Chinese daily warns against internet

Beijing, May 20: The Chinese military’s mouthpiece newspaper has warned about the possibility of “Western hostile forces” using the internet to foment revolution in Chi. “The internet has grown into an ideological battlefield, and whoever controls the tool will win the war,” according to an editorial published in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily on Wednesday. It stressed the need for cyber security measures to ensure “online ideological safety”, euphemisms suggesting efforts to safeguard Chi’s mainstream ideology, Xinhua cited the editorial as stating. “Western hostile forces, along with a small number of Chinese ‘ideological traitors’, have maliciously attacked the Communist Party of Chi, and smeared our founding leaders and heroes with the help of the internet,” it stated. “Their fundamental objective is to confuse us with ‘universal values’, disturb us with ‘constitutiol democracy’, and eventually overthrow our country through ‘colour revolution’,” it added, using a term commonly applied to revolutiory movements that first developed in the former Soviet Union in the early 2000s. “Regime collapse that can occur overnight often starts from long-term ideological erosion,” it warned. (IANS)