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I definitely appreciate that inflammatory articles might push us closer to war but it also seems rather dangerous to cover up anything that suggests war. That f
by sb618 4y ago
I definitely appreciate that inflammatory articles might push us closer to war but it also seems rather dangerous to cover up anything that suggests war. That feels a bit reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain before WWII.
- woooooo 4y agoIt's been entirely media driven since 2018 on the topic. Nobody cared about China before then, and they wouldn't care now if it weren't for the constant hype. Anyone recall even seeing the acronym "CCP" in print before 2018 or so? Then suddenly it's ubiquitous and everyone knows it.
- musicale 4y agoI gather you've never seen the print edition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times or suffered through endless advertisements for Shen Yun. Edit: according to above, they've pivoted somewhat in terms of their political stance and direction since 2016. Apparently Doctor Strange 2 ran afoul of censors for neglecting to scrub out an Epoch Times newspaper box that appeared briefly in a scene shot on location in New York.
- woooooo 4y agoI have. Shen yun are Taiwanese and really big on the KMT above and beyond the typical dance group, while epoch times is run by Falun gong people. Both dislike the ccp for their own obvious insider reasons. (Epoch times pivot to trumpland is an obvious play for them, works way better than natsec libs). I wouldn't credit them for mainstream media's turn, though. We need a big bad and afghan goat farmers weren't cutting it.
- fomine3 4y agoBlaming "Chinese" or "China" looks like racist in recent years so people want to blame the problem itself: CCP
- woooooo 4y agoWhat's the problem with them, specifically, that wasn't the exact same in say 2015 when they got no press?
- fomine3 4y agoUS was too late to realize threat of CCP IMO (from Asian view)
- woooooo 4y agoWhat threat? Are they going to storm DC? If the threat is "they will be more powerful than the US within like 100 miles of their borders", I can understand concern on the part of Taiwan specifically but it's a little greedy for the US to need every single inch of the oceans..
- ashwagary 4y agoI too noticed a drastic ramp up in anti-China headlines at a certain point in the early part of the Trump administration. The shift was not exclusive to the media though. The US state department pivoted and went as far as removing active terrorist groups executing attacks near (Afghanistan, Turkmenistan) and in Western China, that the US itself was bombing, from the US terror watch lists at around the same time.