VS demonisering van China: het doel daarvan o.a. het wegpoetsen van blunders op Coronadossier

De Trump administratie doet niet anders dan China demoniseren met leugens en beschuldigingen waarvan het doel wat mij betreft duidelijk is: China manipuleren, nog meer dan Trump met de handelsoorlog tegen dit land al heeft gedaan. Uiteraard is e.e.a. ook bedoeld om de totale chaos te verbergen van de Trump administratie wat betreft het beleid op het Coronavirus..... 

Waar Trump China eerder de hemel in heeft geprezen wat betreft de aanpak op het Coronavirus, heeft hij die uitspraken (veelal gedaan op Twitter) omgeruild voor het demoniseren van China, waarbij hij de Coronavirus uitbraak in de VS de grootste aanval ooit op de VS heeft genoemd.... Tel bij het voorgaande Trumps uitspraak op dat China en alleen China verantwoordelijk is voor de uitbraak van het virus in de VS en je kan concluderen dat Trump China beschuldigt als het land dat de grootste aanval ooit op de VS heeft gepleegd, een niet alleen volkomen gestoorde redenering maar ook een uiterst gevaarlijke uitspraak.......

 

En zie wat Trump in 2009 over het handelen op een 'pandemie' door Obama durfde te zeggen:

De VS heeft niet alleen een groot aantal militaire bases rond de (noord- en zuid-) oostelijke grenzen van China, maar vaart ook af en aan met haar marine door gebieden die China terecht tot haar territoriale wateren rekent, zoals een flink deel van de Zuid-Chinese Zee..... Dit alles bij elkaar opgeteld is een door de VS geplaatst kruitvat waarin alleen de lont nog moet worden aangestoken door Trump......

Caitlin Johnstone ziet echter meer zaken die de gewone sterveling amper op zullen vallen, zeker daar de reguliere westerse media een groot aantal zaken verzwijgen, dit in een voortdurende anti-Chinese campagne, waarbij ze vooral wijst op haar land Australië, het land waarin Rupert Murdoch de grootste media in handen heeft en waar deze, zoals andere westerse media, maar al te graag China demoniseert vanwege haar 'imperialisme', waar juist de VS het voorbeeld is van ongebreideld imperialisme, sterker nog: de VS kan niet anders worden beoordeeld dan als het Vierde Rijk, met maar liefst meer dan 800 militaire bases over de wereld......

Het Vierde Rijk dat volgens Johnstone (die niet spreekt over het Vierde Rijk) alle landen absorbeert die achter haar imperialisme staan, dan wel landen absorbeert die geen andere keus zien dan de VS maar te steunen om erger te voorkomen..... 'Erger' zoals sancties die de VS illegaal heeft ingesteld tegen landen die niet wensen te worden geabsorbeerd door deze uiterst gevaarlijke terreurentiteit, sancties die bijvoorbeeld in Venezuela al aan bijna 50.000 mensen het leven hebben gekost, sancties die een economische oorlog vormen en derhalve als grootschalige terreur moeten worden veroordeeld, sterker nog die illegale sancties vallen zonder meer onder het begrip: misdaad tegen de menselijkheid!!

Johnstone stelt dat we in een Derde Wereldoorlog zijn beland die zich op 'slow motion' voltrekt, waarbij de westerse reguliere media de grote propagandisten zijn van deze oorlog..... Landen die het slachtoffer zijn van deze oorlog: China, Rusland, Iran, Syrië en Venezuela, hebben zo bezien weinig gemeen, echter ze vormen wel degelijk het doel van die oorlog: deze landen vernietigen en absorberen, waarbij de westerse propagandisten van de reguliere media hun publiek zorgvuldig hersenspoelen om de noodzaak van vernietiging en absorptie te verankeren in de geest van dat publiek......

How To Understand All This China Stuff

by Caitlin Johnstone

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.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

Imperialist Russia hysteria had a hard time finding serious purchase in Australia, but sinophobia has had plenty of propaganda primer here and there's a State Department-funded think tank in Canberra dedicated to inflaming China hysteria
(https://johnmenadue.com/myriam-robin-the-think-tank-behind-australias-changing-view-of-china-afr-15-2-20200/ …). https://twitter.com/SBSNews/status/1253239688430673922 …

MYRIAM ROBIN. The think tank behind Australia's changing view of China.(AFR 15.2.20200 -  On Tuesday in the Australian Senate, Labor’s Kim Carr rose to his feet, thundering about “hawks intent on fighting a new cold war”. In his sights was the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which... johnmenadue.com

 

SBS News ✔ @SBSNews

This Chinese-Australian family in Melbourne was terrorised over two nights with broken windows and vandalism, in what's believed to be racial attacks related to COVID-19.

154    1:06 PM - Apr 23, 2020

(voor de video in dit Twitterbericht, zie het orgineel)

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.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience

"So now you’ve got this weird dynamic where the US is constantly working to make sure that no other countries surpass it and gain the ability to treat America the way America treats other countries."https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-foreign-policy-is-a-war-on-disobedience-ae4e7e75ce02 …

US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience

In an excellent new essay titled “We’re Not the Good Guys — Why Is American Aggression Missing in Action?”, Tom Engelhardt criticizes the…

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572     1:34 AM - Jul 7, 2019

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, who 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.

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 culture never drove it to such madness.

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

Arresting people for future crimes is called "pre-crime", and it's the stuff of dystopian horror fiction. Violently dominating an entire planet because another country might hurt yours in the future is called "US foreign policy", and it's the stuff of mainstream news punditry.

697    1:38 AM - May 16, 2020

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.

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