A) Firstly the imminent ‘invasion’ of Taiwan. Frank Gardner, writing for the BBC, claims that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan (its own country) would be:-
‘a last-ditch option; instead they’ll wrap themselves like an anaconda and squeeze (one of it’s own lucrative trading centres!)- choking off Taiwan’s access to the internet (!) and maritime trade. And it would be risky for the US to intervene’ (in a civil war that they have been stirring for deceases though it has absolutely nothing to do with them and is thousands of miles away)’.
There followed some even more far-fetched scare mongering about genetically modified Chinese soldiers who the author has been told by ‘somebody very, very senior in the British military’ is a real thing.
B) There is no social credit system in China, it’s a big lie. There is no moral ranking system. The systems that do exist are not centralised nor governmental. They are reasonable, or at least they are similar to Western credit tracking. The Chinese system only looks at offences that are offences anywhere in the world. Who funds this lie about Chinese communist enslavement and social credit? It’s sponsored by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, US and Australian State dept, Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grummen. It’s all part of the propaganda to create anti-China sentiment for the coming proxy war in Taiwan.The lies are repeated in MSM and MFM.
C) The propaganda about organ harvesting and incarceration of millions of Uyghurs in Xinjiang is a lie.
According to the Grayzone; ‘Determined to undermine China’s economic rise, the Trump and Biden administrations have accused Beijing of everything from the mass internment of Uyghurs to coerced sterilization and genocide.
The charge of forced labor has caused the most material damage, with numerous US clothing companies pledging to boycott factories in the Xinjiang and reject cotton sourced from the area.’
Just like separatist sentiment that has been cultivated by the CIA at great expense in Taiwan; ‘an investigation by The Grayzone into the Uyghur separatist movement in the Washington DC area has uncovered a jingoistic, gun-obsessed subculture driven by the kind of right-wing ideology that was on display during the March 21 car caravan through downtown.
Leading figures of the UAA operate a right-wing gun club known as Altay Defense. Proudly dressed in US military fatigues, Altay Defense drill in advanced combat techniques with former members of US special forces who also train private mercenaries and active duty US service members. Members of the militia-style gun club espouse pro-Trump politics and anti-immigrant resentment.’
The US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue Adrian Zenz. ‘The US government’s accusation of genocide against China stems from a single source: a June 2020 paper by Adrian Zenz, a right-wing German researcher affiliated with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and neoconservative Jamestown Foundation in Washington, DC.’
“Preventing births” by itself cannot be evidence of alleged genocide without evidence of intent to destroy the group in question. Otherwise, any birth control program provided to an ethnic group would be prima facie evidence of a policy of genocide against the group.
Zenz argued that population control measures applied to Uyghurs could be branded as “genocidal” because population growth rates fell by 84 percent in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and 2018, and declined further in several minority regions in 2019. But more complete statistics that Zenz cited in his report, and data that he conveniently omitted, contradicted his conclusion.
Zenz provided statistics revealing that between 2005 and 2015, Uyghur population growth in Xinjiang was 2.6 times higher than that of Han Chinese in the Xinjiang region.’
Like pictures of people queuing up to vote for Putin were claimed to be protests; Zenz absurdly claims that pictures of 70 year olds getting free health checks was in fact evidence of the Chinese forcefully inserting them with IUD coils!
D) Tiktok is not manipulating using fake followers nor spying on Western citizens. It’s the US and Israel who are doing this! Fake following for large X accounts is about 40%; Lowkey’s, for example, is at 11%, so below average. A person’s followers do not indicate that Lowkey, nor any other pro-Palestinian person, is being manipulated by China or Russia. The Israeli soldiers themselves, who are uploading videos of their atrocities, are the ones fuelling anti-Israel sentiment on social media.
E) Yes, China burns a lot of coal, however, they reached peak carbon emissions in 2023 and have invested massive amounts in solar energy. It is also unfair to criticise greater emissions because we have outsourced much of our industry to China; if we stopped consuming so much, they would stop producing so much.
F) The Belt and Road Initiative is not debt diplomacy. It uses government State banks to invest in other countries for mutual benefit. This is in contrast to the West where Blackrock, who were even invited to the G7, uses private money. The money is used to buy up infrastructure, hospitals, water, energy production and airports to charge monopoly rents to the public, particularly in poor countries, to make the rich political class even richer. Not for mutual benefit. Blackrock are also $20 billion into bitcoin; there is no alternative banking system in the West. The oligarchs, Musk and Bezos, will own everything in the West, not communists nor the WEF. Socialist countries such as China, Cuba and Laos have the highest home ownership in the world. They don’t pay rent and many don’t have a mortgage.
G) Watch out for people saying the CCP -its not the Chinese Communist party it’s the CPC- the Communist Party of China because the misquote is often followed by sinophobia. China is the PRC- the People’s Republic of China- we wouldn’t refer to America as the Democrats, or the UK as the Labour party. Also watch out for harking back to the bad old of days of scary Triads and their alleged historical reach across the world- it’s a fear narrative.
Watching what they say in MSM and what’s going round in alternative media as well, shows us not what is happening; but rather what the anti-China Imperialists what us to think is happening.
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Jo, your admiration for China is not shared by everyone in Asia, where I live, I can assure you.
The dislike of the (mainland) Chinese is so great that many hotel owners would rather forego their custom than have put up with their rudeness and arrogance. Their promised infrastructure projects never materialize.
China wont invade Taiwan; this is just bluster.