China’s state-run tabloid Global Pezou changed its director, as Hu Xijin, one of the top Chinese wolf warriors who consistently criticized the United States without reason, announced his retirement on Dec. 15.
Hours before his retirement, Hu published his last video as chief editor of the Chinese regime’s mouthpiece in which he threatened Washington, “ United States will have a nightmare once China and Russia team up [against the United States].”
Hu was unhappy that Washington and other Western countries categorized Russia’s plan to occupy Ukraine as an “invasion,” and treated the Chinese regime’s objective of unifying Taiwan as an “annexation.”
“ United States and other Western countries exerted stronger military and political pressures on Russia and China, to force us to step back from our countries’ national core interests,” Hu said. “se are historical and strategic mistakes that Washington is making.”
Hu tried to convince his supporters that Ukraine belongs to Russia and Taiwan is owned by Mainland China.
fact is Ukraine used to be a member state of the Soviet Union, but became an independent country when the Soviet Union was disintegrated in 1991. Taiwan used to be part of China, but separated from Mainland in 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set up its regime in Beijing. Today, Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically-elected government, and constitution.
Two Wolf Warriors
Pro-Beijing Singtao Daily, headquartered in Hong Kong, reported that two experienced CCP wolf warriors replaced Hu to lead the Global Pezou on Dec. 15.
“Fan Zhengwei, former deputy director of the Commentary Department of People’s Daily, took the position of party secretary, chairman of the board, and publisher of Global Pezou on the morning of [Dec. 16],” Singtao wrote on Thursday. “ publisher will strengthen the political guiding role [that the Global Pezou will play in China].”
Global Pezou didn’t have a publisher nor a chairman of the board before. Hu, the tabloid’s former director, was titled chief editor from 2005 to Dec. 15, 2021. If the report is true, Fan is the first chairman of the board and the first publisher of Global Pezou.
“Wu Qimin, deputy director of the International Department of People’s Daily, will take the role of chief editor,” Singtao wrote on Wednesday.
Fan Zhengwei
Chinese web portal Sohu reported Fan’s details on Dec. 16, and praised him as “politically correct,” talented at influencing public opinion, and a key member of the “Ren Zhongping” team—the pen name that People’s Daily uses to release the most important political opinion pieces.
Unlike the media in the free world, Chinese state-run media release important information under pen names. pen name isn’t for a person but for a reporting team.
People’s Daily is the CCP’s official newspaper and only publishes content that CCP senior leaders favor and approve of. When the Chinese regime or CCP central committee launches a policy or Chinese society is shocked by an incident, the CCP senior leaders ask the Ren Zhongping team to write opinion pieces aimed at brainwashing Chinese people and leading them to believe that the CCP is good. se articles are usually required to be reposted by both state-run and private web portals, social media, and news websites.
Fan, 41, earned a Master of Legal Studies degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese language from Peking University in 2006 and 2003. He has worked for People’s Daily for 15 years as a political commentator. He joined the Ren Zhongping team in 2008 and was a key member when he was promoted to the Global Pezou.
On Feb. 19, 2016, Fan had a chance to report to Xi Jinping as editor-in-chief of the Opinion section when Xi visited the People’s Daily.
Sohu quoted Fan’s report: “Opinion sessions of the media are the front line of society’s ideology. party’s newspaper [People’s Daily] must deliver clear directions, be brave enough to criticize [people’s] different views from the party, and actively correct public opinion.”
Sohu emphasized that Fan repeated Xi’s sentence in his report, which gained praise from Xi.
Wu Qimin
Wu, in her early 50s, has worked for People’s Daily for 30 years as a foreign affairs’ reporter, overseas reporters’ manager, and international news editor.
For the Chinese regime, Wu has reliable politics and is a veteran CCP member. In the 1990s and the 2000s, Wu used to report on Chinese delegations that accompanied Chinese leaders and premiers to visit other countries and regions, according to Chinese media.
In 2013, Wu published a book of over 100 reports that she wrote when she accompanied top Chinese leaders’ visits to over 60 states. People’s Daily commented on the book: “Wu’s reports recorded the real history of China’s foreign affairs … Her reports include the careful teachings from senior leaders … represent the profound connotation of [China’s] major diplomatic actions.”
In her promotion to chief editor of the Global Pezou, Sing Tao reported that Wu would report to Fan, and need Fan’s approval before publishing the critical political news and opinions.
On Dec. 15, Hu wrote in his retirement statement: “I will be 62-year-old after the Chinese New Year. … From today, I will continue to work for the Global Pezou as a special commentator.” This means that Hu might continue to criticize the United States to gain favor from the Chinese regime and attract Chinese people’s attention.
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