Reporters without Borders publishes an annual Press Freedom Index, and China ranked 177th out of 180 countries in its 2020 rankings. Most other major media outlet are state-run, too, and the ones that aren’t are still heavily regulated by the CCP.

People’s Daily is not just the largest state-run media outlet. Let us consider, however, how such an incident realistically plays out in Mainland China. The vast majority of protestors were peaceful, and the police did and do engage in brutal tactics that must be condemned. I am in no way suggesting that these isolated incidents of violence invalidate the protests at large. This post was then reposted over 8.7 million times, and one of these reposts was from Liu Yifei. In a video that would later go viral in China, he is heard saying, “I support the Hong Kong police, you can beat me up now.” He soon ended up in the hospital as well, and People’s Daily jumped on the propaganda opportunity and quoted these words. He was detained for over 4 hours before security and paramedics finally got past the mob and carried Xu out on a stretcher.įu Guohao was detained and beaten by protestors at HK International | CNNįu Guohao was the second man to be detained. With no evidence, they detained him, and a number of protestors punched and kicked him until he was unconscious, some continuing to do so even afterwards. On this day, protestors grabbed a 23-year-old Chinese man named Xu, accusing him of being an undercover police officer. What most Western articles also omit is that the original post by People’s Daily is itself a quote from reporter Fu Guohao, who was assaulted and detained by protestors at Hong Kong International Airport on August 13, 2019, the day before Liu Yifei retweeted these words. As an addendum to the retweet, she has added the hashtag #我也支持香港警察, which translates to “I also support the Hong Kong police.” Most Western news articles seem to omit this detail in their reporting. We can see that she’s actually “retweeting” a post from 人民日报 (People’s Daily), the largest news outlet in Mainland China.

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