A new Taiwanese series about a fictional Chinese invasion has warmed the drama ranking at the top of its Saturday premiere on public TV and many streaming platforms.
The 10 episode drama called “Zero Day Attack” is set in 2028, imagining China, as an excuse to start a blockade as a missing war, when a newly chosen Taiwani is about to take the presidential post.
Some viewers have praised the show for helping every Taiwanese to understand how CCP [Chinese Communist Party] Infiltrates us, “while others have accused it of selling a sense of national doom. ,
Taiwan is a self-governmental democracy that is part of Beijing, to “reunion” with the mainland using the force if necessary with the CCP.
Over the years, Taiwan’s filmmakers avoid cross-strategic struggle plots to avoid access to Chinese’s attractive media markets to a large extent.
U-Hui Tai, for the Professor of Political Economics of Communications at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, is a tendency that is imagining a Chinese invasion, no longer forbidden.
,[The trend] This indicates how we have broken the spiral of silence, “he told DW.
“This is gone by something that we did not want to talk about about that we can imagine and even simulate.”
Ukraine inspired Taiwanese Creative
“Looking at the seriousness of the war in Ukraine, I felt that if we haven’t addressed the subject yet, there could never be a chance,” Shornar and screenwriter Cheng Haseen-Mei told DW, began at the end of 2022, producing “Zero Day Attack”, Russia attacked Ukraine the same year.
Taiwan has emerged as one of the most content flash points in the globe as China intensifies its military appearance in the region and exercises regularly around the island.
While most of the democratic countries, including the United States-Taiwan’s largest security bank, according to the “one-China policy”, means that Taiwan does not recognize as a sovereign state, they oppose any ignorance from both sides of the current situation.
In May, the “Zero Day Attack” premed at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit in Denmark, where it receives a permanent ovation. The series is ready to premiere in a first event in Washington in September and launchs on a Japanese streaming platform in the middle.
Series sparks dispute
But before being an officer of the series, its trailer already created domestic controversy.
With a budget of about half a series from government subsidy, Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) accused the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of using public funds to promote “a sense of national doom” – a charge by many KMT supporters.
Cheng replied that the government subsidy is common for local film and TV projects, arguing that “a sense of national doom” comes from reality that a powerful authority regime constantly warns that it would not give up the use of force against Taiwan. “
Unlike the typical war plays filled with scenes of the epic war, “zero day attack” focuses on the internal conflicts of Taiwan among a potential people, which depicts political division and anarchy on the island.
The concept was developed through research and counseling with national security experts, “the modern war depends on various forms of infiltration to sow or surrender,” said Cheng said.
China-centric games killed the market
Like the TV series, sports that aim to bring awareness and knowledge about China’s political infiltration strategies have emerged a lot on the market.
Earlier this year, the board game “2045” was officially released after a successful crowdfunding campaign. The game simulates a Chinese military attack in 2045, after which Taiwan divided into six different forces including self-defense units and supporters-ecology groups.
Another board game also converted the idea of the story into a mobile game, called the “reverse front”. It created a virtual “Oriental Continent”, which allows players to infiltrate the Chinese Communist Party from Taiwan, Hong Kong or other surrounding areas.
In June, Hong Kong officials allegedly banned mobile games for “violating the National Security Act”. However, the ban promoted a boom in the download only.
“We aim to present a realistic picture of the political landscape in East Asia,” Johnny said, “Overt Morche” said, who used a pseudonym in view of the sensitivity of the subject.
“Despite the danger or methods of infiltration from Beijing, we hope that Taiwan can learn how to take counters,” he told DW.
Imagine
Although concerns have increased about the psychological effects of thesis functions, they can sunk public concern with critics warnings.
A Taiwanese board game store told DW that most of the customers travel to rest and relax, some feelings playing “2045” may leave some emotions in emotional stress or pressure.
Tammy Lynn, a prestigious professor at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University, said, “There will be essentially concern.”
“For Taiwan, this is a nightmare -level subject that people will not mention or will not face it,” he told DW.
For the political economy of communication, Professor Tai said that it is natural to incite a spectrum of emotions for films and sports, Taiwan’s deep partial partisan is divided on cross -straight relations.
“How we facilitate dialogue between thesis, which is a real test of Taiwanese knowledge between different emotions rather than confronting them,” he said.
Tai said that Beijing is likely to watch thesis TV shows and games as Taiwanese public spirit flows away from China, which can “motivate the Chinese government to intensify ideological efforts”.
China’s Ministry of Defense has already criticized “Zero Day Attack”, the purpose of a political production “is to force the attackers on both sides of Taiwan Strait to struggle and damage and ruin and ruin.”
“Division information is a fertile ground for war and fake news,” Tai said, “The question is: Do we want to create fear or rational rational communication?”
Edited by: Wesley Rahan
