Thread by @KumarSeshadri

You want to understand how media propaganda in the West works?

Look at how they cover manufacturing.

First look at the manufacturing in China, which is measured by the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI). This chart shows manufacturing PMI since the start of this year.

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As you can see, manufacturing has been expanding for 5 months out of 8.

In July, there was a small dip below 50, but it bounced back in August.

Now look at the same statistics for the USA.

Only in one month since the beginning of this year has the PMI gone above 50.

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Any neutral or unbiased analyst would say that China is overall doing quite well, whereas the US is staring at disaster.

But that's not what Reuters thinks.

Here's a headline from May 31, 2023.

So a PMI of 50.9 is "falling factory activity" for Reuters.

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When China's PMI dipped slightly below 50 in April 2023, Forbes lost no time in writing the obituary of China's manufacturing sector.

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China recovered from its slight July PMI dip in August, posting a healthy value of 51. But that didn't stop Bloomberg from writing an article telling us all we need to know about "China's economic slowdown."

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But strangely, nobody bothers to tell us "all we need to know about America's economic slowdown" even when the PMI for the last 10 months has seen a decline, except for one month (April 2023) when it was barely above 50.

Instead, we are told of a "manufacturing boom."

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And the Wall Street Journal tells us that a "resilient US economy" is "defying expectations" (on September 2, 2023).

(When the August PMI was 47.9).

I guess we don't know whose expectations were defied.

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What does all this mean?

It means that all these Western publications are lying to their (primarily Western, but also Western-influenced gullible) readers (like people from India and other West-worshipping populations.)

But wishes don't make horses, and data don't lie.

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