Chinese State Media Releases Video Mocking Western Fears of Huawei

Chinese state media outlet Xinhua launched an English-language parody video on Tuesday taking purpose at U.S. and British fears about tech large Huawei. And it’s a type of issues that’s each extraordinarily awkward and extremely fascinating.

The video, which was revealed on Twitter and YouTube, options two intelligence agent characters from Britain who try to parody James Bond, together with some Wayne’s World catchphrases for good measure.

In the video, the 2 intel brokers meet at a fortress to get their directions from “M,” who has a brand new “single greatest priority” for the western spies. The male agent, often known as James Pond (get it?), speculated that perhaps Julian Assange has escaped from jail or Edward Snowden has been arrested.

While they’re ready, one of many brokers casually talks about spying by the National Security Agency. She additionally mentions that “China” has superior propaganda capabilities, one thing that’s revealed to really be performed by the U.S. throughout a hokey reveal when she flips over a folder to disclose the letters “USA.”

The Pond spy character additionally retains saying “exSQUEEZE me,” which was a catchphrase from the SNL character Wayne Campbell within the Wayne’s World motion pictures from the Nineties. It’s not clear why the spy character retains saying a catchphrase from 30 years in the past, however Wayne is performed by Mike Myers, who was additionally within the Austin Powers motion pictures, a parody of the James Bond movies. Maybe the producers of this video obtained confused and thought Austin Powers says “exqueeze me?” too? He additionally says “Yabba Dabba Doo” at one level, Fred Flintstone’s catchphrase, so who is aware of? It’s all extraordinarily complicated.

When the brokers lastly discuss to “M,” he tells James Pond to not purchase a Huawei cellphone. When Pond asks why, he discovers that his handlers have been spying on him.

“So why not Huawei?” James Pond asks, earlier than studying about American considerations over backdoors. But the opposite agent, often known as 0.06, reveals there’s no precise proof of backdoors and it’s all a sinister propaganda marketing campaign led by the western intelligence businesses.

Huawei has been below assault by western governments which consider the firm’s know-how might be compromised by the Chinese authorities. American authorities have been mild on the small print for a way China would theoretically instigate an assault on U.S. communications infrastructure, however final month there have been studies Chinese spies efficiently penetrated Australian networks in 2012 utilizing a Huawei software program replace, in accordance to Bloomberg News. It’s the type of declare that’s extremely troublesome to independently affirm, after all.

By the top of the video, each brokers are given CIA-certified telephones, that are fairly clearly bugged. You actually should watch the video to understand simply how pressured and bizarre the entire thing is.

China clearly views tech spying hypocrisy as a weak level for the U.S. within the New Cold War. Back in February of 2019, an govt for Huawei made an analogous line of assault on the Mobile World Congress, pointing to revelations from Edward Snowden as a cause to not consider U.S. authorities on the subject of spying allegations.

Chinese state media’s English-language propaganda has gotten increasingly bizarre over the previous couple of years. In May of 2020, Xinhua launched a cartoon character known as Terry-cotta to counter claims China was hoarding PPE close to the start of the covid-19 pandemic. And Xinhua has extra not too long ago launched rapping movies about American hypocrisy.

No one is aware of what 2022 holds for the New Cold War between the U.S. and China, but when at this time’s launch is any information, we are able to in all probability wager it is going to be full of loads of bizarre propaganda movies.