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“今日俄罗斯”网站5月17日文章，原题：西方虚构了一个想象中的邪恶中国，引导其
民众憎恨和害怕——且在奏效西方政府正煽动仇华情绪对民众洗脑。他们希望人们对中
国既恨又怕，从而制造反华认同。为达到目的，他们虚构了一个类似魔多（电影《指环
王》中黑暗魔君的领地——编者注）的中国。如今如果有外星人登陆地球，看到西方媒
体的报道，会得出结论：中国是彻底的邪恶之国。而美国，尽管不完美，却是一股善力
量，是全球的守护天使……
从中国经济改革并开始崛起之后，西方媒体就展开针对中国的大规模宣传运动。中国的
一举一动都被盯着，每个失误或错误都被无休止地抨击，每个成就基本都被忽视或淡化。
美国自视为宇宙中心，其他国家只是围绕它运行并效忠。因此，当美国看到另一个成功
的权力中心出现时——尤其是唯一能对抗其霸权的国家，本能反应就是竭力阻止。既然
中国成功了，那就必须打压。且由于中国甚至不是个白人占多数的国家，那就更要打压。
然而有个小问题：中国不像美国。它不会以虚假借口去杀害数百万人，不会轰炸别国的
医院和学校，不会一再违反国际法，同时却教训别人要遵守国际法。中国不是一个窃取
和囤积别国财富的帝国。中国变富了，但没有做任何曾令西方国家富裕和繁荣的那些事
情。
既然中国不像西方那样邪恶，（西方）就必须造出一个另类、邪恶的中国，然后把自己
想要的东西投射到假想之国。这个西方虚构的中国需要大量宣传和谎言来构建，而走狗
式的西方媒体乐意承担这项任务。毕竟，美国不能公开说想摧毁中国以维持美国霸权。
因此，他们含沙射影，传播阴谋论。这样，人们就可以被洗脑，变得仇恨、害怕中国。
例如，当美国政府制裁中国公司时，目的是为了维护西方公司的主导地位。但这种话无
法大声说出，因为违背了美国倡导的“自由市场”原则。于是，中国公司被说成“安全
威胁”，中企被说成安装“后门”，可窥探你。当然，此类说辞炒作无需证据。一旦制
造出中国是邪恶的理由，美国就可把自己描绘成善良的超级大国。这种“善与恶”的二
元对立，通过仇华套路不断得到强化。从香港到华为，此类套路一直不断上演。
在西方看来，中国本质上是不同文明，是对西方文明的威胁。中国的崛起表明，一个不
一样的多极世界是可能的——在这个世界里，没有无休止的战争和制裁，贫穷和饥饿成
为遥远记忆，人们能快乐地生活，不用担心地球彼端的超级大国会因为他们拥有其想要
的东西而狂轰滥炸。这一切都为美国所不容。
他们仇视中国的真正原因是，西方今天的繁荣不是因为努力工作或坚持不懈，而是靠着
几个世纪的帝国主义、殖民主义和财富囤积。中国正走在成为超级大国的路上，却从未
有过（西方）这种暴行。这是真正激怒他们的原因。毕竟，嫉妒是多数仇恨的根源。（
作者梅特雷亚·巴卡尔，乔恒译） | t*****r
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The West has created an imaginary, evil China for its people to hate and
fear – and it’s working
16 May, 2021 07:02
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Maitreya Bhakal is an Indian commentator who writes about China, India, the
US, and global issues. Follow him on Twitter @MaitreyaBhakal
Western regimes are brainwashing their people with Sinophobia. They want
them to both hate and fear China to manufacture consent for anti-China
aggression. A fictional, Mordor-like China has been created to achieve this
aim.
If an alien landed on Earth today and read Western media reports on China,
they would reach an unambiguous conclusion: China is a comprehensively and
uniquely evil nation. It jails and kills civilians for no reason, commits
all sorts of atrocities on its people (who are apparently also filthy and
spread diseases), commits genocide on ethnic minorities, obsessively
controls people’s thoughts, unleashes deadly plagues upon the world,
bullies other nations and traps them in debt, and is a nation whose evil
leaders are all fanatics, obsessed with power and bent on destroying the
world.
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The aliens could be forgiven for assuming that all evil on this planet is
because of China (and perhaps Russia and Iran thrown in for good measure) –
and the US, while not perfect, is nevertheless a force for good, a global
guardian angel, the benevolent superpower keeping the world together. It is
the sole driver of world peace and international solidarity, the solitary
bulwark against the evil Chinese communist hordes.
Manufacturing powerhouse v manufacturing consent
Ever since Chinese economic reforms began and China started ‘rising’,
Western media has unleashed a massive propaganda campaign against it. Every
single Chinese action is scrutinized to death, every wrong deed or mistake
criticized endlessly, and every achievement mostly ignored or downplayed.
Two factors help explain this Sinophobic hate campaign. The first is the
standard policy to ‘manufacture consent’ and manufacture hatred – the
purpose of Western journalism, especially against the only nation on Earth
that can counter US hegemony. The second is plain-old racism – the core
pillar of Western culture.
The middle kingdom
The US sees itself as the center of the universe, with other nations merely
orbiting around it and paying homage. America treats many of them like its
minions, or “allies” and “partners”, to use the popular – if inaccurate
– terminology. Maintaining global and racial hegemony remains central to
US foreign policy. Any successful development model that doesn’t obey
Western norms cannot be tolerated.
Thus, today, when the US sees another successful power center emerging, its
Pavlovian response is to violently push back. Since China is too successful,
it has to be suppressed. A non-allied nation that is not a Western-style “
democracy” cannot be allowed to develop – whether technologically or
financially, and certainly not militarily. And since China is not even a
white-majority nation, it needs to be crushed even more.
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The Anglosphere countries hoping for China’s collapse should be more
worried about their own economic prospects
However, there is one small problem: China is not like America. It does not
kill millions on false pretexts, it does not bomb nations and their
hospitals and schools, it does not launch drone strikes against civilians,
it does not violate international law repeatedly while lecturing others to
follow it, it does not have an imperial empire for stealing and hoarding
other nations’ wealth – it does none of the things that has made the West
rich and prosperous. China became rich largely without doing any of the
above.
Dr. China and Mr. Hyde
Since China is not as evil as the West, an alternate, evil version of China
has to be created – a mirror image in an alternate reality. The West can
then project anything they want into this imaginary China. It can be accused
of any evil in the world - based on equally imaginary evidence.
This alternate China requires massive doses of propaganda and lies to
construct – and the lapdog Western media is all too willing to oblige.
After all, the US can’t openly say that it wants to destroy China in order
to maintain US hegemony. Thus, they lie through their teeth and spread
conspiracy theories. People can then be successfully brainwashed to hate and
fear China.
For example, when the US regime sanctions Chinese companies, it does so with
the aim of preserving the dominance of Western companies that are unable to
compete fairly. However, this cannot be said out loud, since it goes
against “free market” principles the US regularly espouses. Thus, a
strawman needs to be manufactured: that Chinese companies are a “threat to
national security” or have “backdoors” in them that allow the evil
Chinese to snoop on you. Of course, this needs no evidence; the media will
amplify US rhetoric without proof. After all, in the West, freedom of the
press includes the freedom to lie.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is another glaring example. Western loans
from the IMF or World Bank are brutal and predatory in nature, and
frequently impose tough repayment terms and severe austerity measures on
host nations, often causing downright bankruptcy. Recipient nations are
required to privatize parts of their economy and surrender natural resources
. Thus, in the topsy-turvy, Catch-22 world of Western propaganda, China is
accused of predatory lending and ‘debt-trap diplomacy’.
Even human lives are not spared. Pfizer, a wicked US pharma firm, allegedly
demanded that South American nations surrender their sovereign assets as
collateral in exchange for life-saving Covid-19 vaccines. Thus, as if on cue
, China is accused of deploying “vaccine diplomacy” and taking advantage
of smaller nations.
A superpower race – with a different race
Once a justification is created that China is evil – and that every action
China commits is an act of evil – the US can paint itself as the good,
benevolent superpower acting in the world’s best interests. This ‘Good v
Evil’ binary is constantly reinforced through stereotypical Sinophobic
tropes. The template is applied to every single story about China, from Hong
Kong to Huawei.
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Enter racism. The way the West sees it, China is the proverbial “Other” –
essentially a different civilization with different standards – almost a
different type of human. As the bigoted Rudy Giuliani, “America’s mayor”
and a former Trump adviser once said, human life “doesn’t mean the same
thing” to the Chinese as it does to the West. Few Americans criticized his
remarks. Many agreed with him, secretly pleased that he said out loud what
they couldn’t.
This is not an aberration. Racism is central to US society, and Sinophobia
is deeply ingrained in US culture and policy-making. The former US president
himself kept dog whistling “China virus” endlessly to anyone who would
listen. His cronies were no better. Kiron Skinner (who is ironically black;
Sinophobia in America transcends racial boundaries), the then-director of
policy planning at the State Department, said openly that this is “the
first time that we will have a great-power competitor that is not Caucasian,
” and that the previous Cold War with the Soviet Union was at least “a
fight within the Western family.” Unsurprisingly, the Western corporate
media largely ignored her remarks.
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently declared China a threat that requires
a “whole-of-society” response. This was an almost exact replication of
19th-century propaganda portraying Chinese people as evil hordes coming over
to infiltrate and destroy the pure, innocent Western societies.
When COVID-19 stuck, western media openly blamed China for the disease. The
more conservative outlets pounced at the ‘lab-leak theory’ and defended
the use of the phrase "China virus", while the more liberal ones focused on
the tried-and-trusted 'Chinese authoritarianism' trope. The New York Times
accused China’s “old habits” of “secrecy” and “controlling the
narrative” of slowing the response. It pinned the blame on China and tried
to deflect from western countries' own criminal neglect in controlling their
outbreaks. Yet, had the 'democratic' West adopted China's 'authoritarian'
methods, they wouldn't have been on their knees today, struggling with
recurrent waves. Blaming China was a coping mechanism; today, more people
have died from COVID-19 just in Orange county in California, US than in the
whole of China. So much for democracy.
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Combine all this with the regular Sinophobic reporting, and a steady picture
begins to emerge: Barbaric China is an existential threat to our
enlightened Western civilization. The Communist Party of China is just a
modern-day Fu Manchu, that will stop at nothing to take our “freedoms.”
After the Soviets and Muslims, it is now China’s turn to fill the role of
the villain. Such imaginary rogues are useful to the US regime to distract
the proles from domestic problems.
A world without war
And herein lies the real reason why they hate China. The West is prosperous
today not because of hard work or perseverance, but because of centuries of
imperialism, colonialism, and wealth hoarding. China, though, is on the path
to becoming a superpower without committing such atrocities. This is what
really riles them up; after all, jealousy is the root of most hatred.
China’s rise shows that an alternative, multi-polar world is possible, a
world not besieged by endless wars and genocidal sanctions, a world where
poverty and hunger are distant memories – a world where people can live
happily without being afraid that a superpower from across the planet may
bomb them into oblivion because they have something it wants. And the US
cannot allow that. | f*******y
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: 俄媒：西方煽动民众仇华的真正原因是嫉妒中国
: 环球网
: 21小时前 · 环球网官方账号
: 来源：环球时报
: “今日俄罗斯”网站5月17日文章，原题：西方虚构了一个想象中的邪恶中国，引导其
: 民众憎恨和害怕——且在奏效西方政府正煽动仇华情绪对民众洗脑。他们希望人们对中
: 国既恨又怕，从而制造反华认同。为达到目的，他们虚构了一个类似魔多（电影《指环
: 王》中黑暗魔君的领地——编者注）的中国。如今如果有外星人登陆地球，看到西方媒
: 体的报道，会得出结论：中国是彻底的邪恶之国。而美国，尽管不完美，却是一股善力
: 量，是全球的守护天使……
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