Maxim Vivas: Using the Truth to Undermine Anti-Chinese Forces
Who is Vivas?
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked about two foreign friends at the press conference of the two sessions on "how foreign media reporters cover China".
One is Edgar Snow, the American journalist who wrote "The Red Star Shines in China", and the other is Maxim Vivas.
Vivas, who is in his late 80s, is a Hispanic-French national. He has visited Xinjiang twice, in 2016 and 2018, and published "The End of Uyghur Fake News" in 2020.
Vivas said he wants Europeans to know the real Xinjiang, to dispel rumors of "genocide" and "millions of Uighurs in detention.
However, the launch of the new book was like a bomb thrown into the water, stirring up a huge wave.
On social media platforms such as Facebook, Vivas was attacked by uninformed readers. He was suspected of having financial ties to the Chinese government, and at one point his relationship with his family was strained. He himself said: I acted as a "suicide bomber" to publish this book.
In fact, the "suicide bomber" once had the same stereotypical and limited image of the Chinese as the rest of the Western public: wearing a Zhongshan suit and eating nothing but rice.
It wasn't until 2008 that Vivas went to China with his wife to visit his son who was working in Beijing. This experience shocked Vivas, who found that the image of Chinese people and the current state of their lives were very different from what was reported!
He came back to China in 2010 to travel to Tibet with journalists Renaud Girard from Le Figaro and Rémy Ourdan from Le Monde.
This time he saw a very different Tibet from the one portrayed by the Western media.
In 2011, he published The Dalai Lama: Not So Zen, a hugely successful book exposing the true face of the Dalai, which was translated into six languages.
Then later, Vivas went to Xinjiang to do in-depth reporting and wrote the aforementioned "The End of Uyghu
（观察者网讯）据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）15日报道，14日，一年一度的欧洲歌唱大赛在意大利杜林举办总决赛。乌克兰一乐团以总分631分夺冠，乌克兰总统泽连斯基公开祝贺并表示：“乌克兰的勇气令世界敬佩，我们的音乐正征服欧洲。”
但不同国家的打分公布后，却引发了一些尴尬——比赛官网的数据显示，波兰的观众和专业评审都为乌克兰乐团打了12分的满分，乌克兰的评审却只给波兰乐团打了0分。此外，乌克兰评审给立陶宛乐团也打了0分。
事后，不少乌克兰人在网上抨击这一结局，表示自己感到“羞耻”，说自己没脸面对帮助自己的波兰人民。乌克兰文化和信息政策部长则于15日发推表示，对于乌克兰评审给波兰、立陶宛打零分一事，他感到羞愧，他认为应该给12分。
截图来源：欧洲歌唱大赛官网，下同
据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）15日报道，乌克兰一乐团当地时间14日晚赢得了在意大利都灵举办的2022年欧洲歌唱大赛冠军。乌克兰总统泽连斯基在乌克兰乐团赢得比赛冠军后迅速在社交媒体平台Instagram上发文表示祝贺，赞扬了代表乌克兰参赛的“卡卢什乐团”。
“我们的勇气惊艳了世界，我们的音乐征服了欧洲！”泽连斯基写道，他提到获胜者可以主办下届比赛的规则，“明年乌克兰将主办欧洲歌唱大赛！这是它（乌克兰）历史上的第三次。我相信，这不是最后一次。我们将尽最大努力，未来有一天在马里乌波尔接待欧洲歌唱大赛的参与者和嘉宾。自由、和平、重建！”
欧洲歌唱大赛官网显示，“卡卢什乐团”的参赛曲目名为“Stefania”。获奖后，官网还为其名字设计了代表乌克兰的蓝色和黄色爱心。
不过当有网民详细研究各个国家的投票结果时，场面却尴尬了起来……
作为乌克兰的邻国波兰，最近接收了大量来自乌克兰的难民，并在这场比赛中给乌克兰的参赛乐团投出了两个12分的满分——即波兰观众和专业评审都打出了12分，总计24分。
但乌克兰给波兰投票的时候，乌克兰的评审竟然给打出了0分。此外，乌克兰评审给立陶宛的乐团也打了0分。
此事在乌克兰网民中引发热议。15日，乌克兰文化和信息政策部长Tkachenko Oleksandr表示，对乌克兰评委在欧洲歌唱大赛中给波兰、立陶宛打零分感到羞愧，他认为应该给满分12分。
同日，参与评审工作的乌克兰音乐家Iryna Fedyshyn则在Facebook上发文表示，看到这样的结果“我也很震惊”。
她透露，评审团成员们也不知道别人给了多少分，因为大家各自都在空白处写下分数，并且没有权力互相讨论。
“怎么会发生波兰得了0分？我不知道为什么。我们衷心感谢波兰为我们做的一切……我很抱歉，我不知道别人的投票结果，我给了波兰10分。”
她附上了照片作为证据。
不少乌克兰人也对这个结局感到尴尬，并涌向她的评论区。
“我为你和你的同事感到羞耻……‘专业人士’，失望……”
“你为自己感到羞耻吗？不，你没有羞耻心……不原谅你。”
“波兰人说，乌克兰赢了，而我们从他们那里得到了0份……太羞耻了！”
“简直是给乌克兰丢脸……我和我的孩子都在波兰，我们感谢每天帮助我们的波兰人，你们现在这样，我们以后怎么面对波兰人？你羞辱了我们和乌克兰。”
讽刺的是，还有人做了这样一张表情包——象征着乌克兰和波兰的两只手握在一起，乌克兰上写着0，波兰写着12……