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Chinese media see attack on U.S. as price for bullying -
`Attack America' video is top seller
The Washington Times
November 4, 2001
Author: Damien McElroy; THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</p>
<p>BEIJING - The Chinese state-run propaganda machine is cashing in on the terror attacks in New York and Washington, producing books, films and video games glorifying the strikes as a humbling blow against an arrogant nation.</p>
<p>Video discs filled with lurid images have flooded markets across the nation in the wake of the attacks. Disc after disc bear the imprimatur of the Communist Party-controlled media.</p>
<p>The most notable and popular DVDs have been produced by the Xinhua information agency, Beijing Television and China Central Television.</p>
<p>Communist Party officials say President Jiang Zemin has obsessively watched and re-watched pictures of the aircraft crashing into the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, workers at Beijing Television worked round-the-clock to produce a documentary they called "Attack America." Scenes from Hollywood films have been spliced between shots of the events of September 11, including footage from the 1998 remake of Godzilla, in which a monster destroys buildings in New York.</p>
<p>As rescue workers pick through the rubble of the twin towers, the commentator proclaims that the city had reaped the consequences of decades of American bullying of weaker nations.</p>
<p>"This is the America the whole world has wanted to see," he said. "Blood debts have been repaid in blood.</p>
<p>America has bombed other countries and used its hegemony to deny the natural rights of others without paying the price. Who until now has dared to avenge the hurts inflicted by unaccountable Americans."</p>
<p>Officials at Beijing Television defended the video as an educational film that will meet market demand. A producer said: "There's this need for more information on world terrorism in the market, so we've got to meet it."</p>
<p>At the country's most respected bookstore, Xinhua Book Shop on Beijing's busiest shopping street, Wanfujing, crowds jockeyed around a table to buy discs.</p>
<p>According to the staff at the store, thousands of copies of the video have been sold in the past month.
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