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发帖数: 4825 | 1 https://www.rt.com/op-ed/489362-us-propaganda-china-like-nazi-germany/
22 May, 2020
Caitlin Johnston is an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia.
Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz
Anti-Beijing sentiment is being deliberately whipped up by an imperialist
America, its supine allies and supportive media oligarchs. But it’s just
self-serving propaganda that needs to be called out.
China is in the news every day now. Today here in Australia, we’re
pretending to be offended because a Chinese tabloid published the accusation
that our nation is a “giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US,”
even though we all know that’s completely true and we should be flattered
that at least they said “giant.”
Before that, we were getting indignant over a hefty barley tariff in
response to our facilitation of America’s global anti-China spin campaign,
which it turns out Washington screwed us on.
Anti-China sentiment has been thriving in Australia, aided by our Murdoch-
dominated news media, State Department-funded think tanks explicitly geared
toward manipulating the China narrative, and of course our own deep-seated
racism and xenophobia.
Because of its geographical location, the US military/intelligence asset
conventionally known as Australia has been a major focal point for the US-
centralized empire’s propaganda campaign against the most powerful
unabsorbed nation in the world.
China is in the news constantly now, and it’s not because of any virus. It
’s not because of Hong Kong, it’s not because of Uighurs, it’s not
because of intellectual property violations or any of the other scattershot,
unrelated hodgepodge of excuses you’re being fed as to why the Chinese
government must be regarded as the latest Actual Hitler all of a sudden.
China is in the news all the time because of imperialism.
To understand what’s going on with China and why the “news” media keep
punching you in the face with stories about how awful it is, you really only
need to grasp two basic points:
Point 1: We are in the middle of a slow-motion third world war between the
US-centralized power alliance and the nations which have resisted being
absorbed into it.
A loose alliance of nationless oligarchs who use governments as weapons have
secured control over a large empire-like cluster of nations with economic
and military might loosely centralized around the United States. In order to
gain more power and ensure its ongoing hegemony, this oligarchic empire
must keep expanding by absorbing more nations and brutalizing them if they
resist. China is by far the most powerful of the unabsorbed nations,
followed by Russia at a distant second and Iran at a distant third.
Nuclear weapons make another hot world war undesirable, so this one takes
the form of resource control, economic warfare, staging coups, arming
oppositional militias to use as proxy armies, expanding military presence in
key geostrategic regions under the pretense of fighting terrorism, and “
humanitarian interventionism,” with old-school full-scale ground invasions
used only as a last resort, and only after manufacturing sufficient
international approval to ensure the continued cohesion of the empire-like
power alliance.
But the end goal is the same as that of a conventional world war: to beat
the other side into submission and compliance. And, in this case, absorption
into the imperial blob. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the prevailing
orthodoxy in US power structures became that the US must maintain unipolar
hegemony at all cost to maintain a “liberal world order” (even if it means
abandoning “liberal” values whenever it’s convenient). From that point
on, the agenda has been global domination and the slow, suffocating
subversion of anyone who gets in the way.
Point 2: Propaganda is used to move this world war along.
In a conventional war, each side has clear military objectives that everyone
understands, and the weapons are naturally moved around in accordance with
these objectives. In this weird slow-motion world war, nobody understands
what’s going on besides the major power players and those who are paying
very close attention.
The various agendas against the governments of Iran, Venezuela, Russia,
Syria, China, etc. appear different and unrelated when looked at
individually, and indeed you will see different political factions
supporting some of these agendas but not others. The only thing unifying
this slow-motion movement toward the destruction and absorption of all
unabsorbed nations is carefully constructed propaganda narratives.
The way these unifying propaganda narratives operate is simple. It would
never occur to rank-and-file citizens that a nation on the other side of the
planet that’s pretty much just doing its own thing needs to be sanctioned,
subverted and brought to heel, so the imperialist oligarchs who own the
political/media class make sure everyone is fed custom-made narratives
according to their own ideological echo chamber to prevent any domestic
inertia from being thrown on these agendas.
Once there’s sufficient agreement that Saddam/Gaddafi/Morales/Assad/Maduro/
whomever must go, the campaign to subvert, sabotage and absorb that
government can safely be escalated.
If you can understand points one and two, you can understand everything that
’s happening with China, and everything that will continue to happen.
Propaganda narratives will be rolled out with increasing aggression which
have the long-term goal of alienating China from its allies, hurting its
economic interests, and preventing its rise to true superpower status and
creating a multipolar world.
And the funny thing is, none of this is necessary. Westerners have been
deliberately propagandized into believing that China wants to take over the
world and will do so unless kept in line by the United States, which has
surrounded China with military bases in an act of extreme aggression that
the US itself would never tolerate from any unabsorbed government. But if
you really grill people on how they know that China wants to take over the
world, you’ll find they don’t have any substantial evidence for it.
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They’ll tell you that China has an authoritarian government which
persecutes ethnic and religious minorities, wrongly claiming that this means
they want to take over the world and inflict the same on everyone else.
They’ll tell you China has sought to expand control over some directly
adjacent territories, wrongly claiming that this means they want to dominate
the planet militarily like the US currently does.
They’ll cite evidence which shows China is seeking to become a superpower
and create a multipolar world (something China openly admits) and wrongly
claim that this is proof that they are seeking to dominate the world with
unipolar hegemony.
They won’t be able to produce any actual, hard evidence that China is
trying to take over the world and censor your internet and take away your
rights, because no such evidence exists. It’s a completely empty belief
arising from aggressive narrative manipulation.
“One myth I think really that needs to be dispelled is that somehow China
is aiming to replace America and going to run the world, and it’s not,”
said Chinese venture capitalist and social scientist Eric Li on the John
Pilger documentary The Coming War on China. “First of all, the Chinese are
not that stupid. The West, with its Christian roots, are about converting
other people into their beliefs. The Chinese are not about that. It’s just
that — again, I’m not degrading the Western culture, I’m just pointing
out the inherent nature, the DNA of two different cultures — the Chinese
two thousand years ago built the Great Wall to keep the barbarians out, not
to invade them.”
I’d say this is a reasonable summary. After European nations tried to
conquer the planet just a few generations ago in the name of spreading
Christianity and “civilization,” we’re projecting our sick vestigial
colonialist values on a nation whose
Violently dominating the entire planet for all eternity on the vague
suspicion that another country wants to do the same to you is not sane, and
is not an option. Unabsorbed nations should be allowed to remain unabsorbed,
absorbed nations should have their sovereignty restored (or in Australia’s
case, granted to it for the first time since its existence as a nation),
and America should begin acting like a normal country.
The notion of “pre-crime” is the purview of dystopian horror fiction when
applied to individual people, and there’s no reason we should find the
prospect of attacking and destroying for hypothetical future offenses any
less insane on an international scale.
There was never any reason for the coronavirus to be made into an issue of
international conflict when it could just as easily be an issue of
international collaboration, and indeed collaborating is what we should all
be doing, with this virus and with everything else. Let’s end this weird
slow-motion world war and move toward sanity. | u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 2 China is in the news every day now. Today here in Australia, we’re
pretending to be offended because a Chinese tabloid published the accusation
that our nation is a “giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US,”
even though we all know that’s completely true and we should be flattered
that at least they said “giant.”
LOL | h********r
发帖数: 668 | 3 哈哈
accusation
【在 u***r 的大作中提到】
: China is in the news every day now. Today here in Australia, we’re
: pretending to be offended because a Chinese tabloid published the accusation
: that our nation is a “giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US,”
: even though we all know that’s completely true and we should be flattered
: that at least they said “giant.”
: LOL
| h********r
发帖数: 668 | 4 哈哈
accusation
【在 u***r 的大作中提到】
: China is in the news every day now. Today here in Australia, we’re
: pretending to be offended because a Chinese tabloid published the accusation
: that our nation is a “giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US,”
: even though we all know that’s completely true and we should be flattered
: that at least they said “giant.”
: LOL
| g**********1
发帖数: 1 | | B********u
发帖数: 1 | 6 看完了，有理有据
. Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz
accusation that our nation is a “giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the
US,”
【在 u***r 的大作中提到】
: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/489362-us-propaganda-china-like-nazi-germany/
: 22 May, 2020
: Caitlin Johnston is an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia.
: Her website is here and you can follow her on Twitter @caitoz
: Anti-Beijing sentiment is being deliberately whipped up by an imperialist
: America, its supine allies and supportive media oligarchs. But it’s just
: self-serving propaganda that needs to be called out.
: China is in the news every day now. Today here in Australia, we’re
: pretending to be offended because a Chinese tabloid published the accusation
: that our nation is a “giant kangaroo that serves as a dog of the US,”
| u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 7 澳大利亚独立记者写的。看完了，还是相信有独立思考的人的存在的。就是可惜数量不
算多 | u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 8 就是独立思考的人为什么会被逼到RT才能发表呢？
定体问？ | j****z
发帖数: 299 | 9
显然澳大利亚媒体和有关人士不想看到这有理有据的文章，记者才去rt发表的
【在 u***r 的大作中提到】
: 就是独立思考的人为什么会被逼到RT才能发表呢？
: 定体问？
| u***r
发帖数: 4825 | | c********i
发帖数: 942 | 11 中国应该聘请这些人来给中国做记者写英文报道
China Daily，中央台国际频道等等
另外中国也可以建立中国之声等对外广播机构 | u***r
发帖数: 4825 | | u***r
发帖数: 4825 | 13 If you can understand points one and two, you can understand everything that
’s happening with China, and everything that will continue to happen.
Propaganda narratives will be rolled out with increasing aggression which
have the long-term goal of alienating China from its allies, hurting its
economic interests, and preventing its rise to true superpower status and
creating a multipolar world. | s********i
发帖数: 17328 | 14 别逗了！美国带路党实力刚刚的！和对付纳粹不可同日而语
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