source: https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1500765789871292428/photo/1
smh the oldest noodles in China date back to 2000 bce, the italianoids were still humping rocks back then
I'm old enough to remember when China was the country you talked about to describe people who were starving. It was right up there with the African Interior as that region Westerners desperately need to save from itself.
Now the Chinese economy is roaring into the 21st century as the premier global superpower and everyone hates it for some reason. Weird... I have to wonder what western opinion towards African states will be if they see a boom in the wake of Chinese partnership.
Love how you can see the 4 year phase as American regiemes change and their propaganda policy is shifted.
yeah I noticed the anti-China shit picking up speed around 2015 here in Australia
"oh, so you're foreign, right? what economy are you from?"
To be clear, this is precisely what you're getting when your dystopic sci-fi/fantasy settings have "XYZ Economic/Trade Zone."
Is it mostly Covid? I remember in the early 2000s Asia was really cool in America. Crouching tiger led to lots of American aimed Chinese films. Jackie Chan. Anime wasn't considered only for pedos. PS2 was the clear console winner. Something happened.
I remember before covid, everyone was already frothing at the mouth about China. I've grown up with China being a friend of our country and the people loving to come here on holidays to absolute unhinged hatred in a couple of years. We also have become way more supportive of capitalism, but still going with the trend of social progressivism. So right now it's a woke capitalist's utopia.
Definitely ramping up in :kkkanada: before COVID. A Huawei executive was arrested in BC at the US government's request (accused of helping Iran evade sanctions), and then two dudes named Michael were arrested in China to much outrage from neocon types. The narrative was that the Michaels were arrested in retaliation.
FWIW, I totally buy that the Michaels were arrested in retaliation, I just don't buy that they were the innocent little cherubs so many probably think they are, it's so clear to me that what happened with that was a modern spy swap with both sides desperately trying to avoid outright saying how deep those people were, and tipping hands with regards to corporate espionage.
Oh yeah I think it's likely, but yeah they were walking a very thin line trying to get everyone to care about them, and trying to show that they weren't important people at all.
nah, xenophobia has picked up steam in the US over the last 20 years as the bourgeoisie have looked to scapegoat a major economic crisis and subsequent non-recovery on outside forces. part of that has been saber-rattling about human rights abuses in China, conveniently ignoring those at home.
China was always kind of viewed with suspicious as a poor country that's abusive towards its people. It was viewed more favorably when it was seen as a weak and poor country. Its rise is only angering the West and this has happened several times with the Qing Dynasty getting the same treatment too.
News media follows the same pattern as entertainment media. Long gone are the days when Chinese citizens were depicted as impotent victims of the Communist Party. [17] Polling of Chinese citizenry by Dalia Research reveals that “73% of Chinese consider China to be democratic, whereas only 49% of Americans believe the same about the U.S.,” [18] Harvard’s Ash Center concludes after a landmark 13-year study that “Chinese citizen satisfaction with the government has increased virtually across the board,” [19] Blackbox Research and Toluna find “China gets top score as citizens rank their governments’ response to the coronavirus outbreak,” [20] Eurasia Group Foundation finds “28% of Chinese respondents reported an unfavourable view of the US, up from 17% a year earlier, while the number reporting a favourable view fell to 39% from 58%,” [21] and NYU professor Philip Alston writes, in his final report on global poverty as UN Special Rapporteur, in a section titled “China’s outsized contribution”:
Much of the progress reflected under the Bank’s line is due not to any global trend but to exceptional developments in China, where the number of people below the International Poverty Line dropped from more than 750 million to 10 million between 1990 and 2015, accounting for a large proportion of the billion people ‘lifted’ out of poverty during that period. This is even starker under higher poverty lines. Without China, the global headcount under a $2.50 line barely changed between 1990 and 2010. And without East Asia and the Pacific, it would have increased from 2.02 billion to 2.68 billion between 1990 and 2015 under a $5.50 line. [22]
This reality of a government that leads by consent rather than repression, of Chinese people who are content with “moderate prosperity” rather than starry-eyed about American largesse, necessitated the birth of a new myth. And so propaganda shifted gears, and the Chinese population ceased to be portrayed as victims, and instead became “Han supremacists,” hellbent on liquidating all difference and homogenizing the whole world in their image.
https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/
I'm wondering what happened in Japan, these are some pretty sharp, quick changes.
Jingoistic pride? Japan is a pretty fucking racist country even by western standards.
Contested ownership of islands/resource rich waters. China is cool and good, but it's not as if everything they do is above critique. Critical support, but I understand why nearby countries dislike China's tactics for controlling the oceans in the area.
As someone from there, I can say quite confidently that it's not really about 'South China Sea Imperialism' and just the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, over which the PRC has a perfectly reasonable claim.
Well, yes, as far as those particular islands are concerned. But the dispute has to do with fishing and resource exploitation more broadly to my understanding, right? The claimed waters in that area are a general fucking mess to look at with all the contradictory claims.
