[Compile/Observer Network Guo Han]

An independent organization in the United States that monitors media news reports found that although street demonstrations occurred frequently around the world this year, the mainstream media in the United States "took extra care" of Hong Kong and spared no effort to favor the demonstrators and ignore the violence they created.

On December 6th, an American non-profit organization named FAIR revealed that compared with other countries and regions, the mainstream media in the United States used a disproportionate amount of space to report the demonstrations in Hong Kong.

Screenshot of FAIR website "When people all over the world take to the streets, the (American) media only pay attention to Hong Kong"

The organization was founded in 1986, headquartered in new york, with a left-wing position. Its goal is to supervise the accuracy, bias and audit of American media reports, and call for the split of large media companies.

The article believes that these media companies build a stereotype by reporting a lot and covering up the shady details of the demonstrators, that is, "a group of Hong Kong people who are democratic are fighting Beijing for freedom."

Therefore, this paper counts the number of times that The New York Times and CNN reported street demonstrations in Hong Kong, China, Ecuador, Haiti and Chile. These two media are chosen because they are the most representative and good at setting the agenda in print and TV media.

Since the start time of protests in different countries and regions is different, it ends on November 22, 2019 statistically. The reporting time on Hong Kong lasted for eight months, from October when protests broke out in Ecuador and Chile to July last year in Haiti.

As far as the total number is concerned, the two media reported 737 articles on Hong Kong (325 in New Times and 412 in CNN), 12 in Ecuador, 28 in Haiti and 36 in Chile. The number of reports on Hong Kong is nearly 10 times that of other topics.

The New York Times and CNN reported on the demonstrations in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region far more than the screenshots of other countries and regions:FAIR

Although the duration of demonstrations in different regions is different, it is impossible to generalize, but comparing the reports in the same period can still support this conclusion.

For example, October 3-14 is the most intense period of street protests in Ecuador. During the period,"New Time" only published 6 related reports, and CNN3 articles; However, the two media reported 33 and 38 articles on Hong Kong respectively in the same period.

Since the demonstration broke out in Chile on October 4,New Time and CNN reported 14 times and 22 times respectively; In the same period, there were 59 and 92 reports on Hong Kong respectively.

It must be pointed out that many reports on the demonstrations in the above three countries are classified as "protests around the world", and sometimes only one or two sentences are mentioned in each article. CNN has only two special reports on Ecuador, and half of its reports on Haiti are concerned about the impact of demonstrations on American citizens.

But when it comes to Hong Kong, most of them are long exclusive reports. This has not included articles such as demonstrations affecting Asian stock markets.

New york’s report on street demonstrations in Chile with photo: Reuters

On the other hand, the difference in the number of reports between Hong Kong and the other three countries is so obvious that it cannot be understood according to the scale of the protests or the degree of the means of maintaining stability by powerful departments.

For example, a week after the demonstration, eight people have died in Ecuador. The United Nations has confirmed that 42 people have been killed in protests in Haiti in the past two months. Chilean right-wing President Piniella simply sent tanks to the streets, and the military arrested more than 26,000 people, during which 26 people died.

In contrast, no one died because of the law enforcement of the Hong Kong police. Over the past six months, a student accidentally fell off the building, and another 70-year-old cleaner, Rob, was hit by a stone from a demonstrator and died unfortunately.

When reporting on Hong Kong, the language of the two media is also very "Be particularThe negative words used to describe demonstrators in Ecuador, Haiti and Chile are rarely used in Hong Kong. And we should highlight the so-called "democratic" characteristics of the latter and ignore its violent behavior.

For example, CNN reported on August 30 and October 15, and New Times reported on October 15 and November 21, all of them described the thugs who created violence and destruction on the streets of Hong Kong as "pro-democracy demonstrators".

However, street demonstrators in Chile who have similar behaviors have become "robbery and arson" and "riots" in the mouth of the two media. "Violent demonstrations swept through Quito (the capital of Ecuador) … The demonstrators took military members hostage."

Screenshot The New York Times

The article points out that even if it is actually very appropriate, such words are rarely used in Hong Kong’s demonstrators. Apart from causing damage, they even lit gasoline on a dissident citizen in broad daylight, leaving him in a coma for 10 days.

In a report on November 17th, The New York Times used a passive tone to lightly describe that a police officer was shot in the leg by a mob bow and arrow, and did not forget to emphasize that "the demonstrators were’ resisting’ the police attack’".

Even after reporting that mobs made and intended to use "hundreds of incendiary bombs", the newspaper still called them "pro-democracy activists" in the article.

On October 17, CNN also announced a gas tank-sized mob homemade bomb, and got news that they planned to attack the police with it. The shape of this bomb is very similar to the bomb used in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.

The article questioned whether CNN and New Times would continue to call them "pro-democracy activists" if members of organizations such as "Black Life Expensive" and "Antifa" used such bombs to attack the police.

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Perspective on the change of future war development

■ Li Yuxi Liu Heshan

You can’t understand war without understanding the times. As the society enters the era of intelligence, the form of war has also undergone profound evolution. In what way human beings produce, they fight in what way. There is an intelligent mode of production in the intelligent era, which will inevitably shape an intelligent form of war. With the development of science and technology, the presentation form, decision-making mode, organizational style and security mode of war will undergo subversive changes.

The change in the form of war. The form of war is the historical coordinate of the development process of war, which determines the orientation of the times in which human war activities are located in each period. Since the 1960s and 1970s, with the grand development of new military revolution on a global scale, the form of war has also started the continuous acceleration process of the transformation from mechanized war to information war, and finally to the advanced stage of information war-intelligent war. The future war will enter the era supported by intelligent technology, and the field of confrontation will involve politics, economy, diplomacy, society and many other fields. The combat space will be extended from the traditional physical space to the virtual cognitive space, the grouping of combat forces will be transformed from man-machine mixed grouping to unmanned combat cluster, and the combat action will be developed from man-machine cooperation and people-oriented action to unmanned autonomous combat. On the surface, it seems calm, but the confrontation in intangible space is surging. The strategic game of mixed war is becoming increasingly clear, and the war will fully enter ".

The change of war decision-making mode. All along, the way of war decision-making has been comprehensively restricted by various factors such as battlefield reconnaissance, command, communication and support. With the development of intelligent unmanned, network information and other technologies, the way of war decision-making will change intelligently, showing the characteristics of data support, algorithm dominance, man-machine collusion and distribution autonomy. Before launching actions in the tangible battlefield space, all sides of the war confrontation calculate first and then fight. The massive intelligence data obtained from multiple sources are processed through cloud brain fusion. With the help of digital twinning, virtual reality and holographic projection imaging technology, the intelligent confrontation deduction is carried out in the network virtual space first, and the comprehensive strength of the enemy and ourselves is compared and analyzed, so that the deduction results can serve the war decision. When making decisions in the war, we adopt the "man in the loop" brain-computer coordination decision-making mode, and with the perceptual divergent thinking of the human brain and the powerful calculation and statistics ability of the computer, we can quickly judge the situation, plan the task, give instructions and adjust independently, so as to realize the perfect combination of decision-making art and decision-making science.

The change of war organization style. In recent years, no matter the concepts such as "autonomous war", "shadow war" and "the sixth generation war", or the "Joint Concept" of the US military or the "Armed Forces Construction Plan" of the Russian military, they are all based on the development trend of science and technology. Mechanized warfare is a platform-centered physical destruction attack, information warfare is a network-centered system confrontation battle, and intelligent warfare is a comprehensive strength contest centered on cognitive decision-making. The supporting combat system is mainly subversive technologies such as unmanned control, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, quantum communication, blockchain, etc., emphasizing distributed real-time killing centered on cognitive decision-making. In the near future, the continuous development of intelligent technologies such as deep neural network, brain-computer interaction, automatic processing, 3D printing and Internet of Things will inevitably improve the scientific and technological content in the military field, making the war organization style show the characteristics of "some people are not combined, no one is independent in front, and some people are regulating in the rear".

The change of war support mode. At all times and in all countries, outstanding military strategists all attach importance to the security work in the war, as the saying goes, "the military and horses have not moved, and the food and grass come first." For example, in the battle of Guandu in ancient times, Cao Jun attacked Wu Chao at night, which destroyed the grain and grass of Yuan Shao’s army and defeated the whole army. In modern warfare, due to the lack of logistics supply, the troops with fierce offensive on the battlefield have to stop and wait for the supply of military supplies, thus missing the fighters, and so on. Therefore, war support determines the outcome of the war in a certain sense, and its position and role have always been very important. It is not only an important content of military management, but also a key support to win the war. In the past, there were too many war support activities, a single source of support resources and simple and extensive implementation of support. However, with the change of intelligent war form, the war support model will also undergo subversive changes. The future war support will rely on the Internet of Things technology and intelligent information system, with physical distributed storage, virtual centralized management and military-civilian cooperative supply of support resources, global real-time monitoring, intelligent prediction matching and advanced planning for support organization implementation, so as to realize joint logistics supply, global configuration, intelligent deployment and accurate forward delivery of war support resources, ensure accurate, efficient, stable and reliable implementation of war support, and continuously extend the battlefield support capability to the end.

A change in the line of checks and balances in war. War is a kingdom of uncertainty. For a long time, people have known that it is difficult to achieve victory only by "straight thinking" and "open array". Liddell hart, a British strategic theorist, analyzed the successful strategic cases in the world and found a rule: 90% of them used the "indirect route". However, the "indirect route" has long appeared as a supplementary role of the direct route. However, compared with the past, the modern warfare system is huge, there are many nodes, and there are many vulnerable "life gates", which provides a broader opportunity for choosing "indirect route" and implementing "asymmetric" checks and balances. Judging from several local wars in the world in recent years, even the powerful American army attaches great importance to the "devious plan" in the face of weak opponents. "Those who are good and amazing are infinite as heaven and earth, and inexhaustible as rivers." No matter now or in the future, the strategic game of war between countries, especially among the world’s military powers with strong strategic damage capabilities, can neither achieve their own operational goals according to conventional thinking, nor simply have the idea of fighting an "open array." In order to win the future war, we must follow and develop the winning mechanism of the future war, adhere to the "indirect route" and do a good job of asymmetric checks and balances, so as to always grasp the initiative of the war.

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　　struggle

　　The best of us

　　Dear, beloved

　　From Exclusive Memory and Youth Fight at the beginning of the year, to Our Warm Hours, I only like you some time ago, and then to Struggle, Teenager, which just ended and caused fans to call for the second season, and I’ll wait for you in the future. Youth drama continues to exert its strength on this year’s small screen, all the way from the graduation season to the opening season.

　　Struggle, produced by Zhao Baogang 12 years ago, defined the 1.0 period of youth drama, and then the 2.0 period, which was based on literary IP, came quietly. For more than ten years, the theme of youth has been going through ups and downs, and now it has gone through three generations of changes, gradually opening the "Youth+"3.0 period with various elements. Although the new batch of works have different degrees of extension and innovation in subject matter, and the creative level is basically up to standard, they have never been able to create a phenomenal work that has aroused public discussion.

　　The realistic period of 1.0

　　Depicting youth group images from campus to society.

　　Masterpieces: Struggle, Who is in charge of my youth and Beijing Youth.

　　The theme of youth has become the darling of the screen, which is closely related to Zhao Baogang’s "Youth Trilogy" to some extent. In 2007, "Struggle" was born, which made the stories of Charlene Marilynn Dangelo, Lu Tao, Milai and Xiangnan become people’s talk after dinner. Since then, Zhao Baogang has made the youth drama "out of the circle" successfully with his works such as Who is in charge of my youth and Beijing Youth, and has become a popular movie theme for all ages.

　　It is Zhao Baogang’s consistent creative attitude to express his observation of society and life through his works. This batch of youth dramas also adheres to this tradition, focusing on realism in subject matter, focusing on the life node of college students going to society, and showing the pain caused by identity transformation in a large space.

　　Grasping the current hot topics in society and creating new hot topics are the soul of the theme of youth in this period.

　　With the influx of well-packaged overseas dramas and the impact of a large amount of capital entering the film and television industry, IP adaptation and original remake gradually replaced the popularity of realistic themes, which also made the youth drama in this period end in the colorful chapter of Beijing Love Story.

　　The nostalgic period of 2.0

　　Recall the individual beauty of childhood.

　　Masterpieces: "Zhenhua Trilogy", "In a hurry that year" and "To our simple little beauty"

　　After years of silence, the resurgence of youth dramas depends on the injection of powerful IP and the change of viewing habits from screen to mobile port. In 2016, The Best of Us, which was quietly launched in iQiyi, broke the vacancy and indifference of youth theme for a long time. This online drama, which only tells about ordinary high school campus life, has touched a large audience outside the student group.

　　It is quite different from the youth dramas in Zhao Baogang era. At this time, most of the leading works are adaptations of powerful IP blessing. Among them, including "The Best of Us" and "Hello, Old Times", the series of plays called "Zhenhua Trilogy" has achieved outstanding results.

　　With the convenience brought by adaptation, this nostalgia for youth has intensified and similar works have emerged one after another. These works pay too much attention to the creation of feelings and the expression of youth pain, with a small story pattern and limited narrative span. Especially in the use of actors, they gradually began to pursue flow, awareness and youthfulness, which made the short-lived youth drama quickly become the hardest hit area for embarrassing acting and bloody plot.

　　Youth+period of 3.0

　　Hot-blooded elements with youthful characteristics

　　Masterpieces: Dear, Loving, Struggle, Teenager, I’ll wait for you in the future.

　　"A generation will eventually grow old, and some people are always young". A group of youthful dramas dancing with blood and gas followed. Counting the explosive dramas of satellite TV and online platforms this year, the composite theme of "Youth+"mode is welcoming its debut.

　　In the summer file, Dear, which is "Youth+E-sports", Li Xian, who has been tepid for many years, has become the top traffic. At the end of August, Struggle, Teenager, which just finished in Hunan Satellite TV, is also a composite type of "Youth+Competition".

　　On the other hand, Classmate 200 Million Years Old, which was launched in the middle of last year, The Night of Comet, and I’m waiting for you in the future, which are being broadcast at the beginning of this year, have opened a new mode of "youth+fantasy" in another way. Although it incorporates fantasy elements, the story narrative is not a continuation of "crossing" and "fantasy", and the content is still the real life after processing.

　　"Youth" is not limited to the ignorance of minor emotions and the noise of small fights. No matter how rich the elements are, only by returning to life and reality can we define the true classic youth. (Reporter Mei Dongni)