The CIA's brief history of targeting China: A thread.
After supporting KMT against revolution, CIA created Radio Free Asia in 1951 to penetrate China with its worldwide propaganda network Board of Broadcasting Governors (now US Agency for Global Media).
The effort failed dramatically when CIA tried air dropping radios via balloons.
Radios were taken by wind. Chinese couldn't use them anyway due to history of semi-colonial underdevelopment. Electricity was still a rarity.
Remember the context: CIA's main role during this period was to stop spread of socialism at all costs. CIA was involved in more than fifty interventions between 1945-1991 alone.
During first decades of normalization, CIA was more interested in fall of Soviet Union and subverting progressive governments in Latin America and Middle East. Once that was achieved, China came back into focus.
Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 found from analysis of WikiLeaks' Vault 7 docs that CIA had spent eleven years from 2008-2019 hacking into key national industries and stealing data, including personal consumer information.
Since 2017, CIA has made evidence-free claims of informants dying in Chinese counter intelligence operations.
Despite Biden admin's recent talks with Chinese diplomats, CIA is now creating mission center to "counter China", signaling more trouble for the region.
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Thread: China, Cuba, Vietnam, the DPRK, and Laos have more democratic political systems than the United States.
Each model possesses multiple channels for political participation with a strong centralized authority accountable to the people.
Thats why material conditions for majorities have improved in each country. These governments are not beholden to foreign imperialists or the dictates of private capital.
Central planning, communist party leadership and mass political engagement keep socialism thriving.
US and other capitalist countries abhor socialist democracy for obvious reasons. Capitalist democracies are dictatorships of capital.
Elections serve the interests of capital first and foremost, legitimizing oppression and exploitation under the guise of political plurality.
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Revolutionary nationalism is championed by oppressed nations in the fight for liberation against the oppressor nation.
Reactionary nationalism is championed by imperialist oppressor nations to justify plunder, empire, and colonialism.
The struggle between the two often yields many variants of nationalism on both ends.
Example: Black nationalism is the one of the most revolutionary forms that emerged in the United States.
But as Huey Newton and others explained, Black nationalism is not monolithic.
He identified a "pork chop" bourgeois nationalism of the US organization that focused on culture and pride at the expense of rather than in congruence with the struggle for material liberation from racism and oppression.
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