Chinese army soldiers in front of the Forbidden City on May 21, 2020 in Beijing.

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NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP

Extracts from

“Transformers”

or

Rock 

in… a promotional video of the Chinese army.

This choice aroused the astonishment of some Internet users, after the video was broadcast on the social network Weibo.

High definition image, high altitude shots… The video shows Chinese pilots attacking military bases located on islands.

The latter resemble those of the United States at Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean) and Guam (Pacific Ocean).

The clip, which features an operation of the Chinese H6 strategic bomber, capable of carrying conventional or nuclear bombs, has already been seen by nearly 4.8 million people.

The Chinese military's latest propaganda video shows an attack on Guam and borrows clips from Hollywood movies like The Rock (1996), The Hurt Locker (2008), and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) https://t.co/zsFl8EkHCd pic.twitter.com/0PETTJ9MHa

- Matt Novak (@paleofuture) September 21, 2020

American explosions

“We are the defenders of homeland air security.

We have the mission and the capacity to always defend the security of the skies of the fatherland ”, comments the Chinese air force in the description of the video taken up by

Le Parisien

.

But in this two-minute clip, Internet users spotted shots of explosions in the middle of the video borrowed from three Hollywood films: 

Transformers 2: Revenge

(2009),

Rock

(1996, with Sean Connery) and

Minesweeper

(Oscar du best film in 2010).

"We are promoting a military plane made in China with extracts of blockbusters made in the United States," laments a Chinese user of Weibo.

“It's a Chinese promotional video.

Why don't we use our own images?

», Asks another, in tune with the general tone of the comments.

Tense diplomatic relations

It is all the more surprising that relations between China and the United States are at their lowest in recent months due to several points of friction: trade, Hong Kong, Muslim Uighurs, Huawei or even the application. of TikTok videos.

Military tensions are also high with the regular passage of American warships in the South China Sea to contest Chinese claims there.

For its part, China last week organized military exercises near Taiwan, in response to a visit by a senior US official to the island claimed by Beijing but administered by a rival regime for more than seventy years.

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