Chapter 1074: Selecting the Best Regardless of Relationship

The 11th of Q2, 2d1 is often used as the starting point for the celebration.

Q11 completely changed people's, especially Americans' basic judgment of the world. Newsweek regarded Q11 as a sign of the end of an innocent era.

In the past decade, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the change of color in Eastern European countries, people have walked out of the Cold War iron curtain, and a new international order with global commercialism as the core and economic development as the main theme has begun to take shape. Every country is adapting to this new reality. Some countries that used to be proud of their ancient civilizations are now competing to become emerging markets. The summits of superpowers and even the United Nations General Assembly in the past have given way to the Davos World Economic Forum held in Switzerland every year.

The power that drives history seems to no longer be war, ideology and power politics, but economy, capital and technology.

However, the birth of Q11 suddenly interrupted all this. Bin Laden announced the birth of a new form of war in an extreme way - the war of terror. Terrorist organizations have become a non-state force that has a major impact on international security. The global political landscape has fallen into chaos again, and the chaos has not been resolved to this day.

The World Bank said in its annual World Development Report that when the ideological war just came to an end, the East and the West once again confronted each other with differences in religious views, which would have a more far-reaching impact on the global economy.

During this period of time, Fan Wubing has been closely following the reactions of domestic and foreign media and the reactions of the people.

Whether in newspapers and magazines or on online forums, Chinese people have expressed many comments on the Q11 incident, with tit-for-tat views and no concessions. One group applauded the Q11 incident and took a gloating attitude towards the Americans who unfortunately died in the Q11 incident. The other group severely condemned the crimes of the terrorists and expressed sympathy for the Americans who unfortunately died in this incident.

Since then, with the development of the US fight against terrorism, the Chinese people's views on Bin Laden, his al-Qaeda organization and the Taliban have been divided into two factions. One group tried their best to support Bin Laden and the Taliban, and some people even called Bin Laden a comrade. They denounced the US invasion of Afghanistan. The other group firmly supported the US to overthrow the Taliban regime and capture Bin Laden.

But Fan Wubing also noticed another point, that is, after the Q11 incident, the attitudes of governments around the world were the same, including many Arab countries. No government dared to publicly applaud the Q11 incident, and no government did not severely condemn the crimes of terrorists.

This fact itself is enough to show that applauding the Q11 incident is untenable and cannot be brought to the table.

First of all, the fact that terrorists hijacked civilian airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center is a criminal act that violates international law. No responsible government can support such criminal actions.

This is an indisputable simple truth. The Q11 incident caused the deaths of a large number of innocent civilians. No responsible government can fail to condemn such terrorist crimes. If such criminal acts are openly encouraged and supported, the world will never be at peace, and it will inevitably bring extremely serious consequences to people around the world.

The reason for those who applauded the Q11 incident is that the United States is too arrogant and has done so many bad things, and it should be punished.

Yes, the US government has done a lot of bad things.

Especially after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the world moved towards unipolarity, and the United States became the only superpower.

It seems to be the world police, interfering in other countries' internal affairs everywhere. Originally, after the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, NATO had no reason to exist. However, NATO not only did not disband, but continued to expand eastward, especially the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia by NATO, led by the United States, which aroused the strong hatred of the Chinese people.

It is understandable that many Chinese people feel relieved when the United States was attacked by terrorists. However, these bad things done by the US government should not be attributed to the American people, nor should all Americans be regarded as enemies. Just as the Japanese right-wingers repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine, many people hate the Japanese to the bone, and some netizens have expressed many fierce remarks online, shouting for a Tokyo massacre, etc. This view is biased, and this statement is even more harmful.

The fundamental mistake of the terrorists is that they are targeting ordinary Americans.

They hijacked civil airliners, treated the lives of innocent passengers as a joke, and forced innocent passengers to be their victims. This kind of robbery should obviously not be supported.

In terms of attitude towards the Q11 incident, we cannot simply ignore the moral standards that humans should have based on personal feelings and likes and dislikes.

Some people also say that the United States bombed so many innocent civilians in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and it is deserved that a few Americans died. This statement is specious. In other words, what the US government did cannot be attributed to ordinary American people. If the terrorists did not hijack civilian airliners, but used human bombs to attack the White House or the Pentagon, it would be another matter. Of course, this is obviously more difficult. Although many people want to, it is probably difficult for anyone to do it.

Furthermore, from the point of view of the terrorists, it is not worth sympathizing with and supporting them.

As we all know, Bin Laden and the Taliban were originally supported by the United States, and the United States supported them to deal with the former Soviet Union. The reason why they want to attack the United States is that they are a group of extreme religious forces. They have led Islam astray based on their own understanding of Islam.

They advocate restoring the world of the founding period of Islam and advocate using violence to eliminate all heresies that are incompatible with Islam.

Because of this, they regard the United States, which has the highest level of modern civilization, as their target of attack. Therefore, they are essentially a group of extremists who oppose modern civilization and advocate backwardness. Just look at what the Taliban has done, and you can see their anti-human and anti-civilization nature.

Under the extreme rule of the Taliban, people are deprived of all freedoms, not even the right to watch TV. It is not difficult to see from the Taliban's crime of destroying the Bamiyan Buddha how much they hate all pagans that are different from Islam.

However, when Fan Wubing checked the online comments, he found that the guidance of public opinion in China is really too bad. Many problems lack effective means of guidance, and the attention paid to some key issues is also very poor, so that many issues that have caused heated discussions on the Internet are nothing more than rude and barbaric verbal battles. This behavior, called online battles, actually looks very childish and ridiculous.

Fan Wubing raised this issue when he met several senior executives to discuss the impact of the US Q11 incident on the international economy.

"This issue really needs attention." The No. 1 leader nodded after listening.

In fact, the central government's attitude towards the new Internet is not quite consistent. It is obviously a bit wrong to treat the rapidly developing Internet with a wait-and-see attitude, especially in some aspects, the control seems to be relatively weak, and it is easy to have some unexpected things.

Several executives discussed this and expressed dissatisfaction with the current publicity work.

"So, is there any better candidate for the job?" someone asked.

The incident happened suddenly, and no one could think of any suitable candidate for a while, so they all gave up.

Fan Wubing, who was sitting next to him, suddenly had an idea and said casually, "In fact, forgive me for being blunt, it seems that the propaganda work in Shanghai is quite good."

As soon as he said this, several people present were thinking about it. After all, the No. 1 leader and Boss Zhu were both leaders from Shanghai. It was unlikely that they had no interest in promoting local cadres in Shanghai. And there was another point, that is, the propaganda work in Shanghai was indeed well done, flexible and organized, which did not affect the normal work and reflected the function of being the main window of reform and opening up. Therefore, when Fan Wubing put forward this opinion, no one was surprised.

"Who is in charge of the propaganda work in Shanghai?" asked the No. 1 leader.

Someone immediately answered, "Tong Yushan is a local cadre in Shanghai, promoted from the grassroots, worked as a district head, and has just been promoted to a deputy ministerial-level cadre for a few years. He is still relatively young and energetic."

"Oh, the first officer nodded, and then said, "Then my opinion is, why not transfer him to Zhongshuang to manage the propaganda work for a while?"

"That's also possible." Boss Zhu glanced at Fan Wubing and nodded, but there was no overly rich expression. In fact, he knew the relationship between the Fan family and Tong Yushan's family, but it is not necessary to avoid relatives when promoting talents. Fan Wubing just casually brought up this matter, and someone immediately thought of Tong Yushan. It can't be said that Fan Wubing interfered with the political decision of the highest level.

Besides, even if Fan Wubing has selfish motives on this issue, it is also human nature. As long as Tong Yushan can really do a good job in propaganda, there will be no problem, and the rest are very simple things.

Anyway, even if Tong Yushan's promotion to the central government was decided, considering that he had only been promoted to the vice-ministerial level for a short time, the No. 1 director suggested that he be transferred to the Propaganda Department as a vice-minister, but he could enjoy the treatment of a ministerial level. If he did a good job, it would be fine to promote him formally after a period of time.

After hearing the news, Fan Wubing had a calm expression on his face, but he was very happy in his heart. After all, his father's influence in the central government was inferior. This time, Tong Yushan was pulled over, which was also a small help. If Tong Yushan really took charge of propaganda work in the future, it would be a great help to Fan Heng.