The New Anti-China Campaign Is Built
On Lies
By Moon Of
Alabama
April 20, 2020
"Information
Clearing House"
- To avoid self-examination of the failures that let the
U.S. exceed the covid-19 casualty numbers of every other
nation the powers that be decided to blame someone else.
Trump's
first attempt was to blame the World Health Organization
for not providing all information. But 16 U.S.
administration officials
were embedded with the WHO in Geneva.
They relayed real time updates of all information the
WHO received.
As the
Democrats and the media
did not join Trump in
blaming the WHO another scapegoat was needed. Everyone
then agreed that it China would be the most convenient
target.
The
intensity of the current anti-China campaign reminds one
of the run up to the war on Iraq. The people who now
claim that 'China lied, people died' are
the very same who ran
the Iraq WMD campaign. But all the reports claiming
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were just fantasy. The
reports of Chinese culpability are similar nonsense.
As this
is an election year both parties try to
associate the other side
with the new villain:
“Donald Trump
sent critical medical supplies to China as Americans
continue to suffer. He needs to follow his supposed
motto of America First,” American Bridge President
Bradley Beychok said in a statement. “We’re making
sure that voters across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin know full well not only how badly Trump
botched this crisis, but also how badly he bent the
knee to China in the midst of it as well.”
...
“We are more than happy to let the American public
decide whom they trust, President Trump or Beijing
Joe Biden, to get tough on China,” said Brian O.
Walsh, president of America First, in response to
the new ad campaign by American Bridge. American
Bridge said the ad is the first of its new offensive
campaign targeting Trump, his company, business
associates and adult children over their ties to
China and other foreign investments.
The group
said it plans on rolling out microtargeted digital
ads on that theme as part of “an all-out assault on
Trump and his family over their corruption — in
China and other countries — involving foreign
bribes, political favors, shady real estate
investments, and parties with dictators.”
This will be
bad for other important political issues:
Rania
Khalek @RaniaKhalek -
19:27 UTC · Apr 17, 2020
The anti
China hawkishness is going to drown out progressive
momentum for universal healthcare and cancelling
student debt. Like Russiagate, this new yellow peril
will lead to greater military spending and more war.
Sad so many who should know better can’t see that.
Some
lawmakers
want to allow random
people to sue China over the 'damage it caused'. Other
seek to default on the
$1.2 trillion of debt the U.S. owns China.
