Comment by Context_free
5 years ago
Yes. In the past year I have heard endless breathless "news reports" about how China supposedly manufactured Covid in a lab, to how they are committing genocide with Uighur muslims, to how they are not respecting the UK's continuing dominion over Hong Kong, to how they never innovate and only steal technology from the US, to how they are being aggressive in the east China sea, how they're threatening Taiwan, and on and on and on.
Of course I have been hearing the same thing at various times about Cubans, Venezuelans, Russians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians, Libyans - Blinken just denounced the arrests of those involved in the post-coup massacre in Bolivia. And on and on. This piece is an example of the drive for ever expanding imperial policy under an authoritarian government.
I am sorry some people downvoted you, this supposedly-rational forum is not immune from extreme anti-China prejudices either.
Indeed these constantly-negative news reports are ridiculous and serve further to indoctrinate everyone that "China is evil". People should visit China for themselves and understand just how screwed the media portrayals are. Today's "free speech" media seem to think that their shit doesn't stink and everything they do is holy. They can't even write positively about China's successful lockdowns and somehow manage to blow up a single case of local authorities overstretching (then getting both politically and publicly reprimanded for it) into "China covered up covid". Absolutely ridiculous.