China's army of liars

"They need to possess relatively good political and professional qualities, and have a pioneering and enterprising spirit". Where do I get an application form?

haha if that were true surely they would be attacking your article?

I think that this is another scheme to get China out of the controversy it has about its strict communism. By adding positive comments on negative articles, China hopes the world will believe Chinese citizens are happy with the current form of government.

An army of online spin doctors?! Wow, that's bizarre, it's like some kind of horrible twisted inversion of journalism.

...... fun job though.... if somewhat unethical.

don't a lot of US companies do the same thing? I remember EA editing out the bad sections of their Wikipedia page.

Well, this mentality is certainly a serious threat to the future of mankind. Luckily, it is so pathetically cheap and hollow, it can be easily out-maneuvered.

Scary stuff. In a country like Cuba, the main spin doctor is Fidel Castro himself (he won't trust no one else). But it's unbelievable that in China some mercenaries will do anything for money against their own people.

I believe it. But it wont work.

You can fool some of the people all of the time
and all of the people some of the time
but you cant fool all the people all of the time.

But it might prolong the shift toward harmony.

The CCP or communist party in China has lied about everything since it's inception. I hope a few of you bother to read the nine commentaries ( http://ninecommentaries.com/ ) on the CCP to learn what means this brutal regime will go to to silence any sort of decent or even silence anyone with any sense of morality of any sort.
When a country or a political party to be more exact makes it its official policy to silence moral beliefs something is wrong.
We do business as usual with these murderers then act as if middle east terrorists are worse when in fact the Chinese Communist party has been doing a thousand times the killings that Al Queada ever dreamed of doing. They murder out of necessity and if we only knew to what extremes the CCP would go nobody in the west would buy a single item made there and we would demand we immediately cease any and all business dealings with the CCP, but since these fuckers have completely and utterly infiltrated our system i doubt there is any hope left for Western civilization let alone the Communist way.
And by the way, I'm fairly liberal so don't mistake me as some right wing nut case. Far from it.

Sounds like it takes a 50 cent army to replace Oprah...

while Rome is burning we Americans are busy with our bread and circuses. China has been employing cyberhackers, spies, propandists and other dirty deeds via the internet for years. Chinese authorities recruit the brightest hackers and financially supports them through military funds to attack western interests. They also cyberspy. Even the Pentagon has been penetrated by cyberspies. China actively steals industrial secrets and the govt turns a blind eye to massive bootlegging and copyright infringement.

i believe that in america, we refer to people like this as Fox News

The Chinese have learned very fast how too dominate the world. This century will belong too the Chinese.

Just because you may be paranoid tbow doentt mean that people arent out to get you!

Hmm, when *we* do that it's called "marketing".

I think there should be a nationality flag icon next to registered user names on forums. If not site implemented, than a browser plug in. Not only would it flag possible propaganda, but it would also give the other readers a better sense of where the poster is coming from. It would also help to give people a better understanding of how particular regions feel about things.

There have been whispers, and maybe I am just being paranoid, but has anyone else noticed a huge spike in the number of almost-too-passionate noobs on either side of the Good/Bad Israel fight currently raging on current?

I wouldn't be surprised to find out we're seeing the same thing here.

where is a Chinese Guy Fawkes when you need him!

It's not just the Chinese but all countries do the same. The US, for one, has Voice of America spewing out biased "news", every 30 minutes in most countries. China, too, just learned a trick in playing the Great Game.

Well, that is no different from what we see at current.com, just that people and some staff take action on those things they won't believe in.

China has told Yahoo that it wants to censor all information on the Internet. Yahoo has agreed to do this. The authorities block or change (lie about) historical information such as when the students in Tienanmen Square were fired upon by the cops. China wants us to believe they have changed into a free society but they aren't even close to being that. US companies are conducting big business with them even though they know they over work and under pay their employees and cheat on quality control. Walmart buys about 80% of their goods from China while boasting of their supposed patriotism in their commercials. Making large profits are behind most US company's operating decisions regardless of whether or not they are contributing to their community or their nation.

its like an army of Chinese made Fox news soldiers

i hate to see it but sometimes you know the world is being crushed but you just care, but then you feel the pressure. kids are convinced of things easy. you get a whole generation on the internet and weird things happen...
any whoo
beleving in your own discisions is better then beleiving anything you hear.

In response to an earlier post, China does not have a strict version of Communism; anyone who argues this has not experienced living under Communism in any form for any length of time. Strict social order is felt, yes, but they are almost more capitalistic than the Western world.

Funny how readers seem to be surprised by this story; it's not like this doesn't happen in the West. The pay and job titles are just different.