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After losing face in Ladakh, China is desperate to look strong in Taiwan and it’s using Hollywood visuals to prove it
Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra, 21 September 2020.
Having been beaten black and blue continuously by the Indian Army since June, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which is a personal militia of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has ramped up its propaganda operations, since evidently, these are the only ones which they can carry out successfully. As per latest reports, China is looking to distract attention of the international community from Ladakh and the extremely hot Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India, to the South China Sea and Taiwan, while also activating its military theatre commands which face the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
To showcase itself as a formidable military force, the PLA is now taking to outright plagiarism, with no shame whatsoever. As per an SCMP report, the PLA’s publicity team, which seems to have a disproportionate obsession with Hollywood films, has released a propaganda film showing the PLA Air Force bombing an American military base in the Pacific. Several of the scenes in the new video produced for the PLA Air Force – showing a simulated bombing exercise on an American military base in the Pacific region – look like they were lifted directly from the 2008 Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker and the 1996 action-thriller The Rock.
In the film released on Saturday, H-6K long-range bombers are shown flying from bases in western China to the Pacific, where they drop their payloads on a naval base that has a striking resemblance to the US facility on the island of Guam. Military sources told SCMP that it was not new for the Chinese military to ‘borrow’ scenes from Hollywood films for propaganda purposes in China, revealing also, “Almost all of the officers in the department grew up watching Hollywood movies, so in their minds, American war films have the coolest images.”
The plagiarised propaganda film on the part of the Chinese was necessitated due to the utter lack of face which they are being made to suffer by India in Eastern Ladakh, especially along the tense Pangong Tso Lake, where, over the past three weeks, the Indian Army has carried out pre-emptive and swift operations to secure dominating heights, directly overlooking the PLA troops and their camps, thus pushing them into an extremely disadvantageous position. To add to China’s woes, India has also recently secured six new dominating heights, including the Magar hill, Gurung Hill, Recehen La, Rezang La, Mokhpari and the dominating height over Chinese positions near Finger 4.
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Gautam