And now the chinese are our enemies all of a sudden. And we need to stop them from genociding our friends, the muslims. You know, the people who were our deadly enemies like 5 years ago. Huh.
But hey, there's no propaganda at work here, no sir. We're immune to that shit. We have our freedom, so no one would ever lie to us.
Americans can only keep track of one enemy, or thing to be mad about, at a time.
It's why in 2019 all the anti-Chinese outrage centered around the Hong Kong protests, but now that those have fizzled out a bit, it's all about the Uyghurs. Hell, 12 years ago everyone's perception of China began and ended with Free Tibet.
What we're seeing now is the completion of the United State's "pivot to Asia" which began under the Obama administration, but is thoroughly bipartisan. American leaders have finally come around to the fact that China will not be joining the Neoliberal Club as they all expected, and that its massive state subservient industrial base (much of which was brought with the help of Western Capital, with the added bonus of hollowing out American industry) poses a genuine threat to their hegemony. This realization has forced them to regard imperial projects in the Middle East, which used to utterly consume Americas foreign policy, as quaint.
Make no mistake. While, Americas deadly presence in the Middle East will not be scaled back, regardless of of who wins the coming election, we're likely not going to return to the 2001-2015 era obsession with scary black flag waving "radical Islamic terrorism" anytime soon. In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if the next Rambo film is dedicated to the brave mujahideen of Xinjiang.
And we're already getting "Mongolia is oppressed" because it looks like the Uyghur thing might not stick.
It's so fucking obvious, but the neutered western "left" is just going along with it.
unlike nerds who can never talk about the proletariat in China because that would poke a hole in their Dengist idealism.
I completely agree, and would characterize this as correct, with the one exception of wars of conquest in the middle east. Those wars were, in large part, setting up a strategic position from which to strangle the belt-and-road initiative and provide propaganda, funding, and matériel to religious extremists in Xinjiang.
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Brave mujahideen of Syria need a movie as well.