Proactively fight against plots of hostile forces and anti-regime elements

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Hostile forces at home and abroad use thousands of websites, social networks, forums, personal blogs, organize thousands of anti-corruption campaigns, and every day publish hundreds of articles, open letters, and declarations with slanderous arguments and malicious comments, especially distorting the Party and State's anti-corruption work, the investigation and handling of corruption and negative cases to distort that "the fight against corruption is an internal purge".

Taking advantage of the country's major political events such as the sessions of the 15th National Assembly, the conferences of the 13th Party Central Committee, the anniversaries of major holidays such as the Liberation Day of the South and National Reunification Day, National Day September 2 and historical events (Northern Border War (February 17, 1979), Gac Ma Battle (March 14, 1988)... to distort the nature, falsify history, and deviate from the Party and State's policies and guidelines for protecting the country's independence and sovereignty, while spreading fabricated information and speculation about the health and private lives of Party and State leaders... Recently, they have been thoroughly exploiting the tense situation between Russia and Ukraine to incite and distort the Party and State's foreign policy.

In Nghe An, bad forces have taken full advantage of complicated and sensitive incidents to incite, distort and sabotage such as: Personnel work in some units and localities; attracting investment in the Nine-storey Waterfall Project in Nam Dan district; the implementation of the Eternal Ecological Cemetery Park Project in Hung Tay commune, Hung Nguyen district; the WHA Industrial Zone 1 - Nghe An project in Nghi Thuan commune, Nghi Loc district; the North-South Expressway construction project passing through the province; the prosecution by authorities of the subject illegally keeping 17 tigers in Yen Thanh district; the handling by authorities of cases of violations of regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control... to spread fake news and cause public confusion.

A corner of WHA Industrial Park located in the Southeast Economic Zone. Photo courtesy

In order to proactively fight against erroneous and hostile viewpoints and constantly improve the work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation, in the coming time, local Party committees and authorities need to regularly grasp the ideological situation and public opinion in a timely and in-depth manner, especially the urgent ideological flow among the people, always closely follow political and social events and issues that may arise complicatedly, pay attention to the implementation of key projects and works in the area to promptly direct and handle them thoroughly. Proactively develop propaganda documents, coordinate to provide official information when complicated and sensitive incidents occur in the area, contact and provide information when they occur in other localities to serve propaganda work, promptly orient public opinion, avoid being exploited to distort, incite, and complicate the security and order situation in the locality.

Strengthening propaganda and mobilizing prestigious people, mass organizations, cadres, party members and people of all walks of life to always support and express clear views and opinions to protect the Party and the government against complicated incidents, creating widespread media power. At the same time, Party committees at all levels need to specify regulations and rules, assign tasks to cadres and party members to enhance their roles and responsibilities in protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous and hostile views - identifying this as one of the top important tasks today.

In addition, in the face of the current complex security and political situation in the world, each cadre and party member needs to access correct information and propaganda, always stand firm on the Party and State's foreign policy and stance, which is to protect independence, autonomy, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, multilateralization, diversification, proactive and active international integration, and put national and ethnic interests first and foremost. Regularly monitor and grasp opposing ideologies, always proactively fight against fake, toxic information, and distortions of the Party's foreign policy and Vietnam's bilateral relations with other countries.