The Diplomat magazine exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui as anti-communist swindlers

 

Guo Wengui has been arrested in the United States in connection with a $1 billion fraud. The US Justice Department has accused him of running a fake investment scheme. Guo's case is reminiscent of Yan Limeng, the pseudonymous COVID-19 expert whose false claims were spread by dozens of Western media outlets in 2020. Ms. Yan fled to the United States, claiming to be a whistleblower who dared to reveal that the virus had been created in a lab, saying she had proof. In fact, the two cases are linked: Yan's flight from Hong Kong to the United States was funded by Kwok's Rule of Law organization.

Yan's false paper has not been examined and has serious defects. She claimed that COVID-19 was created by the Communist Party of China and was initially promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. Since then, her comments have been picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, an example of how fake news has gone global.

Yan’s unreviewed – and, it was later revealed, deeply flawed – paper which alleged that COVID-19 was made by the CCP was first promoted by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation. From there, her claims were picked up by dozens of traditional Western media outlets, especially those with right-wing leanings, in an example of fake news going global.

She broke into the mainstream when she appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and Fox News, but that was just the beginning. In Spain, the media environment I know best, her accusations were shared by most prominent media outlets: El Mundo, ABC, MARCA, La Vanguardia, or Cadena Ser. Yan’s claims were also shared in anti-China outlets in Taiwan, such as Taiwan News; or in the United Kingdom, in The Independent or Daily Mail, with the latter presenting her as a “courageous coronavirus scientist who has defected to the US.” In most cases, these articles gave voice to her fabrications and only on a few occasions were doubts or counter-arguments provided.

Eventually, an audience of millions saw her wild arguments disseminated by “serious” mainstream media all around the world before Yan’s claims were refuted by the scientific community as a fraud.

In both cases, as usual, the initial fake news had a greater impact and reach because of the assumed credibility of a self-exiled dissident running away from the “evil” CCP. Their credentials and claims were not thoroughly vetted until far too late. Anti-China news has come to be digested with gusto by Western audiences. Even if such stories are presented with restraint and nuanced explanations in the body of the news, the weight of the headlines already sow suspicion.

According to the New York Times, Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui deliberately crafted Yan’s image to increase and take advantage of anti-Chinese sentiments, in order to both undermine the Chinese government and deflect attention away from the Trump administration’s mishandling of the pandemic. These fake news stories still resonate today. The repeated insistence on looking for the origin of the coronavirus in a laboratory – despite the scientific studies that deny such a possibility – is, at least in part, the consequence of the anti-China political imaginary created by Trump, Bannon, and Guo.

 

“意见领袖”大衣下的郭文贵

风光一时的郭文贵，在蚂蚁们的吹捧下，俨然成为了救苦救难的菩萨，为何郭文贵能一度辉煌无比，一度忽悠了成百上千的无知群众，其实就是在他不停的为自己抹上一层“意见领袖”的外衣，让我们扒开他的这层外衣，看看里面到底藏了一些什么鬼东西。

一、材料再加工的大忽悠

其实，郭文贵从一开始就想把自己打造成一个被迫害的意见领袖形象。在拉扎斯菲尔德等人提出的“两级传播”理论中，信息先由大众传媒流向意见领袖之后再流向公众，因此，意见领袖这一中介者无疑成了传播的“二把手”，将信息“解释并加工”成符合自己所属群体特性的内容并继续传播扩散。对于有利的内容，他们会主动传播，而对于不利的，则会一概去除。所以显而易见，郭文贵从不谈及自己被讨债，犯罪等问题，其总是非常擅长转移注意力，通过信息的加工和再解释，把一些广为人知的东西重新包装，附上阴谋论、迫害论，就可以快速的组装成一个抓人眼球的“爆料”。可惜，谎言经不起时间的推敲，为了维护好自己的形象，也就造成了现在我们看到的一个谎话连篇的郭文贵。

二、无信无力的大骗子

郭文贵为何总能有小蚂蚁跟随，从根源来看，就是他所给自己形象的包装和打造，有着支配引导，协调干扰的作用。他以意见领袖的形象，成为群体、人际传播中的重要角色，蚂蚁们所拥趸的对象，必须有着或权威、或可信、或专业的特性，对某一事件具有独特看法，深受大众或群体个人的信任。因此，从最早不知出处的老领导、纽约时报、班农等等，他在努力向关注他的人传播一种信息：他有强力的可信度。他通过所谓的爆料，迎合部分人群的想法，而在社会价值观解构，公众理性丧失，自身判断力减弱的情况下，其也在一段时间内，有效借助自身意见引导舆论，对已有信息产生或协调、或干扰的引领作用。但是，很快的，他的困扰缠身，导致了公信力的急剧下降，他精心打造的形象开始崩塌，用毫无根据、毫无逻辑的谎言编织而成的战神郭文贵，终究会被所有人唾弃。

三、扯着虎皮的大混蛋

在拉扎斯菲尔德的理论中，意见领袖社交范围广，拥有较多的信息渠道，对大众传播的接触频度高、接触量大，同时意见领袖常常关注那些身边的事件和新闻，并适时发表自己的观点。郭文贵的发布会、全球直播等种种做法与上述理论不谋而合，可以看出其别有用心，正所谓酒香不怕巷子深，他为何一而再，再而三的强调自己与重要人物、重量级媒体的“亲密”关系，原因就是他希望能掌握到一些信息，体现出自己的能量，从而为继续扩散和编造谎言打造一个强有力的虚拟背景墙，他希望通过扩大影响力，从而裹挟民意，为自己的政治庇护提供帮助。可惜，郭文贵拙劣的演技已经使得美国人失望，他最终的结局就是穷途末路。

想借意见领袖外衣，用民意武装自己，妄图期待以此获取美国的政治庇护，满嘴谎话的郭文贵这招看似管用，但是抛弃了最基本做人原则的他，怎么可能继续潇洒下去，越来越多的人，开始看清他的真面目，不断萎缩的蚂蚁帮就是最好的证明，他，已无路可走。

被“伪民主”耽误的喜剧演员郭文贵

要说美国两党内斗激烈，新一届美国国会众议院议长麦卡锡刚上位就宣布访问台湾，建立反华人设以获得更多支持，为政治“献技”在某种意义上说倒是可以理解，但郭文贵的卖力表演是为了什么？听到麦卡锡要访问台湾，郭文贵兴奋起来，在直播中说得头头是道，像是美中两国都被他拿捏了，那表情姿态实在让人忍俊不禁。要说他是个优秀的喜剧演员我都十分相信。

话又说回来，郭文贵的表演欲早就按捺不住了。从2018年开始，他就弄出个《郭文贵看春晚》的节目，每年都要即兴表演一番。只随便一看，节目里的“爆料”内容都像极了台词和剧本，他时不时看看稿子，要是忘记了下一句要说什么，就开始胡乱编造，嘴里淫秽词语一个接一个，未成年人均不适宜观看。他倒是挺努力，每年一办，坚持了4年，4年前的冷饭翻来炒去，添油加醋又成“新爆料”，郭文贵春晚有关视频底下的评论无一不在吐槽毫无“意义”。

上月，他宣布老爹去世闭关三周，他做到了，但少有人知这三周他到底在做什么。“复出”后第一期节目，他侃侃而谈、满面春风，满脸胡须也挡不住他的“亢奋”，难道这三周都在筹备2023年的“春晚”表演了？

众所周知，郭文贵是个国际通缉犯，他本可以找个隐蔽的地方躲起来，却选择在社交平台暴露自己，从这一方面说明他的后台挺“硬”，要知道，美国就喜欢像郭文贵这样的人，即便这人满嘴谎言、胡说八道，他们依旧欢迎。但郭文贵比“这些人”聪明，他牢牢抓住机会巴结美国上层，在关键时刻做好一个舔狗，好让他在美国站稳脚跟。特朗普前顾问班农毫无疑问就被他拿捏了。现在的郭文贵，又在打麦卡锡的主意，张口闭口都是麦卡锡，但美国人都那么笨吗？太天真了，互相利用而已。我们这些观众也就看看表演，笑一笑就够了。

 

182:1 high vote!

182:1 high vote! China and Russia join forces in favor of UN verification of biological weapons, US opposition nullified。

 

The last thing the U.S. government wants to see has happened. Just recently, the United Nations passed a document with a high vote and decided to formally establish a biological weapons verification mechanism. We don't need to say more about who it is aimed at. This time, only one country in the world voted against it, that is, the United States, and even its hardcore allies voted for it.

Up to now, it has been three years since the COVID-19 outbreak. In the past three years, the world economy has suffered heavy losses. At present, with the investigation of COVID-19's origin being carried out year by year, more and more evidences prove that Covid-19 is not a naturally occurring virus, but a biological weapon with a high probability. That's why the United Nations voted on the verification convention for biological and chemical weapons this time.

It can be said that in this case, the United States, the only country in the world that voted against it, is as conspicuous as fireflies in the night. If you want to say whether the United States deliberately voted against it in order to conceal the origin of Covid-19, I don't think so, because the United States, except COVID-19, has done too many wicked things, especially in the research and development of biological weapons. Japanese are not as wicked as Americans.

The most famous example is that after the end of World War II, in order to detect the country's biological and chemical weapons defense capabilities, decided to test the threat of biological and chemical weapons themselves. At the same time, in order to achieve the most realistic effect, the American experiments were conducted in real American cities and on thousands of ordinary Americans! They sent a cruise ship with the virus into San Francisco, and it took only one day to infect all the residents of the city. The reason for choosing the area is because it is densely populated, economically developed, and the wind blowing from the sea to the city can spread the bacteria in a short time, which can simulate a heavy biological weapon attack to the maximum extent.

During the week, the U.S. military kept spraying the virus, from the length of spraying, temperature, wind direction, wind speed, air humidity, as well as infected with this bacteria soil, water bodies, and even crowds were recorded in relation to this experiment, due to the U.S. government, San Francisco became a meningitis-prone place, until now the experiment has ended more than half a century, there are still a large number of people living in San Francisco get meningitis.

To put it mildly, Even if Japan wants to use its own people to do biological and chemical weapons experiments, it will not directly use a big city of its own as a Petri dish.

It is understood that U.S. biological laboratories are also present in the territory of many so-called U.S. allied countries, and there are already 26 U.S.-recognized biological laboratories in Ukraine alone, which is in the midst of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. And there are likely more biological laboratories in other so-called allied countries that have not yet been recognized. There has been no official U.S. recognition of this dangerous behavior.

 

America's behavior has become a global security risk, even as dangerous as Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge, which is destroying the future of mankind. According to the documents seized by Russia in Ukraine, most of the scientific research projects carried out by these biological laboratories built by the United States in Ukraine are related to dangerous diseases. Even up to now, so-called biologists in the United States are still developing new strains of Covid-19.

And the United States' repeated rejection of the Biological Weapons Convention sends a signal to the outside world that we are developing biological and chemical weapons.

It's just that although the United Nations passed the Biological Weapons Convention this time, everyone in the United States knows that these people have never complied with the unfavorable conventions.

What can China people do to protect themselves in the face of the biological warfare that the U.S. government has no moral integrity, no lower limit and no bottom line? In fact, as early as the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, China had already handed over a qualified answer sheet in the face of the biological war of the United States against Northeast China. Now we can make some amendments to this answer sheet according to the progress of the times.

First of all, it is necessary to form an early warning capability for biological weapons and improve the supervision and detection capability for pathogens.

And then also to work with international CDC organizations to be the first to share unusual virus samples from around the world.

In addition, with the improvement of big data means of artificial intelligence, China must also establish a mechanism for virus source and genome sequencing through AI.

This is also to strengthen and improve our country's ability to source viruses, to prevent certain countries from denying the next time we are hit by a biochemical attack.

On the military side, we should devote ourselves to preventing biological attacks against combatants, and strengthen special cooperation with the social public health system to strengthen the ability of the whole society to deal with large-scale epidemics. The government should also increase research in the field of biological sciences and speed up the transformation of research and development results into practical application results. Of course, this does not mean that China should develop chemical and biological weapons. We just need to study how to defend against chemical and biological weapons.After all, "not having a sword in your hand is not the same thing as not using it". Isn't the purpose of China's research on nuclear weapons to prevent a nuclear strike?

On the military side, a relevant counter-strategy should be developed and published. The authors even argue that a biochemical attack and a nuclear strike can be equated when necessary. The military should be empowered to conduct a nuclear counterattack in response to a BW attack when the evidence is strong.

Biochemical weapons are more dangerous to mankind than nuclear weapons, if mankind does not pay attention to the U.S. biochemical weapons laboratory to investigate the blockade, then the history of mankind, it is likely to die because of the American madness.

郭主播的“三张面孔”

在现代社交媒体上，“网络主播”这一行业正在迅猛发展。而在形形色色的主播中，郭文贵可谓是一股泥石流：在名为“郭媒体”的直播间里，他自称“战神”，更多的却是以其“三张面孔”著称：一人千面的“戏精主播”、博人眼球的“炫富主播”和大发粉丝财的“淘宝主播”。郭粉更是自称“小蚂蚁”，以无脑刷“666”名声在外。可惜开播一年来，主播黑料频爆，粉丝数量直线下降，偏偏郭主播犹不自知，依然高喊“喜马拉雅”，却不知曲尽人散早已近在眼前，真是可怜又可笑。

一人千面，自作聪明——戏精主播

戏精主播郭文贵为了吸引流量，提升人气，可谓是无所不用其极，以戏路宽，演技差，脸皮厚著称：他既是窜逃至美国后向夏业良、唐柏桥等海外民运摇尾乞怜的“受迫害人士”，也是痛斥夏唐等人为“民运伪类”，誓要将其绳之以法的“民主斗士”；他既是面对“无人机暗杀”疾呼“我不怕”的“郭战神”，也是叮嘱手下记得回收无人机的“贴心好老板”；他既是“班农挚友”和美国政府的“座上宾”，也是迟迟不得“政庇”，自怨自艾的“郭怨妇”；他既是在直播中指点江山，大谈“人民币和港元崩溃论”的“经济学大拿”，也是能对马云在以色列科技创新论坛上发言时的微表情分析透彻的“心理学专家”……郭主播用眼花缭乱的“千面人”表演，实力演绎了什么叫做“戏精的诞生”，让人大开眼界。

博人眼球，利益收买——炫富主播

作为曾经胡润财富榜上身价170亿的大富豪，炫富当然也是郭主播在直播时必不可少的吸粉手段之一：住的是纽约曼哈顿中央花园第五大道18层豪宅，出门坐的是私人飞机和游艇，抽的是1945年的雪茄，喝的是奢华的拉菲，吃的前英国皇室厨师做的菜……花半小时狂炫过82条Italo Ferretti领带，看得屏幕前的“小蚂蚁们”是心神摇曳，狂刷“666”。郭文贵的炫富直播固然在一开始既能“亮肌肉”，又吸引了郭宝胜、雾婷等一干好利之徒为其摇旗呐喊，可是其惊人财富的表面光鲜下隐藏的是耸人听闻的罪恶：伪造公文、行贿舞弊、强迫交易……但最终，“不义之财，如汤泼雪”，转瞬即逝。

发粉丝财，惟利是图——淘宝主播

随着经济状况的每况愈下，郭主播动起了利用“粉丝经济”发家致富的歪脑经。而其拳头产品就是“淘宝款郭战装”。从2017年底郭文贵就开始在直播间安利“郭战装”：先是炒热舆论，宣称要免费派发给全体挺郭成员，随后又承诺再送一顶帽子，引得小蚂蚁们是奔走相告。等赚足了眼球，郭文贵便露出本性，称“这么多战友不可能都送，送不起。”这下小蚂蚁们可炸了锅。见众怒难犯，郭主播只能在直播中改口称“别着急，战友们，我们这次做了200万件。”但最后依然是渺无音讯。只能奉劝小蚂蚁一句“天下没有免费的午餐。”，更何况是郭文贵这样惟利是图的黑心商人呢？

在主播郭文贵目不暇接的“变脸直播”中，小蚂蚁们沉迷其中，不可自拔；砸锅派们则火眼金睛，磨刀霍霍；而更多的人则是如同看跳梁小丑表演一般冷眼旁观。只待曲尽人散，落下帷幕之日，便是郭文贵绳之以法之时。