On 4/6/21 2:33 AM, Roger Kulp wrote:
Has the Le Monde article been removed? The link goes to a blank error
page.
A reporter from /Le Figaro/ was able to track down "Laurène Beaumond"
,and found it was a real person, writing under a pseudonym.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/miwebh/reddit_fake_news_debunked_laur%C3%A8ne_beaumond_is_a/
<https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/miwebh/reddit_fake_news_debunked_laur%C3%A8ne_beaumond_is_a/>
https://goodwordnews.com/chinese-television-accused-of-inventing-a-french-journalist-who-does-exist-rt-en-francais/
<https://goodwordnews.com/chinese-television-accused-of-inventing-a-french-journalist-who-does-exist-rt-en-francais/>
Figaro's last word on Beaumond from Google translation:
No, she is not a robot, invented from scratch by Chinese propaganda. The
mysterious "Laurène Beaumond" is indeed a French woman in the flesh,
coming to the aid of the controversial policy of the second world power
in Xinjiang, accused of genocide. Behind this pseudonym signing an
article denouncing the "tyranny of fake news" of Western media against
China, published on the French site of state television CGTN, hides a
woman from Sarthe, whose traces Le Figaro has traced , and got the first
testimony.
"I take this article from A to Z. It was I who proposed it to CGTN,"
said the young forty-something, currently in France, and who agreed to
answer our questions on condition of protecting her identity. “I am
worried about my safety. I am appalled by the baseness of the attacks
against my signature and that it can be said that I do not exist,
”rebels this former presenter at the French service of the state channel
CCTV, in Beijing, in this China where she has lived from 2011 to 2017.
She claims to have used this pen name to protect her identity, because
"I do several jobs", and her collaboration with CGTN is not her "main
source of income" since her return to France.
His testimony illustrates the new strategy of influence of the communist
regime to wage the battle of propaganda on a planetary scale: to rely on
“testimonies” of Westerners ostensibly presented as professional
“journalists”, or “researchers” veterans, in order to counter
international accusations against a vast program of indoctrination in
Xinjiang, which has resulted in the internment of more than a million
Muslims, according to the US State Department which denounces a "genocide".
This globetrotter reached by telephone denounces an article in Le Monde
which questioned its real existence, and suggested that Chinese state
television had "invented" this French journalist to better relay the
language elements of Beijing, which denies in block the existence of
"camps", speaking of "vocational training centers". The French daily had
shown that no journalist by the name of Laurène Beaumond appears in the
file of the Commission of the identity card of French professional
journalists. Asked about this, the young woman insists that she has
studied art history and journalism at the University of Paris-IV
Sorbonne, like the CGTN advance, and "internships" in editorial staff.
But she refused to specify the name of these media. In Beijing, she was
a translator, then a presenter on CCTV, like many foreigners, working
for state television under the strict control of censors.
The author claims to have had the full initiative for this postcard
article on Xinjiang, which sparked controversy on social networks. “I
proposed it on March 24”, and it was finally published on March 29, in
the “Opinions” column of CGTN. Coincidentally, this is the very day that
the European Union, the United States and several Western countries
imposed sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the crackdown in
Xinjiang. These European sanctions, unprecedented since Tiananmen, had
sparked Beijing's ire. The official press has since carried out a robust
campaign against the “disinformation” of the Western media, by
multiplying these “testimonies” of Western expatriates declaring their
support for China, relayed even by the spokesperson of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying.
"I do not deny anything of this article, except the title which I regret
today", persists "Laurène Beaumond", who swears not to have anticipated
the storm unleashed by her paper, pointed out by Antoine Bondaz,
researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS), in a
diplomatic context between China and Western democracies. "You will take
me for a delighted nursery, but I let myself be overtaken by the thing,"
says this passionate Asian and K-pop.
In the first two paragraphs of her text, she takes up the cause for
Beijing, lambasting a "parody of trial" against China, which "seriously
harms" its relations with the EU, taking up elements of language from
the embassy of the People's Republic in Paris, particularly vindictive
against the French media and researchers. There follows a long personal
testimony where she recounts "her Xinjiang" and portrays with wonder, a
"total harmony" between the Han, Uighur or Kazakh communities, based on
her "six or seven trips" made between 2011 and 2016, having been married
to the time with a man from Urumqi.
The Frenchwoman admits not having carried out a journalistic
investigation, but simply having reported "things seen". His testimony
is however put forward by CGTN to answer
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