Because the propaganda is so overpowering that there are times when the boundary of it falls within your mind, and you really can’t tell what’s real and what’s not.
There’s a whole range of tricks that go into this, and the first task is simply to identify them in one’s own mind. Yet daily we are being marched to war by the same crowd who always march us to war, the ruling elite, the self-appointed military experts, compliant dictaphone editors and journalists, sock-puppet military thinktanks, Spenglerite ideologues, the whole gang. It is vital to try and understand the moral and political character of a state that combines elements of German “transition” Marxism, neo-Stalinist cultural control, and the corporatist dimension of Mussolini’s fascism.ĭutton relishes new China hawk role as warnings escalate over Taiwan Read More > These have had the same effect, of extended economic dependence by said world, with the exception that the Chinese actually built roads, ports, etc, rather than simply draining such countries dry.
Twenty years ago, it began extending its economic heft around the world, with loans and direct infrastructure assistance to the developing world. In order to stymie the least possibility of secession in Muslim Uyghur Xinjiang, it is filling the province with Han Chinese and running a system of concentration camps of unknown extent (unknown since there is so much propaganda about it). There is no possibility that Tibet will re-emerge as a fully independent polity. It is bent on consolidating the country that was fractured by colonialism and politics, with the eventual reincorporation of Taiwan and Hong Kong. China is an authoritarian state, which appears bent on creating a system of steady totalitarian control lasting decades, if not longer.
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