CNN Expresses the Dark Psychology of Some Americans

The official website for America’s Cable News Network (CNN) published an article a few days ago commenting on the Monday incident at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, in which a Jeep vehicle ran over pedestrians and crashed into the Jinshui Bridge. The article looks back at the Chinese government’s “oppression” of the Uighur people of Xinjiang. Moreover, it questions the Chinese police’s determination of the nature of this event and openly raises the question, was this event, after all, a “well-prepared terrorist act or a hastily assembled cry of desperation from a people on the extreme margins of the Chinese state’s monstrous development machine”?

CNN has really gone too far this time. Western media often uses interviews with Rabiye Qadir and other leading figures of the East Turkestan Liberation Organization (ETLO), borrowing their voices to express sympathy and support for violent Xinjiang terrorists. The author of this CNN report is an assistant professor at America’s George Washington University. The article is given prominence on the website, directly voicing CNN’s opinion.

We believe this article reflects the views and attitudes of many Americans. But even if they do think this way, it is extremely vile to demonstrate the views of American society through this mainstream method.

Actually, in the years after 9/11, some Chinese people felt very happy. Around Chinese citizens’ dinner tables, there were many that praised bin Laden’s reasoning; some people even called him a “modern-day Robin Hood.” However, no Chinese media turned this attitude into a published article. Mainstream Chinese media all severely censured al-Qaida’s wicked conduct, standing resolutely and sympathetically on the side of the American government and people.

Although each nation has its own interests and large nations are in competition, we believe when it comes to terrorism, all lovers of peace and global justice should unite their attack. When creating double standards on the matter of terrorism, terrorism will inflict losses; to inflict losses upon others, especially competitors, is precisely the attacker’s “cry of desperation.” If everyone did this, it would only push humanity’s political civilization backwards.

As for “desperation” and “hate”: Has there ever been any suicide terrorist incident without any? Did those al-Qaida members attacking the U.S. and Europe not have any? Or did that Palestinian female suicide bomber who attacked Israel not have any? But without the brainwashing influence of religious extremism, how is one supposed to take the evil of slaughtering innocent civilians as the work of “justice” or even “holy war,” executed by those fanatical attackers?

Between civilizations, nationalities and ethnic groups, from ancient times until today, there has always existed a certain degree of estrangement. So far, no society’s administration has thoroughly settled this issue. Western society is absolutely not a model in this respect. Ethnic conflict breaks out from time to time within America and Europe, while Western civilization’s conflicts with the rest of the world have been especially severe.

Some of the Western elite have targeted Russia, China and other such nations on the terrorism issue by setting a double standard. This has absolutely no benefit to global counterterrorism; moreover, it doesn’t achieve its goal of befuddling Russia and China. Westerners should have some self-perception; were there any large nation with a true tolerance for terrorism, then public opinion would be presented in a much more powerful way whenever terrorist attacks do occur.

CNN really couldn’t help posting that kind of unscrupulous article; they needed to stop for a moment and vent their mood which takes pleasure in others’ misfortune. But according to the experience of civilized society, this kind of act may make one complacent for a time, but all in all one will certainly come out behind. CNN, for example, did not only lose its reputation among Chinese audiences; they also hurt the image of the entire American society.

After the Tiananmen Jinshui Bridge incident, French President Francois Hollande promptly denounced this act of terrorism, expressing sympathy for the victims’ families. In a moment, he won France a special feeling among the Chinese people. In contrast, CNN’s expression of the “American mind” is increasingly unsuited to that nation’s superpower status. CNN allows one to see an America currently being overtaken by a dark psychology.

A few days ago, a child appeared on U.S. television network ABC advocating “killing all the Chinese.” Not many days ago, the CNN website again spoke in defense of the Tiananmen incident’s violent terrorists. There is something we should say to the American media: Please have some dignity.