webcams for christ posted:

US deploying more troops to Taiwan

https://twitter.com/niubi/status/1628753214722961408

gradenko_2000 posted:

indigi posted:

I think it's just the most famous painting of a wave so an easy image to insert an aircraft carrier into to complete the analogy but it might be racism as well

fart simpson posted:

it’s a woodcutting

gradenko_2000 posted:

crepeface posted:

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html



has china ever laid out its anti-american argument so clearly?

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I found one

crepeface posted:

wow vox advocating for a command economy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLk6GUKzU0&t=216s

Antonymous posted:

"north korea was a sore loser and walled itself off in the 1950s"

:/

BULBASAUR posted:

getting close to economic eugenics

Al-Saqr posted:

south korea was a complete poo poo hole for until 1985 because america propped up its fascist regime full of japanese empure collaborators by all metrics north korea was generally doing fine until the soviet union started falling apart

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/IanEsguerra/status/1628213151841013760

this is probably the most mainstream/"normie" platform that Joseph Scalice has gotten on so far

for context, Scalice is a Trotskyist who writes for the WSWS and he's managed to find himself a niche of attention among Filipino liberals because he's an avowed leftist that constantly attacks our left-wing parties for being "Stalinists"

it lets the libs (and even some conservatives) maintain a veneer of impartiality and objectivity because look, I'm not accusing left-wing congressmen of being closeted militant rebels in-cahoots with the CPP-NPA, Joseph Scalice is doing that, and he's a leftist, so it's not my ideological bias to say so!

this allusion meant posted:

love that trotskyist internationalism

Oglethorpe posted:

episode 29 of three-body

nanowire ship episode

Cuttlefush posted:

It's out of sync with your avatar!

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The CCP clearly has the view that any land that was once ruled by China is rightfully Chinas, self-determination be damned. Also human rights and democracy are weak, wrong and offensively unchinese. Just closer economic integration isn't enough and it seems unlikely anyone could now convince the Taiwanese to give up their freedom for life under authoritarian rule. The real lack of patience was not honouring Hong Kong's Two Systems long enough to fool Taiwan they could have the same.

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The idea that Western media is run by fair-minded people who are independent, driven only by a desire to talk truth to power, is a mirage. It is a myth, and it is a bitter pill that needs to be swallowed. The idea that the Western journalist is a paragon of virtue also needs to be banished from the minds of consumers of media.

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First is the belief that China is a threat to the world and that this belief must be relentlessly reinforced at every available opportunity. How and why China is a threat is never explored; such is the deep-rooted and almost religious nature of the belief. Sound arguments do not matter. The basic tenets of good journalism are ignored when it comes to a China story. There is no need to explain or give evidence of why China is a global threat.

Left ignored is the plentiful evidence that shows China is not a global threat – even if one can point to mistakes and overreach in certain areas. China has not invaded any country in decades, or imposed sanctions that have devasted the lives of millions in poor countries, unlike the West, led by the United States.

Second is that China must be linked to every possible global event that affects the West. This provides an opportunity for the West to bash China while simultaneously burnishing its own credentials as the supposed arbiters of what is right and wrong in international relations. From the pandemic to the Russia-Ukraine war to carbon emissions; from rising sea levels to the scramble for rare earths; from the building of infrastructure in Africa to the production of vaccines – there must be an angle to demonize the country and instill fear in Western nations (and beyond).

Indeed, media outlets are reverting to the “yellow peril” of the late 1800s. There is no subtle and nuanced approach to instilling fear like this. It is full-on and very often blatantly racist – but it is now acceptable for one to be racist about the Chinese in Western media, despite the fact that Black-White relations are very carefully described.

The third part of this phenomenon, which is surprisingly not challenged by liberal readers of mainstream media, is the sentiment that everything must be done – even illegal and unfair methods – to arrest the rise of China. Never mind the rights of hundreds of millions of Chinese to have a better life after a century of poverty and deprivation

Headline after headline that capture this sentiment have normalized the view that there is a need to curb the rise of China, and that this is a legitimate geopolitical objective. There is no explanation about why or if it is even morally acceptable. It has become a feature of Western commentary on China to say that its rise is a concern and a threat. With this assumption unassailably in place, the West has the right to galvanize – and even bully – its allies and ask the absurd question, “what should be done about China’s rise?” – as if China does not have the right to carve its own place in the new world.

There is even a school of thought in the United States that it was America that magnanimously allowed China its first baby steps into the globalized economy, and that in hindsight the U.S. was too nice to China. This view betrays everything that is imperial about the West and why it is unable to come to terms with the legitimate rights of other nations to grow and become powers in their own right. The assumption is that the rise of others is a gift from the West, and accordingly they must never challenge its supremacy. The deeply entrenched view in the West from centuries of domination is that it will decide which nations will be permitted to be participants in the global economy according to its self-serving “rules-based order.”

crepeface posted:

how did this get published by a relatively mainstream media outlet

https://thediplomat.com/2023/02/anti-china-rhetoric-is-off-the-charts-in-western-media/

Raskolnikov38 posted:

amazing things happening in China

https://twitter.com/altyn124/status/1629111515029864455?s=61&t=aWfMKb-8FJdhcIsOzeod1Q