The demonization of China

Reports of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Are Surging in Canada (and vid)

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/report-of-anti-asian-hate-crimes-are-surgi...

"Research shows that there has been a significant increase of hate crimes against Asian-Canadians since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with major cities seeing crime rates that are six and seven hundred percent higher than previous years.

According to Project 1907, Canada has a higher number of reported anti-Asian hate crime incidents per Asian capita compared to the United States.

'As members of the impacted communities, we feel the pain,' said Teresa Woo-Paw, chair of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. 'Many of the people who are members of the impacted community also think whether we might next, whether our children will be next, so that level of anxiety, that fear has been increasing - it's real."

China's economy is growing faster now than before the coronavirus pandemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-economy-growth-c...

"Today, China's economy is booming back hard, and expanding even faster than it did before the pandemic. Economic data published Monday showed that China logged 2.3 percent growth for 2020, becoming the only major economy that grew during a year when the virus exacted a devastating global toll. As other major nations and geopolitical competitors, from the US to Europe to India to Japan, struggle to beat back a winter wave, China's containment  success has buoyed its economy and the ruling Communist Party's claims to global leadership in a post-pandemic world...."

"Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, GDP growth has averaged almost 10 percent a year, and more than 850 million people have been lifted out of poverty."

https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview

ghoris wrote:

I personally am always quite amused at those on the far left of the political spectrum who defend China. One would think it would stand as an uncomfortable reminder that planned economies simply don't work - not even notionally "communist" countries believe in them anymore.

I never understand why other peoples straw men don't align with reality. China is not a state controlled economy it is a mixed economy. Its government however does wield state control over capital. On the ground in Chinese cities there is every type of business ownership including interesting hybrids like Huawei which is worker owned but controlled by its executive.

Huawei is an independent, privately-held company. We are not owned or controlled by, nor affiliated with the government, or any other 3rd party corporation.

In fact, Huawei is owned by our employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) that has been in place since the beginning. No one can own a share without working at Huawei, and as of 2018 there were 96,768 shareholding employees. Our founder, Ren Zhengfei, owns a 1.14% stake in the company. 

Shares confer voting rights. Shareholding employees elect members to form a Representatives' Commission, getting one vote for each share held. Then the Commission elects the company’s Board of Directors and Supervisory Board. At the last election in January 2019, 86,514 shareholding employees voted to elect 115 representatives at 416 polling stations around the world.

Employee-ownership is instrumental to our rapid growth. Over the years, it has offered an incentive to our loyal employees and helped us attract talented people. Unlike many publicly-owned companies, Huawei’s decisions are not based on the need for quarterly returns and annual dividends.

https://www.huawei.com/en/facts/question-answer/who-owns-huawei

laine lowe wrote:

I first heard of the Huawei model of ownership when I was in Japan in the late 80s.

Off on a tangent but remember when West Jet first started? They ran an ad campaign where different employees were briefly highlighted (flight attendant, pilot, ticket sales, etc) who stated their position and then added, "and I'm an owner too!" I also recall that none of their employees were unionized. Is either of these recollections true? And if so, when did it change and why?

That was very true except unlike with Huawei the employees were given a minuscule amount of the total shares and never ended up holding any major part of the company and were never seen as a workers syndicate. It was a marketing ploy and a way to try and stop unions.

But is you want to be nostalgic I still miss our best airline Canadian Airlines. The people of Canada gave some business people control of public assets for under market value and they decided their best business model was to drive their competition out of business by undercutting their routes until they bled to death.

laine lowe wrote:

I first heard of the Huawei model of ownership when I was in Japan in the late 80s.

Off on a tangent but remember when West Jet first started? They ran an ad campaign where different employees were briefly highlighted (flight attendant, pilot, ticket sales, etc) who stated their position and then added, "and I'm an owner too!" I also recall that none of their employees were unionized. Is either of these recollections true? And if so, when did it change and why?

Your memory is correct. WestJet pilots have been unionized for a couple of years now. All bad things must come to an end.

'Independent' Report Claiming Uyghur Genocide Brought to You by Sham University and Neocon Ideologues Lobbying to 'Punish" China

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56471.htm

Grayzone - ..."Cotler is an ardent supporter of Israeli apartheid and longtime adviser to Moshe Ya'alon, former Israeli defense minister and chief of staff of the Israeli military. Cotler has played a significant role in the Canadian government's efforts to equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism and smear the non-violent BDS movement for Palestinian rights. Cotler has long harbored hostile sentiments towards China.

In its mission statement, the Wallenberg Centre outlines its right-wing, Western imperial outlook in detail, explicitly identifying China, Venezuela, Iran and Russia as countries that it is pushing to 'combat' with sanctions. The Wallenberg Centre has become a haven for anti-China hawks, including Senior Fellow David Kilgour and David Matas, senior legal counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, a right-wing organization that describes itself as dedicated to 'Israel advocacy'. Kilgour and Matas have extensive ties to the far-right, anti-China cult Falun Gong.

Any critical probe of the reams of reports on Xinjiang and the hawkish institutions that publish them will quickly reveal a shabby propaganda campaign dressed up as academic inquiry. Western media's refusal to look beneath the surface of Washington's information war against China only highlights its central role in the operation..."

Thousands march in Montreal to denounce the rise of anti-Asian hate crime

https://globalnews.ca/news/7710431/montreal-anti-asian-hate-crimes-march

"The Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice has tracked 931 anti-Asian racist incidents. In the US, hate crimes againts Asian communities have skyrocketed by almost 150%."

New Report Calls for Stronger Anti-Racism Strategy as Attacks on Asian Community Spike

https://newcanadianmedia.ca/new-report-calls-for-stronger-anti-asian-rac...

"In order to treat the disease you need to diagnose it."

A similarly sharp hate-crime spike happened to the Muslim community with the US-led, Canadian participated in,  War of Terror on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria etc. As the West ramps up hostilities against China, it unfortunately seems it is now the turn of anyone who appears Asian.

World Uyghur Congress constituents heckle anti-racism demonstrators (and vid)

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1373791709247733762

"This network of right-wing US govt funded exiles supplies practically every testimony that US [and Canadian] media relies on for its information war on Xinjiang."

NDPP wrote:

World Uyghur Congress constituents heckle anti-racism demonstrators (and vid)

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1373791709247733762

"This network of right-wing US govt funded exiles supplies practically every testimony that US [and Canadian] media relies on for its information war on Xinjiang."

I am always struck at how the symbolism is the same for all these US backed groups. Strangely they look like they would fit right in with a Trump demonstration but are cheered on by the Democrats as well. There are not many places outside of America where the Stars and Stripes is seen as a symbol of freedom, except during NED sponsord events.

'Stop the Uyghur Genocide!'

https://actionsprout.io/977ECA

CIJA is urging the Government of Canada to work with the international community towards ending the horrific human rights abuses against the Uyghur people. There is verifiable evidence that the Governmet of China is committing genocide against the Uyghur people. We cannot allow this to continue..."

Do as we say, not as we do:  the chutzpah and comfortable contradictions of Canada's uber-zionists.

Seeing a lot of what aboutism on here.  Trying to obscure the issue.  People who (rightly) point out hypocrisy, engaging in some of their own.  Kind of like what the Israeli government does.

Seeing a lot of what aboutism on here.  Trying to obscure the issue.

Or, it's the problem of human rights becoming a tool of geopolitical power politics. I guess we could all pretend otherwise and pat ourselves on the back for being "pure" and "unbiased" when we discuss them on the internet.

And this whole critical approach to looking at where these claims are coming from is something that should be completely absent from any discussion on human rights abuses. The idea that Adrian Zenz is not a reliable source! The man has done nothing but solid reality based research:

Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation by Adrian Zenz Phd

Sure if this was a thread on Trump, Josh would be mocking anyone who considered Zenz a valid source but clearly  you are a human rights denier if you take the same approach here.

Caitlin Johstone: The US Weaponizes 'Human Rights' Against Nations like China

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56494.htm

"The US, UK, EU and Canada have simultaneously implemented new sanctions against Chinese officials in yet another reminder that these nations consistently function as member states of a single empire on foreign policy, and that the Biden administration is continuing right where the Trump administration left off on anti-China hawkishness.

The only sane response to unfounded claims by known liars is skepticism and agnosticism until we are presented with proof that rises to the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world. The illusion is that the US and its allies have seen evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity and taken actions against China in the interest of human rights. The reality is that actions taken against China were already planned and a narrative was used to justify them.

Meanwhile we ordinary people are watching two nuclear-armed nations escalate against one another with increasing aggression, with escalations against Russia complicating things even further. This incredibly dangerous flirtation with the unthinkable is the most important thing happening  in our world, and we should all oppose it tooth and claw..."

The Xinjiang 'Genocide' - Daniel Dumbrill

https://youtu.be/mH-0l_zToN4

An excerpt from the 'Genocide' panel with Canadian Daniel Dumbrill

How US forces 'Xinjiang forced labor' narrative on enterprises, industry, agencies

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219582.shtml

"Using the pretext of 'forced labor' to pressure and sanction other countries' companies has been an old trick by the US, which is now exerting extreme pressure on companie in cotton-related industries in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region..."

This is too funny (and vid)

https://twitter.com/US_China_Menu/status/1376194970458025988

"The US has been bombing Uyhurs and calling East Turkistan Islamic Movement a 'terrorist' movement, until US decided it didn't like China anymore."

Rally held downtown to raise awareness about anti-Asian racism (and vid)

https://www.cp24.com/news/rally-held-downtown-to-raise-awareness-about-a...

"We need the PM and all Parliamentarians to take a stand against Anti-Asian racism. Instead of empty rhetoric, we demand concrete actions."

"Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada, and turned Canada into a running dog of the US..."

https://twitter.com/CGChinaLiYang/status/1376139882461081604

Sounds about right to me.

For anyone wondering why the Chinese government banned the BBC from its airwaves here is the answer. Its misrepresentation of the context of the images, they stole from another documentary, would get you flunked out of any good journalism course.

A great little primer on how propaganda is made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RK5Me8maG4&t=9s

The Real Danger of the Pentagon's New Indo-Pacific Plan

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/29/the-real-danger-of-the-pentagons...

"The Pentagon recently asked Congress for an astronomical $27 billion budget increase to support a massive military buildup in Asia as part of its new Indo-Pacific plan, which calls for a substantially more aggressive military stance against China.

With the US already ranking first in military spending worldwide holding more than 290 military bases in the Asia-Pacific region alone, the aggressive buildup is being proposed at the most financially precarious moment in US history. According to the Congressional Budget Office report released this month, federal debt is projected to reach 102% of GDP by the end of 2021 before surpassing its historical high of 107% in 2031 and going on to nearly double to 2012% by 2051.

According to Doug Bandow 'Uncle Sam is headed toward insolvency.' How can the Biden administration sell such an expensive foreign policy proposal to the American public in these economically depressed times? By publicly stoking moral outrage and militarism. If the Biden administration truly cares about a moral order in Asia [It doesn't] it should address the formative role that US militarism has played  in the current state of Asian affairs..."

Yellow Peril - Red Scare (and vid)

https://twitter.com/SpiritofHo/status/1378446140153200641

"A forum on the rise of anti-Asian racism and its connection to the history and present of Western imperialism."

Canada should look in the mirror on genocide

https://twitter.com/CcarKen/status/1380178409146490882

"I'm deeply concerned about what's unfolding in the Canadian political landscape: baseless and malicious attacks on China..."

NDPP wrote:

#NDPConvention2021  - Prioritized Resolutions:

Resolution 04-08-21

"Genocide of the Uyghur people."

There is no 'genocide of the Uyghur people.'

Are there any resolutions on paying reparations to the people of Libya?

The article clearly answers the question, "why would our colonial government get involved." The war drums are being pounded and parliament is voting in favour of motions about a genocide that is yet another NATO/5Eyes propaganda operation. Tell the people of Libya that our intention was only to save them from the brutal authoritarian regime that provided them the highest standard of living in Africa. Even Harvard pollsters who have been tracking public opinion in China for more than a decade have to admit that the government is supported by over 95% of the people. Apparently they have not seen the iron fist that we fantasize about but only see economic opportunities their parents, grand parents and great grandparents could not even imagine. China is a thriving market economy not a state run economy. The Chinese state controls capital not individual enterprise and that is why our rentier masters are so fucking afraid of them.

The Halifax forum, also sponsored by NATO, draws scores of powerful military and civilian leaders. Previous speakers have included then-U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel; Adm. Phil Davidson, the commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan; and officials from a host of other countries, including Israel, Estonia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Poland and Japan.

The forum’s website states it is “devoted to strengthening strategic cooperation among democratic nations.” It also purports to take a critical stance toward Beijing’s autocratic expansionism, and last year released a publication called “The HFX Handbook for Democracies,” which highlights “the serious challenge that China poses.” HFX promises donors that their contributions to the forum will strengthen their governments’ “resolve to stand up to China.”

Now the question is whether the forum itself will buck the Canadian government and honor one of Beijing’s top targets.

Defence minister denies withholding funds for security conference over Taiwan award

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/taiwan-security-form-standoff-1.5984974

",,,He vigorously denied a report by Politico, a US-based publication, that the Liberal government was threatening to pull funding from one of the country's marquee defence and security conferences because it was looking at giving Taiwan's president a prestigious award. 'That is absolutely false', Sajjan told the Canada-China [Bad] Relations Committee late on Monday..."

Americans called seeking 'clarification'. Too bad.

"The (non-Uighur) communications director for the bogus 'East Turkistan Government-in-Exile' (which is based in the USA) also does PR for a far-right Republican (who happens to be her father) who is running promising to 'crack down' on protests and give NYC police even more money."

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1382827803977060356