You don’t understand that the USA is the global hegemon. It does not get manipulated by other countries. It either manages to dominate or it does not. There is no scenario where other countries have the power they need to actually dominate the US domestically in any sphere.

The dominant producer of propaganda globally is the USA, both domestically and abroad. Not a single country on the planet has the networks, the apparatus, the number of people, and the continuous propaganda history that the USA has. No “foreign” actor has any chance of competing fully against US propaganda.

Wait, two idf soldiers were killed a day earlier and they were named Zion and skikNAZI?

This will be interesting to monitor. Seems like a potential test balloon for China to observe the effects on these companies and map out what kind of leverage China actually has on the defense industry.

The CPC has said, literally since the separatists took the island of Taiwan, that it will never use force to integrate Taiwan under mainland governance. It has never wavered from this position. It is clear from everyone analyzing it that the reason is because such an invasion would create the conditions for a violent revolt and revolution. Instead, Taiwan and the mainland will integrate as a matter of mutual interest.

The only reason the CPC would use force against Taiwan would be if it moved to establish strategic dominance over all of China on behalf of the West.

Don’t forget invading Mexico!

Can you imagine if this was actually the impetus behind the elites pushing Brexit and that in fact all the claims of Russian troll farms were actually Western troll farms trying to get Britain into position to form a union with the US?

Maybe the bankruptcy of the Vatican will have it selling its assets to the USA.

It would need to be reported by more than one source, those other sources can’t cite this report as their source and the source can’t be a mouthpiece for a government in exile that has decades of history collaborating with the CIA.

That would be a start.

As a bonus, it would need to include contextualized information about how this would be extremely counter productive to all of the aims of China’s relationship-building with the Tibetan people and how this would represent a huge shift in that relationship.

Like the person who posted an inflammatory article with zero sources from a government in exile that is a known collaborator with the CIA (just read the book written by the Dalia Lama’s brother)?

You posted an article for a discussion, it’s being discussed, but anyone discussing how shit this article is will get your reply about how they’re propagandists without you having even a touch of self-awareness.

Your mind is bent by living under the most powerful propaganda regime in history.

You need to read the majority of history. In the last 600 years, the majority of history is European empire expanding to dominate 80% of the world’s population. Nearly everything you can point to that you would be aware will simply reinforce that the European project is the source of all the things you think “everyone” does.

The reality is that China is fighting against the European empire and through that process in the last 75 years they committed some atrocities. But they did so in the context of being a military, not being an empire. The empire was occupying critical parts of China, like the 5 treaty ports and Hong Kong. The empire was training Tibetan terrorists and airifting them into Tibet to cause havoc. The empire was fabricating stories about China.

For example, take the second most famous picture of Tiananmen Square. You know the one - a bunch of bodies lying on the ground. Go find that picture and zoom in. They’re actually bicycles. But for decades I believed that they were bodies, because that’s how we’re raised in the West.

You are the one with ideological blinders on. You and I and everyone in the West were raised on red scare propaganda. We were raised on European worship. We were raised on American exceptionalism. Our education downplayed our atrocities and magnified the atrocities of others. Our education told false narratives of why things were done and what the effects were.

Those of us in the West who support China have removed those ideological blinders through years of research and arguing with each other and others. It is hard to give up the lies of our parents, the lies of the mass media, the lies of our bosses, our friends, our family. It is isolating, it is risky, it can cost us our grades, our jobs, our relationships.

You, on the other hand, have beliefs that are in lockstep with the propaganda, with the goals of the US State Dept, with the US military, with what you were educated in since you were a baby. Your beliefs are congruent with our cartoons, with our racist jokes, with our war propaganda.

When you don’t have blinders on, you come into conflict with reality. Instead, you are receding into fantasy. You have been asked to back up your claims and you retreat by waving at history and saying “it’s all there for you too look at” not realizing that we already have and continuously do and that’s why we’re asking you for sources. If you start actually digging for truth, you might start to remove your blinders.

Instead, you prefer to assume anyone that disagrees with you is ideologically blind, not realizing that in any country it is the people with the mainstream view that are blinded and that the truth takes work to uncover.

You’re sure China is doing it is because (checks notes), Europeans did it?

Listen to yourself. You are not engaged in reasoning, you are engaged in projection.

Consider that China has watched European empire do this sort of thing, determined it to be ineffective at producing a stable society, and is choosing to not do that thing.

Consider: in the US and Canada, the European colonizers established residential schools where they housed indigenous children. Those children were beaten for using their native languages. They were beaten for behaving “uncivilized”. Laws were created and enforced in border towns to criminalize being indigenous.

In China, Tibetans govern the day to day operations of Tibet. Children are educated in their native language. Official business is conducted in their native language. Tibetan holidays are observed. Tibetan traditions are observed.

So, yes, most of us who knows anything about China expect Tibetans to be respected by the party as they have demonstrated for decades.

[nukes are] the only way to properly secure sovereignty and territorial integrity

As North Korea had correctly identified early and worked towards diligently to protect their people.

I think de-escalations are the one area where a rabid electorate would have a policy impact.

They have a noticeable influence on elections and therefore are forever part of policy calculus.

I hope you’re right. The rapid fall of Syria undermines some of my faith in historical track records.

Israel finally being the tip of the spear they were meant to be, knocking down the dominoes that the US has been lining up since the Arab Spring.

I am anxious that this is all working in favor of the empire and that the resistance is not strong enough to resist being shattered in the not so distant future.

Sure, but they will still be able to affect the situation, like gusanos in the USA.

You’re forgetting everyone who fled and all the kids and relativea of dead soldiers. Those who gave up or lost something that close will require an enemy of evil to make the sacrifice worth it

How are you keeping Russian military bases if the narrative is accurate that Israel and the USA are in control of the whole situation.

Yo, wtf. How would that even work? Unless…