A member of Beijing’s political advisory body proposed creating a blacklist of pro-Taiwan Independence figures and a “special operation” in Taiwan targeting the individuals on the list to promote “unification” at all costs.
Terrorist Propaganda
On March 4, essayist and blogger Zhou Xiaoping, a newly appointed delegate, proposed to create an execution list, the “Taiwan Separatists Blacklist,” and punish the separatists during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing.The CPPCC was said to have adopted the proposal, according to Zhou in his Weibo post.
Alan H. Yang, executive director of the Taiwan–Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF), characterized Zhou’s comments as those of a terrorist and criticized his proposal as being terrorism.
He also called on the public to safeguard Taiwan’s civil and orderly democracy.
“Free expression is limited to trampling on the lives, security, and peace of others,” and Zhou’s remarks are a violation of “international laws and universal values of mankind and civilization,” Yang said to the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times on March 5.
The United Front ‘Flower Vase’
Feng Chongyi, associate professor of China studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been manipulating populism and relying on public figures such as Zhou to brainwash and fool the populace.The 41-year-old Zhou is best known as the “Big 50 Cent,” a pro-CCP and anti-West blogger.
Feng said that Zhou earned his publicity with his ideological posts, which earned material rewards from the CCP.
His posts provide the CCP with convenient propaganda. The overseas pro-CCP members would advocate Zhou’s online posts as the mainlanders’ “public opinion;” the CCP would then import the overseas agents’ comments back to China and touted them as “praise from the international arena,” according to Feng.
“Together, they control Chinese cyberspace,” Feng said.
Chinese netizens mocked his writings as vulgar and rubbish. In 2018, he resigned from the association.
Chinese netizens believe this post was how he pleased the high leadership and earned his new title.