Kathmandu. China Media Group (CMG) seriously objected over a content of The Kathmandu Post as an attempt to demoralize Chairman Mao Zedong and blasted it as an insult to the Chinese people, their sovereignty and the Peoples’ Republic of China herself.
On Tuesday, Zhang Yue, Chief of Nepal Office of the China Media Group (CMG), a government media house of China, made her concern over the content published on The Kathmandu Post on February 18 and had described it as an attempt to insult China, Chinese People, and their sovereignty by issuing a social media statement and a video message separately in the name of the editor of the aforementioned media.
Zhang Yue, popularly known as Barsha in Nepal and working for a long time in the country for Nepali Service of the China Radio International (CRI) said, “the article entitled ‘China’s secrecy has made the coronavirus crisis much worse’ and published on February 18 has made all the Chinese people an insult.
In an obvious attempt to insult China and Chairman Mao Zedong – the Great Chinese leader, founder of the Peoples’ Republic of China, a globally respected Communist leader and a great teacher of the proletariat class and working people of world, The Kathmandu Post had used a manipulated photograph in the article by pasting a blue-mask on the face of the photo of Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed on the currency note of one hundred RMB.
Dancing with the tune of the western media, The Kathmandu Post published the concerned article on Tuesday as a previously published material of the Korea Herald from South Korea, even though it was originally published in the Chicago Tribune from the USA. However, none of the media had included the photo published by The Kathmandu Post for the article of Ivo Daalder, who is the President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a former US ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Pointing to this, Ms Zhang Yue ‘Barsha’ wrote, “the attempt of insult lies more on the published photo rather than the content of the article which was already published in the foreign media”. Stating that China has high respect for her Great Leader, Ms Barsha said the masked photo of the Chairman Mao Zedong on the Chinese currency note of 100 Yuan had insulted the Chinese sovereignty and China herself seriously.
With her fluency in the spoken and written Nepali language, Ms. Zang Yue stated that after the outbreak of the Novel coronavirus, not only the Chinese people but most of the people around the world have used mask for their safety as appealed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and urged the editor of The Kathmandu Post that if they need any photo of a Chinese person wearing a mask, she could give it to them for free or they can search from the internet as many as they wished for.
CMG Nepal Chief Zhang Yue told the editor of the media that an insult of the Great Leader of Modern China was an attempt to thwart the friendly relation between Nepal and China and insult China and her people at the same time. She also reminded that Chinese people love and respect Nepal and Nepalese people and always stood by their side at the time of disasters and supported them as much they could do.
Ms. Barsha strongly pointed out The Kathmandu Post mistake and clearly mentioned that such an act of spreading rumours to the world like western media is never acceptable to the Chinese people, and demanded an immediate apology for the same from the concerned media.
