Posted on 03/13/2022 9:15:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I used to be a patriotic, angry youth,” a Chinese student said from Kyiv, Ukraine. “I would fight immediately if anybody dared to say bad words about the Beijing authorities. Now, I will never believe in our regime. Never, never, never.”
Mei Qinghe (a pseudonym) told the Chinese-language Epoch Times on March 10 that she fully trusted the Chinese regime and the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine before the Russia–Ukraine war broke out. Now, she has seen how the regime is lying to the Chinese people, while its embassy in Kyiv is cheating Chinese students, including her.
Mei said the only reason she hasn’t given up in Ukraine is because the people there are very friendly and have offered to help her. They’re the people she trusts, she said.
While the United States, Australia, Japan, and other developed and developing countries were evacuating their citizens, Mei and her fellow Chinese students in Kyiv became worried.
“The [Chinese] Embassy told us that there wouldn’t be a war, and these Western countries were lying,” Mei said, as she noted that she and her fellow students believed the Chinese embassy knew the truth of the situation and would protect them.
“We were really emotional at that time and opposed and slandered the U.S. government … because the embassy told us that the U.S. was boasting and trying to create chaos.”
Mei had enjoyed her life as a Chinese “patriotic, angry youth” before Russia started its invasion on Feb. 24. Most Chinese youths have hate in their hearts because of the brainwashing that they receive as part of their education in China, she says; in schools, students were taught to slander developed Western countries and call themselves patriots.
“You know, it [would have been] easy for us to go to Poland, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, and Slovakia. We could’ve taken a flight or train to go to these countries before the bombing. It was easy and cheap. But we didn’t because the embassy said there wouldn’t be a war,” Mei said.
Her life changed early on Feb. 24.
“At 3 a.m., I heard the shelling. I couldn’t sleep anymore and wanted to flee immediately,” Mei said. “Luckily, I quickly found and bought a flight ticket from Kyiv to Warsaw, which would take off at 10 a.m. But by 6 a.m., media reported that Russian troops had destroyed Kyiv airport and my flight was canceled.”
She then found herself in a panic. She contacted her fellow Chinese students to try to find a way to flee. Quickly, they realized that there was no way to evacuate by themselves and that they needed help.
“We hadn’t prepared for a war. We didn’t have enough food nor cash in our hands. There were long lines in front of every ATM machine [to withdraw cash] … children were crying inside the air-raid shelters … homeless dogs and cats were running on the streets,” Mei recalled. “And the embassy didn’t respond to our requests until the second day [Feb. 25].”
After submitting their evacuation application forms to the Chinese embassy on Feb. 25, Mei and her friends started their challenging period of waiting.
“The embassy kept asking us to wait and didn’t evacuate anybody until March 1,” she said. “The [Chinese] students who were evacuated on the day posted [on social media platforms] that the embassy only sent them to the border and asked them to look after themselves.”
Mei said she didn’t dare attempt this type of evacuation.
Mei regained her calm as the war continued to unfold. Disappointed by the Chinese embassy’s evacuation arrangements, she was moved by the local Ukrainian people during this difficult time.
“Some of my Ukrainian classmates joined the army after the war. They are at the frontlines now,” Mei said. “The Ukrainian classmates who stayed checked our foreign students’ status and needs every day. They asked me whether I wanted to evacuate and would help me if I wanted. … The dorm administrator prepared food and drink for us and brought us to an air-raid shelter once there was an alarm.”
Mei said she decided to stay in Kyiv with the people who helped her. At the same time, she’s very angry about the Chinese state-run media’s reports on the situation in Ukraine, which she believes to be the opinion of the Beijing regime.
“I read Chinese news every day. The media in China all report on how great the Russian troops are doing in Ukraine, how bad the Ukrainian army is, and how the Ukrainian military used our foreign students as hostages. … These are all lies,” she said.
Mei said she believed the Chinese regime wanted the students to be vipers to bite Ukrainians, such as the farmers who rescued them.
“Can you understand my feeling? I’m like having schizophrenia,” she said.
Mei said she wants to tell the world that it’s Ukrainian soldiers who have evacuated Chinese students from the war zones in Sumy and other areas, that it’s Ukrainian soldiers and policemen who rescued Chinese citizens when Russian forces were shooting them, and that the Ukrainian people are helping the Chinese students who are in the country.
“My conscience tells me that I should give back to this country,” Mei said. “I’m a human being. If I [repeat the state-run media’s lies to slander the Western and Ukraine], I don’t even have the bottom line to be a human being. Then, why am I living in this world?”
We here in the US feel the same way.
Oh. So that’s what it takes to reject communism and to accept free market economies. Care and warmth. She said, “She was moved by the local Ukrainian people.” Yes, a warm smile from an American is 100 times better than a cold stare from a communist.
It has nothing to do with economics really. It’s all about national character. This girl was treated with Christian kindness, honesty and charity, by a foreign people who were under terrible strain themselves. And add all the elements of gallantry and romance to it, which is bound to make an impression on a young woman.
Chinese society in contrast can be, er, a bit transactional, let us say.
Pity Ukrainian thugs can’t treat ethnic Russians the same.If any of this is true of course. Wait till Azov nazis hear about this. They love all things oriental /s hmm on second thought they do like stuff from the far east. Like swastikas and stuff
The Chinese are notorious liars.
Most Chinese youths have hate in their hearts because of the brainwashing that they receive as part of their education in China, she says; in schools, students were taught to slander developed Western countries and call themselves patriots.
"Once hatred is planted in the heart, only death can stop it from growing." - Chinese saying.
She is not lying - the Chinese people despise liars like everyone else - its the CCP that lies constantly.
Here are some videos by fluent Western Chinese speakers who lived, worked, married and had children in China for 10 or more years before fleeing for their lives under Xi
China Wants this War More than Russia! Celebrates the Invasion Online! SerpentZA (South African), Mar 2, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxprOQuVamE
How China Secretly Helped Russia Invade Ukraine, laowhy86 (American), Mar 3, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBr2qf52Wrs
China's Embarrassing Flip Flop on Russia, laowhy86 (American), Mar 10, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ8DfvbroeA
Yes, you always have to be careful to separate the common folk from the regime, but, if Chinese grow up as atheists and have no Christian/Judeo heritage that teaches them lying is bad, why shouldn’t they lie? What teaches them not to lie?
if Chinese grow up as atheists and have no Christian/Judeo heritage that teaches them lying is bad, why shouldn’t they lie? What teaches them not to lie?
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Factoid: There are more Christians in China than in the US and Europe combined. Were it not for Xi’s crackdown on Christianity, China was on track to have more Christians that any other county, and 10 years after that more Christians that all other countries combined.
You have to use percentages, not absolute numbers.
For exampke, if Europe has 10 Christians and China has 11, yes they have more, but it is only .0000nn percent of the total population.
You have to use percentages, not absolute numbers.
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Sorry that’s what one Christian site said a few years back. And no, I do not have to use percentages, as that is totally irrelevant to what I was relating.
If there are 1.2 billion Christians in the world now, then in <20 years there would be 1.5 billion Christians in the world. China would have <1.5 billion Christians, or in other words, most of China would have been Christian. So that would make China’s Christian population near 90+% Christian. Just hypothetical not actual numbers. This is hijacking the thread, so let’s end it here.
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“This is hijacking the thread”
Right, talking about Chinese lying is hijacking a thread about Chinese lying. OK...
Going on and on about Christianity in China is hijacking thread about lying.
I think it’s definitely one of the signs of the age, generally people don’t really believe in their governments anymore.
Talking about the prevalence of lying in the culture and why that is so IS VERY RELEVANT.
You must be a troll or a paid commenter or something nefarious to not understand what I wrote.
You must not be a deep thinker or very bright to not understand why using some absolute number is not meaningful.
How much do you wumaos earn now with the CCP’s new propaganda campaign?
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