Tearing down the iron curtain: Reality check of PLA’s ‘powerful army’ claim February 5, 2021, 2:50 PM IST The Chinese have learned the worst from the best. Global Times, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) English language media, takes direct inspiration from Joseph Goebbels, the World War II-era Nazi party propaganda chief. A much-publicised speech of his that went, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”, forms the mantra for Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of Global Times and his political master Xi Jinping. Though the target seems to be the English speaking world, the CCP has managed to fool only its citizens, as the chinks in their stories keep getting exposed.