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An official Chinese newspaper has published an unusually strong criticism
of the BBC accusing it of waging a cold war against China. A signed commentary
in the Yang Cheng Evening News which is published in the southern city of
Canton said the BBC's decision to increase its Mandarin broadcast to China was
aimed at stepping up what is described as the corporation's struggle to mount a
spiritual and ideologial invasion of socialist countries. AT the end of this
month the BBC will increase its Mandarin broadcast from the present three and a
half hours a day to four hours a day. Since the Tiananmen Square protest of
1989 China has intermittently jammed the Chinese language services of several
Western broadcasts including the RRC. The newspaper commentary said the Cold
War wasn't completely over. Isn't the BBC's implementation of its plans to
mount a spiritual invasion of China an out-and-out cold war, the commentary
asked. It said the BBC's stated goals of being fair and objective and free of
ideological propaganda were a deceit. The newspaper said the BBC's goal was to
peddle its own values and/on the world outlook. The article said China
shouldn't allow what it called counterfeit, low-grade products to enter its
world. After the Tiananmen Square protest China often attacked the Western
media using similar language, but this is one of the strongest such attacks
directed specifically against the BBC. It's appearance at this time is
unusual with such anti-Western rhetoric having become increasingly rare in the
official media since the country's older statesman Deng Xiaoping launched a
campaign for faster economic reforms early last year.
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