On Monday Oct. 24, the program Network News Broadcast on CCTV (China Central Television) aired a 2-minute Chinese-language video entitled, “International Voices: 20th CPC National Congress promotes world peace and development,” featuring brief excerpts from interviews with various international experts. The first 1.5 minutes featured Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Former President of the Philippines; Francesco Maringiò, President of the Italy-China Promotion Association of the New Silk Road; Suos Yara, First Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Cambodian People’s Party. All expressed in various ways their appreciation for the global leadership role which China is playing in the world – as one put it – at a time of great tensions, such as in Ukraine and the Taiwan Strait, you show how to renew peaceful economic growth. Another stressed the importance of China’s BRI and Global Security Initiative.
The video ended with a 20-second clip quoting “the Schiller Institute expert in Canada,” Robert Hux: “President Xi Jinping is right when he said in his report to the 20th National Congress report that the world is going through unprecedented changes that require a renewed commitment to peace and development. And over the last decade, China has become the most essential factor of stability in the strategic situation. Since China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, developing countries have a well-founded hope of overcoming poverty and underdevelopment. And since poverty is one of the most severe human rights violations, China must be recognized as having contributed more to protecting human rights than any other country on the planet.”
