Perhaps the biggest achievement of western propaganda is to portray exceptional cases in China as structural problems - and structural problems in "democracies" as exceptional cases.
Thus, EVERY problem in China - no matter how rare or unusual - can be blamed on its political system and lack of "democracy" and "freedom".
Meanwhile, systemic problems in the US - literally the result of its system - can be dismissed as one-off cases.
Meanwhile, systemic problems in the US - literally the result of its system - can be dismissed as one-off cases.
https://twitter.com/MaitreyaBhakal/status/1254764630049607688?s=19
The other companion achievement is to simultaneously portray ALL problems in China - that also occur in EVERY country - as solely due to China's lack of "democracy".
Thus, China's "authoritarianism" can be blamed for EVERY problem, and "democracy" portrayed as the only solution.
Thus, China's "authoritarianism" can be blamed for EVERY problem, and "democracy" portrayed as the only solution.
There are few better examples of this than COVID-19. The West blamed China's "early missteps" and "mishandling" on its "secrecy" and lack of openness - only to later find that their free, open "democracies" mishandled it exponentially worse than "authoritarian" China. Whoops...
Same with corruption. Corruption in China is blamed solely on China's lack of independent judiciary and free press and freedom of speech and other clichés - yet, many other countries (e.g. India) that ostensibly HAVE all that are as corrupt, if not more, than China. Whoops...
This framework can be applied to every single story about China - from minority issues to regulating fintech companies.
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