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You're being downvoted heavily (not surprising for a site with a strong US/Western audience), but here's what I think: China is emerging geopolitical rival (ba

You're being downvoted heavily (not surprising for a site with a strong US/Western audience), but here's what I think: China is emerging geopolitical rival (balance) to the US (and the West in general). Mainstream US media is great at amplifying US govt propaganda and publishing hit pieces on US rivals (see media portrayals of Soviet Union during the Cold war as an example: https://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/26/the-role-of-the-media-during-the-cold-war/ https://www.e-ir.info/2013/10/26/the-role-of-the-media-durin... ) or of Japan during the 80s (see https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/japan_in_the_us_press_bias_and_stereotypes https://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/japan_in_the_us_press_bi...). The same is happening against China now and there is an effort to shame anyone with contacts with China.

ddxv 7y ago
Found you comment at the bottom of the comment section. Feels like the only safe place here. I've been noticing that the past few years there has been a sharp uptick in vitriolic statements about China. There was a great look at American 'propaganda' in one of the China in Africa podcast where they were debating whether Voice of America is American propaganda. I think their specific debate was about the term collateral debt in relation to the infrastructure projects China has undertaken in Africa and the agreements that support them. It really helped me see that while the term is still sharply defined when speaking about "other" nation's propaganda, American's have a very difficult time extracting ideas which were put out by the American government and picked up as talking points by the media. I don't know if propaganda is still the correct term anymore, but it at least feels like group think, which worries me.