How Chinese Media Systematically Lies About the Police

The purported exploits of China’s officers are recorded in bombastic diction and overwrought detail.
How Chinese Media Systematically Lies About the Police
A cartoon image of the "Beijing Internet Police" are seen on a computer screen in China, reminding Internet users they're being watched. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Juliet Song
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Skimming through news articles in Chinese publications, it’s hard not to notice a trend emerging out of the average: the superb quality of China’s police force.

The purported exploits, from ordinary acts of kindness to detective triumphs of extraordinary merit, of these tireless “uncle policemen,” as they are known to Chinese, are recorded in bombastic diction and overwrought detail.

In this file photo paramilitary police march through Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Nov. 7, 2012. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
In this file photo paramilitary police march through Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Nov. 7, 2012. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
Juliet Song
Juliet Song
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Juliet Song is an international correspondent exclusively covering China news for NTD. She primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus," covering U.S.-China relations, the Chinese regime's human rights abuses, and domestic unrest inside China.