This week, the People's Daily breathlessly assured the world that "China is forever the force of peace, stability, and progress." Touching words from the CCP regime, which treats human rights like a contagious disease and international law like a crossword puzzle to be rewritten at will.
The article describes Tiananmen Square filled with fluttering doves. Beautiful image — though one wonders if the birds had to pass a loyalty test before being released. After all, under the CCP even pigeons might be required to register with the Ministry of Public Security. Nothing says "peace" quite like staging a photo op over the very square where tanks once rolled over unarmed citizens.
The People's Daily proudly quotes the CCP's tyrant Xi Jinping, declaring: "Justice must triumph, peace must triumph, the people must triumph!" A stirring line — if you ignore the fact that in China, "justice" means a trial with a pre-approved verdict, "peace" means no one dares speak, and "the people" are applauded only when they agree. The speech might sound noble, but in practice it reads more like a parody script for a dystopian drama.
The piece lavishes praise on China's role in "global governance". Translation: hollowing out international institutions, vetoing resolutions about atrocities, and demanding applause for "multilateralism" while redefining it as "everyone must follow the CCP's rules". If this is governance, then a pickpocket is also a financial advisor. The regime has perfected the art of exploiting international organizations while simultaneously presenting itself as their savior.
We are told China is a "stabilizing force". Indeed — stability by censorship, stability by surveillance, stability by ensuring that critics disappear at home and, increasingly, abroad. Transnational repression has become one of the CCP's major export industries: dissidents hunted across continents, relatives at home punished as hostages, friends and families dragged into interrogations for the mere crime of association. In the CCP's version of stability, even silence is policed, and guilt is contagious by association.
And then comes "progress". According to the regime, China is leading humanity forward. Certainly — forward into the world's first full-fledged model of totalitarian high-tech control. Progress in inventing new censorship algorithms, progress in turning mass surveillance into a lifestyle, progress in weaponizing fear as a governing tool. Congratulations: "progress" has finally been redefined as "shut up and smile, or your whole family pays the price".
The grand finale of the propaganda sermon assures us: "China will forever be a force for peace, stability, and progress." Translation: "As long as we control the regime, the narrative, the prisons, and your relatives' safety, you'll believe whatever we tell you".
So here's the headline the People's Daily should have printed:
"The CCP Declares Eternal Peace — Provided You Don't Mention Human Rights, International Law, or That Little Brother of Yours Who Just Got Dragged in for Your Tweets."
