Stop believing silly propaganda about China

Over the past couple of years, I’ve had several conversations about China, exploring why much of what we believe is either fabricated or completely false.

For example,

Chinese people are oppressed
China has a social credit score
There is a genocide of Uyghurs
The Chinese government harvests organs
The Tiananmen Square massacre

All of the above narratives are bunk.

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It’s absurd I’m writing this, but I’m not paid by any Chinese interests. As far as I know, I don’t even have Chinese paid supporters.

To piece together the bigger puzzle, especially with China in the US’s crosshairs again, it’s fitting I push back against psychological operations.

The West calls China an enemy to justify its own fading empire—Beijing’s just playing the game we wrote.

— John Pilger, journalist

'There's no such thing as social credit score'

China as the enemy

I’m not sure if it’s a post-Cold War hang-over, but the US fears losing its lead on the global stage.

As it happens, many think tanks and White House advisory groups paint China as a baddie to be dealt with.

The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), funded by Lockheed Martin and Taiwan’s government, frames China as a military-industrial threat.
The RAND Corporation, backed by the Pentagon and wealthy neocons, views China as a threat with advanced military and economic power.
The Hudson Institute, tied to Taiwan’s government and Mike Pompeo, sees China as an ideological threat.
The Atlantic Council, funded by Taiwan’s government and linked to the CIA and NATO, claims China’s tech and military threaten America.

And, of course, Trump's 'tariff wars' with China are part of the aforementioned. What he is doing was planned long before he became president, all recently written down by Stephen Miran, one of his key advisors.

In fact, Trump spoke about his anti-China position back in 2012 already.

China’s not out to destroy us—it’s out to outlast us, and we’re handing them the playbook with our infighting.

— Ian Bremmer, political scientist

In a nutshell, what he is doing is all about keeping the US in charge of global trade and stopping China from becoming the top economy. The primary goal of his entire 'tarrif war' is to break apart multilateral trade, stop the rise of BRICS, maintain US hegemony, stop any competing currencies against the US dollar, and force the world into a pro-America position.

Whether you agree with it or not, that's what it is.

The enemy narrative’s a distraction—China’s flaws don’t justify our obsession with containment over collaboration.

— Susan Thornton, former diplomat

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Lee Barrett is a British YouTuber who has lived in China for over a decade. He runs a really great YouTube channel where he posts videos about his daily life there.