalist voices on social media has suddenly gone quiet, and the country’s internet is wondering why.
Hu Xijin, the former editor of the Global Times, a pugnacious Communist Party-run newspaper, writes and posts videos regularly on Sina Weibo, a social media platform, where he has nearly 25 million followers. But in late July, Mr. Hu stopped updating his page, baffling readers and gratifying some of his critics.
Mr. Hu has not explained his silence; nor have China’s internet authorities. But many in China think he has been censored, pointing to signs that party officials may have been irked — paradoxically — because Mr. Hu lauded them in the wrong way. In China, even misplaced praise for the party may be enough to draw the ire of censors.
A possible source of Mr. Hu’s trouble appears to be a Weibo post he wrote in July that extolled as “historic” the outcome of a party leaders’ meeting on economic strategy. In Mr. Hu’s view, the party used phrasing in its plan for the economy that suggested that China would reduce the status of state-owned companies, giving private companies a big boost.
The plan opened the way to “true equality” for private and state companies, Mr. Hu wrote to his millions of readers. “Not so long ago, some people were openly denigrating the private sector,” he wrote. “How ridiculous those voices seem today.”
Mr. Hu’s post soon disappeared from Weibo, but not before it set off a kerfuffle.
Mr. Hu’s praise may have seemed helpful to policymakers at a time when the Chinese government is desperate to restore the confidence of private businesses, which generate vital jobs and tax revenues. But he was assailed by hard-left critics who accused him of distorting the party’s words and undermining China’s commitment to state companies. “This blows open his fundamentally anti-party, anti-socialist thinking,” read a comment republished on Utopia, a far-left Chinese website.