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Trade Center attack videos hot in China State behind productions
Damien McElroy The Sunday Telegraph
BEIJING - The Chinese state-run propaganda machine is cashing in on the terror attacks in New York and Washington, producing books, films and video games glorifying the strikes as a humbling blow against an arrogant nation.
Video discs filled with lurid images have flooded on to markets across the nation in the wake of the attacks. Disc after disc bear the imprimatur of the Communist Party-controlled media. The most popular DVDs have been produced by the Xinhua information agency, Beijing Television and China Central Television.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, workers at Beijing Television worked round-the-clock to produce a documentary they called Attack America. Scenes from Hollywood films have been spliced between shots of the events of Sept. 11, including footage from the 1998 remake of Godzilla, in which a monster destroys New York buildings.
As rescue workers pick through the rubble of the twin towers, the commentator proclaims that the city had reaped the consequences of decades of American bullying of weaker nations.
"Blood debts have been repaid in blood," he says. "America has bombed other countries and used its hegemony to deny the natural rights of others without paying the price. Who until now has dared to avenge the hurts inflicted by unaccountable Americans?"
Officials at Beijing Television defended the video as an educational film about terrorism.
Staff at the country's most respected bookstore, Xinhua Book Shop on Beijing's busiest shopping street, Wanfujing, say thousands of copies of the video have been sold in the past month.
"What happened in New York could have happened in a movie, but this is real life," the shop assistant said. "It's better."
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