Since everyone is rightfully critiquing that Nation article, I want to talk about why it is so deceptive and misleading. Positioning the issue of US-China conflict as one of "two sides" of equal validity is ignorance at best and pro-empire propaganda at worst.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1480926783100829697
There is only one "side" of the "left" that has been consistently exposing the atrocity propaganda being peddled from the empire's media drones and ideological coattail riders.
The other "side" is playing the role of useful idiot for the empire and the rest are undecided.
The other "side" is playing the role of useful idiot for the empire and the rest are undecided.
That other side is backed up by the most sophisticated propaganda machine in the world, the culmination of generations of work by American fascism. Anyone who believes even a word of bullshit produced from this fascist apparatus about China is a tool and has no place on the left.
We aren't starting from common ground. We aren't in agreement that China is an evil repressive regime because ASPI said so. We don't nod our heads sagely when stenographers for American fascism pull a "Holodomor" on China (the OG atrocity propaganda campaign).
This isn't an academic debate where both sides agree on the facts but disagree on their interpretation.
We don't agree on the facts, because what is really happening in China is being filtered through a dozen layers of pro-empire propaganda mills.
We don't agree on the facts, because what is really happening in China is being filtered through a dozen layers of pro-empire propaganda mills.
That small handful of us that opposed the Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya conflicts etc, which were all started based on bullshit lies, are not going to roll over and accept the bullshit premises that this "debate" is being centered on.
Instead of trying to advance an understanding of what is really happening in China and what the US empire's motives really are, this article positions the ~reasonable, dignified left~ as the credible authority that all agree China Bad and everyone else as a "cryptic" tankie.
Those "cryptic tankies" were right every. single. time. about every imperialist intervention in at least the last two decades- but sure, THIS time the empire is really telling the truth about China!
Imagine writing an article about this issue and not mentioning the Belt and Road Initiative once. Imagine not mentioning the *heavily documented* role of the NED and every other intel cut-out in trying to balkanize China. Imagine not even mentioning the trade war.
What is the point of doing this meta analysis of the "debate" on China without even mentioning the enormous influence of the heavily funded fascist propaganda mills generating disinformation in the debate itself?
Whose interest does *that* serve?
Whose interest does *that* serve?
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