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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."