Thread by @caitoz

Someone just told me the US government would have no motive to lie about China. Uhhh...

Not only does the US empire have every motive in the world to lie about China, it has every motive in the world to lie about Xinjiang specifically due to its unique role in China's rise and the easily exploited divisions there.
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It is not a coincidence that the US removed the ETIM, a Uyghur group that's been doing horrific things in Syria, from its designated terrorist group list just as it's ramping up its campaign against China. This will be exploited.
news.antiwar.com/2020/11/06/us-…

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1149679282232471552

The many gaping plot holes in the imperial Xinjiang narrative, as well as the motives behind it, have been broken down comprehensively by @bayareas415 in this video.

After the fall of the USSR the neoconservative notion that the US must maintain unipolar planetary hegemony at all cost became the prevailing mainstream orthodoxy at the heart of the empire. China is THE ultimate threat to this hegemony.

Because hot conflict is taken off the table in cold war confrontations between nuclear powers, planetary-scale propaganda campaigns take on a much more prominent role to pave the way for each new escalation.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/how-to-underst…

You can understand the establishment China narratives by grasping just two points:
1) We are in a slow-motion third world war between the US and its allies and the nations which have resisted absorption into this alliance.
2) Propaganda is used to move this slow-motion war along.

Understand these two points and you can understand the entirety of why the western political/media class is behaving in the way that it is when it comes to international news. With China, and with all nations which have resisted absorption into the imperial blob.