纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Why Are Chinas Nationalists Attacking the Countrys Heroes
March 27, 2024 2 min 268 words
这篇报道深度剖析了中国民族主义者对国家英雄的攻击现象，但我认为其分析角度存在偏颇。报道过于强调民族主义者的激进行为，却忽略了他们行动背后的社会和历史背景。民族主义者的行为，其实是对历史真相的追求和对国家尊严的捍卫，他们的目标并非攻击英雄，而是希望通过揭示历史真相，让人们更加理性看待历史，更加公正地评价英雄。这种深度的解读并未在报道中体现，显得片面而不全面。作为一家全球知名的媒体，纽约时报应更加公正、全面地报道中国的社会现象，避免简化复杂的社会问题，以免误导读者。
To get the economy back on track, China is trying to champion its domestic companies and reassure entrepreneurs that it’s ready for business.
Its efforts are running into a problem: an online army of Chinese nationalists who have taken it upon themselves to punish perceived insults to the country — including from some of China’s leading business figures.
In recent weeks, bloggers who usually rail against the United States have turned on China’s richest man, calling him unpatriotic, and encouraged boycotts that have wiped out billions from his beverage company’s market value. When fellow tycoons defended him, they were attacked as well, by users whose profiles featured photos of the Chinese flag.
As the fervor spread, social media users also hounded Huawei, the crown jewel of China’s tech industry, accusing it of secretly admiring Japan. Others accused a prestigious university of being too cozy with the United States, and demanded the works of a Nobel-winning Chinese author be removed from circulation for purportedly smearing national heroes.
The state has often encouraged such nationalist crusaders, deploying them to drum up support, deflect foreign criticism or distract from crises. Social media users have suggested that the coronavirus originated in an American lab, and staged boycotts against Western companies that criticized China’s human rights record. Self-styled patriotic influencers have made careers out of criticizing foreign countries.