{"id":703636,"date":"2025-03-03T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=703636"},"modified":"2025-03-03T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T06:04:00","slug":"minitrue-plus-five-march-3-2020-xinjiang-south-china-sea-covid-evacuations-wasted-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2025\/03\/minitrue-plus-five-march-3-2020-xinjiang-south-china-sea-covid-evacuations-wasted-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Minitrue Plus Five: March 3, 2020 – Xinjiang, South China Sea, COVID Evacuations, Wasted Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"
In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda machinery’s efforts to grapple with the outbreak. They were originally published between September and December, 2020 as the Minitrue Diary series<\/a>, after the censorship and propaganda organs’ Orwellian online nickname \u771f\u7406\u90e8 <\/em>Zh\u0113nl\u01d0 b\u00f9, or "Ministry of Truth." Now, to mark the passage of five years since the outbreak, we are republishing each set of directives<\/a> on the fifth anniversary of the day they were issued. The following directives were released on March 3, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n Reminders related to the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic:<\/p>\n These directives’ instructions on the COVID-19 epidemic echo many themes from previous orders<\/a>, including the tone of coverage of the epidemic in other countries<\/a>, avoidance of potentially inflammatory terminology<\/a> and topics such as evacuations of Hong Kong<\/a>, U.S.<\/a> and other citizens, and standardization of sourcing with heavy emphasis on official releases<\/a>. Other recent orders had also similarly called for rectification of names involving the South China Sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n The order about "foreign media commentary on sensitive issues involving Xinjiang" came two weeks after The New York Times’ release of reporting on a major trove of leaked documents<\/a> on China’s mass detention campaign<\/a> in the region. It also coincided with a report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on various Western firms’ suspected use of forced labor in the region<\/a>, and with criticism of the detention campaign by NGOs at the United Nations<\/a>. March 3 saw the opening of an exhibition at the the Palais Des Nations in Geneva intended to rebut such condemnation<\/a> during the 43rd regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The display included "more than 100 pictures and videos presenting a beautiful, open, and richly-endowed Xinjiang" in which "people of different ethnic groups, thanks to social stability, are able to share the fruits of development and enjoy their life and work."<\/p>\n In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, and shed light on the propaganda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,35,14744,100,6,5,4202],"tags":[53,17744,15456,6300,6304,5948,4276,1011,15077,18542,17622,5934,4093,15249,5921,17634],"class_list":["post-703636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-hong-kong","category-level-2-article","category-politics","category-sci-tech","category-society","category-translation","tag-censorship","tag-coronavirus","tag-directives-from-the-ministry-of-truth","tag-internet-censorship","tag-internet-control","tag-iran","tag-iran-relations","tag-macau","tag-maritime-disputes","tag-minitrue-plus-five","tag-online-censorship","tag-russia","tag-south-china-sea","tag-territorial-disputes","tag-xinjiang","tag-xinjiang-re-education-camps","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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<\/a>Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. Some instructions are issued by local authorities or to specific sectors, and may not apply universally across China. The date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source. See\u00a0CDT\u2019s collection of Directives from the Ministry of Truth<\/a>\u00a0since 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"