Internet is most important ideological battlefront: Xi
Beijing: The internet is the most important front in China's ideological battle against"Western anti-China forces",newspaper said yesterday,adding that online controls were essential to the government's survival.
Calls to reject Western thought and values have grown stronger under President Xi Jinping, who has urged more "ideological guidance" at universities and the study of Marxism.
Like many officials before him, Mr. Xi is steeped in the long-held belif of the ruling Communist Party that loosening control could bring chaos and the break-up of China. China must defend its "sovereignty" in cyberspace with ideological purity, or "the public will be led astray by the enemy," the People's Liberation Army Daily said in a commentary re-post on the website of Seeking Truth, a leading Communist Party journal. "Western hostile forces, as well as a few 'ideological traitors' in our country, are using the internet on their computers and mobile phones to viciously attack our party," it added. "The fundamental purpose is to use 'universal values' to confuse us and 'constitutional democracy' to disturb us.
The Communist Party has long railed against Western values, including concepts such as multi-party democracy, judicial independence and universal human rights.
The commentary called for a massive "Red Army" of "seed-planters and propaganda teams" to defend the "online Great Wall". REUTERS
Internet is most important ideological battlefront: XiBeijing: The internet is the most important front in China's ideological battle against"Western anti-China forces",newspaper said yesterday,adding that online controls were essential to the government's survival.Calls to reject Western thought and values have grown stronger under President Xi Jinping, who has urged more "ideological guidance" at universities and the study of Marxism.Like many officials before him, Mr. Xi is steeped in the long-held belif of the ruling Communist Party that loosening control could bring chaos and the break-up of China. China must defend its "sovereignty" in cyberspace with ideological purity, or "the public will be led astray by the enemy," the People's Liberation Army Daily said in a commentary re-post on the website of Seeking Truth, a leading Communist Party journal. "Western hostile forces, as well as a few 'ideological traitors' in our country, are using the internet on their computers and mobile phones to viciously attack our party," it added. "The fundamental purpose is to use 'universal values' to confuse us and 'constitutional democracy' to disturb us.The Communist Party has long railed against Western values, including concepts such as multi-party democracy, judicial independence and universal human rights.The commentary called for a massive "Red Army" of "seed-planters and propaganda teams" to defend the "online Great Wall". REUTERS
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