by Tenzin Zompa
New Delhi: The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) launched a new bilingual (English and Tibetan) website — Decoding CCP — Thursday, which claims to explain and decipher the meaning and connotations of key official jargon and slogans used by the Chinese Communist Party in present-day China.
The TCHRD is an India-based non-governmental organisation that works towards advancing human rights and democracy in Tibet, and among the Tibetan community in exile.
The website claims to give an “inside track” on what Chinese interlocutors mean and also explains the alleged “hidden” meaning of phrases like ‘Visit the People, Benefit the People, and Bring Together the Hearts of the People’, as well as terms like ‘Strike Hard Campaign’.
“It is not just a glossary of literal translations. Decoding CCP will unpack the hidden assumptions, implicit meanings, likely impacts and consequences of the aggressive propaganda of the CCP,” Tsering Tsomo, director of TCHRD claimed during the launch of the website at the Press Club of India Thursday. Soon, more phrases and terms will be added to the website, which will also be made into an app next year, she added.
The terms and programmes that the website claims to decode are not necessarily targetted at Tibetans, but those used by the CCP across China.
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