{"id":1444788,"date":"2022-04-18T18:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444788"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:15:13","slug":"deep-insights-from-china-america-is-quite-similar-to-voldemort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deep-insights-from-china-america-is-quite-similar-to-voldemort\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Insights from China: America &#039;Is Quite Similar&#039; to Voldemort"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeep-insights-from-china-america-is-quite-similar-to-voldemort%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> propaganda outlet published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202204\/1259520.shtml\">opinion column<\/a> on Sunday declaring the United States was \u201cquite similar\u201d to Lord Voldemort, the primary villain in the\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em> book series.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> declared America \u201cthe \u2018Dark Lord&#8217;\u201d of the world and a \u201chuman rights destroyer,\u201d proclaiming that \u201cthe world has suffered from the U.S. for too long\u201d and must soon ensure that American foreign policy \u201cbackfires,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The column was accompanied by a bizarre attempt at a political cartoon showing Voldemort, a fictional British wizard, locking various rogue states allied with China into wooden chests in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/4ba71cc1-999a-4fdc-ab92-cb3e49565085.jpeg\" alt=\"Unmasking The Superpower: \u2018Voldemort\u2019 of global order. Illustration: Xu Zihe\/GT\" width=\"597\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Global Times\/government of China)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lord Voldemort, whose real name is <a href=\"https:\/\/harrypotter.fandom.com\/wiki\/Tom_Riddle\">Tom Marvolo Riddle<\/a>, is a wizard <a href=\"https:\/\/harrypotter.fandom.com\/wiki\/Tom_Riddle\">born<\/a> in 1926 who embarks on a quest to conquer the wizarding world and eradicate individuals who do not come from pure wizard stock, prizing \u201cpure-blood\u201d wizards and establishing a cult known as the \u201cDeath Eaters\u201d who set about attempting to conquer Britain and imposing a dictatorship. The\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em> books use Voldemort as an allegory for bigotry, totalitarianism, and genocide and highlights the contributions of people with \u201cmixed\u201d wizard blood, to the greatest of British magic communities and to the ultimate defeat of Voldemort.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Global Times\u00a0<\/em>does not remark on Voldemort\u2019s attempted genocide of \u201cmuggles\u201d and those of mixed magic heritage, despite the similarities between the fictional narrative and the current ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other non-Han ethnic groups in China under dictator Xi Jinping. Instead, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> compares Voldemort\u2019s rampant mass murder, torture, and other human rights abuses to American sanctions on rogue states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFanning the flames to create turmoil, using economic and financial hegemony to sanction opponents, and forming cliques to create political isolation \u2013 the US is using its hegemony to undermine the international order,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> declared. \u201cIn fact, the US government\u2019s approach is quite similar to Voldemort\u2019s \u2013 they both believe in power, recruit followers, use violence, and repeatedly want to kill competitors in order to maintain supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Harry Potter series, Voldemort\u2019s arrogance and unchecked need for absolute power lead to his eventual demise,\u201d the Chinese publication observed. \u201cUnmasking the nature of US government as Voldemort, its face has now been revealed to readers piece by piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20685188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-141759389.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20685188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-141759389-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/A model of Lord Voldemort used in the Harry Potter Films is displayed at the new Harry Potter Studio Tour at Warner Brothers Leavesden Studios on March 23, 2012 in London, England. (Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> specifically objected to America\u2019s sanctions on Russia, a response to Russia launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine after eight years of proxy war in the eastern Donbas region \u2013 and sanctions on other human rights criminal states such as \u201cIran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea.\u201d It cited an alleged professor comparing economic sanctions to \u201cchemical and biological weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese newspaper revealed that its particular objection to the sanctions against Russia is that they \u201care the biggest blow to globalization\u201d possible. Xi has personally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/amid-chinas-bumpy-rise-xi-faces-delicate-moment-at-un\/\">touted<\/a> globalism \u2013 or the interconnectedness of global economies such that they are no longer functional independently \u2013 as an \u201cindisputable reality and a historical trend.\u201d Xi has also condemned countries that have attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/05\/xi-jinping-admits-global-consensus-turning-against-globalism\/\">build<\/a> economies independent of China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/04\/17\/report-online-uyghur-slave-trade-booming-in-china\/\">slave-tainted<\/a> manufacturing sector as \u201cisolationist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US is not only the\u00a0Ukraine Crisis Instigator\u00a0and\u00a0Cold War Schemer, but also the\u00a0Instability Brewer,\u00a0Poison Disseminator, \u2018Vampires\u2019 in the war\u00a0who spread plague and creates hatred, a\u00a0Human Rights Destroyer\u00a0who committed grave crimes against humanity, and the \u2018Voldemort\u2019 of Global Order,\u201d the column concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cvampire\u201d remark appeared to be a reference to a past\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> article published in late March featuring an equally bizarre political cartoon depicting President Joe Biden as a short, portly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/31\/chinese-state-media-depicts-biden-fat-dracula-putting-ukraine-through-meat-grinder\/\">vampire<\/a> sitting at the Oval Office desk.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s article is not the first time the Communist Party has invoked the nearly all-powerful Voldemort to attack its geopolitical rivals. In 2014, then-Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom Liu Xiaoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2014\/01\/06\/voldemort-invoked-in-china-japan-feud-over-shrine\/\">invoked<\/a> the children\u2019s book to attack Japan\u2019s continued maintenance of the Yasukuni Shrine, a monument and tomb for Japanese soldiers that includes World War II criminals in its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf militarism is like the haunting Voldemort of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of horcrux, representing the darkest parts of that nation\u2019s soul,\u201d Liu declared in a column at the time.<\/p>\n<p>China is arguably the world\u2019s worst human rights criminal, engaging in the aforementioned genocide of Uyghurs as well as the violent, often deadly, repression of anti-communist political dissidents and members of nearly every religion outside of the confines of the Communist Party establishment, including the Falun Gong spiritual movement, independent Christianity, Uyghur Islam, and Tibetan Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>China also imposed strict censorship on all media available to Chinese citizens, including\u00a0<em>Harry Potter<\/em> books and films. Warner Bros. has been facing global condemnation this week after bowing to a demand from the Communist Party to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/04\/12\/warner-bros-bows-to-china-by-censoring-gay-dialogue-in-fantastic-beasts-secrets-of-dumbledore\/\">censor<\/a> the latest film in its\u00a0<em>Harry Potter\u00a0<\/em>series,\u00a0<em>Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore<\/em>, to remove romantic dialogue between the protagonist of the film and another man. The\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> justified the censorship by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202204\/1259237.shtml\">claiming<\/a> that Chinese audiences lack \u201ccritical thinking\u201d and could be \u201cinfluenced\u201d by a gay relationship.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s\u00a0Global Times propaganda outlet published an opinion column on Sunday declaring the United States was \u201cquite similar\u201d to Lord Voldemort, the primary villain in the\u00a0Harry Potter book series. 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