Why you should dismiss the negative stories on China

If you are seeing a lot of stories saying something bad about China in your news feed, don’t bother clicking on any of them. They are all paid for by the US government.

Last year, the US government allocated a quarter of a trillion dollars from its budget to simply stifling China, all out of resentment at that country’s competition with the United States.

Since that time, the US government allocated half a billion dollars specifically to negative news coverage of China, with or without any relationship to the truth.

Whether it relates to the pandemic, to the situation in Xinjiang, to the Solomon Islands, to Taiwan, or whatever else, every negative story about China may as well have been spotted being printed at a US government office. It all ought to be rejected as rubbish, without us even looking at it.

Racist state propaganda

The stories about China are despicable and racist in character, and have likely contributed to soaring anti-Asian hate crime in the United States. This rivals how the establishment press cultivated Islamophobia during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

It is as if, even as it condemns racism, the warmongering armada we call the "West" bumps into civilisations and races it deems inferior, declaring war on them one after the other. However, each and every case it attempts to build against these victims consists of lies and recycled canards of past centuries, including vile rumours that the supposedly inferior races are the source of plagues.

Sponsoring conflicts on rivals' borders

The US is actively pursuing a policy to aggravate all conflict with China, under the same model as it did against Russia in Ukraine, where it fanned the flames of war on the Russian periphery for no purpose other than creating endless security threats to a "rival". That model is applied, in almost exactly the same way, with regard to Taiwan. There is clearly a strategy to drag China down into misery and conflict, out of resentment at its development.

Fortunately for the Russians and Chinese, the US and Britain seem to be acting on a very tight schedule, attempting a Herculean task of trying to defeat all the rival states across the world in the course of only a few years, beginning with the strongest - Russia and China. Whether this will be more successful than the failed attempts to bring down Iran, North Korea, Cuba and even the Taliban, is yet to be seen.

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US seems to want Russia to nuke Ukraine

The sinking of the Moskva and several concurrent strikes on Russian border towns by Ukraine seem like a coordinated escalation aiming to provoke a like response from Russia.

Whether it is its intention or not, Ukraine's actions will probably result in the Russian public wanting an increased use of force in Ukraine, which had been held back due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assertions that the Russians and Ukrainians are a common people.

Deliberately goading Russian escalation

The United States will help Ukraine to target disputed Crimea, considered core Russian territory by Moscow. The US may not recognise Russian sovereignty over Crimea, but the Russian government does. Therefore, should such strikes occur, they will be considered no different than strikes on the centre of Moscow ordered from Washington.

Even as it engages in the above risky policy, the United States is giving CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) suits to Ukraine, as if to prepare them to fight in radioactive wastelands. It seems as though the Ukrainians, led by the US, are expected to destroy their own country to save it, just to assert their nationalistic zeal.

The United States speculates openly about when Russia will get desperate enough to use a tactical nuclear weapon. Based on the tone, it seems as if they are certain it will happen, and are willing to maintain all policies with no interest in preventing it.

Scorched earth?

All of this shows clearly that the United States doesn’t stand with the people of Ukraine. It is primarily looking at frustrating Russia rather than preventing harm to Ukraine. Someone who stands with the people of Ukraine would not want it to become a nuclear wasteland, nor would they even believe it is wise for it to fight Russia in the first place.

But what does the US gain from nuclear detonations in Kiev, or elsewhere in Ukraine? We can only suppose the US might want this outcome just to incriminate Moscow and to convince the world of Western moral superiority, as the US had previously been the only country to ever use nuclear weapons in a war (a fact rival countries like to remind it of). It may also secretly view Ukraine as Russian territory, itself, and be wanting the lands burned and uninhabitable to punish the Russians.

If the US believes its power is in terminal decline, it might believe that incriminating a rival regime in the most barbaric act of the Twenty-First Century would give the United States vast moral authority against such rival regimes. Ultimately, it could mean excluding such regimes from the United Nations entirely, giving total control of the international system to Washington.

Russian and Chinese restraint

Russia seems not likely to use nuclear weapons yet, as there is no sign it is even interested in a troop surge or a strategic bombing campaign yet, although Russian generals suggested they could target Ukraine’s decision-making centres.

The US is encouraging conflicts at the peripheries of its rivals, while confusing gullible audiences at it home that it is somehow deterring aggressors. The same is certainly true of Taiwan, where almost the exact same policy is being pursued, despite it spectacularly failing to prevent conflict in Ukraine. This shows they are not sincere about preventing conflicts, in fact seeking conflicts and building traps at the doorsteps of their rivals in the hope to weaken them.

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Arming Taiwan only increases likelihood of war

Far from deterring an attempt by China to achieve reunification with Taiwan by force, might sending weapons to Taiwan actually encourage a military scenario?

Preparing for a military conflict in Taiwan, like in Ukraine, may only make one inevitable. The arming of a hostile power on the doorstep of one's "enemy" can only be perceived by them as creating a springboard for damaging them via some form of provocation and border conflict.

While war is not preferable, having an enemy constantly knocking on your door and making menacing sounds about its military power at your doorstep requires countermeasures. Taiwan's development of missiles that can hit mainland China ought to be of particular concern to Beijing's military experts.

From Ukraine to Taiwan

If Taiwan is at the command of Washington, as Beijing no doubt suspects, then the US could encourage the outbreak of a local conflict at any time of its choosing in order to damage China. As we saw with Ukraine, it seemed that everything was done to provoke the Russians into what the US hopes to be a costly occupation and a strategic defeat for them.

Ever-increasing stockpiles of Western weapons, bellicose rhetoric and eventually a threat to build a nuclear weapon were undertaken by Ukraine's government prior to Russia's attack, almost as if they wanted to do whatever it took to convince Russia that an attack was the right move. Clearly, China also has red lines with Taiwan. If Taiwan announced that it would build nuclear weapons to "deter" China, for example, this could prompt China to take military action urgently in Taiwan.

Western talking heads and politicians will have us believe that arming Ukraine gave the Russians pause and made them think twice about what they were already planning to do. There is no recognition of the fact that an opposing alliance pouring its weapons onto one's doorstep might actually provoke the military action one hoped to deter.

Put yourself in their shoes

If you ask someone here in the UK, there may be an almost a complete inability to see this situation as the equivalent of Russia arming an independent Texas against the US or China arming an independent Scotland against England. Many minds won't be able to process that comparison, because of a failure to even momentarily identify with the "enemy". The badness of the enemy is taken to be an uncontested fact that even the "enemy" population must surely see.

I see an inability to comprehend the idea that the other side might think similarly to us, almost like a failure of the theory of mind (the ability that arises in infants to understand the motives of others, by realising that they also have mental states too). Without a theory of mind, you will be unable to tell if someone else will resist being stabbed with sharp sticks, like you would, because you are no longer able to imagine being in their position. You might imagine another person as some unpredictable monster and attribute everything to this, rather than trying to understand that they are an agent like you.

Of course Britain would take military action against another country that tried to threaten us by arming an enemy on our doorstep. Even if many soldiers died, the patriots would insist on sending more, and heap praise on the fallen. No foreign weapon supply would deter us in that situation, and in fact it would just outrage us and encourage us even more. Unfortunately, we are now unable to imagine that other countries might think similarly, even when any glimpse at the facts will show that they do.

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