Chinese propaganda poster from 1970.

"All reactionaries are paper tigers / People of the world unite to defeat the American invaders and their running dogs!"
"People of the world unite to defeat the American invaders and their running dogs!" (1971)
"Awakened people, you will surely attain the ultimate victory!" (1963)

The figures here represent Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
"Oppose economism: Crush the new counter-offensive of the capitalist class reactionary line" (1967)
"Resolutely support the just struggle of Black Americans!" (1963)
"Criticize the old world and build a new one with Mao Zedong Thought" (1966)
"U.S. imperialism, get out of Africa" (1966)
"U.S. imperialism, get out of South Vietnam!" (1963)
"The people do not fear the American imperialists, but the American imperialists fear the people" (1971)
"Resolutely support the anti-imperialist struggle of the Asian, African and Latin American people" (1964)

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Radio Free Amanda 余美娜

Radio Free Amanda 余美娜 Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @catcontentonly

25 Jun
People don’t appreciate what a lovely language Cantonese is.

For ex, the word for “happy” (hoi1 sum1) means “to open the heart”. That’s beautiful! ❤️
Also “careful” is “siu2 sum1,” or “little heart”.

Those small dishes you eat in Chinatown, “dim2 sum1” means “to touch the heart”
"Worried" is "daam1 sum1" or "to carry the heart"

"Sad" is "soeng1 sum1" or "to hurt the heart"
Read 4 tweets
23 May
US media follows orientalist tradition of not defining China as it actually is, but rather in its perceived relation to the West, so that China never fully exists on its own terms, but is instead held up as a foil to Western civilizational superiority 1/
This orientalist representation operates on two axes, the political & the cultural:

political: as a gov’t, China is imagined as an authoritarian regime, a human rights disaster, lying/deceitful, a political crisis to be solved thru implementation of West. liberal democracy 2/
Cultural: as a people, China is imagined as morally inferior, a “backwards” civilization, barbaric, filthy, diseased, so cruel that they will eat anything that moves 3/
Read 6 tweets
15 May
Why are we blaming China for this outbreak in the US when we should be blaming rich people from NYC
“Why not both” is not analysis. This virus has been politicized from the very beginning and blaming China serves a particular political function.
Read 4 tweets
3 May
Best thing about this NYT article is the way it gives “global backlash” an agency of its own, as if this backlash happened organically rather than being spearheaded by the world’s most belligerent superpower, lmao
In March Daily Beast obtained a WH cable instructing State Dept officials when speaking to media to focus on CN orchestrating a cover up. Soon after, we got pieces like these from Marc Thiessen of AEI/Shadi Hamid of Brookings Inst. This is how the levers of power work
Republicans also recently released a 57 pp memo instructing GOP candidates to aggressively attack CN, stressing 3 talking pts:

1. CN covered it up
2. Dems are “soft on CN”
3. Repubs will push for sanctions (This is why you see states announcing they plan to sue for reparations)
Read 4 tweets
26 Apr
Attributing rise in hate crimes on Trump calling it the "China virus" is insufficient in 2 ways:

1. It's ahistorical--working class Chinese in US have long been associated w disease & pestilence, dating back to late 19th cent

2. It ignores the geopolitical moment we're in 1/
Mass immigration of Chinese workers to US in late 19th cent to build railroads resulted in extremely dense population of SF’s Chinatown & it was considered to be an incubator of infectious illnesses. Chinese ppl were seen to be more likely to carry smallpox and cholera 2/
Chinese immigrants were seen to be more likely to carry certain infectious illnesses, particularly smallpox and cholera. In fact, a smallpox epidemic was the one of the primary reasons used as justification for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. 3/
Read 10 tweets
10 Mar
One point I’ve repeatedly made is that that the media often uses COVID-19 as a heavy handed metaphor for China’s (and now Iran’s) emerging political/economic influence.

This dovetailing of disease discourse and geopolitics can actually be traced back to the 1950’s... 1/
Though scientists first observed viruses in the 1930's, it wasn't until the 50's that they were able to graps how they functioned--unlike their germ or bacterial counterparts, viruses penetrate the cells of living organisms, taking over all functions to reproduce themselves 2/
Media often invoked metaphors of war and invasion were to discuss viral infections. Viruses "attacked," "devoured," and "destroyed" cells. Viral infections were often "battles" between human hosts and viral "invaders" 3/
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!