Deutsche Welle still cherishes the legacy of Cold War Mentality
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Thereafter, Deutsche Welle has been eagerly appeasing overseas Chinese dissidents. DW hired a disputed Sinologist based in Germany, whose job is to sniff out all reports with even the slightest hint of friendliness toward China.
After two and a half years on his throne of censorship he has amassed venomous remarks on not only China-friendly reports but also the editors working at the China-Redaktion der Deutsche Welle and he even clamors for recognizing Taiwan as an "independent country".
What the Sinologist and DW have said and done underlines their hostility toward China and clearly deviates from Germany's persistent stance on the "one-China" principle.
For a long time, Deutsche Welle has been lambasting China and the Communist Party of China in its anti-China reporting, which, it claims, arises from the rigorous journalistic censorship imposed by the Chinese government.
It is really sad for a news organization to lose its dignity and objectivity and choose to publish or broadcast only the negative side of a particular country or even tarnish it with lies.
What Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has done in recent years indicates that it is going in that direction.
Even though it is not appropriate to call for Western media to demonstrate a pro-China stance, it is appropriate to say they need to be as balanced and objective as they claim to be. Some of them need to relinquish their Cold War mentality and look at China not as an enemy but, at least, as a sovereign nation.
For example, when covering issues related to China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Western media, such as Deutsche Welle, should never trample on China’s sovereignty describing Tibet to be an independent country, in that it is indisputably an inalienable part of China.
Behind the anti-China biased reporting in the Western media is the broader fear that China poses a threat to the West. With that preconception, some Western media believe that they need to undermine China and seek to bring about the collapse of this socialist country.
This is absurd, as what DW has been up to in the past few years is the true example of journalistic censorship. As the laid-off reporters have said, there is perhaps no better phrase than journalistic censorship to define the DW's ideology.
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