I genuinely don't pay much attention to most major media, I mean I don't actively go and read it but of course see popular/viral headlines all the time. That said, I noticed about two to three years ago the anti-China propaganda was just being churned out A LOT. It's hard not to notice how much there is. Nevermind the fact that a lot of it from the same few people, especially adrian zenz pushing the main part of the stories, and the media just references stuff he says constantly. If it's not those people it's straight up just coming from the state department.

It doesn't take an expert to connect the dots with a lot of topics like the Hong Kong stuff, South China Sea military shit, Belt and Road stuff, IP theft and hacking shit. It's pretty clear to me at least that we're in an even dumber cold war and red scare. The UK and big EU countries are also pretty much doing exactly the same as well. Oh and Australia, of course. The west has their mark and the millions of rubes who fall for the idea the west needs to be the world police on every little thing are more than happy to continue to be foot soldiers in this propaganda war.

It will never not be annoying and frustrating to me though that all those people or so called activists are so vehemently anti-China/CCP and critique them constantly while absolutely turning a blind eye to what their own country is doing or even just the greater global political shit happening around them. The boogyman is China and it's not going to go away anytime soon. I don't personally think there will be a real war with China but it has been increasingly worrying to me how much rhetoric is spawning from this that is essentially manufacturing the consent for a proxy war or economic war. Meanwhile virtually nothing is actually changing with the west's dependence on Chinese manufacturing. If China was as big of a threat or as problematic as the west claims, one of the first things I'd have to imagine countries would do is stop buying shit from them and stop having them manufacture so much stuff. But aside from like Apple and a few clothing companies attempting to find new manufacturers, I don't anyone doing anything about it lol. And part of why those companies are evens switching is because it's cheaper now to go to Africa, or India and Bangladesh.

I'd just like to mention how big of a topic China is for climate change stuff too, it's the crutch so many reactionaries and centrists lean on when we talk about how we need to start changing how we do things. They just plug their ears and point to China as if the US and the rest of the west isn't the bigger problem here. It's so tiring.