In the early 2000s, China’s Xinjiang province suddenly began experiencing deadly waves of terrorist attacks, and hundreds of people were killed.
There's lots of evidence the US was involved in instigating these attacks as an attempt to destabilize China. 🧵
How?
By funding extremist religious groups, particularly groups like ETIM, in China and neighboring Afghanistan whose goal was to turn Xinjiang into a separate fundamentalist Islamic state.
This degree of fundamentalist Islam has no historical precedent in China.
During these years, some of these radicalized groups left China to fight in Syria on the side of ISIS and the “moderate rebel” groups that the US funded to topple Syria’s government.
After 2015, these groups began returning to China, leading to a new wave of attacks.
China responded by infiltrating these terror networks and arresting the people involved in coordinating the attacks.
Due to the urgency and severity of the problem, China cast a wide net and also arrested people promoting religious fundamentalism and anti-China sentiment.
For everyone else, there were no mass arrests, campaigns to demonize muslims, or bombs dropped on Afghanistan.
Instead, China attacked the root of the problem through poverty alleviation, vocational training, and education.
As a result of this humanistic approach, Xinjiang no longer suffers terror attacks and the standard of living is rising fast. Cultural practices are protected and celebrated, and there are 9x more mosques in Xinjiang alone than there are in the entire US.
Since having their favorite strategy of destabilization neutralized, the US has pivoted to its second favorite tool: sanctions.
These sanctions are targeted at the industries which have brought Xinjiang prosperity, such as cotton and tomatoes.
In the midst of all this bombastic posturing by the west, many foreign diplomats have visited the region and come away singing China’s praises.
Unsurprisingly, western diplomats have universally refused to visit.
And as a sign of the turning tide, last year UN member states rejected a western initiative to force a debate on China’s treatment of the Uyghurs, infuriating western countries and their ecosystem of regime change lobbyist groups.
In truth, there is no evidence that China could provide to disprove the genocide narrative in the eyes of most westerners, who resemble creationists or flat earthers in their constant retreat to new fantastical claims requiring an endless cycle of debunking.
Put very simply: the entire Uyghur story is being flipped on its head to serve western audiences atrocity propaganda, licensing them to disregard any potential lessons from China while assuaging any latent guilt they might carry from their own legacy.
Which is a real shame, since the many successes of communist countries provide myriad lessons westerners could learn from and adapt to our own conditions.
But the constant atrocity-propaganda blitz facilitates a mental short circuit, making learning virtually impossible.
90%+ of Uyghurs speak Uyghur, while
13% (and falling) Indigenous peoples in Canada can speak their language.
US-backed attempts at foreign destabilization always try to leverage *real* grievances, not to bring any resolution to the aggrieved. Quite the opposite, they attempt to intensify.
The only correct position for the western left to take is to oppose *ALL* forms of intervention.
Yellen is once again traveling to Beijing, this time to try to get China to curb “overproduction”.
What's the real goal? 🧵
The goal of this pressure campaign is to somehow convince China to self-sabotage the foundation of their budding prosperity—their means of production—thereby eliminating the competition.
Why don't the capitalist countries try to out-compete China on commodity prices instead?
They've tried!
But due to decades of offshoring productive capacity and hoovering up their best and brightest minds into the financial and "tech" sectors, regaining a competitive edge will require a lot more effort than simply throwing money at the problem.
On Monday, Israeli fighter jets bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus killing over a dozen people in an outrageous act of provocation against both Iran and Syria.
It is clear that Israel is intent on instigating a direct confrontation with Iran.
What’s the goal? 🧵
While this attack represents a blatant provocation, it is not without precedent by western powers. Those old enough might recall a similarly atrocious act by the US in the 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
Iran's increasingly close alignment with Russia and China over the past few years is something Israeli and American foreign policy experts have feared since Brzezinski's warning in 1997.
In America, a "FICO Credit Score™ " is a blacklist administered by an unelected private oligopoly.
Americans are inducted into this capitalist credit initiative from birth, which controls everything from where they can live and which employer they are allowed to work for.
In order to be allowed to live in a house when they're older, Americans must begin taking out loans starting from an early age—even if they don't need a loan.
Americans call this ritual to appease private banks and landlords "building credit".
Before being hired, many employers require Americans to divulge their FICO credit history to assess their trustworthiness.
If deemed insufficiently trustworthy, an applicant will not be hired.
It has become clear Israel has no plan beyond trying to force millions of Palestinians into the Sinai desert by starving and bombing all that remain in Gaza. Israel is acting as if any Egyptian objection to this plan is a bluff.
This is utter insanity. 🧵
Despite being led by a US puppet, Egypt is facing a dramatic economic crisis of their own that worsens each day of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Both Suez transit fees and tourism—key buttresses of govt revenue—have fallen off a cliff since Oct 7.
Egypt's recent decision to increase transit fees betrays a level of desperation, since higher fees only make the shipping via the alternate route around Africa more attractive when new insurance risk premiums are factored in, and thus risk additional rerouting.