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From Ridicule To Respect   When Zhang Zhaozhong took the stage in Hefei Theater in east China’s Anhui Province to give a lecture on November 19, 2016, thunderous applause broke out, greeting him like a super star.   It wasn’t always like this for the 64-year-old retired rear admiral of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). It took him more than a decade to get rid of being the butt of public ridicule, thanks to his perseverance and clever use of new media.   Today, Zhang, a once controversial commentator for state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) and a doctoral advisor with the National University of Defense Technology, is also one of China’s top Internet celebrities and an Internet darling on B, Chinese youngsters’ favorite video-sharing website with a real-time commentary subtitle system.    Butt of jokes   Born into a rural family in Hebei Province in north China, Zhang joined the PLA at the age of 18. Later, he studied Arabic at Peking University and in the late 1970s, served as a translator in Iraq for two years, where he got close to war and weapons. He studied weapons and military strategies and wrote for military magazines, becoming a talking head on military matters in China.   However, his public persona started on a note of notoriety when in 2003, during the U.S.-led coalition’s invasion of Iraq, he asserted during a CCTV live broadcast that the U.S. Army would be trapped by then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Just a few days later, the Iraqi leader was overthrown and Zhang was ridiculed.   In 2013, while on the CCTV military show Defense Review Weekly, Zhang said U.S. nuclear submarines would be blocked by seaweed and would not be able to venture into China’s Yellow Sea.   One year later, he said the smog prevailing in China might be a good defense against U.S. laser weapons. Zhang’s remarks were criticized as being imbalanced and misguiding. “It’s good for Zhang to popularize national defense knowledge among the public. But it’s im

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