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The Truth Behind a Chinese Patriotic Film

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The Truth Behind a Chinese Patriotic Film
Cinema employees sell Haagen-Dazs ice cream as the movie poster of “The Battle at Lake Changjin" is seen in a cinema in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on Oct. 2, 2021. Getty Images
Tang Jingyuan
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has set off another wave of patriotism and anti-Americanism through the release of a film that greatly distorts the historical truth of a battle.

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There are two focal points of the hype around this film titled “The Battle at Lake Changjin.”
Tang Jingyuan
Tang Jingyuan
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Tang Jingyuan is the web director of New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV). He is a China affairs specialist and a senior commentator and columnist for NTDTV, English NTD, The Epoch Times, and Sound of Hope. With a medical professional background, he has followed news of COVID-19 from the start of the epidemic. He has paid close attention to tracking the source of the COVID-19 virus. He is one of the main scriptwriters for the documentary “Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus,” which has been viewed over 80 million times on Facebook and YouTube. He recently launched his own political commentary channel on YouTube, “Vision Express” (遠見快評).
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