Patriotic post calling for Chinese to be on guard against 'Western anti-China powers' goes viral
Posting praised by Chinese state-owned media
An emotive nationalist post titled You are nobody without the motherland has gone viral online as major Chinese state-owned media hailed the message as a spontaneous expression of patriotism.
The anonymous post appeared online in mid-November and has since been reposted by hundreds of Chinese websites and widely tweeted on Weibo.
The post called on every Chinese person to be on the alert for “Western anti-China powers”, which “could take advantage of social instability to harm Chinese people”.
“Proactively safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity must become the consensus of every citizen,” said the post.
The post went viral at a sensitive time as China’s newly declared Air Defence Identification Zone over the South China Sea has sparked protests from Japan and South Korea. The US, as an ally of Japan, has also expressed concerns.
The post criticised the US as “an initiator of plots” to overthrow the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and “create internal chaos” in China. “China became the biggest threat to the US after a collapse of the former Soviet Union. Their plots have long been known to all,” said the post.