Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie SBattle on Shangganling Mountain.The film depicts a group of SPeople"s Volunteer Army soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military Sjackals.
The movie and the tune are widely known among Chinese, and the song has been a leading piece of anti-American propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades. CCP propaganda has always referred to the Korean War as the Smovement to resist America and help [North] Korea. The message of the propaganda is that the United States is an enemyin fighting in the Korean War the United States" real goal was said to be to invade and conquer China. The victory at Triangle Hill was promoted as a victory over imperialists.
The song Lang Lang played describes how beautiful China is and then near the end has this verse, SWhen friends are here, there is fine wine /But if the jackal comes /What greets it is the hunting rifle. The Sjackal in the song is the United States. [...]
SMy Motherland having been played at the White House will be seen as a propaganda triumph in China.
SIn the eyes of all Chinese, this will not be seen as anything other than a big insult to the U.S., says Yang Jingduan, a Chinese psychiatrist now living in Philadelphia who was Deputy Director of science and technology development at the No. 4 Military Medical University in Xi"an in China. SIt"s like insulting you in your face and you don"t know it, it"s humiliating.
Yang sees Lang Lang choosing this tune as an expression of the deeply anti-American propaganda that is constant in China.
SThis deeply anti-American chauvinism has been fanned by the CCP for years; Lang Lang is expressing the feelings of this generation of angry young people, Yang said.
A well-known example of such feelings was seen on Sept. 11, 2001, when Chinese chat rooms were filled with young people celebrating this act of terror as an American defeat.
Excited at this coup, patriotic Chinese have been circulating the clip for the last several days. One netizen wrote Sthe right place, right time, right song!
The phrase Sright place, right time, right song echoes Chinese propaganda and is a declaration of victory over the United States.
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