According to the findings from a so-called random survey conducted by the China Central Television (CCTV) on the issue of China’s falsification practices during the Olympics, 80 percent of the interviewees thought that it was “understandable” since it was good for the “national interest” and “national image.”
When interviewed by CCTV, Zhang Yimou, the director of the opening ceremonies, said that he was indeed moved by the song, even though he did know that another child had actually sung it.
There has even been a book written, by Christopher A. Shaw, entitled “Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games.”
An American asked me, “Don’t they know that it is no good? Didn’t they know that it is lying to others?” This same U.S. citizen once defended the practice of counterfeiting in China, saying, “It is a state in the process of economic development.” However, he felt dubious this time, as he thought that the falsification practices wouldn’t do any good to China.
Falsification Training
Confronted with the questions raised by this fan of China, I had nothing to do but to tell him a true story by way of explanation:
In China, students are trained to be dishonest since kindergarten, and this trait is reinforced in the form of examinations. Therefore, almost everyone in China is able to tell lies with ease. The reason why Chinese people are so composed while lying is because of the falsification training.
In fact, the falsification practices employed in the Olympics are pale before the Chinese Communist regime’s behaviors. Consider, for instance, a special protest zone set up during the Olympics. Not only was not even a single protest application approved, but the myth of the protest zone was used as an initiative by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to entrap and arrest dissidents or anyone with a grievance.
Wang Wei, vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), said that the protest zone was “one step further for China to open up” and a “very good gesture.” It was simply an empty gesture, an overt conspiracy. Since the foreign reporters present were not familiar with the evil nature of the CCP, they turned to officials of the BOCOG for the reasons to have these practices of entrapment and arrest. Those sophisticated officials in Beijing rebuked the reporters with “Don’t think you must be clever.”
These Beijing officials were right. Not only are these foreign reporters not aware, but they were uninformed or naive to believe in the promises made by the CCP. Although the CCP would like the Chinese people to live in the “dream world” it has created, no Chinese people I know would believe in its words.
A Dream of the Red Massions, one of the four most revered works of classic Chinese literature, depicts a feudal family saga that involves more than 400 characters and a wide range of social customs of the time during the late Qing Dynasty. The surname of the large noble family was “Jia,” a homophone with another Chinese character “Jia,” which means false, fake, fictitious, deceitful, or sham. As a poem says in the book, “The Hsuehs in their affluence are so rich and grand, gold is like iron to them and pearls like sand.” It is evident that luxury often comes with fake. In fact, the Beijing Olympics turned out to be a fake mask created by the CCP. However, “when false is taken for true, true becomes false.” In the end, the true and false cannot be differentiated, and eventually, the CCP itself becomes the victim of the falsification practiced by it own.
The Chinese nation was founded upon the principles of humanity, justice, propriety, wisdom, and faith. However, much to people’s humiliation, the Chinese communist regime uses falsification practices as its foundation! If ancient sages knew of the faking scandals, they definitely would be ashamed of those who claim to be their descendants and act in the name of the Chinese people.
The article was first published in Issue 84 of the New Epoch Weekly.
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