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Since the end of April, two scholars have been investigated by their universities for "inappropriate remarks ". They had both been Weibo forwarded by Fang Fang before being report. by netizens
Many worry that not only does this show that china's otherwise cramped freedom of speech space continues to be compressed, but report bottom-up behavior could spread further in chinese society.
Cost of support parties
A letter from the official Weibo of Hubei University on April 26 said the school had set up an investigation team to "seriously deal with" the findings of the investigation, as netizens reported that Liang Yanping, a professor of literature at the school, had made "inappropriate remarks" on a personal social media platform.
An official Weibo of Hainan University posted a post on April 30 saying that a netizen reflected that Wang Xiaoni, a retired teacher of the school, had Weibo made "improper remarks" and that the school had set up a special working group to verify it.
During the new crown epidemic, nationalism became a weapon of Chinese government, and it also infiltrated the people.
Both professors came to the public's attention after Fangfang recently forwarded their Weibo. "As a writer in an epidemic area, Fang's questioning is the pursuit of a sense of mission, the pursuit of a conscience, and the pursuit of a critic ," said Liang, who has published an article in support of Fang and his diary,. A normal society, without the sound of criticism is terrible ". Wang Xiaoni in Fang Fang forwarded her comments on China's "Xinmin Weekly" Weibo attacked Fang Fang and Liang Yanping after being locked in netizens.
Fang Fang has been criticized by nationalists for "betraying national interests" for his work "Wuhan diary 》 published overseas" for many days.
Ms. liang's Time line post in tribute to the memory of zhou zile, a college student who died in hong kong demonstration last year, was turned out by netizens, accusing her of "hong kong independence" and "fine day" according to her repeated remarks related to japan in the Weibo. They also used big data to analyze the frequency of her Weibo posting over the past few years, the number of "harmonious" Weibo forwarded, and the interaction with other users to sort out a large amount of "report" information. Wang Xiaoni has been accused of "Taiwan independence "." for past posting on Weibo a note from a student in TW 2014 year's" Sunflower movement "
Liang Yanping Weibo page does not show any text, Wang Xiaoni has also emptied Weibo..
Nationalism under the Outbreak
Many in report Weibo comments by liang and wang xiaoni have called them "eating the pot ", a term that has become more frequent in recent years as china's conservative nationalists confront foreign influence.
This theory was mentioned in Xi Jinping 2014 when talking about ideological work, Xi Jinping at that time it was stated that "eating Communist Party food and smashing Communist Party pots" must not be allowed. Since then, the accusation has been cited in beijing's criticism of the kong's democratic movement and TW issues.
During the new crown epidemic, china struggled to turn the initial strong domestic momentum of accountability into a positive public opinion offensive, nationalism became a weapon of government, but also continued to infiltrate the folk. With the outbreak of cases outside China and other countries' pursuit of China's responsibility theory, from the official to the private, Chinese nationalism is rising. The cctv's "news broadcast" column has been criticizing for several days us Secretary of State ponpeo, who claimed the outbreak originated in wuhan laboratory, saying he "broke through the bottom line of life ". Chinese diplomats in many countries accused local government of mishandling the epidemic, triggering condemnation in nearly 20 countries, but won much praise at home.
Fang and her supporters face greater pressure in this context. "The cyberattacks of Chinese nationalists are much stronger than they used to be ," Maria Repnikova (Maria Repnikova), an assistant professor at Georgia State University, told The British Broadcasting Corporation Chinese. "We see that China's propaganda offensive is very intense, which in times of crisis will render these arbitrary sentiments to some extent, especially in the context of this epoch-making crisis, where China has changed from a domestic tragedy to an international winner in a sense, thus making nationalist behaviour more and more fragmented. "
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This attack on Fang Fang and her supporters saw in it signs of a resurgence of practices in the "cultural revolution ""of the 1960s (pictured on a wall in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution).
A report of the wind
During this attack on Fang and her supporters, some have seen signs of a resurgence of practices in the Great Cultural revolution "of the 1960s.
According to the online circulation of mid photo ,4 month, a "big print" aimed at Fang Fang appeared in the center of Wuhan City. A person claiming to be a "peasant in the country" wrote on the paper that Fang Fang "enjoyed the benefits and benefits of the state system, but did serious harm to the country ", and asked her to" cut her hair to the sake of thank her ", otherwise she would be "attacked ".
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"While there are online trials everywhere, under China, a regime that lacks effective law safeguards to freedom of speech, allowing Internet users to selectively target'politicians' is bound to create unprecedented populism ," he told The British Broadcasting Corporation.
Neither professor has publicly commented on the investigation, but many chinese internet users still complain about their plight, fearing that china's already tiny space for comment could be further compressed.
"Think of Cai Gong's" freedom of thought, compatibility and inclusion ", what is the university? "A comment in the Weibo review column of Hubei University's announcement of an investigation into Liang Yanping wrote that the most popular one was.
"After the outbreak, we didn't wait to hold key officials in Hubei and Wuhan accountable, but we waited for a university teacher, a scholar professor to be pulled out and criticized online. Five years ago, I wouldn't believe anyone who told me parliament went this way. Another Weibo user commented.
But in the face of growing international distrust of China, Shen Xuhui warned that the phenomenon has the risk of "wiping a gun off fire ". "The lack of effective oversight mechanisms in China and the ease with which nationalism is overheated are also worrying at a time of international tension ," he said.
