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Sep 30, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
#Debates2020 China Watch — unpacking bipartisan support for an imperialist New Cold War on China

#1 : Trump hits Biden for criticizing his ban on flights from China in January, says "China is where the infection was coming from"
#Debates2020 China Watch

#2: Discussing COVID-19, Biden once again touting that back in March that he "insisted we have boots on the ground in Wuhan" -- reflecting an imperialist demand for extraterritoriality while fanning flames of myth of Chinese cover-up
#Debates2020 China Watch

#3 Trump deflecting from 200,000 COVID deaths in the US:

"It was China's fault, this never should have happened. You don't know how many people died in China. You don't know how many people died in Russia. They don't give you a real count."
#Debates2020 China Watch

#4: Trump, random aside while discussing COVID-19 deaths and re-opening:

"200,000 lives is too much...It should have never happened, from China"
#Debates2020 China Watch

#5: Biden hits Trump for bad trade deals with China: "He talks about art of the deal, China is talking about art of the steal"
#Debates2020 China Watch

#6: Trump interrupting Biden, alludes to 2019 statement in which Biden supposedly downplayed China as a strategic threat: "You said, 'China's not going to each our lunch'"

scmp.com/news/world/uni…
[Trump painting federal repression of mass uprisings in terms of war -- "We got back Seattle, we got back Minneapolis"]
A little Russophobia from Biden for good measure:

"I've gone head to head with Putin. He's Putin's puppy"

#Debates2020
#Debates2020 China Watch:

#7 Trump hits the Biden family:

"Your son [Hunter] made a fortune from China and Moscow...Why was he given tens of millions of dollars?"
#Debates2020 China Watch:

#8 Trump attacking China on climate change:

"China sends up real dirt into the air."

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On the 113th anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising, let's unpack the Taiwan separatists' grievous distortions of the historical record:

🧵 (1/13)
October 10th marks the National Day of the Republic of China. On this day in 1911, an armed uprising in Wuchang (present day Wuhan), under Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Tongmenghui resistance movement, launched an attack on the local Viceroy. (2/13) Image
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It’s sad to see Westerners who’ve been politicized enough to see through the lies their governments and media tell about Palestine go on to repeat imperialist talking points about China, Iran, Venezuela, etc. What they lack is a systemic analysis of how imperialism functions.
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The "Beijing Declaration” is a historic statement of Palestinian unity agreed to by 14 Palestinian factions who met in Beijing today.

The document promises to “unify national efforts” to resist Zionist aggression and to seek the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Image
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Qiao Collective is thrilled to publish our analysis of why the argument that Western leftists must make “principled critiques” of Global South nations right as they are being targeted by the Western imperialist machine facilitates imperialist intervention.
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Rising anti-Asian violence in the West cannot be separated from empire—the military encirclement of China and relentless propaganda which paints China as duplicitous, conniving, and invasive.

Yet liberals are *shocked* when the Sinophobic violence they sow abroad comes home.
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We won't fall for it.
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