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The insanity and vileness of Western anti-Chinese propaganda used to make some of my Chinese friends cry late at night. But things are changing. The lunacy of what is said and written about China (and Russia, of course), in the US and Europe, is now clearly reflecting frustration and the bad manners of sore losers. One could almost be inclined to pity the Western empire, if only it wasn't so violently murderous.
The Empire's propagandists are pitying nobody -- they are now shooting like maniacs, but without any coherent plan.
Various Western 'experts' and journalists cannot really agree on the basics: 'what is really wrong with China'. But they are paid extremely well to find new and newer skeletons in the huge Chinese closets, and so they are constantly competing with each other, looking for the juiciest and the most scandalous stories. Often it appears that it pays to assume that absolutely everything is flawed with the most populous, and on top of it, Communist (with the 'Chinese characteristics, of course) country on earth!
China will end extreme poverty by 2020, but do not look for cheers and applause from Berlin, Paris, London and Washington. China is far ahead of all the large countries on earth in building a so-called 'ecological civilization', but who is willing to notice? China is constructing public parks, boardwalks and playgrounds, the biggest on earth, but who cares? The Chinese government is introducing sweeping educational reforms, while flooding the entire nation with concert halls, museums and theatres. But that's not worth mentioning, obviously!
Western propaganda tries to discredit China literally from both 'left and right', sometimes accusing it for being too Communist, but when it is suitable, even for 'not being Communist enough'.
The New York Times ran a cover-page story on October 5, 2018, "Unlikely foe for China's leaders: Marxists". For this highly sarcastic piece, a reporter visited the Chinese city of Huizhou, from where he wrote about a group of over-zealous young Marxists who are demanding things to be as they were in Mao's days:
"But the Huizhou activists represent a threat the authorities did not expect."
Seriously? A threat? China is moving towards Communism, again, under the current leadership. We are talking about democratic, socially-oriented Communism. But let us not argue with the official U.S. newspaper. It is definitely not a pro-Communist publication, but they had to show some sympathy (by running a cover story!) to a small bunch of over-zealous 'opposition' Marxists, just to spread doubts among the readers, suggesting that the Chinese government is not that Red, anymore.
The next day (Saturday-Sunday edition, October 6-7, 2018), the same New York Times published two cover stories on China. One was along its usual anti- Chinese and anti-Russian conspiracy lines "Will China hack U.S. mid-terms?", but the other basically contradicted the story from the previous day, accusing Beijing this time of cutting the wings of private companies: "Beijing is pushing back into business", with a sub-title:
"Government flexes muscle as private companies that built economy lose ground."
'Wherever it can hurt China, just write it', could be the credo of thousands of European and North American journos: 'as long as the news about or from China is bad, really dark and negative, anything goes!'
Too much Communism, or too little" As far as the West is concerned -- China can never get it right! Because" simply because it is China, because it is Asia, and because it waves the red flags.
And so, The New York Times ran two totally contradictory stories. An editorial blunder, or a pre-meditated attempt to inflict maximum damage, by kicking 'left and right'?
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It is, of course, fun, to follow this propaganda trend, 'from a safe distance' (meaning: 'not believing a word of what it says'). But what is happening is not a joke; what is being done can actually be deadly. It can trigger, unexpectedly, a chain of events that could truly hurt China.
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