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A young woman who wrote to me an email from Hong Kong never mentioned any of these horrors, committed by the United States, Canada, U.K. and others. Most likely, she knew nothing about them. Most definitely, she never went out of her way to find out what the West is doing to her fellow human beings. For her, that "censored internet" or inability to discuss certain topics "openly" has been the highest "crime" she could imagine. Or that is how she was told to think.
That is how most of people around her are conditioned to think.
Years ago, I spoke to "Occupy Central" participants, and to the recent partakers in the riots of 2019 and 2020: they knew absolutely nothing about the barbarities committed by the NATO countries, all over the world.
Now imagine China; a country with distinct, successful socialist model. Country which is not attacking, not occupying anybody. Extremely peaceful country that is trying to improve life of all of its citizens, even of the inhabitants of poor countries on all continents.
China is being attacked, provoked, insulted, on all fronts. Precisely by the West, which does not want to lose its grip on global power. China is being pushed towards a military conflict.
Social media, mass media, all sorts of propaganda are unleashed against Beijing. Lies about China's revolutionary past are fabricated and disseminated, lies about the Tiananmen Square "events"; in fact, any types of lies that could hurt, destabilize or at least confuse this great and brave nation.
What is China supposed to do? Just receive punches? Just tolerate fabrications?
No! China is obliged to defend itself and its people. It cannot just let all that destructive propaganda, openly geared at ruining the state, enter the airways and social media. In the past, China let down its guards, and it let to Period of Humiliation, when the West occupied, divided and ransacked the nation.
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