Thread by @caitoz

Western concern trolling about China has nothing to do with "human rights". Every establishment China narrative is about the fact that it's in the western empire's interests for China to be weak and small while it's in China's interests for China to be big and strong. Thread.

Pretty much everything China gets slammed for by the imperial media is a response to western aggressions, whether you're talking about Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, border disputes, sea navigation, or domestic authoritarianism. The US is the aggressor.

https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1468945211510300674

You'd have to be an absolute moron to believe the US and its allies give a shit about Muslims in Xinjiang after spending the last two decades butchering Muslims *by the millions* in the Middle East. It's because it's a geostrategically crucial region.
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When violent Uyghur separatists began fighting Beijing, it had three choices:
1) Engage in US-style mass military slaughter,
2) Implement the deradicalization campaign it did, or
3) Allow a crucial region to be carved off China in an uprising by western-backed separatists.

Beijing went with Option 2. You can criticize them for how they went about it if you want, but it was unquestionably less draconian than the way the US responds to such things and the only other alternative was to allow the balkanization the west wants.

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1465863939825221632?s=20

The west has understood for a very, very long time that it needs to keep China weak and small to retain supremacy. That's why so many narratives revolve around "liberating" (balkanizing) parts of China from Beijing. Here's Winston Churchill back in *1902*.
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That's what you're seeing with Hong Kong as well; the US-centralized empire wants to carve away part of China and replace it with a loyal puppet regime to keep China weak and small. The media tantrum is about the empire being thwarted in that agenda.

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1278392633602310148?s=20

Domestic authoritarian measures in China have been about preventing the western capitalist empire from subverting the nation. A recent Bloomberg article inadvertently admitted this, with CIA sources complaining about what a hard time they're having there.
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Any time you actually examine the facts behind western histrionics about "human rights" in China, what you'll actually find is the US power alliance wanting to keep China small and weak coming against China's goal to remain big and strong. It's what truly drives each conflict.

And of course this is true of Taiwan as well. The US currently has troops in Taiwan, has previously housed nuclear weapons there, and has consistently used the nation as a proxy. This will continue with the growing need to undermine the rise of China to preserve supremacy.

The architects of empire determined after the fall of the USSR that the US must prevent the rise of another rival superpower at all cost. All the western conflicts you're seeing with China are the manifestations of this policy crashing into China's rise.
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That's the only thing driving western aggressions against China and its increasingly intimate supporter Russia. We're hurtling toward dangerous conflicts because some idiots in Washington decided US unipolar hegemony must be preserved even if it means flirting with nuclear war.

There's no reason nations can't collaborate with each other toward the common good instead of engaging in these insane games of domination. And it is indisputably the US driving those conflicts, not anyone else. The US ideology of maintaining unipolar control imperils us all.

All evidence says China wants a multipolar world, not to dominate a unipolar one. There's zero evidence to the contrary. And why would it want that? It's not like watching the US empire burn itself out in a few decades has made the idea look appealing.

https://twitter.com/centristozzy/status/1471250584195846144?s=20

The propaganda campaign against China is not going to go away, it's going to get far louder, crazier, and more aggressive. With each new narrative that comes up, research with the question "How is this geared toward keeping China weak and small?" You'll find something every time.