the CIA appeared to overthrow the government and put a puppet in its place... And now the Chinese
That's why the US need to mobilize the $500 million army to combat the EVIL Chinese.
the CIA appeared to overthrow the government and put a puppet in its place... And now the Chinese
That's why the US need to mobilize the $500 million army to combat the EVIL Chinese.
A tech and manufacturing bill, known as The America COMPETES Act, currently moving through Congress allocates $500 million for media outlets to produce journalism for overseas audiences that is critical of China. Meant to “combat Chinese disinformation,” the bill would direct funding to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a US agency overseeing outlets including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia (RFA), and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) that have sometimes blurred the line between objective news coverage and pro-American propaganda, as well as local outlets and programs to train foreign journalists. While both bills [in the House and the Senate] stipulate that the U.S.-funded media coverage should be “independent,” that mandate could be at odds with other requirements in the legislation. There is, at the very least, an appearance of conflict. For example, the Senate bill aims to crowd out Chinese investment in developing countries, and also encourages criticism of China’s projects in those markets. “We welcome support for journalism,” Tobita Chow, the director of Justice Is Global, a group that advocates for a more equitable world economy, told the Prospect. “But if the government is setting out ahead of time in legislation what the conclusion and the point of coverage is going to be, that doesn’t really qualify as genuine journalism.”
and triply shocking if you read the above on mainstream US media or on slashdot front page.
What the CIA did was completely illegal and is still illegal today. How come they aren't all outed and in jail?
Because nobody really cares what Eisenhower has advised 60 years ago:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. -- Eisenhower's farewell address
The said citizenry are indeed alerted -- by FUDs such as North Vietnam fired torpedoes on your ships, Iraqi soldiers killing babies, Iraq's about to bombard you with WMDs [*], and the CCP's trying to spy on you [**], while they are considered knowledgeable if they could locate their own country on the world map.
* Nobody has been jailed for deceiving us on Vietnam or Iraq. In fact they were all retired with handsome benefits.
** And the same will be the case one day the accusations against China were to be proven FUDs
It's very rare that the US will take action unless they are pretty damn sure that a person is doing something pretty damn dangerous or illegal.
"Illegal" as in "exposing US atrocity"?
And rarity due to intimidation?
... excess control by the wealthy result in their economies being geared towards keeping those people wealthy and in power, not maximizing everyone's productivity The same goes for China - also at around $11.5k due to the top priority being keeping the Communist party in power.
First, your $1000 figure is off by ~5x -- China started economic reforms in 1978 when its GDP per capita was $178.
And then you concluded that 50x (or even just 10x) GDP/capita growth between 1978 and now implied the CCP has been mainly interested in keeping themselves in power. I wonder what you want to attribute the 6x US GDP/capita growth in the same period to. Slavery brough to you the Donkeys and Elephants?
Maybe GDP/capita isn't a good indication of government control. Let me give you some other perspectives. In the Shenzhen, the first and most successful economic special zone established at the start of economic reform, there were border checkpoints to the neighboring cities (not Hong Kong which was still under British rule then but facing the mainland) known as the second [border] line. A Chinese citizen would need to apply a special visa to get into Shenzhen, a city within their own country. Yeah, that sounds like "CCP controlling its citizens"? Then these border checkpoints were completely eradicated in ~2003. Any Chinese citizens can just buy a train or airline ticket and head to Shenzhen. Very soon, you don't even need to ride regular trains or airplane, you can just hop onto commuter train and subway train from Guangzhou and go all the way to downtown Shenzhen. So if the CCP want so desperately controlling their people, why would the restrictions relaxed? Maybe the 1.2 billion extremely poor citizens in China in the year 1978 would you a hint.
Though given that you probably have never visited Shenzhen or any part of China and only got your filtered narratives from your US media, you will have hard time figuring out the answer.
If you lived in Ukraine or Taiwan the threat of military invasion would affect your life, no?
If those people in Ukraine or Taiwan stop taking side in the US hegemonic push and stop being puppets of the US and its western allies, then Russia or mainland China will not invade them, period! Why? Because the cost of invasion would excessively outweigh the benefits. It's exactly this kind of brainwashing that make those people and you believing the FUD.
Oh, maybe we should talk about the situation of Catalonia.
With Moscow threatening to invade Ukraine and China signaling its readiness to use military force against Taiwan
And with NATO continued expanding toward Russia and the US attempts to block China's ocean access.
(Why are western bias sneaking in on every international news?)
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