The demonization of China

Today's tweet from K. Matthews of Montreal Inst. for Genocide Studies condemns the EU for a trade deal with China. Same guy who compared Parti Quebecois chef to Pol Pot.

Why do these Uyghur witnesses' stories constantly change?

https://t.co/zZ8xdMQUCf?amp=1

"Two months ago we documented astonishing changes over time in the testimony of a Uyghur woman who claimed to have been incarcerated in China. The changes in her story came after Sayragul Sautbay had fallen into the hands of a propaganda group. A similar change can be observed in the testimony of another Uyghur woman who currently makes the rounds through the media.

Tursunay Ziawudun, a Uyghur woman who last year moved to the US now claims to have observed mass rape in Chinese detention camps. Like the Swedish organization which handled Sautbay, the US based Uyghur Human Rights project which handled Ziawudun is part of the infamous World Uyghur Congress..."

There are over 50 ethnic minorities living in China, including the Hui who are also Muslim. Is the targeting of the Uyghur people related to an independence movement, much like the Tibetans or say the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey? Although the majority Han people are more entitled and powerful than the rest of the population, there are many groups to target for discrimination and oppression if it was a racist thing. I find it a bit confusing.

The US is set on a path to war with China. What is to be done?

https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/what-is-to-be-done

"...We are seeing total information warfare. The stories about so-called 'massive human-rights abuses,' 'Chinese concentration camps', 'Chinese-made-and-released-covid,' 'China has harmed us economically,' 'China has stole its way to the top,' 'China is oppressing independent Hong Kong', are part of this information warfare. This mass propaganda incites people to hate China irrationally and unconditionally, to manufacture consent for war.

The US military calls this information warfare 'the firehose of falsehoods,' and we are all being drenched with these lies..."

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to matter to the imperial cheerleaders who seem immune to fact and  will continue to support an  establishment narrative no matter how dodgy as long as the establishment continues to make it. I've seen the same process play out over and over again and there seems little learning -  whether it's Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Russiagate or 'Chinese genocide' the 'fans' always advance the masters narratives.

This might help explain the demonization of China:

Global economic giants between 1980 - 2030

Traumatized women describe gang rapes and beatings at Chinese government internment camps

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/02/18/lead-ivan-watson-dnt-live-jake-tapper.cnn

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Traumatized women describe gang rapes and beatings at Chinese government internment camps

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/02/18/lead-ivan-watson-dnt-live-jake-tapper.cnn

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"Sickened to see CNN's Jake Tapper [and Yanqi Josh] pushing this political lie at the highest level of US society. It's like the Korean War, Vietnam, Libya, Syria and WMDs all over again. Reprehensibe 'Uyghur Genocide' Nonsense." - Mario Cavolo, Senior Fellow, Center on China and Globalization

https://twitter.com/mariocavolo/status/1362647153286344706

Canada's Pro-Israel, Anti-China Parliament

https://twitter.com/mbueckert/status/1362469109640880137

"I took a look at Canada's hansard and found that MPs mentioned 'Israel' 60 times since Sept, ~75% in a positive context. China was mentioned 1,235 times (overwhelmingly critical)."

A ton of criticism of China is coming from Falun Gong and their Epoch News. It would be interesting to learn about their background. The Epoch News Sens to have become more and more radical over time. Almost out and out alt-right.

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A ton of criticism of China is coming from Falun Gong and their Epoch News. It would be interesting to learn about their background. The Epoch News Sens to have become more and more radical over time. Almost out and out alt-right.

This is as good a short summary as I have read. The Chinese government banned them as a cult and forcefully stopped people from practicing it because they thought its ideas were dangerous to a civil society. In the West they are an example of CCP oppression. They are a racist scorch so I will highlight the last part of the quote.

"races come from different gods, mixed-race people are spiritually incomplete, and communism was created by aliens, given to Europeans, and intentionally spread to China to separate it from Heaven."

Falun Gong, the Scientology of China

Epoch Media Group is closely tied with Falun Gong, also known by the name Falun Dafa. They’re a religious group built in the early 90s around a Qigong-like practice who claim to center their beliefs around the principles of “truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.” In reality, none of these are at their core, and Falun Gong instead has all the classic markings of a cult.

Megalomaniac leader? Check. The group’s founder Li Hongzhi, known as Master Li, claims to be able to levitate and followers are taught he can read their thoughts. Though it’s hard to tell his exact corporate role in Epoch, he’s promoted the paper as “our news” and his views on politics clearly influence it heavily.

Isolate compound? Check. They operate a 430-acre facility called Dragon Springs in rural New York, complete with hundreds of permanent residents, schools, and high-dollar performance facilities. They keep a full staff of security on deck 24/7 and steer media and onlookers far away. The place is reminiscent of Scientology’s “Gold Base,” but with the visual stylings of Chinese paganism rather than science fiction. We’ll come back to this one.

Like many cults, Falun Gong places a heavy emphasis on physical health and views its practices as an alternative to medical treatment, sometimes even pitching a cure to cancer. They rail against science, medicine, Western philosophy, and above all else, communism. This stems very largely from their segregationist views; Master Li teaches that races come from different gods, that mixed-race people are spiritually incomplete, and that communism was created by aliens, given to Europeans, and intentionally spread to China to separate it from Heaven.

https://culteducation.com/group/1254-falun-gong/6922-is-falun-gong-a-cul...

Here is a good short video that tells the story of how the US, in the last four decades, has kept its place atop the tech world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgzB4_Zw3RE&t=610s

This seems like a good time to listen to Randy Newman's song Yellow Man. When I saw him perform it in concert in the early 70s, he called it "a pinhead's view of China".

Motion passes 260 - 0

 The Canadian parliament never says no to empire.

2/22/2021: House of Commons unanimously adopts motion on Chinese genocide as PM and cabinet abstain from vote

https://www.cpac.ca/en/programs/today-aujourdhui/

"That (a) in the opinion of the House, the People's Republic of China has engaged in actions inconsistent with the UNGA Resolution 260, commonly known as the 'Genocide Convention', including detention camps and measures intended to prevent births as it pertains to Uyghurs and other Turkic Mulsims..."

Unanimous. Like the destruction of Libya. Wonder why no such unanimous resolution against real genocides like Canada's own Indigenous one or Israel's of Palestinians.

Canada's unanimous anti-China 'genocide' motion [there is none] does nothing for Uyghurs except impose additional  international barriers and hardships upon their regional economy. As collateral damage it will also further toxify Canada-China relations and virtually ensure the Two Michaels won't be coming home anytime soon. This while China rises and Amerikkka fails. Kudos to the HoC slapheads for this unbelievably counter-productive idiocy.

Five Eyes - Today's axis of White Supremacy

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1216338.shtml

"Canada's House of Commons on Monday approved a non-binding motion accusing China of committing genocide against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The motion also called on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing.

Canada, the UK and Australia, three members of the Five Eyes Alliance, have recently taken action to put pressure on China. They have formed a US-centered, racist and mafia-styled community, wilfully and arrogantly provoking China and trying to consolidate their hegemony as all gangsters do. They are becoming a racist axis aimed at stifling the development rights of 1.4 billion Chinese.

Global diplomacy in the 21st century must not be hijacked by a fake international community with an axis of white supremacy. We cannot allow their selfishness to masquerade as the common m  of the world and they cannot set the agenda of mankind. What they want is sham multilateralism, and what they actually pursue is hooliganism in their own interest..."

'Uighur genocide' is the 'weapons of mass-destruction' of this generation

https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1364066091295793153

"The floor vote in Canada's Parliament, uniformly accusing China of genocide is our Yellowcake Uranium moment."

Given the knee jerk reaction of the NDP to try and get a gotcha moment on the Liberals here are two articles that set out the side of the story that they should have been listening to. The first one is from Grayzone and breaks down where the US politicians got their genocide cry from. Imagine, an antisemitic Christian who believes God has told him to fight the communists is the primary source. Mind boggling ineptitude by both the NDP and Greens.

While Zenz’s employers describe him as “one of the world’s leading scholars on People’s Republic of China government policies towards the country’s western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang,” he is, in fact, a far-right Christian fundamentalist who has said he is “led by God” against China’s government, deplores homosexuality and gender equality, and has taught exclusively in evangelical theological institutions.

Lyle Goldstein, a China specialist and research professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department of the Naval War College, told The Grayzone that Zenz’s labeling of the Chinese approach to the Uyghurs as “demographic genocide” is “ridiculous to the point of being insulting to those who lost relatives in the Holocaust.”

Goldstein said the Chinese approach to Xinjiang “is a more repressive posture than we would like, but it sure isn’t genocide.”

Moreover, a careful review of Zenz’s research shows that his assertion of genocide is contradicted by flagrant data abuse, fraudulent claims, cherry-picking of source material, and propagandistic misrepresentations.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-rel...

If a government fails to delivers for its citizens while its rival succeeds, what better way to divert attention from its failure and recover its credibility than to create a dark legend to vilify its successful rival and a golden legend to celebrate itself?  Certain players in the United States and Canada—Biden, Pompeo, the Canadian parliament, and the mass news media—have chosen to follow this course, and are doing so by carelessly echoing accusations of genocide made by an anti-Communist fanatic with an ideological ax to grind. The practice debases the very concept of genocide. Sadly, it is hardly new.

From my window, I can see Canada’s National Holocaust Monument. A short distance away is the site of the as-yet-completed Memorial to the Victims of Communism. Canada commemorates the genocide of the Jews (carried out in another land by another people) but does not commemorate the Canadian Holocaust, carried out on its own territory by its own people. At the same time, it memorializes the Nazis, fascists, and their supporters—these were the victims of communism—who perpetrated the Holocaust Canadians profess to abhor.

https://gowans.blog/author/gowans/

I also found it interesting when I posted it some time ago. I also forwarded it, as I often do, to the NDP. But as we all should kn0w by now, political expediency trumps factuality every time.

Did you see how Rosemary Barton treated the Chinese Ambassador Cong on Sunday?  She did most of the talking.   I do salute the Free Meng movement who have a webinar tonight.  Biden will have to free her.

How Democratic is China?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56381.htm

"Like America, China is a republic, and like America, says it is democratic. But how democratic is China...?"

Microsoft says China-based hackers found bug to target US firms

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/microsoft-says-china-based-hackers-found...

"China-based government hackers have exploited a bug in Microsoft's email server software to target US organizations, the company said Tuesday. Microsoft said a 'highly-skilled and sophisticated' state-sponsored group operating from China has been trying to steal information from a number of American targets, including universities, defence contractors, law firms and infectious disease researchers. Microsoft said the group is based in China but operates from leased virtual private servers in the US, helping it avoid detection..."

Is China hacking random servers to put itself into a bad light?

https://t.co/H1jRCmI9yw?amp=1

"...The hack used legitimate open source tools that are widely available and are also used by many cybercrime organizations and secret services. What then are the specific 'tactics and procedures' which attribute this to China? Microsoft won't say.

Why would a state sponsored hacking campaign, operating from China actually want that [international publicity]? Why would China want to attract more negative news about its country? Could there be some other country that has an interest in pushing public accusations againt China by linking it to a massive global hacking campaign?

Throughout the last years we have seen a massive anti-China campaign run by the usual culprits. Recent polls show that it has achieved its purpose. This policy is kinda Mission Accomplished! for the press/pentagon and spook services driven anti-PRC reporting. Next job is to Sell the War!"

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Is this just the Chinese equivalent of Bellingcat? Seems to be the same level of "hacking."

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Bellingcat is state-sponsored. By contrast, as the second piece amply demonstrates, the consequences for Beijing of this hack do nothing to advance its foreign policy aims and much to endanger them. Consequently, just like much of the supposed 'Russian meddling' hacks, I think in the end you'll probably find this turns out to be yet another western-based provocation designed to further advance  the massive western anti-China propaganda offensive now in progress.

Engler: Globe & Mail fearmongers about foreign interference while ignoring US govt funding to Uighur rights groups in Canada

https://yvesengler.com/2021/03/14/globe-mail-fearmongers-about-foreign-i...

"...A day after Fife and Chase reported on plans for a foreign agents' registry - a fine idea if applied broadly - Aidan Jonah published a report in the Canada Files titled 'Subcommittee report declaring 'Uighur Genocide' dominated by researchers and groups funded by CIA cut-out, National Endowment For Democracy.' The story includes a remarkable revelation about the Ottawa-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project.

'Uighur Rights Advocacy Project is funded by the Washington-based Uighur Rights Advocacy Project. The group's website states openly that the 'Uighur Rights Advocacy Project' is funded by Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for its advocacy work in Canada.'

NED funding for Uighur groups in Canada is not to support charity work. The Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project is a political organization that is openly seeking to Balkanize China..."

And based on  this choreographed US-based propaganda and disinformation campaign, nobody supports 'developing a robust plan as Australia has done to combat China's growing foreign operations in Canada' more than Jack Harris, NDP Foreign Affairs Critic, Nov 17, 2020

Canada's anti-China campaign is a propaganda scam to please Uncle Sam. Like Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Israel, the NDP plays along and shouldn't be trusted. Canucklheads must stop falling for Canadian branch-plant imperialism again and again. The real threat comes from our American overlords' influence over our 'representatives'  not China/Russia or others on the imperial target-list.

"That sound you hear is Asian women collectively screaming at the claim that the Atlanta spas mass-murder was 'not racially motivated' but that Asian women were targeted because the subject has a sex addiction and the locations 'were a temptation he wanted to elininate."

https://twitter.com/AndreaWoo/status/1372212068426813440

The New Yellow Peril - Cause and Effects

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021-03/the-yellow-peril-cause-and-effect....

"The New York Times reports of a mass murdering of Asian people near Atlanta. Its front page summary says 'the motive for the killings was unclear.' The guy tells us that China has covered up the source of the covid virus and thus declared China to be THE GREATEST EVIL OF OUR TIME.' One wonders how that 'unclear motive' got planted into the dude's mind..."

Meanwhile Canadian MPs unanimously declare China guilty of genocide.

Remarks of the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Canada on some Canadian media using the COVID-19 pandemic to smear and attack China

http://ca.china-embassy.org/eng/mtfw/t1844874.htm

"Recently, some Canadian media have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to smear and attack China's political system, style of diplomacy and anti-pandemic response. The Chinese side expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this..."